Organic Combination of Informatization and Ecological Civilization

“This year, the teacher who does not speak comic dialogue is definitely not a good cook. In this case, I mean that the comic dialogue is lurking in the IT men in the GIS community. Let the boring informationization sway others' heartstrings in a familiar way, that is, cross-border. The result is that learning outstanding people and making a wonderful self! Let 1831 shine in the cross-border.” This is what He Chunyin Micro would like to share on Sina Weibo, and it just happens to represent his character, ability and aspirations. As the director of the Jiangsu Provincial Eco-environmental Monitoring Center, he implemented the “1831” large-scale environmental protection Internet demonstration project that was built across the province, across regions, and across different disciplines. Forefront, even the GIS field professional Esri's vice president of global business called "Amazing", opened the minds of the industry, but also to help people in other fields to understand the ability of technology to rebuild the ecological civilization.

Breaking the "cloud of information" isolated island of information

836 key polluting enterprises, updated once every two hours of real-time data, anomalies are announced daily summary ... ... all this, can not do without the support of the "Jiangsu Environmental Protection Cloud Platform" codenamed "1831". As the most advanced environmental protection cloud platform in China, “1831” is not only the “eye-catcher” of Jiangsu's eco-environmental protection, but also an important basis and method for the decision-making of environmental wisdom in Jiangsu. According to He Chunyin, the so-called "1831" refers to the construction of a shared ecological environment monitoring system in the province; integration of drinking water sources, watershed water environment, atmospheric environment, key pollution sources (including sewage treatment plants), motor vehicle exhaust, radiation environment, Eight sub-monitoring systems, including hazardous wastes, sources of emergency risk, etc.; three levels of provincial, municipal, and county level ecological environment monitoring centers; and a set of comprehensive environmental monitoring and operation mechanisms. Then, what information is available in “1831”? Where did the data come from? The wisdom of 1831 lies in that we are not sitting in the ecological environment monitoring center of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Environmental Protection and are located in a coffee shop in Beijing. At the interview location, He Chunyin opened a portable notebook computer to show reporters real-time data such as automatic monitoring of key pollution sources, automatic monitoring of basin water quality, and so on. In fact, the cloud platform gathers more data than this. In addition to the environmental quality data, 12369's reporting information, environmental creation, etc. are all brought together in the form of data, and more than 3 million pieces of data are collected on the daily platform.

“We can say that it is the most advanced digital platform with the most advanced environmental information in the country.” He Chunyin introduced that the cloud platform adopts internationally advanced IoT sensors and information analysis cloud technologies to enable real-time perception of the province’s total economic output of RMB 4 trillion. 10.2 The safety and health of the ecological environment within the region of 26,000 square kilometers, and the integration of human social and environmental business systems, so as to realize the intelligentization of environmental management and decision-making in a more refined and dynamic manner.

Why should we develop this cloud platform? We must start with the water crisis in Taihu Lake. After the Taihu Lake water pollution incident occurred in 2007, the environmental protection department of Jiangsu Province discovered that many areas and multiple departments in the Taihu Lake Basin carried out information monitoring on pollution sources, environmental quality, ecological background, hydrology, and meteorology around the Taihu Lake water environment. However, due to the lack of information integration, centralized management, and unified release mechanisms at the government's comprehensive management and decision-making levels, it is difficult to provide strong information support for Taihu Lake governance and decision-making. At that time, only the Jiangsu Environmental Protection Agency had 36 information systems. Due to system development and business data self-contained systems, most of them cannot achieve integrated sharing. "The standard is not uniform and it is decided that the data has no value," commented He Chunyin.

In July 2008, Jiangsu Province initiated the construction of the Taihu Lake Platform in accordance with the concept of Taihu Lake Platform, Data Environment Protection, Information Sharing, and Scientific Management. In just 48 days, 125 water environment automatic monitoring stations, blue-green algae early-warning monitoring systems, and 50 provincial, city, county, and regional key pollution source monitoring centers covering the whole basin of Taihu Lake involved more than ten aspects of environmental information networking. The construction of the Taihu Lake Platform provides a model for setting up a unified environment sharing platform in Jiangsu Province. Subsequently, the "1831" modeled on the Taihu Lake platform gradually surfaced. “The information is not shared. There is no confidence in the top and down, and there is no conviction between the leaders. The leaders are not satisfied. The people have opinions. They are very hard. Others are watching jokes...” He Chunyin, at the eleventh session of the 2013 Esri China Users Conference 2013, was mixed. The jingle introduced the 1831 platform to the atmosphere of the technical lecture site. "Now, the province's environmental protection system shares our platform. It is like the eyes of the Monkey King, eye four-way, hearing all directions." He Chunyin said.

