- Hyundai Motor Group to current a future metropolis the place expertise is harmoniously related in three core facets of the town: House, Mobility and Vitality
- The Group to showcase human-centered sensible metropolis options beneath the imaginative and prescient ‘Inspiring Human Progress,’ with zones centered on ‘Transportation,’ ‘Logistics and Robotics’ and ‘Vitality and Infrastructure’
- Sensible metropolis options on show to incorporate the DICE private mobility platform, S-A2 next-generation airframe, SPACE-Mobility system, Metropolis Pod and rather more
Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) introduced that it’ll take part for the primary time within the World Sensible Metropolis Expo 2024 (WSCE). The expo might be held from September 3–5 at KINTEX in Korea, showcasing human-centered sensible metropolis options.
WSCE is a worldwide expo the place the most recent applied sciences, insurance policies and options for sensible cities are shared and mentioned. It has been held eight occasions since its inception in 2017 beneath the sponsorship of the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Ministry of Science and ICT.
Final 12 months, a complete of 320 corporations from 70 nations participated, introducing varied options for future cities, reminiscent of sensible infrastructure and power effectivity. This 12 months, varied experiences and exhibitions might be held beneath the slogan ‘Higher Life is Right here.’
At this 12 months’s WSCE, the Group is about to ascertain a future metropolis the place expertise seamlessly integrates the town’s three core components: House, Mobility and Vitality.
“Our dedication extends past mobility; we attempt to innovate constantly to reinforce life high quality throughout varied facets of our cities,” mentioned Heung-Soo Kim, Govt Vice President and Head of the International Technique Workplace (GSO) at Hyundai Motor Group. “We’ll proceed to leverage our Group-wide capabilities to comprehend sustainable sensible cities that encourage human progress beneath the important thing areas: area, mobility, and power.”
The Group has ready a 900-square-meter exhibition corridor the place guests can get a glimpse of its sensible metropolis imaginative and prescient, ‘Inspiring Human Progress.’ The exhibition corridor may also be divided into three themes: ‘Transportation,’ ‘Logistics and Robotics’ and ‘Vitality and Infrastructure.’
Within the ‘Transportation’ zone, the DICE (Digital Curated Expertise) private mobility platform, the S-A2 next-generation airframe, the SPACE-Mobility public system, the demand-responsive Shucle service, and others are on show.
DICE is a private mobility platform that gives custom-made providers by way of software program expertise optimized for people by synthetic intelligence (AI). It permits for a extra immersive journey expertise by way of a three-sided show.
Unveiled at CES 2024, the S-A2 next-generation airframe is a sophisticated air mobility (AAM) gadget able to vertical takeoff and touchdown. Group subsidiary Supernal is creating the S-A2 airframe to fly at a cruising velocity of 200 km/h at an altitude of 400-500 meters within the metropolis. The corporate goals to commercialize S-A2 in 2028.
The SPACE-Mobility public system permits anybody, together with these with transportation difficulties, to take pleasure in unrestricted motion. It gives optimized area and customised seats in response to consumer circumstances and helps comfy boarding and alighting for wheelchairs, micro-mobility gadgets, pets, and so forth., by way of floor management features.
Within the ‘Logistics and Robotics’ zone, the Metropolis Pod logistics mobility gadget, Parking Robotic and Straightforward Swap are on show.
Metropolis Pod is an unmanned, massive logistics mobility gadget that surpasses the boundaries of present programs primarily based on software program expertise. It’s outfitted with an computerized logistics classification system that strikes organically and actively in any respect levels. It makes use of hydrogen power expertise and is predicted for use diversely in every day life and industrial websites, together with logistics, public transportation, industrial uncooked supplies and waste transportation, and hydrogen power transportation.
Straightforward Swap is a expertise that permits customers to exchange life modules in response to the patron’s fashion. Customers can detach the enterprise module from the mounted platform, referred to as the driving force module, by way of the boarding and alighting gadget and mix it with one other module appropriate for the aim. This enables one automobile for use as an workplace, luxurious limousine, camper, and so forth.
The Parking Robotic, developed by Hyundai WIA, is a pair of skinny, large robots that go beneath the automobile, carry the wheels, and transfer them. The robotic’s thickness is designed to be 110 mm in order that it may be utilized to any automobile. It has been developed to maneuver in any course — entrance, again, left and proper — in order that it could actually transfer autos even in slender areas the place parking is tough.
The park exhibit, within the ‘Vitality and Infrastructure’ zone on the middle of the sales space, embodies the Group’s imaginative and prescient for a wise metropolis: a spot the place folks can stroll amidst considerable greenery, reflecting the perfect of a metropolis dwelling in concord with nature. By means of a construction within the type of a telescope, guests can not directly expertise the design of an underground area centered on features outfitted with mobility, logistics and power infrastructure.
By means of the infographic stand put in on the outskirts of the park, the picture of a sustainable future metropolis that considers not solely folks and nature, but additionally future generations are conveyed. That is primarily based on the hydrogen worth chain from the manufacturing, motion, and storage to utilization.
Subsequent, the Group plans to construct a wise metropolis platform that seamlessly connects mobility options and infrastructure. The core of a wise metropolis is to attach all infrastructure and providers within the metropolis into one to handle them effectively and supply a greater life-style. Consistent with the Group’s strategic course of reworking into software-oriented mobility, it should construct an city ecosystem the place information might be interconnected and operated to create a extra handy and safer city setting.
The Group may also launch a manifesto movie to articulate the core values, philosophy, and goal of its sensible metropolis in a relatable approach. This movie focuses on extra than simply the Group’s modern expertise; it brings to life the sensible metropolis values that middle on humanity and the on a regular basis lives of individuals. Utilizing cinematic methods, the movie conveys the sensible metropolis philosophy the place folks, not expertise, are the primary characters. It avoids the frequent sci-fi really feel related to future depictions and as a substitute adopts a heat tone to painting a future that’s fascinating for folks.
