From "Safe City" to "Digital City" Evolution

I. Changes brought about by the construction of “Safe City” to security monitoring In recent years, the security monitoring and control market has made considerable progress. Whether it is technical means, project size, scope of use, or business needs of users, business models, etc. Compared with several years ago, security monitoring can be said to be "revolutionary."

The most important factor that brings about this change is the promotion of the “Safe City” construction. Although the original intention of the construction of the safe city is based on the application of public security and security monitoring, due to its start-up, it is positioned to effectively manage and apply video resources and information throughout the metropolitan area. The concept of platform-based, integrated and network-based video surveillance has quickly gained widespread recognition in the industry. It is not only the public security department’s security video surveillance applications, but also includes major hazard sources in the supervision of production safety. Monitoring and monitoring, urban management and comprehensive law enforcement. Monitoring of urban chaos, monitoring of important urban components and incidents, monitoring of the examination room and campus environment by educational systems, monitoring of major pollutant discharge sources in environmental protection systems, border crossings and anti-smuggling activities Surveillance, monitoring of unattended equipment by power systems, and provisional monitoring of major urban events, etc., have all started with a very clear need for networked video surveillance.

From the perspective of unified utilization of government resources, it is neither economic nor realistic for each special functional unit to build a video surveillance system by itself. Therefore, it is an inevitable trend to realize the integration of resources and information sharing for video surveillance systems of various special functional departments. This kind of trend in turn will further promote the video surveillance system to platform, integration, and network development, so as to achieve a virtuous cycle of technology and applications. This has led to another important issue, that is, "video surveillance" has evolved from a support system that is a single department or industry security business to a support system that serves as the entire city's informationization and management application. Another important title of the current city informatization is “digital city”.

Second, the "digital city" and "safe city" relationship "Digital City" is a complex system engineering, involves a wide range, you can understand from multiple perspectives. The different understanding of “digital city” by enterprises will also lead to the differences in the construction mode of the “digital city”.

First, from an application perspective, the application of “digital city” can cover all aspects of urban planning, construction, operation, management and services, including government, public security, transportation, firefighting, medical emergency, water and electricity, disaster prevention and control, and security. Production, community services, etc. are all applications of “digital cities.” At present, the hottest spots in digital cities are the construction of “safe cities” that are in full swing everywhere. In the future, they include “digital urban management”, “urban emergency”, and “ Digital communities and digital homes will also gradually become the hot spots for the construction of "digital cities." Second, from a technical point of view, "digital city" can be said to be a comprehensive testing ground for today's "digital technology, information technology," whether it is traditional "communication and network technology," "computer technology," "information security technology," "Video image technology", "geographic information technology" or cutting-edge "smart control technology", "satellite remote sensing and positioning technology" will all play an important role in the construction of "digital city".

At present, as the demand for “visual applications” is increasingly clear and urgent in various industries in the city, “video surveillance technology” is the vanguard of “visual application” and it is naturally the most influential technical means in the “digital city” field. From the perspective of participatory approach, companies can participate in the construction and operation of “digital cities” in a variety of ways, including providing consulting services and program design, providing basic hardware and software products, building and improving urban network facilities, and engaging in application software development. Participate in system integration and engineering construction, carry out value-added services, and perform system operations and services.

The “Safe City” is the pioneer industry of “digital city”. Because of the huge capital required for its construction and operation, the construction and maintenance are extremely complicated. This has resulted in various business models including BT (Building-Transfer) and BOT ( Construction-operation-transfer), BLT (build-leasing-transfer), BTO (build-transfer-operate), and BOOT (build-operate-own-transfer) have all been used to a certain degree in safe cities. This also puts very high demands on the ability of the “Safe City” to build and operate companies in terms of capital, technology, management, and operations. In fact, a large number of "Safe City" projects currently fall into the hands of telecom operators or large IT companies engaged in IT or communications projects. This also lays the foundation for the future upgrade of "Safe Cities" to "Digital Cities."

How "Safe City" evolves to "Digital City"

The "Safe City" project, as an integral part of comprehensive urban management, will in the future be incorporated into the "Digital City" integrated management platform. At present, the construction of “digital city” has been included in the strategic development of the information industry and urban infrastructure, and has been highly valued by the central government, local governments and relevant departments. The construction of “digital cities” is also faced with many problems. In particular, most cities adopt self-built or single-project construction models in the construction of urban information systems. This model has systems that are isolated from each other, are difficult to connect, and are sustainable. Inadequate sexual and dynamic update capabilities, and the difficulty of coordinating work between departments.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for a city-level integrated information management platform to realize the integration and integration of various business systems and eliminate information islands. The city-level integrated information management platform forms a variety of cities by integrating a series of independent business platforms such as “Safe City” video surveillance system, digital city management system, urban emergency command system, urban traffic information management system, and government office system. The event provides a unified service platform for day-to-day management, emergency response management, command and dispatch, and assistant decision-making. The platform can quickly, orderly and efficiently respond to some emergency emergencies and important events, thereby greatly improving the government’s daily work management and emergency response assistance capabilities. How to evolve from a safe city to a digital city can also be achieved by means of a combination of "points", "lines", and "faces."

Safe City is currently building a video surveillance system for urban security. The video surveillance system is like a "point" in a digital city system. It is also a discrete independent business system, and digital city construction is a "policy security video surveillance system." "Urban Emergency Command and Dispatch System", "Intelligent Traffic System", "Digital City Management Enforcement System", "Digital Environmental Protection System"

A series of points are integrated and integrated to form a “line” that is applied to a certain process area of ​​the city (such as emergency response in cities) and eventually forms a “face” of the “digital city integrated information system”. It is not only the expansion of applications from “points” to “lines” to “faces” but also the progress of the entire urban construction and operation model. It is to study issues, analyze problems, solve problems, and eliminate information islands from the overall perspective of the city. Achieve the goal of greatly enhancing the city's comprehensive management and operational service capabilities.

Fourth, from Jin Peng's experience, how do companies respond to this evolution? How should companies respond to this evolution?

The development of security monitoring will range from the local CCTV monitoring system to the wide area safe city monitoring system, and then to the integration of government, public security, urban management, transportation, environmental protection, safety supervision and other digital city integrated video applications. It will make the traditional security industry chain composed of equipment manufacturers, product distributors, and engineering companies face restructuring with the entry of emerging forces.

On the one hand, the strong involvement of network operators has caused the traditional small and medium-sized system integrators and engineering firms to be greatly squeezed. The system integration model has also evolved from engineering services to maintenance services.

On the other hand, the intervention of large-scale communication network equipment manufacturers poses a challenge to equipment manufacturers and software developers that have traditionally specialized division of labor. With the continuous improvement of the current monitoring technology towards networked and integrated development, the scope of monitoring system management is increasing, the number of equipment and users being managed is also increasing, and applications are becoming more diversified. Post-maintenance and operations have also become increasingly of concern to users.

These were previously impossible to complete with the local area monitoring system and a single device. This would provide enterprises with the ability to provide comprehensive video surveillance management platform product technology and corresponding integrated system integration capabilities, and to operate and maintain the huge system after the completion of the system. Excellent opportunity. Therefore, I think that to become an excellent "digital city" system and service provider, the company's own strength is very high. First, companies must have the R&D capabilities of their own core products; second, they must also have strong system integration capabilities to provide integrated solutions.