The urban brain released by Yunqi Conference affects or is no less than AlphaGo

This year, with AlphaGo defeating Go players, artificial intelligence, a term used in some technology, has been increasingly mentioned by all parties. At the Google I/O conference, artificial intelligence became the only theme; at Baidu World Congress, Li Yanhong said that artificial intelligence is the next scene of the Internet. Today, at the annual Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, 13 companies including the Hangzhou Municipal Government and Alibaba Cloud launched the “City Brain” project, which means that Alibaba Cloud has taken an important step in the layout of artificial intelligence. And took a road with Ali characteristics.

In my opinion, the changes that the urban brain brings to the world may be much larger than AlphaGo.

Real-time analysis and decision making for the city as a whole

What is the urban brain? Quoting the definition of Wang Jian, the father of Alibaba Cloud and the chairman of the technical committee of Alibaba Group, in the speech of the conference: “The core of the urban brain adopts Alibaba Cloud ET artificial intelligence technology, which can analyze the city in real time, automatically allocate public resources, and correct the city operation. The flaws in it become the super artificial intelligence that governs the city."

It is easier to understand with examples. The initial cut-in scene of the Hangzhou city brain is traffic. Today, in the high-speed popularization of automobiles, governance has always been an important issue in large cities. The traffic light intersection is an important node of the traffic artery. The operating principle has not changed for many years. However, it is not smart enough, and it is not waiting for it, which further aggravates congestion.

In cooperation with the transportation department of Hangzhou, Alibaba Cloud conducted an experiment to connect the traffic lights on the road poles with the camera through the Internet of Things technology. The images captured by the camera were analyzed by the city brain in real time, which can be used for different time periods. The big traffic such as car flow and direction of travel learns, and then directs the traffic light to adjust the length of time, turn to the prohibition mark, and even command bus route scheduling and road planning decisions.

In September of this year, the urban brain transportation module has been put into use in the heart of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou. The preliminary test data shows that by intelligently adjusting the traffic lights, the road vehicle traffic speed has increased by up to 11%.

In today's increasingly developed Internet of Things technology, connecting cameras to traffic lights and connecting them to the cloud is no longer a problem. Some cities have been able to do it a few years ago. However, the most critical technology for the camera to command the change of traffic lights is how to analyze the traffic video in real time, which requires artificial intelligence technology. With the support of cloud computing, machine learning as the core of artificial intelligence technology and big data technology, real-time video analysis is finally possible today - Hangzhou City Brain is the only artificial intelligence system in the world that can analyze real-time video in the whole city.

In addition to using camera data to control traffic lights, Alibaba Cloud has previously cooperated with transportation departments in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guizhou and other places to provide convenient travel information to the public through the mobile Internet, predict road conditions through big data analysis, or pass data to The transportation department has provided planning and decision-making reference, and both have achieved good results. Now it seems that these attempts are laying the foundation for the urban brain, and the biggest advancement of the urban brain is to realize the real-time and intelligent resource scheduling of the city, instead of Just "post-optimization."

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How will the city brain change our city?

Urban informatization is not a strange word. I remember that in 2010, many places have launched “wireless city” or “smart city” plans. This stage is more about building urban information infrastructure, such as urban WIFI. Road monitoring and more. The “urban brain” allows cities to intelligently process massive amounts of big data collected by the Internet of Things through artificial intelligence technology and cloud computing capabilities, and to solve urban traffic, energy, water supply and other aspects of scheduling, so that the city operates efficiently. Higher, enhance the citizen experience, improve production efficiency and achieve energy saving and environmental protection.

At the level of traffic governance, optimizing the traffic lights with the city brain is only the beginning. Both Didi and Moby bicycles show that urban transportation is accelerating intelligence, more and more vehicles and road infrastructure will generate and upload data to the cloud. In the future, the city brain can traffic in the clouds and accidents. Real-time analysis of weather and other data, giving cloud intelligent scheduling recommendations, so that each car chooses the most suitable road to improve traffic efficiency.

