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VietNamNet Bridge – While smart city is now a growing trend in the
world, investors in Vietnam still seem to “forget” to equip construction works
with powerful information technology infrastructure to create new smart urban
areas.
Smart city remains a new concept in Vietnam
People simply think that smart city means a modern urban area with
sufficient features and comforts that serve people’s lives and works. However,
they have been told that besides good transport, electricity and water systems,
the development of the information transmission system that helps better the
urban area management and save energy, is really the fundamentals for a smart
city.
Mrinalini Ingram, high ranking Development and Strategy Director of Cisco Group, said that the basis of a city in the future will be the information network and the information to be transmitted, which allows all the most important services, from transport, security, to entertainment, education and healthcare, to be connected with each other, become smart and environment-friendly.
In the future, the urban infrastructure, including houses, offices, cars, public means of transport, hospitals, schools, energy and equipments all will connected via wired and wireless networks, while Internet will turn into the network which connects everything, not only computers and traditional mobile devices.
Smart cities will use the Internet as the foundation to set up plans, build and manage daily activities, help significantly improve the performance in every aspect of community life, especially, to improve productivity and upgrade the access to public services.
Pham Kim Son, Director of the Da Nang Information and Communication Department, said that the city’s authorities are pursuing the initiatives of building up the connection foundation for the city. The city is considering building up wide area network (WAN), cover public spaces (tourism sites, entertainment complexes, shopping malls, trade fair areas) with wi-fi network.
Also, the city is also aiming to build a smart city with the initial solutions including the smart systems on controlling transport, on controlling the pollution level of waste water, controlling food hygiene and giving warnings about natural catastrophes.
In developing smart cities, there exist challenges
Do Tu Lan, Deputy Director of the Urban Area Development under the Ministry of Construction, said in 1999-2010, the urban population in Vietnam has increased from 18.3 million to 26 million, and there are 755 urban areas. It is expected that the urban area would increase by 10 times by 2040, where 20 million more people will live.
Meanwhile, urban areas in Vietnam have only been providing normal conditions and services, such as electricity, water, transport and information technology services (Internet, cable, television) at simple levels.
According to Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, Deputy Director of the Information Technology Department under the Ministry of Information and Communication, there lacks the harmonization in the urban development planning and information technology works.
Besides, the limitation in putting information networks underground and the common use of telecom infrastructure, both have led to the fact that “every man for himself”. Investors have been simply building houses, while they do not care about connecting them.
Meanwhile, according to Dang Thach Quan, Managing Director of QDTek, a technology solution provider, another problem behind the rise of smart cities likes in the lack of money of investors. Meanwhile, he said, the demand for the utilities relating to the information technology infrastructure remains low.
Most of the buildings’ owners in big cities do not have the divisions specializing in information technology works, partially because they do not have money to pay the division, or do not think they need such a division.
However, experts have pointed out that smart city should be seen as the matter of a near future, and that if Vietnam does not think about this right now; it will fail to improve the living standards of people in 5-10 years.
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Smart city remains a new concept in Vietnam |
Mrinalini Ingram, high ranking Development and Strategy Director of Cisco Group, said that the basis of a city in the future will be the information network and the information to be transmitted, which allows all the most important services, from transport, security, to entertainment, education and healthcare, to be connected with each other, become smart and environment-friendly.
In the future, the urban infrastructure, including houses, offices, cars, public means of transport, hospitals, schools, energy and equipments all will connected via wired and wireless networks, while Internet will turn into the network which connects everything, not only computers and traditional mobile devices.
Smart cities will use the Internet as the foundation to set up plans, build and manage daily activities, help significantly improve the performance in every aspect of community life, especially, to improve productivity and upgrade the access to public services.
Pham Kim Son, Director of the Da Nang Information and Communication Department, said that the city’s authorities are pursuing the initiatives of building up the connection foundation for the city. The city is considering building up wide area network (WAN), cover public spaces (tourism sites, entertainment complexes, shopping malls, trade fair areas) with wi-fi network.
Also, the city is also aiming to build a smart city with the initial solutions including the smart systems on controlling transport, on controlling the pollution level of waste water, controlling food hygiene and giving warnings about natural catastrophes.
In developing smart cities, there exist challenges
Do Tu Lan, Deputy Director of the Urban Area Development under the Ministry of Construction, said in 1999-2010, the urban population in Vietnam has increased from 18.3 million to 26 million, and there are 755 urban areas. It is expected that the urban area would increase by 10 times by 2040, where 20 million more people will live.
Meanwhile, urban areas in Vietnam have only been providing normal conditions and services, such as electricity, water, transport and information technology services (Internet, cable, television) at simple levels.
According to Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, Deputy Director of the Information Technology Department under the Ministry of Information and Communication, there lacks the harmonization in the urban development planning and information technology works.
Besides, the limitation in putting information networks underground and the common use of telecom infrastructure, both have led to the fact that “every man for himself”. Investors have been simply building houses, while they do not care about connecting them.
Meanwhile, according to Dang Thach Quan, Managing Director of QDTek, a technology solution provider, another problem behind the rise of smart cities likes in the lack of money of investors. Meanwhile, he said, the demand for the utilities relating to the information technology infrastructure remains low.
Most of the buildings’ owners in big cities do not have the divisions specializing in information technology works, partially because they do not have money to pay the division, or do not think they need such a division.
However, experts have pointed out that smart city should be seen as the matter of a near future, and that if Vietnam does not think about this right now; it will fail to improve the living standards of people in 5-10 years.
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