"New Cell" of Building Smart City: "Future Community"

Community is the basic unit of a city, and it is also an important place for urban cultural integration, citizen cohesion and happiness. It can be said that the community is a microcosm of the city, and all elements and links of urban life can be reflected in the community. Therefore, many places always take the community as the leading factor when exploring the construction of smart cities.

In recent years, with the rapid development of a new generation of information technology, the concept of "future community" has been mentioned by more and more people. So what exactly is a "future community"? Generally speaking, "future community" is a community whose fundamental purpose is to satisfy people's yearning for a better life; It is a new urban functional unit with the service demand of the whole life chain of the community as the core, the value orientation of humanism, ecology and digitalization, and the orientation of future neighborhood relations, education, health, entrepreneurship, architecture, transportation, energy, service and governance.

"Future Community" will give full play to the role of new generation information technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things, and embed them into community life, forming an emerging unit of urban functions, and further improving the quality of life of residents through science and technology. "Future community" is not only a livelihood project, but also an industrial innovation project.

From a global perspective, "future community" has become an international hotspot, and the exploration and construction of "future community" are constantly emerging all over the world. Singapore's "neighborhood center" project can be said to be the earliest prototype of "future community". The "neighborhood center" abandons the extensive management form of taking the street as the city, and is also different from the traditional scattered shops. But based on "big community, big group" for functional positioning and development and construction. After a long period of development and exploration, it has now become a new corner of Singapore's city business card and has been used for reference by many countries.

"Neighborhood Center" adheres to the concept of centering on the daily life of residents in this region, and the infrastructure construction is based on the premise of meeting people's needs of "living nearby and communicating nearby", and has built a powerful "family living extension" system. Under this system, vegetable market and supermarket are the extension of kitchen; Bathroom and laundry room are extensions of bathroom; Cinema, teahouse and ballroom are extensions of the living room; Libraries and reading rooms are extensions of study.

The construction of "neighborhood center" provides the initial idea for "future community". With the development of the times and the progress of technology, the coverage of "big community" has gradually expanded, and the ideal state of "future community" has become increasingly clear. More and more inclusive scenes are integrated into the community, and building a smarter, greener and more inclusive community has become the new era connotation of "future community". The European block model, the Singapore complex model and the Japanese residential buildings also contain the idea of building a "future community".

In China, with the improvement of residents' income level and urbanization level, residents' requirements for quality of life are getting higher and higher. With the rapid urbanization process, the development of new and old communities is unbalanced, and "urban diseases" such as traffic congestion, housing shortage, energy shortage and environmental pollution appear. All these make the new urbanization face a severe test. At the same time, the construction of smart cities is in full swing, and a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation has been carried out in depth. Opportunities and challenges coexist, and China is actively exploring new ways to make the community more humane, intelligent, low-carbon and pleasant.

At this stage, whether from the experience of foreign countries or from the development of smart cities in China, building "future communities" is the "new road" we are looking for. "Future community" is a very important part of smart city. Building "future community" is an important way to solve "urban diseases" and promote the modernization of urban governance. It is also a popular project to solve the "long-standing problem" in the community, and it is also an important driving force to cultivate advantageous industries, improve the business environment, stimulate investment growth, promote governance transition and change the production and lifestyle of community residents.

In China, Zhejiang Province is the first province to propose the construction of a "future community". 20 19 The word "future community" was first put forward in the work report of Zhejiang provincial government, which was regarded as one of the major innovative measures that could drive the overall situation.

Not long ago, the Zhejiang provincial government officially issued the "Pilot Work Plan for Future Community Construction in Zhejiang Province" and has begun to declare the "Future Community Construction" pilot. This means that substantial progress has been made in the construction and promotion of the "future community".

It is understood that the "future community" in Zhejiang Province will take "139" as the top, "1" as the center, "3" as the three-dimensional value coordinate focusing on humanity, ecology and digitalization, and "9" as the construction of future neighborhood relations, education, health, entrepreneurship, architecture, transportation and low carbon. These nine scenes are just the basic scenes of the "future community". It is reported that on the basis of the nine future scenarios, Zhejiang Province will encourage all localities to actively explore new models, new products and new mechanisms for the construction of "future communities" in combination with reality, and build a new community that attaches importance to high-quality life and can make residents feel a sense of belonging, comfort and future, rather than just building beautiful houses.

Compared with the traditional community, the "future community" can give residents more intelligent life experiences, which are based on the new generation of information technology. Community is not only the basic unit of the city, but also the epitome of urban life. Therefore, the construction of "future community" is an important link in the operation and maintenance system of smart city construction, and it is also the key way to improve the grade and advanced nature of urban architecture. Planning and building smart cities based on communities can better serve the vast number of urban residents.

The governance of "future community" should adhere to the concept of "interconnection, integration, cooperation, innovation and intelligence", and establish an intelligent application system that combines unification and separation and operates in coordination with the help of fully integrated information technology, so as to promote the efficient operation of people flow, logistics, information flow and traffic flow through more comprehensive interconnection, more effective exchange, more coordinated related applications and deeper intelligence.

As an important part of smart city, it is an important function of "future community" to provide all-weather and diversified smart scene experience for community residents. Smart medical care, smart pension, smart transportation, integrated operation platform APP, artificial intelligence services, etc. These efficient and convenient intelligent means will make the community more livable and humanized.

In addition, one of the important connotations of "future community" is neighborhood relationship. Neighborhood relationship is an important foundation to maintain the harmonious development of the community. However, with the acceleration of urbanization and the development of real estate industry, reinforced concrete buildings are rising in cities, which makes most people living in them rarely find opportunities to get along with their neighbors. Therefore, neighborhood relations are regarded as an important link in the construction of "future community" at home and abroad, and efforts are made to create intelligent neighborhood communication space for community residents, increase opportunities for humanities exchanges between neighborhoods, and make emotional exchanges, resource sharing and information reciprocity among neighbors become a part of residents' daily life.

The construction of "future community" is still a new thing in China, and the pilot project in Zhejiang Province can provide experience for the construction of "future community" in other places. In the era of new technology explosion and digital transformation in full swing, the exploration of "future community" construction in community governance, technology empowerment, green ecology and digital transformation is quite advanced. Therefore, it is necessary to innovate ideas, mechanisms, methods and technologies at different levels and dimensions to promote the humanization, ecology, integration and intelligence of the "future community", which coincides with the goal of building a smart city. Therefore, building a "future community" will be an important step to make the city smarter.