Improving economic efficiencyIn large cities like Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, applying smart technology solutions can bring high economic efficiency for the most pressing demands such as infrastructure and transport management, flood and environment management, administrative management and e-government, said architect Ngo Viet Nam Son from the Vietnam Association of Architects.
Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang are Vietnam’s three largest urban centers and the leading cities for researching and developing smart urban networks.
Smart cities are commonly associated with information technology (IT), communications and equipment network connected via the internet as a basis for building livable cities, with sustainable planning, effective transparent and highly-urbanized management in all aspects.
The development trend of a smart urban area now focuses on a number of options, such as building e-government, urban management, transportation, infrastructure, environment, energy saving, healthcare, security, education, telecommunications and so on.
Hanoi capital from above. Photo: Pham Hung
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To do this, it is necessary to well organize management and use smart technology on the basis of group collaboration, participants in management work and residents must know the use of smart applications, and the collaboration among urban management groups to bring about high efficiency in the operation, Son added.
Especially, to form a smart city, it is necessary to address solve urban issues in a multidisciplinary way. For instance, it is possible to combine meteorological and traffic information to help forecast time and location of possible storms and floods, the possibility of traffic congestion along roads, and the guidelines needed to respond to the situations, Son stressed.
Be aware of technology race
The application of science and technology to develop a smart city is considered an indispensable trend in globalization. However, architect Ngo Viet Nam Son warns that with the current pace of development, science and technology often have shorter life cycles and become increasingly cheaper.
It is not necessary to race for technological solutions to develop a smart city does, while short-term and long-term economic assessment is required to choose suitable technology solutions, Son said.
In order to ensure the success and high economic efficiency in smart urban construction process, the government should select technological solutions that have been successfully applied, Son affirmed.
Smart urban development is focused on human resources, followed by management expertise and technology. However, the use of technology also needs to improve the value of community life and urban identity, instead of making the city become mechanical and inanimate.
In order to do so, attention should be paid to the socio-economic status, living and working needs of the city’s residents, in order to form diverse living and working communities, with the support of various levels of applying smart technology in different communities, Son added.
