Smart cities are the long-term goal of digital cities

The city of the future will realize the close integration of "people and technology" with the help of the Internet, sensor system and geographic information system, which is a new stage of urban informatization and our long-term goal towards the "information society".

Digital city is the foundation and important part of smart city, and "smart city" built on the basis of "digital city" will be a new thinking for urban development. With the rapid development and in-depth application of a new round of information technology such as the global Internet of Things, a new generation of mobile broadband networks, the next generation of the Internet, and cloud computing, major changes and new breakthroughs are brewing in the development of informatization, and it has become an inevitable trend to develop to a higher stage of intelligence. The rising tide of urban informatization in China has gone through the stages of "digital city" and "information city", and has begun to move towards "smart city".

On the basis of the achievements of the construction of "digital city", build a service-oriented city-level smart city platform, based on the diversified combination of Internet, Internet of Things, wireless broadband network and other networks, with the support of Internet of Things and cloud computing technology, promote the development and construction of basic and application-oriented information systems and the development and utilization of various information resources, explore the "smart city" construction model, and develop the urban development model of smart technology, smart industry, smart management, smart life, etc., which will become a new industry trend.

Based on the great value of "smart city" to serve people's livelihood and build a harmonious society, some first- and second-tier cities are now speeding up the "information city" stage, and they can't wait to launch the beautiful blueprint of "smart city". More than 10 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuxi and Yangzhou, have launched pilot projects for the construction of "smart cities". Perhaps after the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", we will be able to see a new "smart city", and people will enter the post-modern model of "digital city" and enjoy ubiquitous smart services.

GIS cloud computing technology, mobile GIS technology and two-dimensional and three-dimensional integrated GIS technology are the key technologies for the construction of digital cities. As a leading GIS company in China and Asia, SuperMap has long been committed to supporting the research of the fourth-generation geographic information sharing technology in the cloud model, and striving to promote the construction of China's digital city and regional cloud transformation. Based on the leading concepts and technologies of digital city construction, SuperMap software can help provincial, municipal, and county cities quickly build a digital city geospatial framework, build an interconnected geographic information public service platform, establish a cross-departmental and cross-platform information sharing service mechanism, and have a package of digital city overall construction solutions covering successful cases in various industries of digital city.

What kind of wisdom can be created by urban networks intertwined with urban optical networks, wireless broadband, next-generation Internet, and the Internet of Things? In the face of the challenges of this century and the opportunities of history, let us have a more comprehensive understanding through the current achievements in the construction and application of digital cities with a future-oriented vision