Large Data Country Archives France: Big Data in smarter cities

"To promote France's development in large data areas through the development of innovative solutions and their use in practice." ”

--France

1. Propulsion Power

In February 2013, the French government issued the digital Road map, listing 5 of the strategic High-tech that will be vigorously supported, one of which is big data. The French government will target emerging companies, software manufacturers, engineers, information systems designers, and so on to launch a series of investment plans aimed at boosting France's growth in large data areas by developing innovative solutions and using them for practice.

In April 2013, the French Ministry of Economics, Finance and industry announced that 11.5 million euros would be invested to support 7 future investment projects, France's minister of production revitalization Arnaud Montebourg, Deputy minister of Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin and Investment Commissioner Louis Gallois jointly announced the decision. The French government is investing in these projects "to promote France's development in large data areas through the development of innovative solutions and their use in practice." Previously, the French software Editors ' Alliance had called on government departments and private companies to work together to invest € 300 million in the development of large data areas.

In March 2013, the French Ministry of Education launched four digital services, one of which was the online publication of all fluffed in France for nearly three years, providing an open data platform to the public, and a service through the Global Positioning System and the Tchat platform, Help dropout students find the most recent training service; The third service is for disabled students to use smartphones to find the right type of service; The last service allows parents to learn about their children's courses at the matriculation level on the service website.

2. Data disclosure

To promote the application of e-government, July 13, 2011, French industry Minister Eric Besson announced the investment of 200,000 euros, launched the "Open Data Proxima Mobile" project, hope that the project to achieve the use of public data on mobile terminals, so as to maximize their application value. The project covers transportation, culture, tourism and environment. Upon completion of the project, all French citizens, as well as European citizens travelling in France, will be able to use the French public data through personal mobile terminals. All public data is free, not doped with any commercial advertising, all applications are simple, easy to use for the elderly, disabled and so on. Now, some municipalities, including Bordeaux, Paris and Rennes, have set up public data websites to open jobs to the public, the installation of road surveillance cameras, the maps of public facilities and other public data.

It is understood that the "Open Data proxima Mobile" Project can provide a lot of business opportunities for private enterprises, the French government cited several companies to profit from the case: "checkmy! Metro "is a new social networking site in France, the website organizes its members to comment on the new subway, advertising, literary activities and so on to win different types of subway discount tickets, but the network was established at the beginning of the inability to allow users instant access to the subway map and accurate subway timetable can not carry out activities, The Web site quickly became active after public data was released, becoming a direct beneficiary of the project.

To facilitate citizens ' free access to and download of public data, December 5, 2011, the French government launched the Public Information online sharing platform data.gouv.fr officially online. The first batch of resources released on the same day contains 352000 sets of data, covering a wide range of national financial expenditure, air quality, as well as the National Library resources in France and so on. It is understood that the DATA.GOUV website data are through each government department Commissioner statistics and Collection, will continue to update.

3. Industrial situation

In the wave of big data changes, France does not seem to have a high level of motivation, and the use of data is limited. McKinsey has 30% customers in big data from the US, 12% from the UK and 12% in Germany, compared with 7% for French clients. Although France has unique advantages in the fields of mathematics and statistics, the development of large data industries in France is far less intense than that of countries such as the United States and Britain. It is reported that the French political circles did not put digitization as the top priority of national development, it is inferred that the French large data industry tepid reason may also be the French government did not give enough attention. But in recent years, France has invested a lot of energy in the construction of intelligent cities, including France Telecom, Schneider Group and the cable group, and many other well-known French enterprises have set up their own specialized in intelligent urban design and development of the studio or laboratory, under the guidance of the Government actively participate in the construction of intelligent city. As we all know, the research and utilization of large data technology is an important part of the construction of intelligent city, so we can see the development of large data industry in France from the construction of intelligent city in France.

French urban construction experts believe that the most important challenge for the successful construction of intelligent cities is how to accurately collect the required data and then collaborate to manage and analyze the data, and make decisions by analyzing the results to achieve the goal of reducing urban management costs or improving the quality of life of urban residents.

In 2008, for example, France Telecom Cagne and Grenoble Two cities in France to try to use intelligent communication technology to optimize the quality of life of urban residents. The French telecoms company's pilot project in downtown Cagne has installed hundreds of sensors to monitor, measure, control and record environmental data. According to the French telecoms company, Cagne street lighting accounts for 40% of the city's energy consumption, while using sensors, urban street lighting and maintenance costs can be reduced by 20% to 30%.

