Question :
How much will you pay for my Data All ?
Answer :
Rs 40,000 – Rs 200,000 per month
Context :
A
New City, Built Upon Data, Takes Shape in South Korea / nytimes / 28
Mar 2022
Extract :
For Song-Lee Lee, a 30-year-old resident of South Korea’s first “smart city”
experiment, the mirror in her family’s living room is not just for smoothing her
hair on her way out the door.
This three-foot-tall mirror
— and a Samsung tablet mounted on a wall nearby
— are the nerve center of this three-bedroom home in the Eco Delta Smart
Village
Once Ms. Lee activates the mirror, it becomes a futuristic-looking touch
screen where she can monitor almost every aspect of her health, from her
heart rate to how well she slept the night before; pick up suggestions on food
and exercise for the day; and check in on the weather and the day’s news.
And the Samsung tablet — one of two in
each home — is her window into every virtual nook and cranny of this smart home:
# what appliances
are running,
# how much
energy the family is consuming,
# if
there is a parcel in her mailbox,
# even
when certain foods in the refrigerator will expire.
It will be
studied by developers, appliance manufacturers, the government and health care
experts
Residents in the 54 households in the smart village, which range from single
person units to three bedroom homes, are living rent-free ( they pay only for
electricity and water ) for three years, with a possible two year extension, in
exchange for
data collected about them
“ Once the three to five year experiment is over, and the city becomes more fully
occupied, we will no longer study the info, but the technology in these homes
will be the same “, said Lee Jae Min, deputy director of the smart city project. “
All of the current tenants know how important it is to provide the information.
With all the data we collect
through the smart village, we can build a smart city “
But to build a successful city for the future, studying the present-day
behaviours of the smart village residents is essential, according to the
project’s planners. The daily routines of residents and their usage of energy can
be a bellwether to how future cities should be conceived
“ Every tenant has a smart-watch that is synced to the mirror and the
system in the home “ , explained Kim Do-gyun, general manager of the Korea
Waters Resource Corp. “ It monitors your body and constantly assesses you
. It’s mandatory that everyone
wears a watch for the three years “
“ At 7 am the light in my bedroom automatically comes on , and a speaker says, “
Hi, Song-lee, good morning. Please stretch your body “, Lee said. And a few
weeks ago, we burned something in the kitchen, and the air filter system just
removed it immediately. The system sensed that something was wrong and dealt
with it. It’s a thinking house “
Construction of Busan’s Eco Delta Smart City is one of the more far-reaching
attempts around the world to create “smart
cities.”
Other communities are also planning to build or rebuild cities or neighbourhoods
based on data and a holistic approach to creating healthier and more sustainable
live-work environments: Toyota is constructing Woven City in Japan to study new
A.I. technology, and residents of neighbourhoods in Helsinki, Finland, and
Amsterdam have been studied as they have used smart technology added to
homes.
But the intent is to build this city from scratch as fully
smart.
“By building a new city from the ground up we can come out with a more
comprehensive city,” said Lee Jae Min, deputy director of the smart city
project with the Ministry of Land, Industry and Transport. “It’s not going to be
soon, but in the future, we plan to have a standard model of a smart city
and
export that to the world.”
The Busan project is now in the experimental phase, assessing not only how
South Koreans might live but also how the government and the private sector
might build more efficient infrastructure using solar and hydroelectric energy, as
well as more energy-efficient
appliances.
MY TAKE :
Ø At least in S
Korea, there seems to be acceptance of the following :
# Data is
NEW OIL
# Data is OWNED by a person and that person has sole / exclusive RIGHT
to MONETIZE that data
# Businesses ( specifically, Social Media ), must not STEAL private /
personal data of
citizen
# Businesses must “ Buy “ PERSONAL DATA from citizen and adequately
compensate for same
Ø In S Korea,
apartment rentals are approx. :
# A single bedroom
flat……………… Rs 40,000 - 50,000 per month
# A 3
bedroom flat……………………….Rs 150,000 – 200,000
per month
Dear
Shri Hardeep Singhji ( Puri ) – Minister for Housing :
Our government is building millions of houses ( flats ) for the homeless poor
people of India
I presume, these are given away ( ownership title )
for FREE
Assuming that these are built with very BASIC specifications ( to reduce cost to
a minimum ), there is no scope to install in these, those S Korean style
MAGIC MIRROR to compile comprehensive
data about their occupants
However, I
strongly recommend installation of the following :
# Built-in “
Drinking Water “
( https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2022/03/procuring-technology-for-cascade-water.html
)
# Built-in “
Roof Top Solar “
( Printed
Solar )
# Equipped
with “ Solar Chulha “
( https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-battery-swapping-policy-for-battery.html
)
# Equipped with “ Smart Meter
“
( https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2021/03/arbon-finance-through-carbon-credits.html
)
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
/ hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 06
April 2022
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