EXPERIENCE IN BUILDING CITY BRAIN PLATFORMS IN SMART CITIES OF CHINA AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ITS USE IN THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

Rapid urbanization puts negative pressure on cities and challenges them to ensure environmental sustainability and physical safety of their residents. To avoid these problems, many megacities are introducing the concept of a “smart city” using information and communication technologies (ICT) to promote sustainable development of urban areas and improve the quality of life and well-being of citizens. In smart cities, analytics of data received and delivered by IoT devices helps to combine the physical and digital elements of the city, thereby providing economic benefits and increasing the efficiency of existing urban infrastructure. The growth of the smart cities market is driving the adoption of City Brain platforms. City Brain is an intelligent complex system formed during the construction of smart cities in China, the purpose of which is to extract meaningful information from a huge amount of heterogeneous urban data using rapidly developing artificial intelligence technologies and rapidly growing computing power. The article shows that City Brain plays an important role in supporting the digital transformation of Chinese megacities. An overview of the concept, characteristics and key technical capabilities of the “City Brain” is given — from data collection to interference in the functioning of municipal services, the process of evolution of City Brain is considered on the example of Hangzhou, the current practices of the City Brain operating platforms in several cities of China are presented. Based on the Chinese experience, proposals have been made for the development of smart cities in the Republic of Belarus. The study used general scientific methods — systematic and comparative analysis, generalization, as well as a specific method — analysis of sources. The data sources used are articles by Chinese authors on the research topic, as well as reports from Deloitte, Alibaba, the National Committee of the People’s Republic of China for Information Standards.

smart city, city brain, digital platform, digital development, digital transformation, smart cities market, information and communication technologies (ICT), data analytics, artificial intelligence, City Brain platform, environmental sustainability

Goloventchik G. G., Xue Qianwen, Belikov S. N. Experience in building City Brain platforms in smart cities of China and the possibility of its use in the Republic of Belarus. Business. Education. Law, 2022, no. 4, pp. 114—120. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2022.61.463.