People centered smart innovation drives high quality urban lifestyle

Innovation drives advent of smart cities

Yang Fan is deputy director of the Chongqing Municipal Big Data Application and Development Administration and recently appeared in an interview with Chongqing Daily to describe how the application of big data brings practical benefits to people's everyday lives and business.

The New Smart City Operations Management Center serves as the electronic brain for Chongqing, which provides centralized support for urban management, forecasts, and deployments.

The management center has already been integrated into 201 urban systems covering 25 application scenarios that span various departments, districts, and trades. For example, the big data platform responsible for the ecological environment can monitor air and water quality in real-time and issue deployments accordingly.

Big data is also being applied to benefit small to medium-sized enterprises, such as a financing platform that has used big data to provide over 260,000 companies with loans worth USD 5.73 billion.

We aim to develop big data platforms that serve a whole spectrum of services that incorporate residential needs like smart homes, medical treatment, elderly care, urban management, and fire response.

Likewise, the same platform will serve professions, including education, employment opportunities, and entrepreneurship.

Travel applications will cover smart transport systems, scenic areas, and ecological parks. At the same time, recreation and shopping enthusiasts will experience greater convenience in cultural venues, sports arenas, commercial districts, online purchases, and delivery logistics.

The motivation behind big data applications is to bring substantial convenience and a sense of warmth to the public. More construction projects are being planned for smart communities, particularly for emergency management such as fire prevention and control.

While many associate big data with urban management, Chongqing is also working to provide rural communities with a similar range of services, as the applications of this technology generalize for all levels of society.