Huawei redraws the map to create cities of the future
The 2019 Shenzhen Smart City Forum held from May 14-15 in Guangdong province aims to improve communication and cooperation in the building of smart and digital cities, organizers said.
With the theme “ushering in a bright future for smart cities”, the forum brought together city leaders from across the world, Huawei executives, smart city experts, UN-Habitat experts and scholars and hightech enterprises.
The group shares their latest development concepts and explores the future together.
“This year witnesses the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and is the 40th year since the establishment of Shenzhen city. Shenzhen reflects the historical achievements China has made, serving as a window to display China to the world,” said Wang Weizhong, secretary of the CPC Shenzhen committee.
“We hope to make friends with those taking the opportunity of this forum and together contributing wisdom and power for a common human community,” Wang said.
Guo Ping, rotating chairman of Huawei, said that “Huawei is dedicated to building a smart city digital foundation that enables integrating, exploring, analyzing, and sharing data, by using ubiquitous connectivity, a digital platform and pervasive intelligence”.
“More importantly, we develop a digital brain for cities with application partners, building a common ecosystem with mutual advantages. This brain will provide advanced ways to help cities make informed development decisions and will allow e-government, transport and policing domains to go digital.
“In doing so, we hope to build smart cities featuring smart administration, more benefits for residents and prosperous industry development.”
Ugo Valenti, CEO of Smart City Expo World Congress, said that “Innovative technologies, including 5G, internet of things, artificial intelligence and cloud, are changbecome ing how cities are governed and managed. By nurturing Public-Private-People Partnership, a co-creation model among government, corporations and citizens, smart cities will help more open decision-making and bring a peoplecentric new world.”
The highlight of the opening ceremony was the sophisticated dialogue that took place among members of government departments, enterprises and the academic community.
The panel explored emerging technologies, and how to construct big data-based city information and communication technology infrastructure to safeguard public security and order. They also discussed how to enhance the governance, public welfare and economy in modern cities by leveraging digital services and using a disruptive digital brain.
Yan Lida, president of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, said: “The usage of digital technology has one of the criteria to assess a city’s intelligence level.
Future smart cities will have five new infrastructural platforms, namely cloud, IoT, data lake, AI and video surveillance network.
“These five platforms will form a foundation for us to achieve ubiquitous connectivity, realize pervasive intelligence and streamline heterogeneous systems. Huawei uses its cloud as the basis to integrate various new ICT, such as AI, IoT, big data, converged communications, video and GIS, to build a comprehensive digital platform,” he said.
“This platform provides technical enablement for government and enterprise customers, helping them easily cope with complicated technical issues.”
In addition, Huawei has built 12 OpenLabs around the world to conduct customer-oriented innovation with partners. Building a smart city is a long and evolving process.
Based on Huawei’s digital platform, cities will be like a living thing. New applications will emerge and grow through repetition and eventually achieve overall prosperity, he said.
“The United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals include one on sustainable cities and communities. We hope to drive the realization of the goals through smart city endeavors with confidence.
“We are to face the challenges from smart city construction, but embrace its unlimited potential. From the perspective of the UN, international cooperation is significant. We see a good platform here today for cities to share their experience,” Yan said.
This event was hosted by Shenzhen government and organized by Shenzhen foreign affairs office.
As a co-organizer, Huawei is a global leading smart city and safe city solution provider.
With partners, Huawei is drawing a blueprint for smart cities. Huawei smart city and safe city solutions have served more than 700 cities in over 100 countries, helping local security and social and economic development.
More importantly, we develop a digital brain for cities with application partners, building a common ecosystem with mutual advantages. This brain will provide advanced ways to help cities make informed development decisions and will allow e-government, transport and policing domains to go digital.” Guo Ping, rotating chairman of Huawei