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Smart City Typical Business Models Analysis and Se

 Referring international smart city construction experience, that smart city construction total exist seven business model: the government independent investment construction and operation, the government and operators cooperated to construction and operation, the government investment commissioned operators or third party construction and operation, Government-led BOT mode, operator / third party independent investment construction and operations, joint construction and operations and corporatization operations.


Mode 1: the government independent investment construction and operation, such as, wireless city of Corpus Christi city, Texas, USA, construction, the characteristic is the government responsible for the infrastructure / basic platform investment, maintenance, contracture and operation. Advantage is the government absolute control; the disadvantage is the government financial pressure, and must get enough income to maintain the network operation, meanwhile face the business operations, promotion and post-maintenance and other difficulties.


Mode 2: the government and operators cooperated to investment, operator construction and operation, such as "Wireless Philadelphia". The characterized is the government and operators jointly investment, co-owned, daily construction and operation by the operator; advantage is that the government can reduce the financial pressure; disadvantage is difficult to define the property rights, using the operator network resources will produce disputes and other issues.


Mode 3: Government investment, commissioned operators / third parties to construction and operation, such as Singapore "Smart Country 2015". It is characterized the government investment, and through the tender, etc. commissioned one or more operators to construction and operation,; advantage is that the Government absolutely control, professional companies to operation and maintain; disadvantage is that the government financial pressure, following Network upgrades, operation and maintenance, etc. difficult to define the property rights.


Mode 4: Government-led BOT mode (construction - operation - transfer) model, such as "wireless Taipei". The characterized is using the market-orientation way abstract enterprise capital investment infrastructure construction, commitment to investors operation in the period after the completion, after terminate, the government will recover the management and operation; advantage is to reduce government financial pressure; , The separation of ownership and management of the business caused by the short-sighted, the government face the experience pressure lake after recovered.


Mode 5: Operators / third parties independent investment construction and operation, such as the Shanghai Hongqiao business smart district. It is characterized that the Powerful comprehensive strength operator or third party is responsible for the smart city sub-tasks (such as an infrastructure, platform or application construction) investment in construction and operation; advantage is clear property rights, reduce government financial pressure, Can take full advantage of the experience and strength of telecom operators to solve the "wireless city" operation, management and maintenance issues; disadvantage is that the need for sustained profit model.


Mode 6: joint construction operations, such as Taipei Smart Zone. It is characterized  that with two or more industrial chain operators, application developers, system integrators or terminal equipment providers joint development of intelligent platform or application and common promotion; advantage is conducive to the healthy operation of the industrial chain, comprehensive solution ability is strong; disadvantage is that multi-party cooperation, cooperation and coordination of the workload.


Mode 7: operations and corporatization operations, such as Hangzhou City One Card project. It is characterized that by the industrial chain members, such as operators, application developers, system integrators and other co-founded a management company and a series of subsidiaries for the smart city's investment, construction, operation; advantage is conducive to the industrial chain of healthy operation, comprehensive solution ability is strong, flexible operation, disadvantage is that multi-party cooperation, cooperation and coordination of the workload.