To accelerate urban digital development and advance smart city initiatives, the state aims to better serve China’s economic and social progress as well as people’s daily lives. Smart‑city big‑data visualization platform solutions vary for cities at different development levels. As a leading domestic big‑data analytics vendor, Sefonsoft boasts extensive practical experience in building smart‑city visualization platforms and has delivered big‑data governance and visualized smart‑city management for multiple cities.
Big‑data technology is essential for smart‑city development. The urban big‑data management platform plays a vital role in smart‑city construction solutions, mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. The big‑data analytics platform provides fundamental technical support for smart‑city development.
2. It serves as one of the critical approaches to realizing visualized big‑data management for smart cities.
3. Big‑data technology is the key to building human‑centered smart cities, addressing challenges in urban data storage, computation, analysis and application.

Architecture and Partial Function Modules of the Big‑Data Visualization Management Platform

1. Big‑data Collection Platform: The public data collection platform collects and processes massive urban data, fully meeting data‑visualization requirements for smart‑city construction.
2. Big‑data Basic Platform: It delivers comprehensive operation, maintenance and monitoring to guarantee system stability. It supports finest‑grained access control for big‑data and enables cross‑domain information access.
3. Big‑data Visualization Presentation Platform: It enables fast and high‑fidelity rendering of data‑analysis outcomes. Supporting 3D visualization and multi‑dimensional data indicator display, it breaks the limits of conventional 2D reporting formats. It enables comprehensive multi‑dimensional big‑data presentation and facilitates rapid big‑data analysis and decision‑making.