5G, Big Data, and AI for Smart City and Prevention of Virus Infection

Abstract

With the development of urbanization, artificial intelligence, communication technology, and the Internet of Things, cities have evolved a new ecology from traditional city structures, that is, smart city. Combining 5G and big data, the applications of smart cities have been extended to every aspect of residents’ lives. Based on the popularization of communication equipment and sensors, the great improvement in data transmission and processing technology, the production efficiency in medical field, industrial field, and security field has been improved. This chapter introduces the current research related to smart cities, including its architecture, technologies, and equipment involved. Then it discussed the challenges and opportunities of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), which is the next important development direction of AI, especially in the medical field, where patients and medical personnel have non-negligible needs for the interpretability of AI models. Then, taking COVID-19 as an example, it discussed how smart cities play a role during virus infection and introduced the specific applications designed so far. Finally, it discussed the shortcomings of the current situation and the aspects that can be improved in the future.