Incheon City Invests 13 Billion KRW to Reduce Odor... Establishes Smart Metropolitan Integrated Control Center

Incheon City announced on the 16th that it will invest 13 billion KRW this year to promote 11 projects, including the establishment of a smart metropolitan integrated control center and the expansion of automatic sample collection devices, to reduce odor pollution.

The Smart Metropolitan Fine Dust and Odor Integrated Control Center is a monitoring system that utilizes cutting-edge technologies such as Geographic Information System (GIS) and big data.

By analyzing in real-time the odor information emitted from odor-emitting businesses and on-site data collected through CCTV and weather monitoring installed in odor management areas at the integrated control center, rapid response to complaints is possible.

The city also plans to produce automatic sampling vehicles capable of measuring and collecting fine dust and odor in real time. Using these vehicles, odor information that moves according to weather conditions can be collected.

For odor-emitting vulnerable businesses, dedicated public officials will be assigned, and an odor integrated situation room will be operated to establish a focused management system that can respond quickly when odor complaints occur.

Incheon City Hall

Along with this, administrative and financial support for emitting businesses will continue, including technical support for odor management vulnerable businesses, expansion of automatic sample collection devices, and interest-free loan support for odor prevention facility costs using the odor management fund.

The odor management fund provides interest-free loans with a two-year grace period and five-year repayment term, up to around 300 million KRW per business, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises among odor-emitting businesses in Namdong-gu (entire Namdong-gu) and the northwestern area (around Dream-ro in Seo-gu and Gyeyang-gu).

In addition, as complaints about direct flame grilled restaurants have increased recently due to the rise of mixed-use residential and commercial buildings, the subsidy program for installing odor reduction facilities such as electric dust collectors and activated carbon will be expanded. If a business that received this subsidy closes within three years, the subsidy will be reclaimed.

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