Gwangju City Selected for 3 National Funded Projects in Regional SW Service Commercialization Competition

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 12th that three projects were selected in the ‘Regional Software (SW) Service Commercialization Support Project’ hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency, receiving a total budget of 3.6 billion KRW until next year.

The ‘Regional SW Service Commercialization Support Project’ supports the discovery and commercialization of new SW-based services targeting small and medium-sized ICT companies located in the region. The three selected projects this time are ▲ Development of an industrial AI safety management solution based on virtual sensors ▲ Development of AI-based programmable logic controller (PLC) modules and control programs for production sites ▲ AI store management platform-based unmanned kitchen robot system.

Gwangju, which is proactively moving to open the era of a smart city centered on ICT, conducted a preliminary demand survey for the ‘Regional SW Service Commercialization Support Project’ targeting local companies for this public offering.

Going forward, the city, Gwangju Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency, and local companies will jointly participate in developing the selected projects.

Among the three projects, the ‘Development of an industrial AI safety management solution based on virtual sensors’ is a project to develop an AI solution that predicts problems and diagnoses faults in batteries, power conversion systems (PCS), and solar modules using virtual sensors, led by BAEnergy Co., Ltd.

This solution is expected to reduce costs and be applicable to various industrial fields by enabling safety management through AI learning without installing additional sensors.

The project ‘Development of AI-based programmable logic controller (PLC) modules and control programs for production sites,’ led by Linux IT Co., Ltd., is a system that develops programmable logic controllers (PLC), a core component of smart factories, and control programs, and links them with trained AI vision (defective product detection solution).

This project is expected to improve productivity and reduce costs by domesticating programmable logic controllers (PLC), which are currently dominated by foreign products, and introducing AI into industrial sites.

The project ‘AI store management platform-based unmanned kitchen robot system,’ led by D2 Resources Co., Ltd., involves building an unmanned system from ordering to cooking by applying AI and robot technologies.

In particular, it is expected to serve as a case where robot and AI technologies, key technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution era, are applied in our daily lives, helping to resolve labor shortages for small business owners and activate youth entrepreneurship.

Son Kyung-jong, Director of the AI Industry Bureau of the city, said, “We will actively support the selected projects so that they can be worthy of the status of an AI-centered city,” and added, “We will strive to ensure that local companies and citizens can experience the technology in industrial sites and daily life.”

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