Hyundai Motor Group presents its vision for 'Smart City'

Hyundai Motor Group announced that it participated in the 2022 World Cities Summit (WCS) held in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore from July 31 to August 3 and announced its smart city vision.

The World Cities Summit is a place where city officials, political, business, and academic figures from around the world gather to discuss pending issues for sustainable cities, which is held every two years under the supervision of Singapore's Centre for Living Cities (CLC) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).

Hyundai Motor Group drew attention by exhibiting miniature models of the 'HMG Greenfield Smart City Master Model'.

Ji Young-jo, the president of Innovation, attended the summit panel and presented Hyundai Motor Group's vision for smart cities. He said, "The HMG Greenfield Smart City master model is Hyundai Motor Group's vision for a human-centered city," and "Hyundai Motor Group will embody the idea of a future city where technology and nature become one."

The ‘HMG Greenfield Smart City Master Model’ embodies the ideal future city vision drawn by Hyundai Motor Group.

Greenfield Smart City refers to a city designed as a smart city from its original design (Brownfield Smart City introduces smart city solutions to existing cities).

Hyundai Motor Group has established a future urban philosophy through a smart city advisory group composed of outside experts and has studied various solutions that are organically connected to cities such as logistics, energy, and nature as well as mobility.

The ‘HMG Greenfield Smart City Master Model’ exhibited this time is the result of Hyundai Motor Group's consideration of the shape of the future city, and it has a honeycomb structure that considers future expansion.

The ground is designed to be centered on people and the underground is centered on functions.

Major infrastructures such as logistics and eco-friendly energy facilities using self-driving mobility are located underground, leaving the ground as a person-centered space, and connecting people and nature with a structure in which nature is located within walking distance anywhere in the city.

Buildings are classified according to their use and density, and the closer they are to nature, the lower the density, so people can see nature anywhere in the city.

Hyundai Motor Group plans to continue its research with the aim of designing a city that is human-centered, coexists with nature, and contains a sustainable future while embodying the master model in the future.

President Ji Young-jo said, "Air mobility and ground mobility solutions will redefine urban boundaries, connect people in meaningful ways, and revitalize cities", and “Hyundai Motor Group plans to continue to cooperate closely with governments around the world to realize its smart city vision."

Earlier, Hyundai Motor Group attracted global attention by presenting new concept mobility solutions UAM, PBV, and Hub to realize its future mobility vision at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

In addition, Hyundai Motor Group is building the ‘Hyundai Mobility Global Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICs),’ which will serve as an innovation lab in Singapore, where the World Cities Summit is held.

It is also strengthening activities related to smart city projects by signing an MOU with JTC, a government-affiliated organization in charge of planning, development, and management of Singapore's industrial and industrial complexes and related facilities.

Reported by Smart City Today