Huawei launches ‘city brain’ for converged management
ICT group Huawei has launched its latest smart city Intelligent Operation Center (IOC) solution at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.
The solution builds the ‘city brain’, a converged management center, to share data and services. City management is evolving from traditional vertical administration modes to a new mode that centers on convergence and sharing.
IOC, Huawei said, plays a core role in converged Smart City management. The latest IOC solution leverages new technologies, including cloud computing, IoT, ultra broadband, big data, and artificial intelligence, to close the monitoring-alarm- decision-execution loop.
This solution consists of four major parts:
- Infrastructure platform: government cloud, big data cluster, and desktop cloud
- Big data and service support platform: data collection, exchange, integration, analysis, and display
- Integrated communications platform: contact center, visual intercom, videoconferencing, video surveillance, and unified communications
- Service applications: city status display, data analysis, decision support, linked command, monitoring & alarm, and event management.
The IOC uses IoT sensors to collect data from the physical world and sends data to the digital world for analysis. City management personnel make decisions based on the analysis results, bringing data back to the physical world in smart actions to close the loop.
The city dashboard displays the overall status of city operations, including real-time details of specific fields and areas.
For example, the IOC displays the distribution of water, electric power, heat, and gas resources in a region, allowing maintenance personnel to monitor the status of transportation pipelines and intersections.
The gas company as an example utilizes IoT sensors to monitor dangerous places like gas pipelines, big data to detect abnormalities, and the unified communications system to send warning messages, preventing incidents from happening.
IoC enables linked command, collaborative dispatch, and converged management across departments, Huawei said.
- Gareth Vorster is attending the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona, Spain from November 14-16, 2017 as a guest of Huawei.
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