Aiming to realize a “smart city” To share results Nationwide foundation on August 8, 14:35
Aiming to realize a “smart city”, a city that incorporates cutting-edge technology, the government will promote the creation of a common foundation where local governments and companies can mutually utilize the results of research and development that have been promoted separately. became.
“Smart City” is a city that is easy to live using state-of-the-art technology such as AI = artificial intelligence. It is a system that realizes energy saving by sharing natural energy, such as solar power generation, throughout the town. Demonstration experiments are underway in over 100 local governments nationwide, including technologies for installing sensors such as humidity to make use of the elderly.
On the other hand, research and demonstration experiments on “smart cities” are being promoted individually by local governments and companies, and the fact that the results and know-how are not shared with each other is an issue in promoting commercialization.
For this reason, the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, etc. gathered more than 470 local governments and companies to establish a framework called the “public-private partnership platform” and utilized each other's achievements such as standard unification and joint demonstration experiments. It was decided to proceed with the creation of a foundation for this.
With regard to “smart cities”, large-scale demonstration experiments are underway in Europe and China, and international competition is intensifying.
At the conference after the cabinet meeting, the Minister of Science and Technology in charge of Hirai Science and Technology said, “Each ministry did not work together and information sharing was poor. I want to connect to. "