Bedrock invites decoding of smart cities that link data from government, private sector, and citizens to enhance quality of life, making it smarter and easier than before.
Weerawat Rattanaworaha, co-founder of Bedrock Analytics Co., Ltd. or Bedrock, shared his vision for developing smart city solutions, stating that they believe combining artificial intelligence with city data will enable local organizations to operate more efficiently. Bedrock's innovations are not limited to screen-based systems.
Instead, they integrate with infrastructure that directly improves community life in areas like safety, convenience, and disaster preparedness. The real-world results in many areas have effectively transformed localities into efficient smart cities.
1. Managing and responding to all emergencies made easy (Disaster Management)
● Bellme: Local service assistant for quick incident reporting and targeted problem-solving
Urban infrastructure problems such as damaged roads, broken streetlights, or burst water pipes often make it complicated for citizens to file complaints. However, these issues are set to be directly addressed.
Bellme is an online platform for reporting and managing city problems that will revolutionize complaint processes, making them simple. Citizens can easily access the system via a website and the LINE OA app, report details with a pinned location, and the system immediately sends the information to the responsible local authority, with real-time status tracking features.
Bellme shifts local government work from reactive to proactive. We aim to enhance communication between citizens and officials for faster, more convenient service. The system reduces citizens' uncertainty about the progress of their reports by continuously updating them, serving as a key mechanism to build trust between government and people.
● CDDP360: Disaster evidence recording system for peace of mind and protecting rights during crises
During disasters such as floods, citizens often worry about damage assessment and relief. CDDP360 was developed as a disaster evidence recording system to help people systematically document property damage. This data supports applications for government aid, insurance claims, repair planning, and future rights verification, preventing information loss.
2. Innovations for better living (Better Living)
● Smart Tax Platform: Intelligent tax management technology
Tax surveying and assessment will no longer be complicated, redundant, or inaccurate thanks to the Smart Tax Platform, which leverages AI technology to process data from on-site surveys. The system can accurately analyze location, measure size, classify signs, and distinguish land and building usage types.
Weerawat said the Smart Tax Platform operates through two main mechanisms: the intelligent land and building tax system and the intelligent sign tax system. Besides reducing staff workload, it ensures local revenue collection is accurate, complete, transparent, and most importantly, fair for all taxpayers.
● CDDP (City Digital Data Platform): Data hub driving the city's future with AI
If innovations are like limbs providing convenience to citizens, the City Digital Data Platform (CDDP) can be seen as the smart brain coordinating and integrating all systems to work seamlessly together.
CDDP was developed to collect, connect, and exchange digital data seamlessly between local governments (LGOs), government agencies, and private sectors nationwide, elevating all data to a unified standard.
A key feature of CDDP is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to analyze data deeply, understanding every dimension of the city context. This enables precise forecasting of situations such as urban expansion, disaster risk assessment, and traffic bottleneck analysis.
Additionally, the system supports real-time emergency alerts, allowing relevant agencies to respond quickly, timely, and effectively to assist citizens.
3. Behind the driving force of smart cities
The tangible convenience seen in many areas reflects Bedrock's expertise, which goes beyond platform development to become a partner driving digital technology for local governments nationwide. Their main goal is to upgrade traditional workflows by integrating AI technology into city databases to support cost-effective and truly responsive decision-making and budget allocation for communities.
These innovations are most beneficial when accessible and usable by citizens. Bedrock’s aim is not just to create advanced technology but to become a partner that integrates data and AI expertise into city infrastructure to improve quality of life and safeguard data security. They believe sustainable smart city development must start with technology that is easy to use and genuinely cares for all aspects of citizens’ lives.