Malaysia builds a smart city
A few days ago, the Malaysian Digital Economy Development Agency and Kuala Lumpur City Hall announced the introduction of Chinese artificial intelligence technology brand-Alibaba Cloud ET City Brain, which will fully apply artificial intelligence technology to the fields of traffic governance, urban planning and environmental protection, making cities smarter and Life is more convenient.
Prime Minister Najib praised the Urban Brain Project
Alibaba Cloud ET City Brain is currently one of the world's largest artificial intelligence public systems. It can perform global real-time analysis of the entire city, automatically allocate public resources, and correct errors in city operations. It is expected to become an important part of the future urban infrastructure.
Alibaba Cloud stated that in the first phase of the implementation of the Urban Brain Project, artificial intelligence technology will be applied to 281 road junctions in Kuala Lumpur to speed up vehicle traffic and alleviate congestion through dynamic adjustment of traffic lights. When emergencies occur, artificial intelligence can globally control traffic conditions and open up a "green channel" for emergency vehicles. In addition, the artificial intelligence system can also help detect traffic accidents in time, and provide more comprehensive reference suggestions for accident handling and traffic diversion. According to reports, the city brain has been applied in 7 cities including Hangzhou and Suzhou in China, effectively improving the efficiency of vehicle traffic, and the time for emergency vehicles such as ambulances to arrive at the scene has also been significantly shortened.
"There are about 1.8 million people in Kuala Lumpur, and the number of car ownership exceeds 4.8 million. That is to say, the average person owns about 3 cars. In addition, there are a large number of tourists visiting each year, and traffic congestion is serious. The introduction of Alibaba Cloud artificial intelligence Technology aims to use digital technology to solve urban problems.” Malaysian Federal Territory Minister Adnan said at the signing ceremony of the Urban Brain Project.
"The application of the urban brain in the transportation field is one step ahead, and it will also be applied to the fields of urban planning, environmental protection, weather forecasting, urban safety management, tourism, etc. The core of the operation of the urban brain is the large amount of data generated by the city, and these data will become the city. An important basis for decision-making." Hu Xiaoming, President of Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd., told reporters.
As early as last May, when Malaysian Prime Minister Najib visited Hangzhou, Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma introduced the Urban Brain Project to him. At that time, Najib's eyes brightened and he immediately tweeted his praise for the project. On the day of the official signing of the Urban Brain Project, Najib sent another “congratulatory message” on Twitter, stating that this is an important step taken by smart cities in Malaysia and will benefit Malaysians.
Tianchi big data plan provides technological development stamina
Malaysian Digital Economy Development Agency Chief Operating Officer Huang Wanbing said that the digital economy is a very important part of the national economy. The City Brain project will first land in Kuala Lumpur, and hope it can be extended to other regions in the future.
On the day of the project signing ceremony, Alibaba Cloud announced the simultaneous launch of the Malaysia Tianchi big data plan. Alibaba Cloud Tianchi is a big data intelligence platform that currently brings together more than 120,000 developers and 2,700 academic institutions and companies from 77 countries and regions. Through the Malaysia Tianchi Big Data Project, Malaysia's big data talents can compete with their global counterparts and learn and develop advanced big data technologies together. Alibaba Cloud stated that the plan aims to train 500 big data talents and incubate 300 start-ups for Malaysia in the next two years.
"There is an old Chinese saying that'Teaching people to fish is not as good as teaching people to fish.' A good platform requires local talents to maintain. The future operation and even innovation of the urban brain project must be led by local big data talents in Malaysia. , And we hope to quickly activate them and grow them through the platform of Tianchi." Min Wanli, chief scientist of Alibaba Cloud Machine Intelligence, told reporters. Huang Wanbing said that Malaysia hopes to cultivate about 20,000 big data talents by 2020.
"I come here about once every two months, and every time I can see the rapid changes in Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian government is very actively absorbing the innovations driven by China's digital transformation." Hu Xiaoming said.
Chinese Internet companies accelerate the pace of going global
Smart city is the use of Internet, cloud computing, Internet of Things, 3S (RS remote sensing, GPS global positioning system, GIS geographic information system) and other new technologies to realize the smart management and operation of the city, thereby making urban life more efficient.
A research report published by the market research company PMR last year showed that the global smart city output value will grow from 622 billion US dollars to more than 1 trillion US dollars in 2019, and will further increase to 3.48 trillion US dollars by 2026. The report pointed out that government investment in technology is the main driving force for the growth of the smart city market.
With the increasing degree of cloud computing artificial intelligence and industry integration, many countries and regions are discussing and promoting smart city projects. For example, the Seoul Metropolitan Government of South Korea’s "Smart Seoul 2015" plan puts forward the slogan "Using big data to solve small problems for citizens", and vigorously builds the infrastructure required for smart cities, and promotes the progress and development of information technology and public service industries; the Singapore government The "Smart Nation 2025" plan aims to build an island-wide data collection, connection and analysis infrastructure and operating system to provide better public services; the US "Connect New York City" project is planned to be established in New York by 2025 2500 similar outlets promote the seamless connection of unmanned driving networks with public transportation networks, bicycles, etc.
At present, in addition to Malaysia, Alibaba Cloud has also established technical and market service teams in Singapore, Indonesia, the UAE, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and other places, helping China's leading cloud computing artificial intelligence technology to quickly land in all parts of the world. city.
Hu Xiaoming said frankly: "Chinese Internet companies have not been exposed to cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies for a relatively long time. Large companies such as Amazon and Microsoft have started globalization early. As a catcher, we should strive to provide better services. Take a more innovative approach."
Hu Xiaoming believes that China's artificial intelligence industry is ushering in new opportunities. First of all, the country is vigorously implementing a big data strategy, which will accelerate the digital transformation. The government, enterprises, consumers, scientific research institutions, etc. coordinate to promote technological innovation and application mechanisms to organize social resources in the most efficient way; With the advancement of the “Belt and Road” construction, more Chinese companies will go out. At the same time, as China’s opening to the outside world becomes more and more open, a large number of global companies will flood into China and Asia. Chinese Internet companies can provide support and support for these companies. service.