Fast Tracking Malaysia's Smart Cities with Advanced Technologies in 2021 Digital Infrastructure Provider's Insight
Industry experts are in accord that the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has delivered many sharp lessons including the urgent need to fast track smart city ini�a�ves. Indeed, this Outlook 2021 special edi�on presents a mountain of insights that pushes the smart city concept firmly from the ‘nice to have’ to the ‘must implement today’ for Malaysia. As the bea�ng heart of a smart city is smart data, we will focus on some essen�al perspec�ves to accelerate smart city developments. The current crisis highlights, among others: • Two challenges that must be transformed immediately into opportuni�es - and centre on the flow and handling of data; and Today, governments around the world are playing catch up because most ci�zens are ahead of the digital curve. Malaysians are pioneer internet users as borne out by many regional and global studies. Carried during the pandemic, MCMC's Internet User Survey 2020 recently reconfirmed the up�ck in Malaysia's use of the internet, which is driven significantly by daily usage of mobile apps to carry out life tasks, such as parking (mul�ple parking apps including KL's JomParking, E Smart Park, Flexi Park, etc), checking in for errands during the pandemic (MySejahtera), banking & digital payments (e.g.TouchnGo), work, social interac�on, and eCommerce in all its forms. Today, 88.7% of the popula�on are internet users with smartphones reaching near-satura�on usage level at 98.7% in 2020. Immediate Steps
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The vital need to build cohesive connec�ons between advanced technologies, relevant culture change, and administra�on processes in order to heighten Malaysia's economic empowerment, environmental sustainability, and social re-engineering to meet the demands of the 4th Industrial Revolu�on era.
As envisaged by Malaysia’s Smart City Framework under the 12th Malaysia Plan 2021-2025, digital transforma�on is a vital catalyst to poten�se Malaysia's recovery efforts and enhance the quality and safety of life in a rapidly shi�ing world.
Currently, many apps overlap to carry out common tasks, which is reflected in another major challenge - a stumbling block facing both public and private sectors globally. Data silos are collec�ons of informa�on o�en accessible by only one group, which grossly hampers sharing and decision-making. Though centralisa�on is difficult due to concerns such as privacy, data sovereignty, and data exis�ng in varying states of quality, a move to data lakes would help to start addressing this block – providing informed data and insights for be�er decision making. The pandemic has priori�sed unlocking digital poten�al especially arising from the phenomenal growth of devices (the Internet of Things, IoT) in our personal and business lives that are online, connected, and capable of collec�ng and sharing data, ubiquitously called the new oil and regarded as a key asset in today's world.
Smart ci�es, also known as SCC or Smart and Connected Communi�es, can provide essen�al infrastructural support for the deployment of advanced analy�cs and connected solu�ons. Digital technologies that help to collect, process and act on real �me data include essen�al jigsaw pieces such as IoT and Ar�ficial Intelligence (AI), all of which ride on cloud compu�ng - a pla�orm that has proven to be a lifeline during the current crisis, enabling us to connect through videoconferencing apps and remote access systems. 5G technology presents another avenue of hyper connec�vity especially in areas previously difficult to serve. And the future holds capacity building for autonomous vehicles and the 'next normal'. Technology Imperatives
At the beginning of 2020, the world saw a series of public-private collabora�ons in Malaysia with the sanc�on of the government included demonstra�ons of large-scale use cases. A confluence of technologies demonstrated by real-�me projects placed in parts of the island archipelago of Langkawi could easily be viewed from the TMONE 5G Command Centre (5GCC) built on an open, sharing model to enable full collabora�on into the future. The use of AI smart cameras, community alert bu�ons, geoloca�on apps, My Smart City mobile app, smart helmets and other solu�ons - powered by real-�me data analy�cs - demonstrated mul�ple use cases spanning smart city, smart tourism, smart traffic smart agriculture, as well as crime preven�on and ci�zen safety.
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