Chongqing - As the construction of smart cities goes deeper into the ecological field, Guangyang island in Chongqing Nan'an District has recently built China's first "ecological brain," an intelligent monitoring platform. The environmental data of animals, people, equipment, and even air on the whole island can be monitored in all time and space, thus forming a complex digital ecological system. It is a major exploration since the Nan'an district was selected for the first "National Intelligent Social Governance Experimental Base (Urban Governance)" batch in September 2021.
The "ecological brain" of Guangyang Island can monitor and intelligently identify biological information. (Photo provided to iChongqing)
Intelligent diagnosis
"Eco brain is intelligent enough to analyze the audio and determine the species of birds according to their calls," said Wen Junwu, the project manager of the smart ecology department of Guangyang Isle Green Development Company. Various monitoring devices throughout the area manifest the real-time location of every landform, person, and vehicle. Such ecological indicators are involved in the Ecological Information Model (EIM).
"In the past, there was only the concept of city information modeling (CIM) with relatively single elements, mainly street buildings." Luo Guozhan introduced. This contractor also mentioned that the Ecological Information Model (EIM) was put forward for the first time, whose data category, size, and complexity are far beyond the magnitude of CIM, with the total information packaged and compressed to 150G.
Based on the comprehensive and detailed EIM, Eco brain can realize online applications from the perspective of system engineering, boosting collaborative environmental governance, according to the relevant person in charge of the Cyberspace Administration of the Nan'an District Committee.
This whole-area intelligent ecological governance platform will find corresponding solutions counted on six indices and 18 secondary indicators. For instance, it distinguishes staff from tourists through face recognition by cameras in the waterfront area. If someone violates the regulations, an alarm will be issued and informed by smart light poles.
Predict ecological changes
According to Luo, "the platform can now automatically determine the relationship among environmental elements through changes in data collected by monitoring equipment and make predictive judgments about ecological risks such as geological disasters, floods, and fires."
Moreover, the island also takes the lead in exploring the GEP accounting of gross ecosystem products in China when constructing a carbon accounting system on Guangyang island.
"The use of artificial intelligence technology in Guangyang Island to promote ecological governance is significant to optimize the ecological governance structure by digital means," said a representative in charge of the information coordination office of the Cyberspace Administration of the Chongqing Municipal Committee.
(Chen Lu, as an intern, also contributed to the report.)