The world's only city island nation, Singapore, is well known for its cleanliness, greenery and also popular as a land of shopping malls, is now a new center for new high-tech innovation and the best substitute to Silicon Valley.
According to leading high tech industry, leaders it seems that they are already living in 2050. Singapore is known for its developed Information Technology infrastructure with strong government support and intellectual property laws. Singapore attracts like a magnet for world’s i.t industries from dyson to other high-tech giants such as facebook, google, linkedin and Microsoft. The city-state has already become the most futuristic place on the planet in different technological areas.
In 2015 autonomous cars, the concept of a standalone car started in Singapore with the introduction of the world's first driverless taxi system. Since 2010, the Singapore National University of has been testing self-propelled golf buggies on its campus for the safety of this new transportation.
It was October 2014; when the national university of Singapore conducted the first ever public testing of self-propelled vehicles and has since upgraded its electric passenger vehicle which has only been approved for testing on public roads. One of the private companies of Singapore, named nuTonomy, who took first initiative in the country and also become the third applicant to receive approval for public road testing in the northern side of the country in April 2016.
One of the top universities in Singapore, Nanyang Technological University is also developing driverless city buses such transport is to be introduced in 2022. Last year in 2020, the whole western areas the country with the length of public roads more than 1000 miles became a testing ground for robocars.
The law enforcement agencies work their best that’s why, crime rate is very low in the country, and the police are actively introducing technology into their work, for their duty best they uses special drones for air searches. These special drones can reach heights of sixty meters, with powerful sirens and a searchlight. Uses of robots are normal especially on the ground space during public events and these bots are fully autonomous and use pre-planned routes for navigation. These bots are equipped with cameras and they allow for remote surveillance.
The city-state is totally amazing, you can see there smart homes this is a key element of country’s vision for the city of the future, eighty percent of the population lives in affordable apartments that the government supports. Many areas are initially equipped with smart sensors that they monitor different things like electricity water, vacuum waste management systems and solar panels for power generation are also beginning to be implemented.
Smart streets of Singapore, it’s nice to hear that streets are smarter; by installing light poles that can illuminate avenues as well as the technological future of the city. These new light poles lamps are equipped with sensors and analytical system. The sensors can monitor environment changes such as temperature, rainfall and humidity in addition they respond to loud sounds such as a scream or a car crash. Soon, facial recognition sensor install with lamps to ensure the street's safety.
Cashless payments and a digital state, the smart nation program implies comfort in every aspect of life, today people of Singapore can pay via QR codes in restaurants or retail stores using only their smartphones. Singapore has a national digital identification system and uses two-factor verification and can be used to access all government services.
Today, Singapore is has been one of the world's leading financial hubs and is also now becoming increasingly a major technology hub. Top tech companies are penetrated there and seriously, it’ll be amaze to be there.
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