The city of Suzhou has taken the lead in the province to promote digitalized urban management by launching a new project titled "City Brain" to drastically improve its urban traffic.
Suzhou signed a cooperation framework agreement early this year with Alibaba Group Holding Limited on the deepening of the digitalized urban management by launching a new project titled "City Brain".
City Brain, an artificial intelligence hub, will use big data to help the city "think" and make decisions.
It aims to build Hangzhou into a smart city with the ability to self-regulate and even interact with human beings.
The core of City Brain will use the ET artificial intelligence technology of Ali cloud, which can conduct overall real-time analysis of the city, automatically deploy public resources and amend defects in urban operations.
The first step of the City Brain project is to collect data relating to infrastructure facilities including transportation, resources and water supply.
From there, the partners will integrate data resources scattered around the city to navigate its "neural network."
City Brain is the only artificial intelligence system in the world that can achieve real-time analysis of city-wide videos.
According to a pilot operation of the transportation module in Hangzhou city, capital of east China’s Zhejiang province,test data shows that, through the intelligent regulation of traffic lights, traffic flow on the street has improved 3 to 5 percent on average, and even up to 11 percent on some sections of the road.
In the pilot scheme in Suzhou over the past half a year, the system has analyzed 20 billion traffic data pieces since 2010 to come up with a two-hour road traffic module which has helped to improve traffic flow by 16.7% and reduce traffic accidents by 5%.
The City Brain in Suzhou has integrated the resources of the police, urban management, transportation and tourism authorities by dealing with more than 300 billion data pieces to ensure real-time data transmission.
