Xinhua Online, July 12th (Reporter He Xiyue) Under the epidemic, while the global smart city applications are shining brilliantly, they are also facing new challenges. At the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Cloud Summit, which closed in Shanghai on the 11th, smart city "model rooms" from all over the world gathered to discuss the future goals and blueprints of smart cities.
The initial stage of smart city construction is just a simple collection of the "little smarts" of various applications and technologies. How can we move to a higher level of ubiquitous and integrated "big wisdom"? At the conference, smart city builders from all over the world shared their experiences and prospects.
"We must ask ourselves, where will the smart city go? After the epidemic is controlled, will we return to the old road of high pollution and major climate change, or will we find new possibilities for social transformation?" University of Manchester Urban Resilience and Energy Cooperation Joe Lavitz, co-director of the laboratory, said that many smart applications in the epidemic have effectively improved efficiency, but only relying on technical intelligence cannot fundamentally avoid problems such as the large gap between the rich and the poor and the imperfect public services in cities.
"A smart and tolerant city is a space full of opportunities." Lavitz said, taking the garbage disposal in the city as an example, a simple smart system can improve the efficiency of garbage disposal, but it cannot effectively promote people to reduce garbage emissions. And a smart system should fully consider the community culture and family cooking methods, think and connect with each other from a bit of perspective, and finally form a city that is quick to respond and full of resilience.
Some experts have proposed that in addition to applying the most cutting-edge technology to people's lives, the concept of "people-oriented" is also important when designing smart cities.
Aisha Cana, director of Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority and CEO of ADDO AI, said that Singapore proposes to shift from the technology-centric concept of smart cities to a larger concept—smart country, instead of focusing on specific technologies. , But with citizens as the core.
"Singapore is the third fastest aging country in the world. Taking good care of the elderly is Singapore's top priority." Cana said that the design of smart city solutions should be more friendly to the elderly. At present, almost all the houses contracted by the Singapore Housing and Development Board Smart home systems are being laid, including touch sensors, motion sensors, and emergency buttons to ensure the safety of the elderly at home. In addition, it is also necessary to ensure that the elderly do not feel lonely when designing the environment, so that nursing homes can be built together with playgrounds, kindergartens, universities and other facilities.
More general wisdom requires city builders to break the gap between data and applications in different fields. Tan Zhengzhen, executive director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Sustainable Cities, believes that in the era of building physical cities and digital cities at the same time, close cooperation between companies and public institutions is more important than ever. The boundaries between public and private services will gradually blur, and the boundaries between different sectors and different industries will also be broken.
Bei Tuoming, Executive Vice President of Siemens (China) Co., Ltd., is responsible for Siemens China's smart infrastructure business. He also pointed out that the construction of smart cities requires a big picture and breaks barriers between different industries.
Taking urban energy conservation as an example, most of the current urban building management is still very backward, and energy use cannot be well matched with the actual needs of the people in the building. Bei Tuoming believes that if the demand inside the building is connected to the grid, a more efficient energy flow can be formed. Similarly, if smart parking lots, smart public transportation, and smart electric vehicle charging stations are connected to a smart city platform and optimized through sensors, it will significantly improve the efficiency of urban transportation and operation.
Lu Sen, deputy director of the Shanghai Economic and Information Development Research Center, believes that artificial intelligence empowers smart cities, requiring open scenarios and data, and the cutting-edge technology in the laboratory must be closely integrated with the smart city strategy.
"Data is the fuel for future development, and it is the key to the development of emerging technology applications and the sustainable development of smart cities." According to Aisha Bint Buti Bin Bisher, the former founder and director of Smart Dubai, Dubai serves as the government and the private sector has formulated a data sharing policy and established an open data sharing platform, requiring more than 500 different types of government data to be open to users around the world, and encouraging data exchange between the government and the private sector.
This is also one of Shanghai's current focus on building a smart city. On the 11th, "Shanghai's third batch of artificial intelligence application scenarios requirements" was officially released, and 11 comprehensive AI application scenarios were built around 7 fields such as AI+ manufacturing, transportation hubs, business districts, cultural tourism, government affairs, parks, and finance. From single scenario and point demonstration to field promotion and city empowerment, from solving industry pain points to realizing value landing.
Lu Sen said that on the basis of the digitization, networking and intelligence of Smart City 1.0, we are transforming to a future smart city that is ubiquitous, integrated and intelligent. Smart services will be seamlessly connected. We can better live in harmony with society, people and cities, and people and nature. The physical buildings and infrastructure will be combined with the virtual world. This will be the inevitable trend of the development of smart cities in the future.
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