Kakao Mobility is shifting its autonomous driving development focus from collecting large volumes of driving data to selecting data from difficult situations, it said. Based on the data it has secured, the company plans to integrate perception and decision-making into a single end-to-end model within this year. An executive said the latest AI competition hinges on efficiently picking out hard data. The firm is classifying driving situations into five levels and prioritising rare edge-case data from higher levels.

LG Uplus will work with Korea District Heating Corp to upgrade safety management at district energy facilities using AIoT technology that combines AI and IoT. The companies signed an MOU in Seoul to build a predictive maintenance system that detects risks in real time and forecasts and responds to potential accidents. They will test early detection of ground subsidence, monitoring of stray current in heat transport pipes, and stronger physical security and monitoring at high-risk facilities.