Information makes decision more "intelligent"

“Our 1831 Jiangsu Eco-environmental Monitoring System can be said to be the most advanced digital platform for collecting environmental information in the country. It can sense the safety of ecological environment in the region of 104,200 square kilometers under the province’s total economic output of 4 trillion yuan in real time. Integrate with human health and environmental business systems to achieve a smarter and more dynamic approach to environmental management and decision making, said He Chunyin.

In the interview, He Chunyin used a mouse to perform a simple operation in the system to remotely shut down or open the rainwater outlet of a factory in Changzhou. “Mouse clicks will enable the ecological perception index to be automatically drained from the provincial rankings. All things are shared here, and we are constantly aware of changes in the environment in Jiangsu through this platform.” Haze with everyone panic As an example of the weather, many people do not know the real-time conditions of haze. However, the “Air Quality Publishing Platform” on the Jiangsu Environmental Protection Online has updated the automatic data collection in real time every two hours, showing at a glance the levels of different pollution levels and historical data. It has played an important role in understanding the air condition of the public. Behind it is exactly "1831" in support.

1831 The data updated in real time is a good helper for scientific decision-making for environmental protection workers. He Chunyin told reporters that by using 1831, they can not only keep abreast of basic information, production processes, pollution control facilities, pollution discharge conditions, and sewage data of each key pollution source, but also can see three-dimensional models, panoramic photos, and panoramic real-time videos. The full cycle management of pollution sources. “Once a problem arises, the system will automatically issue an early warning, and environmental protection personnel can respond in a timely manner.” Opening the cloud platform every day has become the habit of every staff member of the Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Agency. Speaking of benefits, everyone can report a pile in one breath.

“A lot of people blame us for the inaction of the EPA. We must be responsible for the weather that is similar to the haze. I show them the numbers and they disappear.” Director Ho is confident about the 1831 system.

Technology Transformation of the Environment Among the strong technical support behind the “1831” project, GIS is crucial. According to reports, the 1831 is based on Esri's ArcGIS platform, including the latest extension module ArcGIS for Server Portal for ArcGIS. Users can use this module to build a comprehensive GIS portal and establish a geography-based work platform. It can organize and manage GIS resources in a centralized manner according to different organizational departments and different thematic types of enterprises, and can achieve flexible sharing of resources among different departments, and improve the ability of enterprises to work together. In addition, it provides users with a ready-to-use online mapping environment. Users do not need to have a professional GIS knowledge background to easily realize business data mapping in this environment, and can perform geographic-based data analysis. It can also serve as a portal to the private cloud GIS platform. Users can use the Cloud GIS service through Portal for ArcGIS without having to install and maintain professional GIS software. As a tool, GIS is moving toward simple operation and application simplification, which makes the application of GIS system in the field of environmental protection more convenient for operators and is used by more and more non-professionals. As He Ning, president of Esri China Information Technology Co., Ltd. puts it: “GIS is moving from professional to universal, from niche to mass, from desktop to mobile, from server to cloud that is invisible to the naked eye.” With the development of GIS The value of geography will be even more pronounced in the field of environmental protection. In He Chunyin's words, GPS is a point-based technology. Esri is a surface technology that is superimposed with GIS to become a space. According to the historical dimension, the entire environment changes from point to line and then gradually. Accumulate, let people perceive the change of the environment in life.

The rich map language and geographic information system have powerful processing and analysis capabilities, which reduce the workload. Thematic map functions are used to promptly display statistical report data on the map in the form of charts and so on. This helps environmentalists understand the environmental conditions more clearly. In order to take decisions and actions. For example, the ArcGIS cloud platform and online map service of Esri China Information Technology Co., Ltd. provide simple and efficient technical support for industrial applications. In particular, a ready-to-use online mapping environment allows users to easily display business data on a map without having a professional GIS knowledge background, and can perform geographic-based data analysis. Therefore, GIS has a wider application in the field of environmental protection. The obvious feature of environmental monitoring is the spatialization and geography. Each pollution source and sampling site has a specific geographic location. He Chunyin is a faithful environmentalist. In the face of increasingly serious environmental issues, He Chunyin is very worried: “Now people do not have the self-consciousness to carry out environmental protection, and problems will be pushed to the EPA. They don’t know that protecting the environment is not bystanders. In addition to the power of technology, people are the most important."