Incheon Participates in Korea's Largest Smart City Expo... Showcases Autonomous Delivery Robots for Urban Areas

'2022 World Smart City Expo' Held for 3 Days from the 31st
Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority to Operate National Contest, Startup, and Living Lab Zones

'2022 World Smart City Expo' Incheon Promotion Booth Design [Provided by Incheon Economic Promotion Agency]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority will participate in the '2022 World Smart City Expo (WSCE 2022)' held at KINTEX in Ilsan from the 31st to the 2nd of next month, widely promoting various smart city services and the technological services of startups from Incheon both domestically and internationally.

The expo is the largest smart city event in the Asia-Pacific region, jointly hosted annually by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Science and ICT. This year, under the theme "A Digital World Where Everyone is Connected," government and corporate experts in the global smart city sector gather in one place, featuring seminars, business matching programs, and exhibition spaces for experiencing the latest technological solutions.

The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority will organize the Incheon-type smart city under the theme "Incheon's Dream, Korea's Future, Smart Incheon," with zones such as the National Contest Zone, Startup Zone, Living Lab Zone, and Presentation Zone, introducing ongoing smart city projects and innovative solutions and products from nurtured startups.

In the National Contest Zone, visitors can see the 'Real-time Demand-Responsive Bus I-MOD' currently being demonstrated, which was selected in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's Smart City Challenge project contest. The I-MOD bus is a smart mobility service that allows passengers to call a vehicle to their desired bus stop via a smartphone app and travel to the bus stop they want regardless of the route.

Also, in the Startup Zone, visitors can encounter solutions from innovative companies at Incheon Startup Park, the nation's first public-private partnership startup nurturing space. Eleven promising startups are participating, including ▲ Banp, a new technology IoT sensing tire that collects and provides road and tire conditions ▲ An Materials, a futuristic portable hydrogen storage cartridge ▲ Revo, a smartphone engineering device solution for the visually impaired ▲ Clover Studio, a core control solution for UAM (Urban Air Mobility) ▲ Mobic Lab, an ultrasonic industrial equipment failure prediction solution, among others.

There will also be an introduction to the Living Lab for urban delivery (last delivery) using autonomous robots, selected in April this year for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's 2022 Innovative Technology Discovery Project. Visitors can directly check the autonomous robots to be deployed in actual demonstrations, and business presentation sessions for each zone will be operated at the Incheon Pavilion booth over the three days.

An official from the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority stated, "Participation in this WSCE Expo will be a great opportunity to promote various smart city services of Incheon to the world and to verify the technological services of startups nurtured in the smart city sector by Incheon."

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