S4EP15: Building the City of Tomorrow

How are digital cities transforming the future of urban living? In this episode, Bill chats with Bai Lu, Senior Technologist for Global Digital Cities at Dell, to explore the evolution of digital cities and how they're redefining traditional urban frameworks. Bai Lu shares her journey from engineering to leading digital transformation while exploring how edge computing reduces latency, boosts security, and powers digital twins for smarter city planning. They also dive into the challenges of building digital city projects and highlight innovations like Toyota’s Woven City, offering a glimpse into the future of more connected, sustainable urban landscapes.

Key Quotes: 

“One way that we can help the city planners using a digital twin platform is to actually help the city planners to predict. What will be the potential issue that is affecting their sustainability plan, like city traffic or air pollution or noise pollution, when they actually want to build a new project?”

“The thing that I'm really looking forward to is this equality of using technology for everyone. There will be no limit to anyone because of location, connectivity, or because of age. I believe the future is not far.”

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Timestamps:

(01:23) Bai Lu's journey into technology

(05:17) Edge computing in digital cities

(09:02) Digital city projects and use cases

(12:44) Understanding digital twins

(15:47) Bai Lu's favorite digital cities deployment

(21:04) Sustainability in digital cities

(27:42) Breaking down the complexities of digital city projects

(35:23) Toyota Woven City: A futuristic vision

(40:59) Future of digital cities and edge computing

Sponsor: 

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Credits:

Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

Links: 

Learn more about Dell Technologies Smart City Solutions

Check-out Bai Lu’s recent blog on Forbes

Follow Bill on LinkedIn

Follow Bai Lu on LinkedIn

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