SINGAPORE: The Republic is likely to see its first three-dimensional (3D) city model platform for knowledge sharing and community collaboration by 2017, said the National Research Foundation (NRF) on Monday (Dec 1).
The NRF unveiled plans for the S$73 million Virtual Singapore project - one of the projects under the Smart Nation vision outlined by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last week.
The money will go towards the development of the platform, as well as research into latest technologies and advanced tools over a period of five years. The project will be deployed progressively from 2017.
POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS OF THE 3D MAP
The 3D map is intended for use by the public, private and research sectors. Its potential applications include locating facilities or amenities in the neighbourhoods, sharing information and resource between the community, simulations of crowd and evacuation measures as well as enabling planning and decision-making when it comes to delivering municipal services and analysing pedestrian flow.
This can be done because the 3D model contains detailed information about Singapore's physical landscape and structures. This includes geometric and geo-spatial data, as well as dynamic and real-time data. For example, models of buildings will include geometry and their components, right down to the building material.
Communities can make use of the platform to simulate possible scenarios of future amenities in the neighbourhood and give feedback, or simply share information.
Mr George Loh, director of physical sciences and engineering at the National Research Foundation, said: 'We aim to push Virtual Singapore to tablets, to handheld devices, where the community, the people could for example take picture, and just post it ... with geo-spatial information in 3D.
SAFEGUARDS TO PROTECT DATA
'So for example, there is a lost pet and somebody finds a cat somewhere at a certain level. They get a picture, post the picture to Virtual Singapore, and it will have 3D information of this cat at this block, and at this level.'
NRF said safeguards will be put in place to protect data. For example, data will be anonymised and aggregated to prevent it from being traced back to a particular individual. Access to more sensitive information will also be controlled.
Mr Loh elaborated: 'The right people will get the right access to the right information, so they will not be given more information than they need. Even businesses or Government - not all Government employees will get same access, it depends on the role.
'So if you are a citizen, resident, businesses, public servant, depending on your role, you get the 'right' access to the right information.'
The Singapore Land Authority will become Virtual Singapore's owner and operator when the project is completed.
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