Cloud computing makes smarter cities more "intelligent"

The figure is China Mobile "intelligent City" model.

The pace of urbanization is getting faster. In the 2008, the world's population lived in cities more than in rural areas. By 2050, 70% of the population will live in cities. The city is growing, the population is more and more, the energy consumption is soaring, the medical resources are scarce, the road traffic is becoming more and more crowded, the logistics cost is high. How to deal with these challenges? The "Smart City Development Summit Forum", held in Ningbo, has tried to give an answer. Experts believe that people can "smart" to let the City "wisdom" up, with information to the city "dress Up" better.

The cloud that floats above the city
Smart cities push cloud computing to the ground, and cloud computing gives the city "wisdom" wings.

The government is the important power that dominates intelligent city construction, from "Government cloud" to "City Cloud", the city above "colorful cloud". The Singapore Information and Communication Development Authority (IDA) international President Xie said that in order to build a smart city and smart Country, Singapore in 2006 to put forward the "wisdom of the Country 2015" plan. Under the plan, the Singaporean government will invest $4 billion in a vision of "using ubiquitous ICT technology to make Singapore an intelligent country and a globalized city".
Smart cities push cloud computing to the ground, and on the contrary, cloud computing gives the city "wisdom" wings. Wave Group chairman and CEO Sun Pi said that the main impetus to promote urban progress is the government, only the government "wisdom", can promote the construction of intelligent city. The Chinese government, he said, is a "matrix" of management, fragmented and tightly linked. From the point of view of the object of government management and service, such as individual, enterprise and public resources, each department is an organic whole. Therefore, the core of government informatization is integration.
Sun Pi further believes that relying on the cloud computing, the Internet of things and other emerging technologies, with information technology high integration, information resources integrated application as the main means to speed up the promotion of government information, is the foundation of building a smart city. "The government is the main driver of cloud computing, because the vast amount of data accumulated by the government can push cloud computing to the ground." Industry cloud is the hot spot of today's market, can realize the "activation" of industry data, promote public service. Therefore, the government information construction is a typical industry cloud. "he said. Reporter learned that in recent years, the tide for more than 100 municipal government to provide information services, in food safety, water conservancy, industry and commerce, Civil affairs, quality supervision and other fields to provide a number of cloud based solutions.
Yunhe, deputy Dean of China Academy of Engineering, said that the development of mobile terminal equipment and cloud computing has brought new impetus to intelligent city construction. At the same time, smart city construction will accompany us to the Intelligent 2.0 era. Next generation artificial intelligence technology and network, data center together, will develop new intelligent way, people in "intelligent city" of "intelligent life" will be more colorful.
In short, "From Singapore's experience, intelligent city construction needs government policy support, enterprise investment, project practicality." "Xie said.

Need to integrate information resources
Each area of the city is a kind of net relationship, which is "interdependent".

    Smart cities need to be promoted by all parties and need to focus on integrating relevant information resources. The NPC Standing Committee, Zhigong Central Executive vice President Wang Zinmin stressed that the intelligent city construction is a systematic project, it is very important to do the overall planning of information, including the grasp of technical standards, the maintenance of the system operation, the establishment and improvement of business and service models. In his speech, he pointed out that the construction of intelligent city should attach great importance to the integration, excavation and application of information. For example, personnel, public security, finance and other departments of the exchange of data, you can develop an application system, if the data with the social security sector, it will cover the enterprise and society, these data can be said to be "Jinshan Yinshan." Similarly, medical aid, natural disasters can also achieve the integration of data exchange, for forecasting and decision-making to provide a powerful wisdom for reference, thereby enhancing the Government's administrative capacity.
    The president of the US-China Green Energy Promotion Association Wu XIJIU that intelligent city construction involves all aspects, such as the smart grid, which is the combination of Internet Information technology and power grid; The green information revolution, including IoT, cloud computing and mobile computing; Intelligent transportation Green energy-saving buildings and ecological towns. These aspects are not mutually fragmented, and the sharing and peaceful operation of information is necessary.
    Yunhe When talking about the trend of the future information Society, "open interaction" and "embedded, centralized" all explain the trend of information integration. He believes that there is a network of different areas of the city, which is "staggered and interdependent". All kinds of intelligent systems in cities, such as intelligent medicine, intelligent transportation, intelligent building, will be extended from one-dimensional structure to two-dimensional or even multidimensional structure, which can not be separated from integration.
Building a Smarter city presents a new subject for the mayor, whose vision is to be in a high-level global relationship and a high dimensional relationship. He should pay attention to all kinds of flow in the network, analyze and study information flow, capital flow, material flow, energy flow, talent flow, grasp the overall situation of urban development. The overall view is an integration view. "Yunhe said.