Why big data is the core of building future smart cities

Why big data is the core of building future smart cities

In the past, the construction of infrastructure and vertical industry application systems has achieved a certain foundation. If you want to further improve the smart level of the entire city, It is necessary to reflect more value in the analysis, processing and application of accumulated big data.

“New technologies such as big data, cloud computing, mobile Internet, and the Internet of Things will not only play a big role in the construction of the entire smart city, but also play a big role in the construction of smart government.” Wang Yukai, vice president of the China Administrative System Reform Research Association and deputy director of the E-Government Expert Committee of the National Academy of Administration, said this at the Smart City (Yinchuan Model) seminar held recently.

Among them, "big data" is a keyword repeatedly mentioned by many experts present in their suggestions for building smart cities. Ning Jiajun, a member of the National Informatization Expert Advisory Committee, talked about an important goal of building a smart city, which is to insist on improving the efficiency of public services as the core and further improve the services that benefit the people to build a harmonious, livable and dynamic city. and modern cities. This goal is inseparable from the support of advanced and innovative technologies, among which the key technology is big data.

Indeed, the management and operation of a city require scientific decision-making, and only data support can ensure the true operation of smart cities. Urban development requires the collection, processing, integration, sharing, mining, analysis and application of big data. By understanding the city's operating conditions and development trends, it can provide support for the collaborative work and leadership decision-making of various departments, and then serve the citizens.

The important reason why Smart Yinchuan has won a series of honors around the world such as "China's Leading Smart City in 2015" and "TM Forum Smart City President's Special Award" is that it uses big data to explore urban management and development. Model innovation, it can be said that Yinchuan has practiced the prototype of urban big data application.

Smart Yinchuan’s early adopter of big data

Wang Yukai commented on Yinchuan’s pioneering exploration of smart cities, “Yinchuan’s smart city construction first broke down the barriers between departments. Barriers imply industry barriers, including barriers between government departments, and barriers between industries, including government affairs and enterprises. It is precisely because of breaking down departmental and industry barriers that data resources and mastery are obtained. "Data wealth."

Of course, how to obtain these big data is the top priority. It is urgent for government departments to open data. First, they must make government affairs public, build a list of rights, and a list of responsibilities and disclose them to the public. Secondly, they must open government data to other departments and even to the society. As Xu Guangguo, Secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee, said, "Each department cannot regard data as its own resources, assets and rights items, but must share and interact to produce effectiveness."

Speaking of data* **Sharing and interaction may have too many opinions from all parties in the industry. Yes, the data application of governments and cities currently faces challenges such as data distortion, serious fragmentation, and lack of planning.

In fact, in the technological innovation of ZTE Smart City 2.0 solution, it has carried out preliminary planning for urban big data. One of the technological innovations is centered around big data, that is, the construction of urban big data *** Enjoy Cloud Platform (UOC).

The core of UOC is two libraries and two platforms. The basic urban databases in the two databases include population, legal persons, macroeconomic and other data, while the urban industry application databases cover transportation, education, public services and other fields. The data sharing and exchange platform among the two platforms is used to establish a city's data sharing channel. The other platform is a data mining analysis platform, which is used to conduct massive data analysis and mining to form smart applications.

As the provider of the overall smart Yinchuan solution, ZTE has its own definition of a smart city, which aims to improve urban management, facilitate public life, and promote technological innovation, with big data and physical New ideas and new models for urban construction and management development using new technologies such as the Internet and cloud computing.

Because of the continuous maturity and innovation of these technologies, conditions have been created for big data applications. Pang Shengqing, executive vice president of ZTE Corporation, gave the example of smart transportation, "The application of new technologies has enabled the interconnection of cross-industry and cross-regional traffic data and services, and can proactively respond to road conditions. After cities build smart transportation, The traffic volume of vehicles has increased by 35%, the number of driver stops has been reduced by 45%, and the driving speed has increased by 30%. Through the mining and analysis of historical and real-time data, the city can predict future road conditions and guide the city using big data technology. Road network planning. ”

Smart Yinchuan and ZTE have tasted the benefits of big data applications in the practice of smart city projects, and thus proposed the construction of smart cities with big data as the core. Pang Shengqing described the trend characteristics of Smart City 3.0 as follows, "The 3.0 stage will adhere to the people-oriented approach, explore the value of data, and realize the application of big data. Through data crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, information openness and sharing, and public service optimization decision-making, Big data analysis and mining such as urban smart management promotes social collaboration, involves all people, and realizes the social value of data.

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Five major concepts of smart city 3.0 driven by big data

Smart city is a long-term and constantly evolving topic. To this end, ZTE has proposed five major concepts of smart city 3.0:< /p>

1. Lead the deployment of next-generation ICT infrastructure. First, increase the deployment of front-end intelligent sensing devices, such as smart water meters, electricity meters, street lights, trash cans, etc., to expand urban data sources.

2. Establish a big data open mechanism. Smart City 3.0 must do three things: establish an end-to-end data security system for data collection, transmission, application and other aspects; and establish legislation on the standardized management of data resources. Protection work; cooperate with national ministries and standards organizations such as TMF to promote the development of government data openness, exchange of access interfaces, security and confidentiality, etc.

3. Promote the application of big data. The platform, on the one hand, cleans and desensitizes open transaction data to form standardized data; on the other hand, it operates independently on specific applications such as government affairs, enterprise cloud, tourism, transportation, etc., through portrait modeling, artificial intelligence A large number of applications such as learning.

4. Promote urban interconnection and build smart city clusters. The smart city 3.0 era will use big data centers as the core nodes through cross-border e-commerce, smart logistics, smart parks, Smart tourism and other applications will accelerate data exchanges with “Belt and Road” countries, and use data flow to drive information and cultural flows.

5. Committed to strengthening the top enterprises in various industries. Exchange and cooperation, in the field of big data analysis, establish a big data ecosystem from data sources, big data infrastructure, big data analysis, big data visualization, and data application.

Summary

If ZTE Smart City 2.0 has established a data sharing and exchange platform, then through the concept of Smart City 3.0, we can feel that the 3.0 stage places more emphasis on the analysis and application of big data, and drives the upgrading of the city's smart industry through data. .

It is foreseeable that in the era of smart city 3.0, ZTE is already on the road of exploring big data mining, analysis and application in smart cities.

To sum up, in the era of 3.0. With big data as the core and big connection as the foundation, this stage emphasizes people-oriented big data operations. ZTE believes that it can solve the deep-seated problems faced in the process of urban development, thereby realizing smart urban management and operation and promoting urban development. harmonious and sustainable growth.