Vice Premier Jong-Chin Shen of the Executive Yuan presented the “2021 Cloud IoT Innovation Award” on December 8. The Taichung City Water Resources Bureau won the “Excellence in Application Award” for their project “Building Smart Flood Prevention Network to Protect Safe Homes” in the competition organized by the Taiwan Cloud IoT Industry Association. This achievement, selected from numerous nationwide entries, recognizes Taichung City's outstanding performance in advancing smart city governance.

Water Resources Bureau Director Shih-Yi Fan explained that engineering solutions are limited in addressing future short-duration heavy rainfall flood threats. These must be supplemented with non-engineering flood prevention measures to improve disaster management. They aim to minimize disaster damage by strengthening disaster preparedness and response capabilities. The Bureau is actively developing the “Taichung Smart Flood Prevention Network, ” deploying a multi-dimensional water monitoring network. They have introduced IoT-based sensing components, combining street flooding sensors with water level stations, rainfall stations, and pumping station sensors. This information, integrated with terrain model data and enhanced by AI technology, helps estimate flood impact areas and depths, establishing an intelligent disaster response integration platform for effective disaster prevention and mitigation decisions.

To accurately monitor hot spring groundwater usage, prevent land subsidence, and implement hot spring water resource conservation with the goal of total volume control, smart water meters certified by national standards have been installed to replace traditional manual reading methods. Through the system platform, business operators can also monitor real-time usage and receive over-limit warning notifications.