The PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games have started. A variety of local and global IT companies are helping to hold successfully. The PyeongChang Olympic Games were the first to introduce 5G mobile communication, cloud, and virtual reality. In particular, companies that form official partners with the International Olympic Committee and the PyeongChang Olympic Organizing Committee will strengthen their technology leadership through the Olympics.
5G
Samsung and Intel are official partners of IOC. KT was in touch with the PyeongChang Organizing Committee. The PyeongChang Olympic Games are the world's first Olympics to provide 5G pilot service.
Combined with KT's 5G network, the 5G Mobile Test Platform with Intel FPGAs and processors is used for real-time broadcasts such as cross-country skiing events. Samsung 'Gear VR' with Intel 'True VR' technology helps 30 games to be viewed as VR. Samsung Electronics also supplied 5G tablet.
Drone
Intel will host the opening ceremony with a drones show. A lightweight drones 'Shooting Star' that weighs 330 grams covers over Pyeongchang sky. The show was also featured in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) You can meet new technologies even outside the game. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Intel KT have experience centers in Gangneung, Pyeongchang, Seoul and Incheon Airports.
Apps
Samsung Electronics has produced the official app for Pyeongchang Olympics '2018 PyeongChang official app'. You can check the schedule and related news. Comments on the game by cheering can be divided. It also provides sightseeing, accommodation, and traffic information. KT launched 'Go Pyeongchang' app. Guide the way and the way to visit the Olympic facilities. There is also a function that can be linked with the means of transportation. In addition to Korean, they also provide English, Chinese and Japanese.
AI
The official supporters of PyeongChang Olympic Organizing Committee, HANCOM also provide voice interpretation and translation services through 'Zinitalk' app. It was co-developed with Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). It is also used by visitors, volunteers, police, lodging companies, and restaurants. Olympic-specific databases have accumulated over 100,000. The accuracy of translation and interpretation is more than 90%. Anyone can download it for free.
Cloud
There is also a hidden helper who is not exposed to the surface of the water. The IOC official partner Alibaba Group analyzes the Olympic Games data as cloud-based Big Data.
KT also built an Olympic cloud data center in Mokdong and Bundang IDC. It collects and manages various data necessary for all game decisions, results, and operations generated by the stadiums and organizing committees of Pyeongchang and Gangneung. We have built a separate, separate, dedicated infrastructure for security.
SI
Ssangyong Information Communication, an official sponsor of the Organizing Committee, has 10 kinds of promotional web sites including 32 event management systems including entrance and departure, transportation, athletic village, media village, comprehensive situation and report, test events, game time, culture tourism, greenhouse gas, Site and 42 kinds of information systems.
ERP
In addition, another official supporter, Duzon Bizon, provided ERP IU, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Based on this, the Organizing Committee conducts overall tasks such as accounting and manpower management. Smart Planet, an RFID specialist, also helps to keep the game running smoothly. AhnLab's solution, which is a domestic security company, was also used to protect PCs and other devices.
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