ZTE’s DAP Contributes to Perfect Performance of Nanjing YOG

On August 28, 2014, the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games (YOG) that lasted 12 days came to a successful close at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center. Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, praised the Nanjing YOG as  “perfect” in his speech. Three thousand seven hundred and eighty seven athletes from 204 countries participated in the Nanjing YOG, which is one of the sports events involving the largest number of countries and regions. To undertake such an international event, various departments in Nanjing made an all-out effort to collaborate with each other, especially in the areas of security and traffic control. The Nanjing Public Security Bureau worked with ZTE to develop the “Moat of Nanjing” system, which guaranteed the Nanjing YOG ran smoothly.
One of the challenges of holding an international event is easing traffic flow in order to guarantee its safety and efficiency. This problem is especially complicated in such a populous country as China. The data in the transportation industry is extremely complex, involving mutual dependence and interaction between four major factors: people, vehicles, roads and environment. In addition, the data in the transportation system is dynamic; they should be compared and analyzed in real time so that emergencies can be handled immediately. Therefore, high data storage, calculation, analysis and processing capabilities are requested for the transportation system.

The “Moat of Nanjing” is a customized public security platform based on ZTE’s data analysis platform (DAP), implements real-time statistics and presentation of people and vehicles. It also provides comprehensive, convenient, and efficient data support and management for dispatching, analyzing personnel, and vehicle information management. During the Nanjing YOG, the number of visitors increased 20%, and the peak number of non-local cars increased 200%. Nevertheless, because of traffic control and planning, even the traffic in Xinjiekou, the most prosperous area in Nanjing, was 30% less than usual, indicating the advantages of ZTE’s DAP.
In addition to the large quantity and high complexity of data, short development cycle and various data sources imposed severe challenges to ZTE during the construction of the “Moat of Nanjing.” However, thanks to the great efforts of ZTE’s project team, the scattered data was integrated into the big data platform and the project was successfully delivered within two months. Moreover, the “Moat of Nanjing” system operated stably during the Nanjing YOG and was highly praised by Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department and Nanjing Public Security Bureau for its timely and accurate data reporting, intuitive data statistics, and convenient retrieval capacity.

Based on the Hadoop system, ZTE’s DAP integrates core Hadoop components to provide complete big data storage and management capabilities for urban operation and management systems (Fig. 1). It has a wealth of data extraction tools to extract, clean, and dump structured and unstructured data. It also provides powerful data analysis and mining tools and integrates, improves, and optimizes popular open-source tools to support upper applications. With multiple data presentations, such as reports and GIS, ZTE’s DAP provides a variety of system access methods. With fully functional management tools, ZTE’s DAP supports platform manual and silent installation, achieving platform monitoring and management.
The “Moat of Nanjing” system is just an application of ZTE’s DAP, which can play an important role in even more sectors due to its flexible architecture. The key management components of ZTE’s DAP can be integrated seamlessly into existing IT systems and can rapidly build various big data platforms as well as provide diversified system applications to meet different service needs. In addition, universal platform software, such as distributed file systems and distributed database cloud storage, can be used to increase the massive data query speed, reduce database construction costs, and improve storage resource utilization and reliability. ZTE creates great data value for its customers through efficient data utilization, powerful data mining and analysis capabilities, and professional data security guarantee.

As a leading provider of smart city solutions in China, ZTE is committed to smart city construction and research and has formulated all-round smart city solutions from top-level design to network infrastructure construction. The successful “Moat of Nanjing” project at the Nanjing YOG has set a new milestone for the application of ZTE’s big data solutions in the public safety field, and laid a solid foundation for further development of big data products.
In the future, ZTE’s big data solutions will have wider application in smart energy, smart transportation, smart government, smart healthcare, smart community, and smart education. With the advanced information technology of smart city, ZTE will make cities better places.