Daejeon Urban Railway Hazard Situations 'Monitored by Artificial Intelligence'

Conceptual Diagram of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Monitoring System. Provided by Daejeon City

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City is establishing a foundation to monitor and respond to urban railway-related risk situations using artificial intelligence.

The city announced on the 8th that it was recently selected for the Ministry of Science and ICT's Digital New Deal project, the "Artificial Intelligence Learning Data Construction Project."

According to the selection results, the city will receive 1.9 billion KRW in national funding to carry out the project. The core of this project is to build learning data for monitoring the safety status of urban railways and industrial facilities using AI thermal imaging CCTV.

Previously, the city, Daejeon Urban Railway Corporation, three local AI startups, Hanbat National University, and Korea Western Power formed a consortium and proposed the AI learning data construction project to the government.

Using the data constructed through this project, the Urban Railway Corporation will establish an "AI-based facility monitoring system" that predicts abnormal overheating of trains and substation fires in real time.

Additionally, the AI will automatically deliver detected abnormal facility conditions from the monitoring system to the control room and maintenance personnel to prevent accidents in advance.

Choi Gyo-shin, head of the city's Smart City Division, said, "This year, the city installed an AI safety system at City Hall Station and applied AI monitoring technology based on 5G MEC for trains." He added, "The upcoming 'AI Monitoring System Construction Project' for critical urban railway facilities will be an AI safety policy that citizens can experience in their daily lives."

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