Consolidate the Digital Base and Make Cities Smarter
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"One Network Service" and "One Network Management" facilitate the daily lives of citizens, provide data support, technological empowerment, and platform services for urban digital transformation through the construction of a digital base, and promote the formation of replicable and promotable new mechanisms for urban safety management through technology. Nowadays, in Shanghai, a number of smart city construction and application achievements related to economy, society, people's livelihood, culture, etc. are accelerating their landing, making the city smarter.
Install a "smart six piece set" of infrared, water meter detection, current detection, smoke detection, access control, and emergency buttons at home. If the water usage is less than 0.01 cubic meters within 12 hours, and there is no record of entering or exiting the door within 48 hours, the device will issue a warning, making it convenient for street or neighborhood committee personnel to understand the situation of elderly people living alone in a timely manner;
To address the issue of parking shared bicycles, there is no need to arrange for dedicated personnel to patrol. Citizens can take photos with their mobile phones and upload them. The system can quickly identify the types of problems and automatically notify corresponding staff to handle them in a timely manner;
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Shanghai has a permanent population of 25 million, with a rail transit operating mileage of 831 kilometers and a daily passenger flow of over 11 million. The city's operation and transportation bear enormous pressure. In Shanghai, batches of smart city construction and application achievements related to economy, society, people's livelihood, culture, etc. are accelerating their implementation, facilitating the lives of citizens and making the city smarter.
Forming a Future oriented Digital City Base Support
Shanghai is treating mega cities as a systematic living organism, fully utilizing technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and big data to actively promote innovation in urban operation and management.
On Nanjing Road, taking the historical building Nanjing Building as an example, a new real-time and dynamic digital twin urban governance model was explored by integrating multidimensional data around the smallest management unit of the city.
This is the smallest management unit for urban operation on the platform of "One Network Unified Management" in Shanghai, integrating Huawei Cloud, Big Data, AI, 5G, edge computing, Digital Twin and other technologies. It performs ultra fine modeling and visual restoration of the building and its surroundings, and integrates multi-dimensional dynamic data. In the future, Shanghai will expand this innovative model from one building to one street, one district, and one city.
Nanjing Road Walkway is an important landscape road in Shanghai. During major holidays, a large number of citizens and tourists come to shop and visit, posing significant safety risks due to the large passenger flow. Therefore, the passenger flow control of the entire pedestrian street is quite important. On the big screen of the urban transportation center hall in Huangpu District, data on the operation of each city scrolls rapidly.
"When the passenger flow on the pedestrian street reaches a medium to high risk level, the district urban transportation center will immediately issue a large passenger flow warning and send a supporting disposal notice to the digital twin system of the Nanjing building through the district urban transportation platform. At the same time, the security manager in the store received the message through a wristband and immediately organized security personnel to cooperate in activating the passenger flow control plan," the staff said.
The "14th Five Year Plan" for Shanghai to comprehensively promote urban digital transformation proposes that by 2025, Shanghai will basically build a city digital base with a base, hub, and platform interconnection; Forming a digital city base support for the future. Digital infrastructure refers to the construction of a future oriented digital city infrastructure system, providing data support, technological empowerment, and platform services for urban digital transformation.
Ji Xinhua, Chairman of Ukede Technology Co., Ltd., introduced that the digital base includes four elements: computing power, algorithm, data, and network. Among them, computing power is the cornerstone of the digital economy, and the first step is to build a secure, stable, and independently controllable cloud computing infrastructure. Data is a driving factor for urban development and governance, and the prerequisite for activating the value of data elements is to ensure the safe circulation of data.
Data runs through every aspect of digital infrastructure construction, among which the transformation brought by 5G has a profound impact. For example, in the past, after a patient had a CT scan, doctors needed more than 10 minutes to read the film and write a preliminary diagnostic report. Now, this process has been shortened to 2 to 3 minutes. Doctors only need to encrypt the relevant images on the hospital's local server and upload them to the cloud platform through the operator's 5G private network. They can use AI computing power for efficient image analysis, and the results will be automatically transmitted back to the hospital. Doctors only need to review and confirm the results to synchronize the information to the hospital's integrated management system.
