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What will the future city look like? Recently, with the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trude and Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt formally signing a cooperation agreement in Toronto, the grand “Smart City†project has finally found its first “place to stayâ€. "A new "city of the future" is about to break ground.
Toronto
Alphabet has been busy for this project for many years. In 2015, Alphabet established its subsidiary Sidewalk Labs. This Google’s brother company was born with a heavy responsibility: to improve the city and improve the quality of life of people in the city; to solve the unreasonable cost of living and housing pressure by developing and nurturing urban technology. Large, low traffic efficiency, energy waste and other issues create a better urban template for humanity.
Canada: The Cradle of New Technology Experiments
Quayside District
"The cities to be built will be greener, cleaner and more intelligent." This is Trudeau's vision for the "future city." The “Future City†address is located in Quayside, a town in the southeast of downtown Toronto. Upon completion, it will cover 325 hectares of land in Quayside and Port Lands.
According to a report by the Financial Times of the United Kingdom, plans for this futuristic city include autonomous driving of buses, traffic lights that can sense pedestrian movements and automatically adjust signals, and cargo robots that conduct transportation in underground pipelines.
"Future City" Underground Cargo Robot
In the construction plan, the “future city†has a large-scale sensing system that can automatically sense what is left on the park bench, when the trash can needs to be cleaned, and the degree of pollution in the public space. The "future city" does not allow the use of private cars. Instead, it is a self-driving bus and a bicycle lane that can be heated in winter. Various types of self-driving cars will be tested here, as are shared bicycles, apartment houses, clinics, and parks.
The website of Sidewalk Labs shows that “future cities will combine forward-looking urban design and new digital technologies to create a people-centred community and create examples of sustainability, affordability, mobility and economic opportunitiesâ€.
"Future City" clinic
According to the website, the new “Future City†will achieve the following vision: establish a complete community, improve the diverse quality of life of residents and tourists, and create livable areas for urban residents, companies, start-ups and local organizations. Faced with challenges such as energy use, housing burdens, and transportation, solutions are presented; through urban innovation, Toronto has become a rising global hub for emerging industries; and the location of the East Coast region has become a model for sustainable communities in Toronto and across the globe.
The company stated that the ideal mass community is not planned from the top down, but it is necessary to gather the public wisdom of the members of society in the construction process and let it “growâ€. To help realize this plan, they even want to relocate Google’s Canadian headquarters to the East Coast, an obviously underdeveloped region in North America, to demonstrate their ambitions to build a future city.
"Future City" Location Map
It is worth mentioning that the plans for the future city's construction clearly state that although this is a close community that emphasizes digital technology and data enhancement, it does not sacrifice the privacy and information security that everyone should have.
The city of the future, with “wisdom†as its core, needs the support of a huge amount of data from social life. Therefore, the protection of personal privacy and data security is also crucial – they do not and do not intend to ignore this point.
China: "Smart City" is not far away
"Future City" diagram 1
Although it sounds very sci-fi, the Chinese people living in the big countries of mobile Internet are actually getting closer to the “future cityâ€.
Take Hangzhou, which is famous for its electronic commerce. As an example, the city is planning to install an artificial intelligence hub for itself—the Hangzhou city data brain. The real version of the “future city†is being born.
The core of the city's brain adopts Alibaba Cloud's ET artificial intelligence technology, which can perform global real-time analysis of the entire city, automatically allocate public resources, correct the Bug in the city's operation, and eventually evolve into a super artificial intelligence capable of governing the city.
"Future City" diagram 2
Traffic congestion is the first problem for the city's brain to meet. “In the field of transportation, we can see how the city’s brains think.†According to Hua Xiansheng, an Aliyun machine vision scientist, the city’s brain is the only artificial intelligence system in the world capable of real-time analysis of citywide video. Alibaba Cloud ET's video recognition algorithm enables the city's brain to perceive the trajectory of vehicles under complicated roads with an accuracy rate of over 99%. "If these videos are seen by the traffic policeman in three shifts, they need 150,000 traffic policemen. Through the algorithm, the city's brain can read these videos in a short period of time. It is clear how many vehicles go in which direction." Hua Xiansheng said.
Combining mobile maps, road coils recording the speed and number of vehicles running, buses, taxis and other operational data, the city’s brain can build algorithmic models in a virtual digital city, continuously iteratively optimized through machine learning, and calculated more “smart†The program, such as the intersection of traffic lights at each intersection set for the most efficient passage, which intersections should be prohibited from turning left, how to more reasonable scheduling of public transport vehicles and lines, road construction has a better choice and so on. It is reported that some sections of Xiaoshan District in Hangzhou have carried out smart tests to adjust traffic lights. The results show that the speed of vehicles has been increased by up to 11%.
In solving the traffic problem, the ultimate goal of the city's brain is to enable the data to help the city think and make decisions, and to create a smart city that can self-regulate and interact with humanity.
"Future City" sharing bicycles and various types of self-driving vehicles
In addition, bikes such as Mobi and Ofo have already entered the streets of major cities in China, and even went out of the country to become one of the "four new inventions" tied with high-speed rail, Taobao and Alipay. According to the deputy director ofofo XiangJigui, ofo has entered 13 countries and regions, 180 cities, and provided more than 4 billion travel services for more than 200 million users. "At Sun Yat-sen University, there was a car that was used 28 times a day. This frequency is currently the highest in the country," said Xiang Gui. According to the analysis of the Gaode map, the congestion rate of 19 of the 20 cities operated by ofo declined significantly.
Cargo robots are not new anymore. In this year's "618" anniversary, Jingdong Logistics has enabled intelligent equipment such as unmanned sorting, intelligent unmanned transport, and intelligent diversion, as well as storage robots, rack shuttles, sorting robots and other storage robots. Liu Qiangdong, the founder, even said: "In the next 5 to 8 years, it may be all robotic."
Smart transportation, shared travel, smart logistics... All this is nothing more than Sidewalk Labs' plans. To use Tencent's microblogging slogan, "It's better to look side by side with it elsewhere." When we turn our attention to the "future city" blueprint at the other end of the ocean, we may have come to the future.
Note: The picture is provided by the author of this article. Editor: Chen Xiaoyu Audit: Guan Jingjing
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