Since the concept of "smart city" was put forward in 2008, China's smart city has experienced more than ten years of exploration and practice, standard adjustment and infrastructure deployment. Until the last two years, driven by the wave of digitalization, it is accelerating all-round digital development and starting a large-scale landing stage.
What exactly does a smart city look like? What changes can it bring to people's work and life? To solve this problem, Shangtang Technology, a software company of China Head AI (Artificial Intelligence), first gave its own answer. This year, Shangtang Technology launched the "Window of Xinzhou", which turned Shangtang Technology Building in Xuhui District of Shanghai into a "miniature" smart city ecology.
China Business News reporter learned from Shangtang Technology that based on computer vision and AIOT technology, the whole building has been "scanned and drawn" into a digital space, and people, things and events in the real space can correspond to each other one by one in the virtual space of "Window of Xinzhou", covering not only the main scenes such as welcome, office, conference, epidemic prevention, fire fighting, safety, catering, etc., but also backpacks and staplers.
Xu Li, CEO of Shangtang Technology, pointed out that the essence of digitalization is to build a digital world, and the access, search and operation of this world can directly affect the real physical world. To judge the establishment of a digital world, there are usually three standards and three steps, namely, digitalization of scenes, structuring of elements and interactivity of processes. In the past, many applications of big data only completed the first step, and the data was not really combined with real business processes.
The reporter noted that in recent years, smart cities have frequently landed nationwide, and the penetration rate has obviously accelerated, which has brought a broad market space for AI companies including Shangtang Technology. According to the IPO prospectus of Shangtang Technology, from 20021~1~ June, the smart city business segment became the company's largest revenue source, accounting for 47.6%, accounting for more than 80% of the total revenue together with the smart business segment. While AI companies hone their "internal strength" in improving technical capabilities and standardizing services, the "dividend" competition for the development of smart cities is becoming increasingly fierce.
"Miniature" Smart Cities Focus on Three Major Directions
Zhang Guangcheng, chief product officer of the integrated business of Shangtang Technology Smart City, told the reporter that "Window of Xinzhou" is the experimental field of Shangtang Technology in the field of smart cities. Take catering, a scene closely related to employees, for example. The restaurant in the building provides catering service for about 2000 employees every day, and the problem of queuing for meals has become the biggest problem affecting the dining experience. The window of Xinzhou uses the intelligent vision technology of Shangtang Technology to detect the number of long queues and table vacancies in real time, and through real-time detection of data, it predicts the next queue length and the time required to pick up meals, and recommends the appropriate meal time for employees. Through such prediction and recommendation means, the peak-to-peak dining is realized, which on the one hand alleviates the problem of dining queue, improves the dining experience of employees, and on the other hand reduces the safety risk of dining together during the epidemic. It is worth mentioning that in order to take care of some colleagues who are too busy to eat in the canteen, Xinzhou Window also provides online ordering service. Employees only need to order food on a small program, and the robot will send the food to the designated place, and enhance the work and life experience of employees in the building with services full of science and technology. At present, the intelligent services of "Window of Xinzhou" include canteen, bathroom, newspaper service, smart retail, smart access control, handheld parking, integrated security, everything detection, integrated navigation and other scenes.
Talking about the technical support behind the smart city, Zhang Guangcheng said that SenseCore ShangTang AI equipment is the AI infrastructure that supports all products and solutions in Shang Tang, that is, the AI capability "base". Aiming at the diversified scenarios of smart city management, Shang Tang provides systematic products and solutions for cloud and edge product platforms based on "Ark" and "Nebula". Among them, the "Nebula" family includes front-end software, smart cameras, intelligent edge box, intelligent server and digital intelligent IOT platform, which can be widely used in urban smart sites, smart parks, intelligent elevators and other scenes. It takes AI technology as the core, opens up the upstream and downstream ecology, integrates IOT perception, intelligent vision, data fusion and data analysis capabilities, provides closed-loop support for industry application scenarios, builds an industry digital intelligence system, and helps industry customers realize all-round upgrade from digitalization to digital intelligence.
