How Guangzhou’s Spatiotemporal Cloud Platform Transforms Smart Cities

Case Overview

Case Name: Chengxin Institute Spatiotemporal Information Cloud Platform Solution

Source: Guangzhou City Information Research Institute Co., Ltd.

Industry: Smart City

Technology Domain: Cloud Infrastructure

Huawei Product: FusionSphere OpenStack

Background

To promote compact, intelligent, green, and low‑carbon urban development, the institute leveraged Huawei’s cloud infrastructure to create a leading national smart‑city spatiotemporal information cloud platform, aiming to advance digital city construction and improve city management and services.

Business Challenges

Limited data coverage – need to expand to IoT, new product, and planning data and transform them into spatiotemporal big data.

Low information collaboration and service intelligence – require a shift from production‑type to guarantee‑service‑type models.

Insufficient virtual cloud capabilities – need to upgrade the supporting environment and build a unified city cloud computing center.

Unclear application benefits – demand deeper, broader, and more effective applications to solve urban problems.

Solution

The solution refines the Huawei Government Cloud platform, optimizing the platform layer to create a one‑stop cloud service that perceives, interconnects, integrates, collaborates, and provides on‑demand services.

It integrates existing city information resources to build a unified portal offering data, management, services, and applications, addressing resource management, social information management, and inter‑departmental sharing.

Architecture Layers

Infrastructure Layer: Distributed storage, logical centralization, and one‑stop service built on Huawei virtualization and cloud management, forming a pooled resource environment.

Data Layer: Stores historical, real‑time, and planning geospatial data in a unified meta‑database, enabling full‑space spatiotemporal big‑data management.

Platform Layer: Provides data, function, interface, infrastructure, and knowledge services through service engines and a service resource pool.

Application Layer: Offers a unified portal, online map services, and customizable applications for government, enterprises, and the public.

Solution Advantages

Data aggregation and activation via non‑intrusive ETL, ensuring quality and dynamic updates.

Comprehensive resource coding and organic fusion across multi‑dimensional data using CSW catalog technology.

Data mining and intuitive visualization enable one‑page, multi‑dimensional insight.

Application hosting encourages rapid innovation and value‑added services.

On‑demand, flexible service interfaces support subscription, push, and event‑driven models.

Cloud‑based intelligent operation and monitoring reduce costs and improve reliability.

Huawei Interface Calls

Tenant authentication and token acquisition (<Login>).

Virtual machine operations: create, list, detail, start, stop, reboot, delete, batch actions, remote control, NIC info, specs, updates.

Flavor (spec) operations: list, create, delete, detail.

Port operations: network list, NIC creation/deletion, port creation, query, update, binding.

Image operations: list retrieval.

Volume operations: list retrieval.

Physical machine info retrieval (<Project>).

Metric collection (<Meter>) for VM and host I/O, network, CPU, memory, and disk usage.

Customer Benefits

Provides foundational GIS services, avoiding duplicate investments.

Supports government decision‑making, urban planning, and public safety with reliable spatiotemporal data.

Enables cross‑departmental collaboration, shifting management toward efficient, agile, and precise operations.

Integrates resources to deliver personalized, diversified services, enhancing public service quality.

Partner Introduction

Guangzhou City Information Research Institute (ChinaDCI), founded in 1999, specializes in smart‑city solutions and offers the Chengxin Institute Spatiotemporal Information Cloud Platform as a benchmark integrated hardware‑software solution for city planning, construction, and management.