"AI Primary Doctor Coming Soon" Development of Standard Frameworks for Smart Health and Smart Farm

[Asia Economy Reporter Seolgina Jo] The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on the 19th that it has established standard frameworks in the fields of smart health and smart farms to systematically support the development and utilization of convergence services using information and communication technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

The ICT convergence standard framework refers to the ICT convergence service standard development and utilization roadmap that comprehensively presents ▲ convergence service model analysis, ▲ utilization of existing developed standards (draft), and ▲ gap standards (draft) that require new development, which are necessary to implement promising convergence industries and services such as smart health and smart farms. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) completed the development of the convergence standard framework for the smart health and smart farm sectors after a total of 30 advisory meetings and public hearings with experts from companies, universities, and related organizations since May last year.

The newly developed smart health and smart farm standard frameworks analyze and present promising service utilization scenarios and the necessary standards (drafts), contributing to accelerating innovative convergence services such as primary care services using artificial intelligence, remote patient monitoring, and algorithm-based smart farm control systems utilizing AI, big data, and the Internet of Things.

Specifically, the ‘AI Primary Care Service’ standard framework derived service implementation scenarios among patients, doctors, AI primary care systems, and ③ medical big data, and comprehensively presented the necessary standards (drafts). A Ministry of Science and ICT official stated, "Our government and standard experts will utilize this to take the lead in related international standards, and biohealth companies will be able to reduce trial and error in developing AI-based primary care services, making it easier to realize innovative businesses."

The smart farm standard framework analyzes and presents service utilization scenarios and necessary standards (drafts) for data-based smart farm production and automatic control service fields where ICT convergence is emphasized, and it is expected to contribute to the government and companies realizing advanced agricultural production and management services such as smart farm automatic control and production automation services, and to taking the lead in related international standards. Furthermore, farmers will be able to manage agriculture in a one-stop manner, from automated crop cultivation using growth environment and greenhouse status information to agricultural machinery maintenance and pest control services.

Oh Sang-jin, Director of the Information and Communication Industry Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, “In the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the paradigm is shifting from closed single product/service-centered approaches to intelligent information technology-based convergence industries, so it is important for standards to present a comprehensive blueprint suitable for the convergence environment.” He added, “We will actively support the development of standard frameworks for various ICT convergence services to revitalize related industries and services.”

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