"The relationship between the ark and the nebula can be simply understood as the ark is equivalent to the brain in the cloud, and the nebula is the smart front-end antenna. Both the Ark and the Nebula are open designs for upstream and downstream partners in the industry, achieving all-round integration of product ecology. " Zhang Guangcheng said.
In fact, before the "Window of Xinzhou" was launched, Shang Tang Ark City Open Platform and Xingyun Intelligent Terminal Family had been applied in many cities across the country. Taking Xi 'an Kunming Pool as an example, Shangtang Technology and its partner * * * jointly created a comprehensive solution for AI+3D visual intelligent scenic spots. Shang Tang Nebula AI server based on SenseNebula-AIS has realized the functions of safety management of dangerous waters, statistics of the number of tourists entering and leaving, recovery of lost children/elderly people, heat map of passenger flow, congestion reminder and so on, which has effectively improved the safety and efficiency of scenic spot management. Shang Tang uses digital twinning and 3D modeling technology to restore the model of the scenic spot with 1 1, and integrates the video information of all visual sensing terminals in the scenic spot through the Internet of Things technology, so that managers can browse all corners of the scenic spot in a visual way through the 3D bird's eye view of the scenic spot. In view of the key waters of the scenic spot, effective intrusion protection has been realized, which can not only protect the scenic spot environment, but also prevent tourists from straying into dangerous areas. According to the prospectus of Shangtang Technology, as of the first half of this year, the open platform of Shang Tang Ark City has been laid out in 1 19 cities at home and abroad.
Contribute nearly 50% of the revenue and enjoy the smart city bonus.
The latest Report on the Development of Smart City Service Platform in China issued by iResearch, a third-party consulting organization, points out that the construction of smart cities has entered a comprehensive digital stage, China's digital infrastructure construction is leading the world, the digital economy industry is developing vigorously, and both national and local levels are actively promoting it. At the same time, big data, AI, blockchain and other related digital technologies are constantly iterative and mature, providing a good space for the development of urban service platforms. From the perspective of the ecological map of smart cities, local governments are the main promoters of urban public service platforms and play the role of locomotives for the healthy development of the platforms; The construction party represented by large-scale science and technology companies determines the basic service capability of the urban service platform; The operator is the guarantee for the continuous iteration of the urban platform to provide quality services. In addition, there are other third-party enterprises that provide more flexible technology and service choices for the service platform.
According to Shangtang Technology, Shang Tang Ark City Open Platform contains more than 65,438+04,000 AI models, which are seamlessly integrated with the city's IT infrastructure, transforming the original city data into operational insights, event alarms and management actions in real time. The city ark is not only used for the management of public facilities, such as fire hydrants, manhole covers, telephone poles, road signs, etc., but also for the timely discovery and resolution of public events, such as traffic accidents, fires and smoke, emergency exit obstacles, garbage overflow, road damage and littering, as well as the impact analysis of natural disasters such as floods and typhoons and the tracking of the implementation progress of subsequent disaster relief measures. Shang Tang City Ark promotes the transformation of urban management from human-intensive to human-computer interaction, from experience-oriented to data-driven, and from passive disposal to active discovery. City Ark has become the operating system of digital city operation, which improves the safety, efficiency, convenience and environmental quality of the city.
Zhang Guangcheng pointed out that the overall construction of smart cities is still in the early stage, and there is still a lot of room for the combination of virtual and reality. Of course, for AI technology companies including Shangtang Technology, there will be huge market demand and huge commercial space in the future.
Whether it is a smart city that is being fully digitized and landed on a large scale, or the "meta-universe" that is currently being hotly debated, Shangtang Technology believes that the new generation of artificial intelligence technology plays an important role. As an AI software company, it is necessary to build core AI capabilities, empower the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, base AI technology on the development of the industry, truly solve the pain points of customers and meet the market demand, so as to maximize the value of AI technology.
Obviously, * * driven by the digital wave, smart cities are constantly infiltrating into various places and fields, including artificial intelligence enterprises represented by Shangtang Technology, and operators, cloud service providers, software vendors, data companies and other forces are enjoying the "dividend" of smart city development, and the competition around this field will continue to escalate in the future. On the other hand, digitalization, as a big category of smart cities, involves many links. At the same time of fierce competition in the industry, the construction of smart cities needs more cooperation and coordination between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.