Shinan district in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, has been working to build a "smart city" so as to boost the local economy and improve living standards.

Smart + parking

Sonli Group, a Shinan-based provider of high-tech and smart parking solutions, has been encouraging local communities to digitalize and improve the daily lives of residents.

With the help of intelligent security equipment such as facial recognition access control, perimeter invasion detection, high-altitude parabolic detection, one-button video calls, audio recognition alarms, and fire safety alarms, the smart platform will provide useful information for the comprehensive governance of communities.

The company has developed a mobile app capable of detecting the real-time number of vacant parking spots and accepting automated payments in Qingdao. 

Smart + healthcare

The "Artificial Intelligence Endoscopic Assistant" independently developed by Qingdao Medcare Digital Engineering Co Ltd is an "AI+" internet-based intelligent information platform for digestive endoscopy. It applies the latest artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and big data technologies to the quality control of digestive endoscopy diagnosis and treatment, and is capable of the intelligent extraction, calculation, and reporting of quality control indicators related to digestive endoscopy.

Additionally, "smart + energy" and "smart + city development" have also been proposed by Shinan in an effort to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 and rejuvenate Qingdao's urban development.