
The core of smart community network construction lies in establishing an infrastructure characterised by ‘layered deployment, multi-technology integration, and secure reliability’ to support the operation of various smart applications including security, home automation, and services.
1. Network Infrastructure: The ‘Digital Skeleton’ of Future Communities
Network infrastructure forms the core backbone of smart communities. It is not merely a matter of ‘laying network cables’ but constitutes a comprehensive digital system comprising three key hardware categories:
High-Speed Transmission Layer: Gigabit fibre-to-the-home coverage throughout the community and 5G micro-base stations in communal areas, eliminating signal dead zones in homes, lifts, and underground car parks.
Intelligent Connectivity Layer: Deployment of IoT gateways enabling integration with access control systems, cameras, smart meters, and other devices to achieve ‘interconnection of all things’.
Computing Power Support Layer:Establishes edge computing nodes to reduce data transmission latency, enabling faster responses in high-frequency scenarios like AI surveillance and real-time security.
2. Connecting to the Future: From ‘Infrastructure’ to ‘Perceptible Intelligent Living’
This infrastructure is not merely ‘invisible engineering’ but directly interconnects the core scenarios of future communities, bringing the ‘future’ to fruition:
Future Security: Infrastructure connects AI surveillance, facial recognition access control, and smart fire alarms to deliver ‘instant alerts for anomalies and traceable access by strangers’.
Future Services: Supports delivery robots, online government/property services, and neighbourhood sharing platforms – enabling bill payments, maintenance requests, and event bookings from home.
Future Management: Integrates smart streetlights, rainwater harvesting systems, and car park guidance screens to achieve green, efficient management with ‘lighting activated by presence, real-time energy consumption tracking, and online parking space locators’.
3. Ultimate Outcome: Enabling Residents to Experience the ‘Temperature of the Future’
The core objective of all infrastructure is to deliver tangible convenience to residents, not mere technological showmanship:
Efficiency Enhancement: No more trips to the management office – handle everything via mobile. Seamless online classes and remote work without lag; access underground car parks simply by scanning your phone.
Safety Enhancement: Smoke alarms linked to management alert staff when elderly residents are home alone; AI surveillance identifies hazardous play areas and notifies parents when children are in the neighbourhood.
Experience Enhancement: Upon returning home, access control, lifts, and front door locks synchronise via network for ‘one-touch unlocking’; whilst away, remotely control appliances and monitor home security status.
Scalability: Reserved interfaces and bandwidth support future device additions (e.g., AR property maintenance), preventing redundant infrastructure.