Smart City (English: Smart City) originated from the media field, and refers to the application of intelligent computing technologies such as Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data and spatial geographic information integration in urban planning, design, construction, management and operation. A city that makes planning, construction, management and service more intelligent is called a smart city.

Smart cities make the key infrastructure components and services of cities such as urban management, education, medical care, real estate, transportation, public utilities and public safety more interconnected, efficient and intelligent, thus providing better life and work services for citizens, creating a more favorable business development environment for enterprises and providing a more efficient operation and management mechanism for the government.

In a word, wisdom is greater than cleverness. Smart city is not only another term of smart city, or the intelligent application of information technology, but also includes the connotation of people's intelligent participation, people-oriented and sustainable development.

Forming factors of smart city

There are two driving forces to promote the gradual formation of smart cities. One is a new generation of information technology represented by the Internet of Things, cloud computing and mobile Internet, and the other is an open urban innovation ecology gradually bred in the knowledge society environment. The former is a technical factor at the level of technological innovation, while the latter is a socio-economic factor at the level of social innovation. From this we can see the driving role of innovation in the development of smart cities.

Smart cities not only need the support of the next generation of information technologies such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing, but also need to cultivate the next generation of innovation (Innovation 2.0) oriented to the knowledge society. The integrated development of information and communication technology has melted the barriers of information and knowledge sharing and the boundaries of innovation, promoted the formation of Innovation 2.0, and further promoted the "melting" of the boundaries of various social organizations and activities. The transformation of innovation form from production paradigm to service paradigm has also led to the transformation of industrial form, government management form and urban form from production paradigm to service paradigm.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Smart City