In terms of energy supply, the city's brain can help cities better manage and use energy, such as power distribution, such as traffic light smart switches, and charging pile planning after the popularity of electric vehicles. In terms of smart energy, Alibaba Cloud has previously cooperated with Sunshine Power, which uses Alibaba Cloud to realize real-time data information sharing, automation management, and power plant equipment failure warning for all its PV power plants. PV power plants can increase 3-7% annually. The proceeds.

In terms of social security, the city brain can know the flow of people in different communities in real time, the flow of people in different business circles, help the government to better plan public services, and even dispatch security measures according to this, such as monitoring people in certain places because of major activities. Traffic intensive, you can add security forces. Baidu maps have tried to use big data to prevent "stepping on" accidents. The city brain can achieve similar applications with artificial intelligence technology. In addition, based on real-time portrait processing technology, it is expected to find the criminals who are counted, and the child can be retrieved more quickly after being abducted.

Every city has massive amounts of big data. These data exist in large enterprises such as government departments, public service agencies, Internet services, operators, banks, etc. These data are of little value if they are not used. With the help of artificial intelligence technology, the urban brain It can help cities make better use of these data and achieve it for civilian use. I think that after testing the water in Hangzhou, more cities are expected to introduce similar technologies from the "urban brain" to drive the city.

Why is the "urban brain" more important than AlphaGo?

AlphaGo has completely changed people's perception of artificial intelligence. Humans finally realize that artificial intelligence can be so powerful. However, artificial intelligence systems such as “urban brain” are truly changing thousands of cities around the world, hundreds of millions of urban residents. life.

AlphaGo is more of a technical level of exploration, and the “urban brain” involves multiple aspects:

First, the city's deep support, one of the participants of the Hangzhou City Brain is the Hangzhou Municipal Government. Wang Jian repeatedly thanked the relevant departments of Hangzhou for their support during the release of the city brain. The city's brain needs to be able to land, that is, to coordinate the relevant parties to open city data, but also to coordinate other aspects such as the implementation of the transportation department, so the city support is very important.

Second, infrastructure transformation, Hangzhou City brain also has some partners, such as Foxconn, Dahua, Haikang, etc., playing the role of infrastructure transformation. In the past, there was no connection between the camera and the traffic lights, or many urban infrastructures were not connected at all, they needed to be retrofitted, and some infrastructure information equipment needed to be retrofitted. Wang Jian revealed that “the first step of the Urban Brain Project Team is to digitize all infrastructure such as transportation, energy, and water supply, connect data resources scattered in various units of the city, and open up neural networks.” This is technically difficult. It takes a lot of manpower and material resources.

Third, the integration of multiple technologies, the urban brain can not be simply classified as artificial intelligence technology, in order to real-time processing of traffic video must rely on the cloud large-scale computing cluster, that is, cloud computing platform; to achieve the interconnection of different elements of the city, For data collection and uploading, IoT technology is needed; to enable urban public information to be better communicated to the public, mobile Internet technology is also needed. It can be said that the urban brain is an integrated technology integration.

The city brain does not belong to Alibaba. It requires a number of partners on this platform, such as information technology companies in different industries, urban infrastructure builders, and infrastructure companies like Foxconn. At the beginning of this year, Alibaba released the overall strategy of the Internet of Things, integrating Alibaba Cloud, Ali Intelligence, YunOS and other business groups to jointly create a service platform for the Internet of Things era, and gathered many IoT-related developers. These developers together with Alibaba formed "Internet of Things", like Apple with developers to change the phone, Alibaba has to rely on these developers and other partners to change the city.

The release of the city's brain also reflects Alibaba Cloud's different routines with its friends in the layout of artificial intelligence. Goolge released Google Assitant and Google Home, and Baidu released the secret, these products are for consumers. Alibaba Cloud's "urban brain" chose to work with the city to change people's lives through artificial intelligence technology. In the basic business, Alibaba has Alibaba Cloud Computing, YunOS for Car operating system, Gaode map, rookie logistics, Ant Financial, and many infrastructure-related businesses closely related to the city. They will become part of the city brain in the future. become better. Let artificial intelligence penetrate into every corner of the city, not just on mobile phones or in cars. Alibaba's ambitions on artificial intelligence are quite large.

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