At present, Shanghai has built over 68000 outdoor 5G base stations and accelerated the construction process of underground signal coverage in residential areas, achieving full coverage of 5G networks in the city.
More data running, less citizens running errands
The electronic government cloud system built by Shanghai has gradually made this vision a reality, with more data running and fewer citizens running errands.
In Shanghai, "One Stop Service" is closely related to the daily lives of citizens. As a personal service code for citizens, the Suishen Code is integrated with the "Medical Insurance Electronic Voucher" code to achieve "one code for medical treatment"; Integrating with public transportation and subway, promoting "one code access"... "Suishen Code" has been used more than 18.7 billion times, with a total of over 79 million users.
The "One Network Unified Management" system integrates and connects over 100 basic data from more than 30 departments, including public safety, green city appearance, health and hygiene, meteorology, and water management. At the same time, relying on over 800000 "neurons", it forms a series of intelligent urban application scenarios such as "flood control emergency response", "passenger flow monitoring and analysis", and "fake license plate vehicle inspection", achieving closed-loop management from early warning to disposal.
In the process of comprehensively promoting urban digital transformation, on the one hand, Shanghai is promoting "one network access" and "one network unified management", realizing the transformation of government services from "usable" to "user-friendly", and accelerating the digital transformation in areas such as the rule of law, public security, emergency response, and public facilities. On the other hand, we need to strengthen the empowerment of digital infrastructure, promote data-driven process reengineering by the government, practice the concept of "holistic government" services, use data as the basis for precise policy and scientific governance, transform "people finding policies" into "policies finding people", and create a scientific, refined, and intelligent new paradigm of "digital governance" for mega cities.
Wu Jincheng, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, introduced that currently, Shanghai has formed a super large-scale comprehensive transportation network consisting of railways, waterways, highways, aviation, rail transit, etc. The unified road network covers over 90000 intersections in Shanghai, and an intelligent signal light system has been established, resulting in an average improvement of 10% in road traffic efficiency.
"Through these key indicators, it can be seen that the level of urbanization is not measured by population density, but by the density of people to people connections, which is also the key for Shanghai to open the second half of the process of urban intelligence in the digital age," said Wu Jincheng.
Promote the transformation of urban governance from empirical judgment to data analysis
"Hello, I am the property management of the community. I just noticed that someone in your home poured a glass of water out of the window and almost fell on the head of a passerby. I remind you to be careful..." This is the safety reminder phone call made by the property management of Chunjiang Community in Huangpu District to residents. Once the intelligent system detects a high-altitude throwing accident, it will push a real-time warning to the property management, accurately targeting households; If it causes casualties, the property can upload a request for support from the urban transportation center with just one click.
From "perceiving a building" to "connecting a street, intelligent a district, and warming a city", Shanghai focuses on urban safety and expands the pilot scope to the smallest management units such as scenic spots, shops, and residential areas. It provides more than 20 digital governance solutions, including fire safety, house safety, large passenger flow safety, high-altitude throwing, non motor vehicle safety, elevator safety, etc., and explores replicable and promotable new mechanisms for urban safety management.
The richness of urban life determines the complexity of urban operation and governance. As a super large city, Shanghai has many people, cars, buildings, pipes, and lines.
According to statistics, Shanghai has a permanent population of 25 million, with nearly a thousand super high-rise buildings over 100 meters tall. The operating mileage of rail transit has reached 831 kilometers, and the daily passenger flow exceeds 11 million people.
"To promote the modernization of urban governance, it is necessary to use modern technological means to promote the transformation of urban governance from labor-intensive to human-machine interactive, from experiential judgment to data analysis, and from passive disposal to active discovery," said the relevant department head.
Where is the next step in the construction of smart cities? Zhang Shunmao, Senior Vice President of Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., believes that in the future, cities should have an integrated and collaborative intelligent system that drives digitalization of governance, economy, and life, achieving smarter governance and better people's lives.
