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Smart Space, A New Paradigm for Future Space

With the recent increased adoption of digital transformation (DX) technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, alongside smart technologies across various sectors, significant changes are also taking place in spatial environments. The expansion of platform-based smart services is enabling data-driven life innovation. This is integrating diverse spaces—including entire cities, mixed-use complexes, industrial zones, residential areas, and special-purpose spaces—and accelerating the transformation into smart spaces. 

 

As a result, residential, office, and urban spaces are evolving into smart homes, smart buildings, and smart cities. At the same time, there is a growing demand for operating systems that can efficiently manage smart spaces, along with service spaces designed to enhance the quality of life for urban residents. In response, the integration of real-time data-driven urban control services and various smart services is emerging as a core factor in advancing smart spaces.

Proactive City Management, Citizen-Participatory City Management, City Management Optimization
Paradigm Shift in Urban Control

Since 2000, cities have evolved from Ubiquitous City (U-City), which emerged in 2010, to smart cities that integrate work, residential, and urban spaces. This transition is evident in the Sejong Smart City National Pilot Project and Busan Eco Delta Smart City, which gained prominence in 2018. A smart city consists of a physical layer, which provides direct services to the public, and a digital layer, which enables the city to function like software. This structure is composed of four layers: services, platforms, spaces, and infrastructure, and there is a growing need for an urban control system that can seamlessly integrate and manage these components.

Considerations for Improving the Efficiency of Urban Control

To efficiently manage various spaces and smart services in a smart city, it is essential to implement data-driven urban control that extends beyond real-time responsiveness to optimization and predictive operations for more intelligent city management. This requires a system that enables the integration and use of both public and private data. By leveraging this data-driven approach, cities can establish real-time data monitoring-based operations, data analysis-driven urban operation optimization, simulation-based proactive urban management, and citizen-participatory urban operations through open data utilization.

Urban Control Services Provided by LG CNS

AI and Big Data-Based Data Collection and Processing

We establish infrastructure and platforms that enable the integration, storage, and analysis of diverse data. By leveraging AI-driven big data analytics and visualization, we create a structured data system and ecosystem that enhances urban control.

Integrated Urban Control

To accommodate control requirements related to various situational information management, we have secured a management tool that classifies control targets by purpose and customizes displays, supporting effective situation control through visualizations like widgets and image views.

Digital Twin-Based Response System

We enable proactive urban operations by implementing a predictive response system through end-to-end support that allows machine learning and real-time data inference, and the provision of digital twin-based simulations.

LG CNS Solution for Complete Urban Control
Cityhub

LG CNS’s Cityhub is a data-driven smart city platform that collects, analyzes, and shares urban data.

 

By storing, managing, and analyzing data collected through integration with facilities, systems, and external organizations, Cityhub supports various services aimed at enhancing citizens’ quality of life. With its six core functions, Cityhub enables users to analyze simultaneously collected data from multiple devices more efficiently and display city information in a more streamlined manner.

Customized Solution
  • Offers flexible configurations tailored to customer needs through modular design
  • Supports smart city requirements across all stages, from data collection to data sharing
Scalability
  • Ensures seamless interoperability with other standard platforms and datasets through compliance with international standards
  • Offers diverse connectivity options
Sustainability
  • Supports rapid adaptation to technological advancements through integration
  • Ensures system advancement with continuous support by LG CNS' experts
FAQ
  • Urban control requires monitoring and processing various service events. To do so, a big data-based collection system that gathers a huge volume of internal and external data is necessary. To create a data collection system that connects with external systems, you need measures for data linkage methods such as Open API, DB-2-DB, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and File Transfer Protocol Secure (FTPS).

  • As a oneM2M (one-Machine to Machine) common service function, Cityhub provides security mechanisms such as device identification and authentication, access rights, and communication security. It also implements privacy protection functions to manage data securely. It is necessary to inspect the information collected, stored, used, and destroyed on the smart city data platform. Also, IoT devices above a certain level in the city require a separate IoT device security solution, including firmware protection, device authentication, and security updates.

    To this end, security consulting is required to define security features at the function level through individual service security reviews, provide vulnerability assessments and security guides from the design stage, and set goals to comprehensively manage vulnerabilities, not only for IoT devices but also for infrastructure and smart services.

