In 2008, IBM proposed the concept of smart cities. A smart city is a city that makes full use of new technologies and their inspiration to transform and improve systems, operations and services and become smarter than traditional cities. Smart city is mainly composed of “data collection, storage and analysis”, aiming to generate insights from massive data. The concept of smart city covers almost all categories of society and life, mainly including smart environment, smart economy, smart life, smart citizens, smart circulation and smart government.
At the Tencent Youtu Computer Vision Summit held in Shanghai recently, Manuel Sanroma, former Chief Innovation Officer of Barcelona and head of Barcelona smart City Strategy, delivered the keynote speech “Cities: Natural Places for ARTIFICIAL Intelligence”. The content is as follows:
Scientists study cities. Why are cities such a good invention? Cities are like living organisms. Living organisms are born, develop and die. But cities don’t die, because cities get better by growing, and the bigger they get, the better they grow. So far, though, we don’t have a good urban science. Cities have different answers to different questions. And artificial intelligence is a key that can open the door to urban science. Every city is an island of information. Cities themselves are not learning from the outside, and we can do that with artificial intelligence. In Barcelona we think on a global basis and come up with the concepts of urban geometry and urban operating systems. Big data and predictive solutions + Ciy os = City learning
With the development of technology, our city has its own evolution direction. At present, the tide of smart city construction is in full swing. How to use advanced science and technology to realize the management and operation of the city is the key to the development of smart city. Ai is now helping cities in the following ways:
AI + security
AI + traffic
Nowadays, China’s transportation system is relatively complete, with electronic cameras covering almost every road. Artificial intelligence can memorize these electronic cameras to intelligently identify and capture vehicles on the road.
For example, the above picture: After capturing the photo, the AI can analyze the driver’s behavior in the picture. If there are traffic laws and regulations, it will recognize the license plate number of the vehicle and record it
In addition, AI can also control traffic lights and reduce traffic congestion to a certain extent by analyzing the number of vehicles and reasonably setting the switching time of traffic lights. At present, traffic management departments including suzhou traffic police have used AI + traffic to manage roads, so this direction is also very promising.
AI + logistics
China is a big country in logistics. How to make a large number of packages in the middle of this complex topology network structure efficient, fast and low-cost to complete its journey and flow to the final destination requires AI to help us complete it. AI + logistics is the use of integrated intelligent technology, so that the logistics system can imitate human intelligence, with thinking, perception, learning, reasoning and judgment and the ability to solve some problems in logistics. At present, several famous logistics companies in China have invested a lot of energy in artificial intelligence.
At a forum in 2018, Liu Zhixin, chief AI scientist of SF Express, said the company would use ARTIFICIAL intelligence to free people from many simple and repetitive tasks.
With the help of artificial intelligence, we can deal with the heavy logistics work more quickly and effectively, allocate and use resources rationally, effectively reduce the cost of enterprises, improve the comfort of users in the process of using logistics.
conclusion
Smart cities, with the help of artificial intelligence, are coming to us. There may still be many problems, such as poor adaptability to the environment and high requirements for data resources, but we have reason to believe that with the continuous development of AI, these problems will be solved, and smart city will no longer be a concept, but a real existence.