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Build a smart city and create a smart life

In the “Invisible City” by Italian writer Calvino, there is a sentence: “The city is like a dream, and all imaginable can dream…”

As a great cultural creation of mankind, cities bear the yearning of mankind for a better life. For thousands of years, from Plato to Moore, mankind has always hoped to build a Utopia. Therefore, in a sense, the construction of a new smart city is closest to the existence of human fantasy of a better life.

In recent years, with the rapid development of China’s new infrastructure tide and the new generation of information technology such as the Internet of Things, the construction and development of smart cities are in full swing. The dream city that can sense, think, evolve and have temperature is gradually becoming a reality.

 

The second largest project in the field of Internet of Things: Smart City

The smart city and smart city project has been one of the most active implementations discussed. It is mainly realized through purposeful and integrated Internet of Things, data and connectivity, and the combination of solutions and other technologies.

With the transition from temporary smart city projects to the first batch of real smart cities, smart city projects will increase sharply. In fact, this growth began several years ago and accelerated in 2016. Among them, it is not difficult to find that the smart city project is one of the leading fields of the Internet of Things in practice.

According to a report released by IoT Analytics, a German Internet of Things analysis company, from the perspective of the global share of Internet of Things projects, the smart city project is the second largest Internet of Things project, after the Internet industry. In the smart city project, the most popular application is smart transportation, followed by smart utilities.

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In order to become a “real” smart city, the city needs a comprehensive approach to connect various projects and glue most of the data and platforms together to realize all the benefits brought by the smart city. Among them, open technology and open data platform will be the key to the next stage.

IDC said that the open data platform in 2018 will become the next frontier of the Internet of Things platform. Although there will be some obstacles and there is no special mention of smart cities, it is clear that the development of this open data platform will definitely occupy a prominent position in the field of smart cities.

In the “IDC FutureScape: Forecast of the Global Internet of Things in 2017″, IDC mentioned the evolution of this open data. The company said that by 2019, up to 40% of local and regional governments will use the Internet of Things to convert infrastructure such as street lights, roads and traffic signals into assets rather than liabilities.

 

What are the application scenarios of smart cities? Perhaps we will not immediately think of the smart environment project and the smart flood warning project, but it is undeniable that they are crucial in the smart city project. For example, when urban environmental pollution is challenged, this is one of the key reasons for building smart city projects, because they can provide direct and useful benefits to citizens.

Of course, more popular smart city cases include intelligent parking, intelligent traffic management, intelligent street lights and intelligent waste management. Nevertheless, these cases often combine the mixed factors of improving efficiency, solving urban problems, reducing costs, improving urban life and putting citizens first for various reasons.

The following are some application scenarios or fields of smart cities:

Public services, such as citizen services, tourism services, public transport, identity and management, and information services.

Public security, such as intelligent lighting, environmental monitoring, asset tracking, police, video monitoring and emergency response.

Sustainability, including environmental monitoring, intelligent waste management and recovery, intelligent energy, intelligent measurement, intelligent water, etc.

Infrastructure, including intelligent infrastructure, structural health monitoring of buildings and monuments, intelligent buildings, intelligent irrigation, etc.

Transportation: intelligent road, networked vehicle sharing, intelligent parking, intelligent traffic management, noise and pollution monitoring, etc.

In the fields of smart medicine, smart education, smart governance, smart planning, smart/open data, smart city functions and services are more integrated, which is also the key enabling factor of smart city.

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It’s not just a smart city based on “technology”

As we begin to move towards a real smart city, the choices in connection, data exchange, Internet of Things platform and other aspects will continue to develop.

Especially for many use cases such as intelligent waste management or intelligent parking, the Internet of Things technology stack applied in smart cities today is relatively simple and cheap. The urban environment usually has good wireless coverage for mobile components. There are clouds, some point solutions and products designed for smart city projects, and low-power wide area network connections (LPWAN) in many cities around the world. These are enough to meet many applications.

Although there is an important technical aspect, the significance of smart cities is far more than that. People can even discuss the meaning of “wisdom”. Of course, in the incredibly complex and comprehensive reality of smart cities, it is about meeting the needs of citizens and solving the challenges of people, society and urban communities.

In other words, the successful city of the smart city project is not the display of technology, but the realization of the goal based on the overall view of the architectural environment and human needs (including spiritual needs). Of course, in practice, each country and culture is different. Although the basic needs are quite common, it also involves more operational and business objectives.

Today, whatever is called intelligence, whether it is intelligent building, smart grid or smart city, its core is connection and data, which are realized by various technologies and transformed into intelligence as the basis of decision-making. Of course, this does not mean that connection is only the Internet of Things, and the connected community is at least as important as citizens.

Considering the numerous global challenges such as population aging and climate issues, as well as the “lessons” learned from the pandemic, it is clear that the purpose of re-examining cities is more important than ever, especially the social dimension and quality of life are always crucial.

Accenture conducted a study from the perspective of public services for citizens, which studied the use of new technologies including the Internet of Things, and found that improving citizen satisfaction was indeed ranked first. As the information chart of the study shows, improving employee satisfaction is also very high (80%), and in most cases, the implementation of updated Internet technology has brought tangible results.


Post time: Feb-17-2023