Rising as Drone City... Ulsan City Selected as an Excellent Local Government for the 'Drone Demonstration City Construction Project'

Among 15 Participating Local Governments, Only 3... The Sole Metropolitan Municipality

Evaluation of the 'Drone-Based Disaster Safety City Construction Commercialization' Model

“It transported heavy equipment, carried out mountain terrain rescue and evacuation of stranded persons, and conducted radiation monitoring without hesitation.”

Ulsan City has been recognized as a city that successfully carried out the ‘Drone City’ project.

On the 28th, Ulsan City announced that it was finally selected as an excellent case local government in the ‘2023 Drone Demonstration City Establishment Project’ hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Aviation Safety Technology Institute).

Three local governments, including Ulsan, Seongnam, and Namwon, were finally selected, with Ulsan being the only metropolitan local government included.

In this project, which was promoted through a public contest in February, about 40 local governments applied, and in March, a total of 15 local governments were selected, including four special/metropolitan local governments?Seoul, Ulsan, Incheon, and Jeju?and 11 basic local governments such as Gimcheon, Seongnam, and Namwon.

Each of the 15 selected local governments is currently promoting the project until the end of this month to establish a drone commercialization model suitable for their regional characteristics.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport selected excellent case local governments to share successful project cases ahead of the project’s completion at the end of this month.

The three local governments selected as excellent cases will participate in a performance report meeting held at 2 p.m. on the 28th at the Mayfield Hotel in Seoul, where the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Aviation Safety Technology Institute, and project stakeholders will present project achievements and share results.

Ulsan City plans to present the project achievements related to building an online drone utilization platform for establishing a disaster safety city.

The main contents include ▲ delivery of heavy (50kg) protective equipment in preparation for nuclear power plant accidents ▲ radiation monitoring at different altitudes (50m, 100m, 150m) ▲ anti-drone measures against illegal swarm drones (3 units) terrorist attacks ▲ search and rescue of stranded persons in Yeongnam Alps linked with reporting app and control center ▲ and five detailed projects of a hyper-connected AI system.

An official from Ulsan City said, “Our differentiated project achievements in disaster and safety fields, such as heavy delivery drones, have been recognized,” adding, “We will continue to promote related projects so that these results can lead to commercialization and business development in the future.”

The ‘Ulsan City 2023 Drone Demonstration City Establishment Consortium,’ which carried out this project, successfully demonstrated all five detailed project results at a performance demonstration held on the 15th at the lawn square of Ulju County Office.

Ulsan City Hall exterior view. (Photo by Ulsan City Hall)

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