What is a smart city and how to understand it

The concept of smart city is very popular now, and there are many related concepts.

If you search for smart city online, you can find many related explanations, but most of them are very professional and difficult to understand.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand smart cities. It is just a deeper penetration of the Internet.

More than a decade ago, I started a business building websites. At that time, I had a deep feeling that the value of the Internet would only be truly realized if it penetrated into all walks of life and work.

Later, Internet+ emerged, and O2O, supply chain, food delivery, online car-hailing, etc. appeared and became popular. This was the first time that the Internet went downhill.

Smart cities are a deeper penetration of the Internet after Internet+, and this penetration directly leads to the emergence of an extremely large market.

In the past few years, smart cities were mainly based on informatization. In the future, smart cities will be based on Internet thinking and user-centered.

Building a smart city is not as difficult or as “big a project” as many people imagine.

The core of building a smart city is to solve practical problems and meet user needs. The basic idea is the same as building a website or a mobile app, but it is more scenario-based.

There is a concept that I agree with very much - smart city application.

Smart parking is a smart city application that solves the problem of parking troubles.

Unmanned convenience stores are smart city applications that provide a better shopping experience, eliminate the need to queue for checkout, and help convenience store owners save labor costs.

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