The significance of building a smart city

Since the reform and opening up for more than 40 years, China's urbanization construction has made remarkable achievements, especially after entering the 21st century, the pace of urbanization construction is accelerating, and tens of millions of rural population enter the city every year. With the continuous expansion of urban population, "urban disease" has become the primary problem that plagues the construction and management of various cities. Problems such as resource shortage, environmental pollution, traffic congestion, and safety hazards have become increasingly prominent. In order to solve the "urban disease" dilemma, the wisdom of the city came into being. Because smart cities comprehensively adopt a new generation of information technology including radio frequency sensing technology, Internet of Things technology, cloud computing technology, and next-generation communication technology, they can effectively resolve the "urban disease" problem.

At present, the global information technology is accelerating the development trend, the status of information technology in the national economy is increasingly prominent, information resources are increasingly becoming an important factor of production. Smart city is on the basis of fully integrating, excavating and utilizing information technology and information resources, gathering human wisdom and endowing things with intelligence, so as to realize the accurate management of various fields of the city and the intensive utilization of urban resources.

The construction of smart city can not be separated from intelligent instruments and meters

The construction of a smart city is bound to be inseparable from the instruments and meters that are closely related to our daily life. Let's take a look at the instruments and meters that thrive with the construction of the city.

1. Flow meter and environmental monitoring instrument

Every household in a modern city has flow meters such as electricity meters and water meters. The intelligence of these meters is the first step of "the interconnection of everything. In recent years, various cities in China have set off a "smart meter transformation", "four meters in one project" upsurge. Through the data transmission function of the smart meter, the overall power consumption efficiency of the power grid will be greatly improved, and the construction of the smart grid will be realized. Smart meters can transmit detailed electricity consumption data of individual households back to the power grid at any time, and the power grid can regulate the overall power supply strategy in time. The situation of regional power shortage during the summer peak period will be greatly improved.

In addition, the construction of the integrated acquisition system of electricity, water, gas and heat will also realize the functions of intelligent control, remote valve control and "one-stop" service, helping to build an energy-saving smart city. While building information infrastructure and information technology applications, a truly modern smart city should also focus on the improvement of urban functions, including the driving force for the growth of urban capabilities such as human life, education, economy, and environment. Therefore, the intelligent improvement of environmental monitoring and testing instruments is also the basis for the construction of smart cities. At present, all cities are vigorously promoting the wisdom of environmental protection projects. Smart environmental protection includes a real-time air quality release system composed of various monitoring instruments and a key pollution source monitoring system, which can release monitoring data from various monitoring points in the city, including PM10, PM2.5 and SO2.

2. Road sensing device

At present, urban traffic congestion has become a necessary "symptom" of the development of large cities in China, and solving urban traffic problems is also one of the themes of smart city construction. The construction of intelligent transportation system includes adding road sensing devices and monitoring instruments in each road of the city, mastering the condition of vehicles on the road anytime and anywhere, using Internet of things technology to provide the overall condition information of the whole city road operation, and feeding back to intelligent traffic lights, so as to improve the efficiency of road use, reasonably divert vehicles and alleviate congestion.

A perfect smart city also includes smart street lights, smart buildings, distance education, medical and other applications. It is not difficult to see that intelligent instrumentation is the primary factor to promote the construction of smart cities. Whether it is the field of people's livelihood, the field of government services or the field of infrastructure, it needs to develop on the basis of the establishment of intelligent instrumentation.

The Future of Smart Cities

According to data, China's smart city technology-related investment is expected to reach US $20.8 billion billion in 2019, an increase of 20.2 percent year-on-year, and has become the world's second largest smart city technology-related expenditure market. At the same time, according to IDC, China's smart city technology investment will reach $34.6 billion by 2021. As an important supporting part of the smart city, the instrumentation industry will also have more room for development.

In fact, the construction of smart cities has been integrated into our lives unconsciously. When building intelligent water services, comprehensive monitoring of basic water conservancy information cannot be separated from the use of various intelligent monitoring instruments and meters. When building intelligent food and drug scenes, it cannot be separated from the use of various intelligent food detection instruments and meters. When building intelligent and environmentally friendly scenes, it cannot be separated from the use of various atmospheric monitoring instruments and meters. It is believed that in the future, smart cities and instruments will complement each other for better development.