INGENIEUR
Smart Cities and Smart
Agriculture
By Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Industry and smart city experts
from around the world gathered
at HUAWEI CONNECT 2018 to
explore how artificial intelligence
(AI) is being harnessed to build
smart cities. Cases in focus at the
Huawei event included the TEDA
system, which applies the Intelligent
Operations Centre (IOC) and four
large-scale AI platforms for Tianjin’s
Binhai New Area; land digitalisation
to smartify agriculture in Qingdao;
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and the case study of Germany’s
Duisburg, where cloud computing
and IoT are making the city smarter
and more attractive.
C
hina’s urbanisation rate has risen 37% in
37 years, bringing a host of challenges for
urban areas, including traffic congestion
and pollution. Driven by services and technology,
smart city construction has emerged as a
solution to these problems. Service drivers
comprise customers, service requirements, and
architecture, while technological drivers include AI,
data, and cloud. Collaboration in terms of these
drivers are key topics today.