New Taipei City Government
Situated in the northern part of Taiwan and surrounding the country’s capital, New Taipei City has an estimated over 4 million population and an area of 2052 km2. Given its geographical advantages, today’s New Taipei City is a major city of business industries second to Taipei City, with over 250,000 privately owned companies and 20,000 factories, which sums up to a total capital of NTD 1.8 Trillion. The high-tech industry alone generates annual revenue of NTD 4 Trillion. High technology, service, and tourism are all parts of the major industries in New Taipei City, prompting a high need of job search from all over the country with abundant employment opportunities. As a result, 70% of the population comes from different parts of Taiwan.
New Taipei City has been on a mission, laying stress on the importance of raising global competitiveness by working close on industrial, cultural, tourism, transportation and city developments in order to go with the global trend and further to transform into an international city.
AI big data creates the light of the future - New Taipei City 5G smart pole construction plan
Solution Description
As Taiwan's most populous city, New Taipei City is actively building a smart city to provide more convenience and services to citizens. It is upgrading traditional streetlamps into multifunctional "Smart Poles" with intelligent lighting as key infrastructure. The Smart Poles integrate 5G, IoT, communications and special needs modules to execute various tasks and incorporate AI applications, improving city security, transportation, environment and economy. By converging the light of the future smart city on lamp poles, they become the cornerstone of constructing urban base networks and big data analytics platforms.
The "Smart Poles" have consecutively won the "2023 WITSA Smart City Award First Prize", "2023 IDC Future Enterprise Awards" Grand Prize for Asia Pacific and Taiwan, gaining international acclaim and letting the world see the light of New Taipei City again!