'Building a Smart Address Information Platform' Opens the Era of AI Robot Delivery

Ministry of the Interior and Safety Implements First Basic Plan for Address Information Utilization

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on the 7th that it will establish and implement the "1st Basic Plan for Address Information Utilization," which contains the vision and direction for address policy over five years until 2026, in accordance with the Road Name Address Act.

Previously, addresses referred to the residence or location of individuals and companies, but with the development of artificial satellites and artificial intelligence, addresses have evolved into address information that serves as a connecting medium between the real and virtual worlds and as a location identifier for both humans and robots. Address information is the best data that integrates various digital information, and major advanced countries* also produce, manage, and distribute it under national leadership.

The basic plan first aims to expand the dense address information infrastructure recognized equally by both humans and robots by more than double. Address information serves as a unit infrastructure for places used in daily life and administration, and the denser it is, the more it becomes the nutrient for creating various services. In terms of expanding travel routes, the current 160,000 ground roads and others will be expanded to 640,000 by 2026. Delivery contact points will be doubled from the current 7 million building entrances to 14 million. The disclosure and provision of address information will increase from the current 41 types, including road name addresses, to 121 types by 2026.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety also plans to assign balanced address information regardless of people or regions and to eliminate gaps for vulnerable groups and regions in address utilization. They plan to establish an address system even in areas with low human traffic to improve the convenience of local residents and visiting populations. Road names in agricultural and fishing villages such as farm roads, forest roads, and breakwaters will be doubled, and 1 million individual addresses will be assigned to workplaces without road name addresses. Additionally, individual addresses will be assigned to outdoor activity areas such as walking trails and beaches.

Furthermore, the ministry will support the creation of a 1 trillion won address information industry as a new future industrial sector. By building and providing infrastructure jointly used in address-based innovative services in the public sector, it will help reduce common costs for companies. The ministry plans to expand the construction of intelligent address information from 11 types, including drone delivery points, to 275 types, and aims to brand K-Address by supporting the international standardization of the domestic address system and the entry of developing countries into the address information industry. To prepare industrial support systems, they will promote the establishment of industrial support grounds and the introduction of user address assignment systems.

Additionally, they plan to create a Data-Network-Artificial Intelligence (D.N.A.) ecosystem that distributes, integrates, and applies address information as top-level data. Advanced technologies such as change detection using videos or photos, automatic address assignment using artificial intelligence, and place intelligence technology using knowledge graphs will be introduced. To build a digital address information integrated platform, individual servers will be converted to cloud-based systems, and to establish address information governance assemblies, organizations and groups such as national and local governments, the current Address Information Committee, the current Address-Based Industry Association, expert committees, and user councils will participate. Subsequently, R&D for address information utilization technology development will be promoted to develop and disseminate address utilization technologies in various fields.

Minister Lee Sang-min stated, “Addresses are expanding their function beyond indicating physical locations to becoming a communication medium for location between humans and artificial intelligence and a connector between the real and virtual worlds,” adding, “We will strive to revitalize the address information industry and create good jobs in related fields by establishing a Data-Network-Artificial Intelligence ecosystem for address information suitable for the digital age.”

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