  • When collecting data containing personal information from external platforms, systems, and related organizations, relevant personal data processing regulations must be strictly followed. Cityhub can only collect external data for which personal information processing has been completed. For example, to link Cityhub with an external system, that system must first obtain consent from individuals to share their data with third parties. Only then can discussions about linking proceed.

Think Smart, Make the City! Technology That Makes Imagination Reality,
Cities That Open the Future
The Smart Space Paradigm Shift

Smart spaces combine technology and the physical environment to maximize user experience and efficiency. The goal is to improve upon limitations in space and service through digital technology while promoting sustainability. However, simply layering technology onto a city has its limitations—it requires deep consideration of "innovation within the space itself" and "the smartification of spaces."

Countries worldwide are making extensive efforts to build smart cities utilizing Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to address urban challenges and ensure sustainable prosperity. Smart cities aim to enhance urban efficiency and improve residents’ quality of life through advanced technologies. Beyond city control, data-driven services must be made open and centered around open data and ecosystems to enable efficient city operations through informed decision-making. This approach will allow city functions to be linked through data, establishing systems that enable “observation, analysis, and management of cities based on data.”

The Future of Smart Cities and LG CNS’ Capabilities

Smart city projects involve building both physical and digital infrastructure, along with service-based projects designed to address urban challenges and enhance convenience for residents. A smart city is built upon the convergence of two essential layers: the physical layer (spaces and infrastructure), used directly by citizens, and the digital layer (services and platforms), enabling cities to operate like software. These layers include:

 

  1. Smartification of City Infrastructure (Smart Infrastructure)
  2. Smartification of City Spaces (Smart Spaces)
  3. Optimization of City Operations (Platform & Solution)
  4. Smart Services for Enhanced Urban Operations and Improved Citizens’ Daily Lives


LG CNS builds and operates platform-based smart services that drive data-centric life innovation across a variety of spaces—not only entire cities but also mixed-use complexes, industrial parks, residential areas, and special-purpose spaces. With extensive expertise in smart city implementation, LG CNS provides comprehensive services, including consulting, smart city design, construction, and service operations, to clients both in Korea and globally.

Considerations for Implementing Smart Buildings

Smart buildings leverage cutting-edge technology to automate systems, enhance operational efficiency, and improve the user experience. By integrating the Internet of Things (IoT), AI, big data, and cloud computing, smart buildings enable real-time data collection and analysis, driving improvements in energy efficiency, comfort, and security. Successful smart building implementation requires a seamless blend of technology and architectural design that considers the building’s intended use and occupant needs. This integration maximizes operational efficiency and enhances the overall value of the property.

Smart Space Services Provided by LG CNS

Comprehensive Services from Urban Planning to Operations

From the perspective of citizens and operators, who are the users of cities and spaces, LG CNS plans sector-specific services and revenue models, tailoring key services to customer-specific needs to provide comprehensive services from planning to operation.

Customized Support Across the Entire Building Project Lifecycle

LG CNS has proven capabilities and experts across various project types. We leverage this to provide customized support across all phases of a project, including consulting (design), implementation, and operations and maintenance, in diverse areas such as mixed-use developments, industrial parks, residential areas, and special-purpose spaces. We are fully committed to supporting our clients' successful business endeavors.

Korea’s No.1 Smart UPB Supplier and Installer

In collaboration with LG Energy Solution, a global leader in energy battery supply, LG CNS holds the largest and most comprehensive UPB (Urban Power Bank) business capabilities in Korea. With unrivaled expertise in data center infrastructure and UPB technology, we possess future-proof, platform-based solutions that ensure secure scalability, even amid evolving regulations and market conditions. We aim to be the most reliable partner for clients seeking robust and adaptable UPB solutions.

Landmark Smart Signage Deployment

LG CNS has extensive experience in smart signage solutions, having completed global landmark projects in various formats, including towers, trees, facades, canopies, rooftops, ceilings, tunnels, and wall-mounted displays. We deploy signage optimized for each space.

LG CNS Solution for Realizing Smart Space
CHB for Building

CHB for buildings is a solution that integrates services across various heterogeneous systems to realize smart spaces. It includes both standard and non-standard device adapters, reducing system integration time and costs while ensuring smooth scalability. Additionally, it supports the intuitive implementation of efficient standard operating procedures (SOP) from a system integration perspective, simply through event-driven configuration, thereby improving operational efficiency from the user's perspective.

