Singapore plans to become the first

Singapore is planning to become the first 'Smart Country' in the world. Each subdivision across the country will be connected and collect data to help build better services.

Singapore's dream of becoming the first smart country in the world

'We are making a "dashboard" for the whole of Singapore, using real-time data collection to improve important services provided to citizens such as health care, transportation and resources. Resources , 'said Steve Leonard, executive vice president of the Infocomm Development Authority, the Singapore government's long-term technology arm.

Many cities around the world are conducting smart technology testing, as Copenhagen is testing a wide range of smart street lights to save energy. But if Singapore succeeds, this will be the first place to connect the entire infrastructure.

"A city that does such things will help narrow the gap ," Leonard said. 'Smart street lights, intelligent traffic light management system or smart waste classification system. It's all great, but we believe we can achieve such stature and can even do more. "

Singapore is almost collecting large-scale data on systems such as transportation; The country even knows where personal vehicles go, via vehicle-mounted devices. This device is also used for payment of tolls. But they hope to understand more about how the infrastructure system works and how the systems work together.

'It is important not to leave the data in the closed container,' Leanard explained. 'We are trying to think of how to use data from different sources, coordinating to solve big future issues like urban density and population aging'.

For example, transport data may be combined with health data for self-driving cars that may soon bring elderly people to a doctor or hospital in time.

Currently, Singapore has opened 8,000 government data streams to the world and invited startups from everywhere to think of new solutions it can check. The government also strengthens the possible data collection rate from each system.

'We are working on a project named E3A to find ways to communicate in the future: everything and everyone, anywhere in all times,' Leanard said.

Such a project will raise many questions about privacy. If everything is tracked, even if you drive your own car or when the patient goes to see a doctor, the most obvious risk is misused personal information. But that is also the potential for better urban planning and many new innovations.

' Smart countries will have everything you can imagine , ' Leonard said. 'We know that energy efficiency is important, we know important health care systems, transportation, public spaces are safe, all such things are important. That's why we call it a smart country, not a smart city, because we see that the picture will be smaller. '

Singapore may be the only case suitable to become the first country to reach the scale of smart infrastructure - a small country (in terms of area, Singapore is about 1/3 of Ho Chi Minh City). and high connectivity.

Singapore also has many other challenges - should have the power to make such a project faster.'There is no doubt that the Singapore Government is capable and wise enough to push the project faster. We are able to forecast the future and are taking measures to welcome it. '

Singapore plans to deploy a new multi-stage system, working with businesses and startups around the world to test new solutions.'We try to become a living laboratory. Such issues will become more and more important to the world's governments in the future, we are just trying to jump in first, ' Leonard concluded.