Digital Solution Helps Build Smart Green Cities

Xi'an Hi-tech Zone is a national high-tech industrial development zone in China as well as a frontier of new scientific and technological industries of Xi'an and western China. With numerous innovations, Xi'an Hi-tech Zone has become a showcase for strong economic growth and the opening up of Shaanxi and Xi'an.

Xi'an Hi-tech Zone is located in the southern outskirts of Xi'an and has a development area of 35 sq km. To become a world-class high-tech zone as well as an important R&D base and innovative service base in the world, Xi'an Hi-tech Zone urgently needed to combine city management with digital, mobile, wireless, and machine-to-machine technologies as well as establish a low-carbon, energy-saving, efficient, and smart urban management system and structure. In 2009, Huawei was honored to start cooperating with local telecom operators and become part of the High-tech Zone initiative. The Xi'an High-tech Zone project (Phase I) is to establish a unified platform and build an urban data center.

Based on its six core capabilities (provide applications rapidly; integrate with third-party systems; share system resources; enable smooth system evolution; unify hardware/storage/security solutions; unify data analysis), the project provides integrated application support and management as well as effectively combining a mobile supervision/law enforcement system, a mobile monitoring system, and an SMS interaction system with community/enterprise service systems. It also conducts dynamic monitoring of ongoing construction projects and wireless connected work regarding urban management through high-speed 3G wireless transmission technology. A service-oriented digital urban management application system with the characteristics of the High-tech Zone was put in place, which covers a first-class business system, a public participation system, a leader supervision system, and an emergency management system that is incorporated with cutting-edge management processes and concepts.

The High-tech Zone Service-Oriented Digital Urban Management project (Phase I) was officially piloted in November 2009. Within one month after its launch, it received and allocated 194 cases – the number of cases processed every day increased six-fold, the processing rate increased from 29 to 97.42 percent, and the processing cycle was shortened from one week to 6.5 hours. After the success of Phase I, an expansion to Phase II (covering 86 sq km) will be made. In this phase, the Internet of Things (IOT) will be further developed and platform capabilities will be leveraged to build various business applications. This will allow for the smooth evolution toward a smart city system architecture that is characterized by unified management and unlimited scalability.

Through this project, the participation of enterprises, residents, and communities in local city administration was substantially facilitated. While helping to improve the city’s operating efficiency and enhancing social inclusiveness, Huawei also proved that its E-City solution can effectively contribute to low-carbon economics. The acceleration of global urbanization further highlights issues such as urban safety, people-oriented services, industry upgrades, and livelihood. Huawei has come up with a wide range of E-City solutions that cover smart transportation, government hotlines, digital city management, online healthcare, and more, all in a bid to help tackle deteriorating environmental and social problems that modern cities are facing. In the future, Huawei will continue to emphasize the development and application of new technologies such as E-City and IOT solutions as well as guide urban planning and deployment of information-based developments.

Working relentlessly with our partners, we are committed to contributing continuously to global urban information-based development and to make society low-carbon, environmentally friendly, smart, and efficient.