Nguyen Hue Walking Street in HCM City’s District 1 (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - The achievements in the first stage of a project toturn Ho Chi Minh City into a smart city 2020 were listed by its People’s Committee at arecent conference.
Since starting in late 2017, the city authorities have focused on building fourcentres, considered the four “pillars” of the project, which are a databasecentre, an operating centre for a smart city, a simulation centre to forecastlocal socio-economic strategies, and an information security centre.
The city’s common database and open database eco-system is operating at QuangTrung Software Park by integrating the databases of various city agencies.
Duong Anh Duc, Director of the municipal Department of Information andCommunications, said data from the system is used by city authorities.
There is also an open database website at https://data.hochiminhcity.gov.vn/,providing information about healthcare centres and professional certificates,he said.
The operating centre for a smart city has helped the city authorities integratedata from monitoring cameras operated by the Department of Transport andauthorities in districts Phu Nhuan, Go Vap, 1 and 12.
The centre has integrated databases from more than 1,000 cameras which help itidentify vehicles and monitor crowds, road traffic and security.
Le Quoc Cuong, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Information andCommunications, said this system possesses the advanced capabilities ofrecognising faces, behaviours and actions; crowd management; tracking vehicles,calculating traffic density and number of vehicles; identifying sounds andexplosions or fires.
After an experimental period of two to three months the city will evaluate thesystem and consider investment procedures so that it can be officially launchedwithin a few months.
The simulation and socio-economic strategy forecasting centre has completed thedocuments on methodology.
The first stage of the centre is scheduled to start functioning in June 2019, Ducsaid.
The city has also approved the incorporation of a joint stock company tooperate the information safety centre.
At the conference, Nguyen Thien Nhan, Secretary of the municipal PartyCommittee, said the project “to transform HCM City into a smart city in theperiod 2017-20” is considered its eighth ‘breakthrough’ programme.
After more than a year of implementing the project, there are “positive” earlyresults, he said.
He urged relevant agencies to provide the locations of centres, departments andagencies to the public. - VNA
Since starting in late 2017, the city authorities have focused on building fourcentres, considered the four “pillars” of the project, which are a databasecentre, an operating centre for a smart city, a simulation centre to forecastlocal socio-economic strategies, and an information security centre.
The city’s common database and open database eco-system is operating at QuangTrung Software Park by integrating the databases of various city agencies.
Duong Anh Duc, Director of the municipal Department of Information andCommunications, said data from the system is used by city authorities.
There is also an open database website at https://data.hochiminhcity.gov.vn/,providing information about healthcare centres and professional certificates,he said.
The operating centre for a smart city has helped the city authorities integratedata from monitoring cameras operated by the Department of Transport andauthorities in districts Phu Nhuan, Go Vap, 1 and 12.
The centre has integrated databases from more than 1,000 cameras which help itidentify vehicles and monitor crowds, road traffic and security.
Le Quoc Cuong, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Information andCommunications, said this system possesses the advanced capabilities ofrecognising faces, behaviours and actions; crowd management; tracking vehicles,calculating traffic density and number of vehicles; identifying sounds andexplosions or fires.
After an experimental period of two to three months the city will evaluate thesystem and consider investment procedures so that it can be officially launchedwithin a few months.
The simulation and socio-economic strategy forecasting centre has completed thedocuments on methodology.
The first stage of the centre is scheduled to start functioning in June 2019, Ducsaid.
The city has also approved the incorporation of a joint stock company tooperate the information safety centre.
At the conference, Nguyen Thien Nhan, Secretary of the municipal PartyCommittee, said the project “to transform HCM City into a smart city in theperiod 2017-20” is considered its eighth ‘breakthrough’ programme.
After more than a year of implementing the project, there are “positive” earlyresults, he said.
He urged relevant agencies to provide the locations of centres, departments andagencies to the public. - VNA
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