Integration of Heterogeneous Processes and Services

Offers integrated monitoring and control, energy management, and improved operational efficiency for heterogeneous processes

Possession of Standard and Non-Standard Adapters

Over 140 types of standard and non-standard device adapters, reducing integration time, lowering costs, and ensuring smooth scalability

Efficient SOP Support from an Integration Perspective

Provides intuitive and rapid implementation of SOPs for integrated operations, achieved through event-driven configuration

LG Signage Manager

LG Signage Manager supports integrated multimedia management and remote monitoring, addressing the growing importance of media. It also supports simple configuration and efficient media operation through easy and convenient smart content management.

Integrated Multimedia Management

Ensures efficient integrated management and remote monitoring of various multimedia sources

Easy and Convenient Smart Content Management

Enhances user convenience through dashboard widget-based monitoring

User-Focused Features

Enhances user convenience with features including: multiple content format support, screen management capabilities, drag-and-drop playlist management, etc.

BMS

The Battery Management System (BMS) provides operators with safety, reliability, and convenience through management at the unit level (battery packs, battery racks (in parallel), and systems (UPS sets)).

Operational Stability

Ensures operational stability by monitoring battery status, detecting events, providing protective functions, and performing cell balancing

Proven Reliability

Calculates the battery's SOC and SOH, transmitting information every 1 to 5 seconds, providing reliability through accurate available runtime estimation

User-Friendly Convenience

Provides visibility with a summary screen of RT-key information. Enhances convenience with a modular design that enables quick and easy replacement in the event of a failure

FAQ
  • Simply applying new technologies to cities or buildings has its limitations. It is essential to consider both the "innovation of the space itself" and the "smartification of spaces." This includes establishing an integrated platform for citizen service accessibility and intuitive urban operations, thereby ensuring visibility. Furthermore, consideration should be given to planning life-enhancing services, designing smart spaces aligned with smart city development, and the IT/DX-based smartification of those spaces.

  • LG CNS supports the full lifecycle of smart space projects—including design, implementation, and operation—for both public and private-sector clients. We also offer customized services for specific service areas. We can provide operation-only services even if we were not involved in implementation, or implementation-only services where the client handles the operation independently. Our services are flexibly tailored to meet each client’s specific needs.

Deployment of Smart Farms Across All Types of Agriculture
Shift in Smart Farm Trends

The first generation of smart farms primarily focused on remote monitoring and control. Users could check and manage the internal environment of greenhouses or plastic tunnels remotely via smartphones or PCs. While data collection was possible, there was a lack of automation and optimization functions, requiring users to manually analyze the data and adjust settings themselves. At this stage, older users or those unfamiliar with information and communications technology (ICT) faced accessibility challenges, and the actual reduction in labor was limited. In practice, the system was mainly used for basic remote control functions such as monitoring temperature and humidity, controlling vents, and collecting and viewing sensor-based environmental data. Although it contributed somewhat to user convenience, the level of automation remained low.
 

The second generation of smart farms evolved to enable data-driven precision crop management. This stage utilizes AI, big data, and IoT technologies to collect crop environment data and determine optimal cultivation conditions. Whereas farmers previously had to manually gather and analyze environmental data, AI now analyzes real-time data and provides optimal growth conditions while also enabling automated control. In particular, cloud-based systems have made it possible to access AI capabilities at low cost without the need for high-performance computers, allowing even small-scale farms to adopt the technology easily. As a result, they can achieve cost savings and productivity gains through precision growth management.
 

The third generation of smart farming centers on unmanned automation powered by artificial intelligence. It has evolved beyond simply collecting and analyzing data, with AI algorithms now capable of predicting crop growth conditions and automatically setting optimal environmental parameters. In particular, AI-based systems have contributed to increased productivity by predicting crop growth patterns, yield, and harvest timing, and by providing tailored information. From this stage, automation began to be implemented across all aspects of farm operations without human intervention, and automation technologies have been introduced throughout the entire cycle—from seeding to harvesting. Energy management systems have also become more advanced, making it possible to reduce heating costs through the use of renewable energy sources.

