Promoting ‘SMART SAFE COAST Samcheok’ by 2029… Integrated beach, port and port risk management

Promoting ‘SMART SAFE COAST Samcheok’ by 2029… Integrated beach, port and port risk management

(Samcheok = Yonhap News) Reporter Hyungjae Hyung = As Samcheok City in Gangwon Province was finally selected for the '2027 Smart Village Supply and Expansion Project' promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, it will begin in earnest to build a 'Smart Marine Safety City' based on AIoT.

Accordingly, the city plans to invest a total project cost of 3 billion won from next year to 2029 to build 'SMART SAFE COAST Samcheok', which will integrate and manage various risk factors at the beach, coast, and ports and ports.

The city has a wide range of living and tourism spaces such as beaches, ports, ports, and fishing villages along the coastline, and the need for an integrated safety management system that can detect and predict in real time has been continuously raised to preemptively respond to various coastal hazards such as swells and rip currents, overtopping and flooding, and coastal erosion.

Through this project, the city will build an AIoT-based integrated marine safety management system that connects 'detection-prediction-situation dissemination-citizen notification' of coastal risks into one.

The main projects include ▲ automatic detection of beach risk situations through AI image analysis ▲ observation of port and port flooding, overtopping waves, and abnormal signs of coastal facilities ▲ disaster risk prediction using meteorological and marine data ▲ location-based safety notifications for citizens and tourists in risk areas.

We also provide text and voice safety services for disaster-vulnerable groups such as the elderly.

In addition, we plan to link existing marine and disaster-related equipment and data and share situational information with relevant departments and agencies to establish a maritime safety management foundation that connects from risk prediction to on-site response.

The city will begin design and system construction in earnest starting next year.

Once the project is completed, Samcheok City will be equipped with a 'Samcheok-type smart marine safety management system' that identifies coastal risks in real time, predicts them in advance, and promptly informs citizens and tourists.

An official from Samcheok City said, "We will create Samcheok, a smart maritime safety city where citizens and tourists can feel at ease by detecting and predicting coastal risks more quickly."