{"id":4501,"date":"2017-10-19T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T05:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2017-10-19T22:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T05:49:34","slug":"hangzhou-growing-smarter-thanks-to-ai-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=4501","title":{"rendered":"Hangzhou growing \u2018smarter\u2019 thanks to AI technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Du Yifei from People\u2019s Daily<\/p>\n

The city of Hangzhou\u2019s traffic efficiency has seen substantial improvements a year after it introduced its \u201cCity Brain\u201d project, with an artificial intelligence (AI) hub that uses big data to help it “think” and make decisions better.<\/p>\n

The program started in October 2016 with a vision of building Hangzhou into a smart city with the ability to regulate itself and interact better with its human occupants.<\/p>\n

Hangzhou is the capital of east China\u2019s Zhejiang province and the first city in the world to manage its public affairs with AI technology assistance.<\/p>\n

Some of the latest beneficiaries of the program are the local traffic police, since the \u201cCity Brain\u201d has started helping them maintain traffic and respond quicker to traffic accidents.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe City Brain can detect accidents within a second, and we can arrive at the site in 5 minutes,\u201d said Zheng Yijiong, a traffic police officer and the first police officer in China to control the traffic with an AI partner.<\/p>\n

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The AI hub offers real-time analysis and deployment advice for smooth traffic flows in an area with more than 9 million residents, and manages traffic lights at 128 intersections, saving 15.3% in waiting time at pilot areas. And the City Brain controls traffic lights automatically at more than 100 intersections, cutting travel time on elevated highways by 4.6 minutes.<\/p>\n

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The system has reported more than 500 traffic accidents in the downtown area daily, with an accuracy of 92%, greatly improving traffic police\u2019s efficiency.<\/p>\n

In Xiaoshan District, an ambulance used only half the time that it used before to arrive on the scene because of the smart traffic light control technology.<\/p>\n

The traffic control is just the first step in City Brain governance, said\u00a0Wang Jian, chairman of the Alibaba Group\u2019s Technology Steering Committee, one of the project developers.<\/p>\n

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In the future, the City Brain will become an important part of the infrastructure to drive the city towards sustainable development, based on Internet, computing and data, Wang added.<\/p>\n

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Hangzhou\u2019s experience has been duplicated in other cities, including Suzhou, Quzhou and Macao, which are looking for ways to cope with their growing traffic congestion.<\/p>\n

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Hangzhou has become the biggest beneficiary of mobile internet-enabled social services, with smart cities developing rapidly. All you needs to live there is a smart phone and, statistics show more than 95% of the supermarkets and convenience stores in the city using Alipay, a mobile payment service of Alibaba. Over 98% of local taxis accepting mobile payments.<\/p>\n

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Hangzhou residents can now pay for more than 60 public services, vehicle and health care with Alipay.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 600 Chinese cities are working on a smart city approach and, with the development of big data, Internet of things and AI, China is expected to see an upsurge in smart city building.<\/p>\n

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The market value of Chinese smart cities is expected to exceed 6 trillion yuan ($904.87 billion) in 2017 and 18.7 trillion yuan in 2021, Shenzhen\u2019s Qianzhan Industry Research Institute has predicted.<\/p>\n

\"Hangzhou<\/p>\n

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Zheng Yijiong, China\u2019s first police officer to direct traffic with artificial intelligence, stands in front of the “City Brain” display. (Photo by People\u2019s Daily Online)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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