Laboratory for Smart City and Spatial Big Data Analytics


Message from the Director

Welcome to the Website of the Laboratory for Smart City and Spatial Big Data Analytics!

The Lab aims to develop an area of excellence on Smart Cities with focuses on: (a) innovating and developing cutting-edge Smart City technologies, (b) transferring these technologies to industry, and (c) providing Smart City solutions to Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the World.

The ultimate goal of Smart City development is to improve people’s lives. This Lab has innovated and developed new technologies along this direction. These include, for example:

Hong Kong possesses unique features related to the study of Smart Cities. For instance, Hong Kong has the world's longest life expectancy for both females and males, is a very three dimensional and highly densified city, and is a global city where the East meets the West. Therefore, Hong Kong presents an interesting place to conduct Smart City research, and in response, the City deserves the best Smart City innovations and technologies.

Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary area which widely covers spatial big data analytics, spatial data infrastructure, IoT, cloud and edge computing, and artificial intelligence. Our Lab provides such an interdisciplinary research platform for fostering Smart City innovations, and I am looking forward to working together with you to achieve a higher quality life for people in smarter cities worldwide.

Prof. Dr. Shi Wenzhong, John
Director