The construction of smart cities has a recognized role in improving the quality of life of residents and improving the management level of cities. Among them, geographic information technology, especially the GIS platform, plays a key role in the construction of smart cities.
In reality, in addition to some factors of the policy itself, the development of smart cities still has challenges due to the inability to build some infrastructure in time, the blockage of information interaction, and the disorderly integration of various technologies. However, GIS, as the infrastructure platform of urban information management, and the carrier of various other technology applications and integration, is still regarded as a breakthrough in urban intelligent management and an opportunity to reverse the status quo.
What is the core role of GIS in smart cities?
Mann believes that location intelligence will be the core of smart city planning and design. GIS, as a platform for realizing location intelligence, provides a trustworthy framework that everyone can use and exchange information on this platform. The advantages of GIS also include:
1) Through mapping and visualization, you can better understand those things and information related to location, which can serve as a reference for decision-making, especially decision-making driven by spatial data.
2) Its data management tool can realize the management of different scenarios and different business details based on the location information of assets, resources, and personnel.
3) Be able to connect IoT devices, monitor real-time data streams, and manage related assets and resources.
4) Relevant spatial analysis tools can be used to analyze and predict the trends and laws of various location big data, thereby promoting business development.
5) Some design and planning tools can assist in the development of some visual platforms or solutions. The spatial visualization platform provides possibilities for public participation, data crowdsourcing, and data sharing.
GIS features can help city managers use spatial visualization data to draw a more accurate business portrait, so as to avoid various mistakes caused by blind decision-making, and let things develop in the right direction relying on data and reasonable judgment.
Location intelligence is the infrastructure of urban information management
In fact, there are still many cities with informatization management, and their infrastructure construction is still imperfect. Whether it is for such a city or for a city that has no informatization foundation at all, the first step is to realize the location of the city by building GIS. Intelligent, because everything has its location attribute, which means that key resources, facilities and elements in the city can be associated from their location attributes to achieve business management.
Multi-technology integration with GIS as the carrier is the trend
GIS has provided a place for real-time data production and presentation for urban IoT devices, and provided an effective means for timely and effective urban supervision and management. In addition to the in-depth integration with the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence (AI) is also the current and future direction of integration. Among them, the combination of GIS and artificial intelligence should fully consider the actual needs and foreseeable benefits, especially for the construction of smart cities. It should be clear what kind of technology integration can really help improve urban management and the quality of life of urban residents.
GIS is a communication channel that connects government, functionaries and city residents
GIS is not just a map or a management tool, it can also be said to be a communication channel that connects city managers, functional personnel and city residents. For example, government departments use GIS to scientifically and reasonably deploy construction tasks at the correct time and place; functional personnel such as planners, police officers, and firefighters can also participate in information construction and sharing on the GIS platform; The port sees the changes of these cities, and can provide suggestions and opinions, ideas or clues at different stages of construction.
Departments should realize that in this era of great potential for creativity and innovation, some new approaches should be taken to deal with problems in urban construction and management, and to achieve a vision of resilience and sustainable development, they should try to build government and functional The communication mechanism of personnel and urban residents contributes to the realization of the common vision of smart city.
Openness and sharing, spatial data is still an opportunity
The construction of a smart city is always inseparable from the key words "openness" and "sharing". The government can take the initiative to keep open to developers of urban projects, various organizations, non-profit institutions and academic groups, and such openness will in turn have a more considerable feedback effect.
Relatively speaking, the spatial display of various data using GIS as a carrier can make each other's businesses more friendly. This opportunity makes the cross-departmental cooperation of smart cities more reliable.