Ready resources The idea of building a smart city completely owned by Vietnamese people is now feasible, Deputy General Director of the Viettel Business Solutions Corporation (Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group) Vo Anh Tam affirmed. Currently, Vietnam has the full technical infrastructure and technology platform to implement the projects and Viettel can provide all necessary solutions to build a smart city for each locality, he added. Up to now, Viettel has deployed a system of monitoring centres for traffic control and public security. According to Deputy General Director Vo Anh Tam, it is a solution to manage traffic, public transport, social order and security situation in the area, through images. The image is transmitted from thousands of high-quality cameras located throughout the city. The system also receives information from the functional forces, people, social networking and cyberspace platforms. Every time there is a problem, the system will analyse images and … [Read more...] about Developing smart cities in Vietnam
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Hanoi proceeds with building of functional centers to become a smart city
The Hanoitimes - Hanoi capital city will continue to research and implement some basic components of smart healthcare, smart education, smart environment, smart agriculture, and smart city. Smart city is an inevitable trend for Hanoi Hanoi seeks Netherlands’ support in smart city building Hanoi and Finnish region to promote cooperation in smart city building Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Duc Chung on February 12 signed a plan on implementing a number of basic components to advance the metropolis' plan to turn itself into a smart city. The plan defines specific tasks, including the application of information technology (IT) in state agencies' operations, development of e-government, the IT industry, ensuring of cyber information security and other basic components of a smart city. A corner of Hanoi city. Photo: Pham Hung Specifically, Hanoi will establish a Smart Operating Center in the city, with eight functional centers namely … [Read more...] about Hanoi proceeds with building of functional centers to become a smart city
HCM City’s residents to benefit from smart city project
A view of HCM City (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City plans this year to speed up a project to become a smart city by 2025 in order to better serve its residents. After one year of implementing the smart city project, authorities have achieved initial results. The project’s four key tasks were given priority, including a common-use shared database; a stimulation research and forecasting centre for socio-economic policies; a smart administration centre; and an information security centre. Information from many fields has been collected and integrated so that city leaders can easily grasp and evaluate the data, thereby shortening the time to handle work. Authorities have also launched a pilot open data portal for the city (http://data.hochiminhcity.gov.vn). Vo Minh Thanh, head of the Information Technology Department at the city’s Department of Information and Communication, said the city would pilot providing information on … [Read more...] about HCM City’s residents to benefit from smart city project
Learning global lessons in smart city creation
By Tomaso Andreatta Vice chairman, Eurocham All of humanity is gradually concentrating in cities. In countries like Vietnam, with a youthful population and with recent experience of getting out of poverty, these tend to be fast-growing megacities of many millions of people. Today, more than ever, opportunities for employment, business, education, health, entertainment, shopping, and real estate investment are concentrated in cities. The connectivity among cities, both in terms of the physical moving of people and goods and data and information, is increasing fast. Many cities have a wide network of relations with peers around the world, not necessarily in the same country or region. The criteria for these links are mostly similarities in the structure, size, and leadership in solutions achieved. Devolution, whereby more responsibility is given to the institutions closest to the people they cater for, ensures that a greater share of revenue generated by cities stays there. However, … [Read more...] about Learning global lessons in smart city creation
Smart homes and smart cities do not need to be costly
Smart homes and smart cities do not need to be costlyBy Ngoc Tran Tan Kee Hau, Executive Director of Antik Technology – PHOTO: NGOC TRAN The Saigon Times had an interview with Tan Kee Hau, Executive Director of Antik Technology, a Slovak high tech company, on smart homes and smart cities. He was recently in HCMC for a new tech exhibition. The Saigon Times: What do you mean by smart homes? - Tan Kee Hau: In a smart home, today, you are able to control many home appliances using connected technology. Actually, you can also control them using TV to control. So, while you are sitting on the sofa watching TV, you can control your home appliances. If I am away from home, can I control those appliances via a smartphone? - It is possible. But you need the internet. Your smartphone needs to be connected to the internet. And you can control everything, even if you are 1,000, 10,000 kilometers away from home. Please give details. What are we controlling with your system? … [Read more...] about Smart homes and smart cities do not need to be costly