For example, the French telecom company and Veolia Water Company to carry out the smart meter project, the effect is very clear. The Intelligent Water Meter project uses the sensor to detect the water-quality, and sends the detection result to the data Center for analysis, and provides the analysis result to the user in real time. If there is a problem with water quality, the alarm system will immediately remind. In this process, the French telecom company provides data transmission intervention technology, the use of wired or wireless way to collect and transmit the information received by the sensor, and the use of large data technology to analyze the data collected, and then provide the results of the analysis to end consumers. And Veolia is the main water treatment work.

In addition, since 2006, the French Government investment Ministry (AFII) has supported 16 major data center projects in France. France's key operators, such as Orange France EADS or Atos, are operating data centers in France and other countries. Large international companies in some data fields are operating in France with an annual turnover of about € 1 billion. As a result, in recent years, many companies have set up data centers in France. In 2010, IBM built a 10000-square-metre data center in Seclin, a complete makeover of an existing site that IBM had recently acquired. In the same year, KDDI Telehouse, a Japanese company, established a third data center, "Telehouse Paris Magny", in the area of Paris, France, with a size of 15000 square meters. The company's other two data centers, together with 350 other companies, have covered France's main Internet exchange points, becoming an important part of the French information system infrastructure. In 2012, GE Energie established a data storage center in Delphi. The storage center was designed primarily to meet the computing needs of the company's 400 engineers, but the company's investment has made bill the center of the information business for GE Energie European companies.

In the area of data protection, France's engineering and technical personnel in this field enjoy the same reputation as the power supply industry technician. French law ensures that the protection of data and its processing satisfies the requirements of legal security in this field. "France's key economic advantages, human resources and legislation, particularly in data protection, provide top-class guarantees to international investors," said David Apia, Minister of government investment in France. The French government investment department is willing to serve international investors in order to facilitate the implementation of their projects in this area. ”

3. On behalf of the enterprise

1) France Telecom

Orange Business Services, a Communications solution division of the French Telecommunications enterprise, has been able to deliver end-to-end cloud computing solutions covering IaaS, WaaS (Workbench Service), SaaS three levels. Among them, the large data required for the programme focused on the IAAS layer, Orange Business services at this level launched a "flexible computing" named series of programs, highlighting the use of flexible, billing flexibility, so as to flexibly meet the needs of users of data storage.

In addition to helping customers cope with the challenges of Big data, French Telecom has been exploring and experimenting with the mobile business sector and public services, as well as discovering the value of large data.

In the mobile business unit, Orange Business Services improves service levels and improves the user experience with large data. It is understood that France Telecom currently launched a consumer data analysis and assessment to help France Telecom improve service quality.

In the area of public service, Orange Business Services has built a French highway data monitoring project, which produces 5 million records a day, and analysis of these records can provide accurate and timely information to the vehicles travelling on the expressway and effectively improve the road patency rate. As France's largest operator, Orange Business Services has also undertaken the IT systems of many French public service projects, in which Orange Business services are trying to tap into the potential value of large data.

2 Green IT leader in the big data age-Schneider

Schneider is a pioneer of French industry, already more than 170 years old, but in the big data age, "The old Man" has not lost the vitality of "youth", it silently rooted in green it, and consistently play the role of energy solutions experts to reduce the energy consumption that people do not see. Power consumption in the data center has accounted for 8% of global energy consumption, and as an "energy efficiency expert", Schneider wants to be a green it leader in the cloud of data in the Big World.

"If the past decade is the era of it, then, in the rapid development of global information technology, accompanied by energy pressures coming today, the future will be green it energy efficiency of the era." "Schneider Electric's APC Global senior vice president, Huang Honghong, president of Greater China, said," to build and manage an intensive, flexible, automated data center with more standardized design and excellent operations to meet the application requirements of the operating cycle for the next 15-20 years, and to take into account future new technology updates. " , which means that in the initial phase of data center construction, we need to look at the design of the data center from a global perspective, fully consider the needs of the business, comprehensively plan the distribution, refrigeration, security, access control and later operation management of the data center, and further save 30% by effectively optimizing the overall architecture of the data center. Power consumption, in order to truly achieve the data center from the upfront capital expenditure to the late operating costs of the return on investment. ”

Large Data Country Archives

Name: France

Data Opening program: Digital roadmap, Open Data Proxima Mobile, data.gouv.fr

Big Data National strategy: Publish the Digital roadmap and invest 11.5 million euros to support 7 future projects, including large data

Release Time: February 2013

Leading agency: French government, French Ministry of Economics, Finance and industry

Core content: With the goal of emerging enterprises, software manufacturers, engineers, information systems designers, and so on, to launch a series of investment plans aimed at promoting the development of France in large data areas through the development of innovative solutions and their application to practice.

Departments involved: French Ministry of Industry, French Ministry of Education, France Digital Commission, French Ministry of Education, French Government investment department