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Creating Smart Street Lights that Notify Danger Situations with Digital Signals
- MOLIT develops smart street lighting platform with multi ministries’ cooperation... 26 billion KRW to be invested by ‘23
□ The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Minister Kim Hyun-mee, hereinafter called MOLIT) began joint ‘smart street lighting platform development and empirical research (hereinafter called R&D)’ with the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy hereinafter called (MOTIE) and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS).
ㅇ Instead of providing lighting that simply offers light as the function of street lights, this project will offer various road environment information** to citizens with the goal of reducing traffic accidents, and it will be jointly developed by investing a total of 26 billion KRW by four ministries starting from this year until ‘23.
ㅇ This will integrate information communication technologies (ICT) in street lighting fixtures such as street lights to provide information using ‘digital signs’ to directly collect and judge danger situations on the road or provide information to surrounding pedestrians or vehicles with I2X (Infra to Thing) technologies.
ㅇ It will allow nearby vehicles or pedestrians to react immediately when unexpected situations occur especially in areas where there are frequent accidents such as crosswalks, intersections and tunnels.
□ MOLIT will be in charge of establishing the service strategy to be provided by the street lighting platform and supervision such as constructing the empirical test bed, while duties will be divided by ministry such as information processing and communication platform (MSIT), multi-sensor convergence street lighting system (MOTIE), and urban disaster safety management-linked technologies (MOIS).
ㅇ The roles and opinions of the different agencies were continuously adjusted since last year to pursue the project successfully, and from March of this year, it voted on five agendas at the working-level meeting such as the multi-ministry joint project pursuance and management plans, joint management regulations, etc.
□ Furthermore, it will hold the smart street lighting platform development and empirical research (R&D) project seminar to provide information on the project contents and plans to agencies preparing to participate in this project on April 2 at the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement.
ㅇ At this seminar, MOLIT will introduce this project being pursued as a multi-agency R&D project, and plans are to provide details on new project selection procedures and support techniques.
□ MOLIT ITS and Road Safety Division Manager Kang Sung-seup said, “It is expected that this project will be used as a customized safety control tower in urban areas where there are frequent accidents on national routes and metropolitan cities and provinces that lack safety facilities with the goal of reducing traffic accidents.”
ㅇ He added, “We hope that it will be test-applied as a Korean-style standard street lighting platform linked to smart cities and become an opportunity to create various additional values.”
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