Yongin City’s 'Smart City Video Information' to Be Used for Military Training and More

[Asia Economy (Yongin) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] The video information from the smart city integrated platform built by Yongin City, Gyeonggi Province, will be used not only for criminal identification and fire suppression but also for military operation control and training support starting this year.

Yongin City announced on the 23rd that it recently signed a "Smart City Safety Network Construction Business Agreement" jointly with four organizations, including the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry of National Defense, and Seoul City.

This agreement aims to provide Yongin City's smart city video information to the military in a timely manner. Yongin City will link the smart city integrated platform to the 55th Division's situation room.

Currently, even if an incident occurs in the area, video information is provided only upon separate requests or the situation is conveyed only by phone, making it difficult to quickly grasp the situation or respond initially. As a result, excessive personnel and equipment deployment was inevitable.

However, Yongin City will provide video information only when permitted by relevant laws such as national security or local disaster response. Specific criteria include ▲ declaration of integrated defense alert or issuance of alert level 2 or higher ▲ Eulji Taeguk exercise ▲ Korea-US joint exercise ▲ occurrence of terrorism or emergency situations.

Mayor Baek Gun-gi of Yongin said, "As a means to protect Yongin, the safest city nationwide, we have shared the smart city integrated platform with police and fire authorities," adding, "By providing video information even for military operations, we contribute not only to community safety but also to national security."

Meanwhile, the "military operation control and training support service" is supported in system development by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Yongin City and the 55th Division will create the operating environment and service standards to supply the smart city integrated platform to local governments nationwide that adopt it from next year on a paid basis.

Through the business agreement, Yongin City will also reduce service introduction costs and implement functions reflecting its own requirements.

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