LG CNS’s Future Vision

LG CNS, building on each generation of technological advancement, is leading the way in establishing a sustainable agricultural ecosystem by combining ESG management with digital innovation in its smart farm business. We are developing various types of smart farm solutions—including vertical farms, open-field farms, and greenhouse horticulture—to improve agricultural productivity and quality. In vertical farming, we offer solutions that utilize underused urban spaces. In open-field farms, we apply AI and big data-driven precision agriculture technologies to address climate change, as well as unmanned and advanced farming technologies to respond to population decline and aging rural communities. In greenhouse horticulture, we aim to enhance farm profitability by creating optimal growing environments through IoT- and AI-based intelligent platforms. LG CNS plans to strengthen its technological capabilities and expand globally to become a global leader, driving innovation in agriculture by providing smart farm solutions for all types of farms.

Integrated Services for Smart Farms, from Consulting to Implementation, Operation, and DCX

Vertical Farm

LG CNS’s vertical farm is an advanced agricultural system that cultivates crops vertically within unused urban spaces or inside buildings. The system maximizes spatial efficiency and optimizes crop growth conditions using LED lighting and vertical circulating hydroponics. The vertical farm platform continuously improves growth recipes and operating environments through automated equipment control and the application of machine learning and deep learning models, aiming to deliver a total solution with end-to-end management capabilities. It also offers a "One-Package" service that integrates hardware and software through in-house developed automated facilities.

Protected Horticulture

LG CNS’s protected horticulture smart farm combines advanced ICT and AI technologies to optimize crop cultivation conditions inside greenhouses. The system monitors and controls essential environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and light in real time through IoT sensors and big data analysis. It collects data from each sensor installed in the greenhouse management system and provides integrated control of the environment, along with functionality to collect and manage growth information using visual equipment.

Open-Field Farm

LG CNS’s open-field farm is a smart agriculture system that integrates advanced ICT and AI technologies into traditional rice paddies and fields to enhance productivity and efficiency. By using IoT sensors and drones, it monitors and analyzes soil conditions and weather information in real time to provide an optimal cultivation environment. The open-field farm platform oversees the entire process from data collection and preprocessing to storage, analysis, and AI-based prediction services, supporting intelligent services for all farming operations.

City Farm

City Farm is an agricultural solution that offers digital farming services and personalized information for urban residents while enhancing engagement through community integration. It can be applied to metro farms installed in subway stations, urban gardens operated within cities, and community farms located in apartment complexes. The infrastructure is designed to suit B2C and client environments, enabling rapid response to B2C trends and demands, while also supporting easy and fast deployment and scalability.

FAQ
  • LG CNS’s smart farm solution operates through the integration of core Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, including cloud, IoT, data integration, big data, and AI-based unified platforms. The solution collects, preprocesses, stores, and analyzes a wide range of real-time data—from environmental conditions to crop growth status—to create the optimal agricultural environment. This combination of technologies maximizes operational efficiency by enabling end-to-end monitoring and control of all farming activities, automating the entire cultivation cycle, minimizing labor requirements through unmanned operations, and reducing operating costs. It ultimately delivers an automated and integrated smart farm management environment.

  • LG CNS has developed an intelligent smart farm platform applicable to traditional open-field farming and demonstrated its feasibility by deploying the platform in a 54-hectare pilot complex in Naju, South Jeolla Province. In Naju, LG CNS provided optimal agricultural guidance by analyzing a wide range of real-time data—from soil conditions to weather information—through its AI and big data-based intelligent platform. As approximately 95% of farmland in Korea consists of open fields, LG CNS’s open-field smart farm solution enables real-time monitoring of crop growth and environmental data even without vinyl greenhouses or glasshouses. This allows farmers to significantly improve productivity and efficiency in open-field agriculture.

  • LG CNS provides continuous maintenance and technical support even after the adoption of its smart farm solution. With a cloud-based platform, the system can be monitored remotely anytime, anywhere, allowing for swift response in the event of issues. In addition, maintenance and technical support are also provided for accompanying hardware such as IoT sensors, nutrient solution machines, and HVAC systems, reducing the operational burden on users.

Customer Success Stories
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Yonam College
Development of glass and vinyl greenhouses, vertical farms, and integrated systems covering 1,540㎡
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CJ CheilJedang
Vertical farm automation hardware & software implementation and validation
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Jeollanam-do Agricultural Research & Extension Services
Building a smart farm intelligence platform powered by data, network, and AI in the pilot complex at Naju City
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Farm Hannong
Building a cloud-based platform to scale B2C services
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