“We’re using an ArcGIS dashboard to monitor all this data together,” Jo said. System data can be cross-referenced with other geographic data, such as real-time feeds from the national weather service.

For three years, a monitoring system logged mosquito captures, transmitting the real-time data over a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network to ArcGIS GeoEvent Server. Warming in the region caused by climate change intensifies the threat of other foreign mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, yellow fever, West Nile fever, and Japanese encephalitis.ĭowntown Incheon was the representative urban area in a recent study that examined how climate change is affecting the mosquito population on the Korean peninsula, and whether there was a correlating effect on disease spread. In recent years, South Korea has experienced an uptick in dengue fever, which is carried by mosquitoes. “Due to the growth of overseas travel and global logistics, Incheon needs to be very careful about infectious diseases,” said Jo Gi-woong, a GIS expert who oversees Incheon’s smart city initiatives. In this age of global pandemics, Incheon is also the gateway city to South Korea, with one of the world’s busiest international airports. As the world continues to urbanize, the region will get more crowded. Incheon anchors the western side of the Seoul Capital Area, the world’s second-largest megaregion. Located on the northwest coast of South Korea, near Seoul, the nation’s capital, Incheon is a major industrial center. Exactly how many of the latter is difficult to say, but it is a question that interests the country’s public health officials. Incheon Metropolitan City, one of the largest cities in the Republic of Korea, is home to three million people and a sizeable population of mosquitoes. A South Korean city is using a digital twin to become a truly smart city by using its geospatial infrastructure to engage its agencies and the public to help meet challenges, both present and future.

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