Taiwan Showcases “Kaohsiung Smart City” Model, Building a Smart and Safe City with GenAI

Smart City Summit & Expo (SCSE) 2025 has grandly opened at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. This year’s highlight is the presentation of the Kaohsiung Smart City development, utilizing a GenAI platform for management.

One of the challenges for Kaohsiung in its smart city upgrade is developing its own proprietary AI solutions. This focuses on collecting local data to develop Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) for future GenAI advancements.

Charles Lin, Deputy Mayor Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan, stated that this project is a collaboration between the public and private sectors, aiming to enhance urban management, support industries, and drive Taiwan’s digital economy to a global level.

“As the world faces a major transformation from AI, we have initiated the AI Kaohsiung project to create a proprietary AI platform for Taiwan,” said Charles Lin.

Collaboration with Global Tech Giants

This project collaborates with leading global technology companies like NVIDIA. Kaohsiung utilizes NVIDIA’s computing center and partners with Chunghwa Telecom to build a robust communication infrastructure. Additionally, it collaborates with AI startups to develop the first city-level AI platform using local data.

A City-Level Smart AI Platform

The developed AI platform is powered by Generative AI, integrating diverse data sources including government data, citizen data, and IoT data. Using AI models such as LLMs, VLMs, and simulation models, it analyzes and understands complex situations and provides appropriate responses.

Applying AI for Smart City Development

AI technology will be applied in various scenarios such as traffic light control and smart parking, enhancing traffic efficiency and reducing travel time. It will also analyze data to detect hazards like fallen trees or power outages, providing real-time alerts for disaster management, and develop AI to address the health needs of Kaohsiung residents.

Charles Lin further stated that this year’s AI development will advance to version 2.0, an improvement from the siloed version 1.0. With GenAI, this project will create a city-level AI platform that all departments can collaboratively use.

Central Government’s Continued Support

Jiunn-Shiow Lin, Director-General Administration for Digital Industries Ministry of Digital Affairs (moda) Taiwan, said, “Taiwan has been promoting smart city development for many years, using public-private partnership (PPP) models. The central government provides financial support, and local governments provide space for trials.”

Taiwan’s Smart City project has been highly successful, with 345 companies developing solutions, producing 258 models, and attracting over 70 billion New Taiwan Dollars in investment. Additionally, 85 smart solutions have been exported to 29 countries worldwide.

The Ministry of Digital Affairs has also initiated projects to support digital transformation, industrial research and development, and allocated over 10 billion New Taiwan Dollars to venture capital firms to support AI startups and drive Taiwan towards becoming a leading AI economy.

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