Dahua Technology showcased its smart city solutions at the recently concluded Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona, Spain. This year’s SCEWC 2025 has brought together experts, innovators, and city leaders from around the globe to explore the future of urban transformation.
Dahua’s lineup of smart city solutions, encompassing urban safety, traffic management, city governance, green mobility, nature protection, ecosystem cooperation, and large-scale model technologies, demonstrates how advanced AI, IoT, and big data technologies are driving more sustainable and efficient urban environments.
Urban safety solution
Enhancing urban safety is the primary aim of smart cities. Dahua's Urban Safety Solution provides a city operations centre that monitors and analyses the real-time operational status of the city, including public safety, transportation conditions, environmental indices, and more. It can integrate various AIoT sensing devices through a unified platform, including cameras, radar, traffic flow cameras, and other subsystems such as traffic signal control systems, urban weather systems, and alarm systems.
Various solutions for intelligent police cars and bodycams are also available to help improve the efficiency of police patrols and detect abnormal situations. Additionally, six capability centres have been developed to build the city operation centre: the General Business Enabling Centre, Intelligent Operation Centre, Full Connection Centre, Big Data Centre, Intelligent Computing Centre, and City Command Centre.
Urban traffic management solutions
Dahua also showcased its Urban Traffic Management Solution, which focuses on signal control, traffic enforcement, and highway operations. To address urban congestion, Dahua’s Signal Control Solution can dynamically adjust signal control schemes and evaluate urban traffic performance using real-time data. For traffic enforcement, Spotter Mobile enables flexible, mobile enforcement, while Spotter Ultra (Dahua’s flagship speed enforcement product) supports up to 8-lane coverage without additional gantries, reducing overall construction costs. For highway operations, Dahua's event detection capabilities cover over 30 types of traffic incidents, including stopped vehicles, wrong-way driving, and speeding.
Transportation solutions
Dahua’s Transportation Solution offers fuel consumption detection, dashcam, cargo safety detection systems, and volume monitoring systems. It features a bus solution that offers a range of intelligent functions, including active safety, passenger counting, and general video surveillance. It also features cameras equipped with Dahua’s BSIS (Blind Spot Information System), which addresses blind spot issues, while complying with EU general safety regulations (R 151).
Intelligent multi-modal urban monitoring
To enhance city governance, Dahua built an intelligent, multi-modal framework (Urban Management Module, Emergency Response Module, Environment Monitoring Module, and Safety Supervision Module) that connects people and systems through text, voice, and images.
It enables intelligent features such as: Image-Text Search that fuses image and text information for natural language–based video and image retrieval; Intelligent Interaction that integrates large language models for conversational task scheduling and context-aware reasoning; and One-Stop Linked Operation that connects knowledge bases, and third-party systems, providing a unified portal for alarm viewing, video access, collaboration, and task assignment.
Protecting the environment
Dahua also showcased its Natural Resource Protection Solution that focuses on four key areas: forest protection, hydrological affairs, land supervision, and biodiversity protection. Dahua’s Forest Fire Prevention Solution, for example, establishes a closed-loop system that enables multi-dimensional sensing, intelligent analysis, and precise command, greatly enhancing early warning, rapid response, and scientific decision-making in forest fire management.
The fire prevention solution focuses on preventing human-caused wildfires through a three-layer defence system (access control, warning posts, and perimeter monitoring). The Fire Detection and Location Solution combines thermal imaging with an intelligent IoT platform to enable early detection, warnings, and rapid response. The Real-Time Wildfire Sensing Solution leverages drones as the key tool to enable dynamic fire monitoring and rapid emergency response.
Ecosystem cooperation
Also highlighted in the exhibition is Dahua’s growing ecosystem cooperation with its partners and clients. Dahua ECO Partner Program (DEPP) and DoLynk Developer accelerate collaboration and innovation across global ecosystems. DEPP is an open platform for global technology innovators that brings together 175+ partners across six continents. DoLynk Developer, Dahua’s cloud-based open platform for AIoT innovation, seamlessly integrates video, alarms, and incident management, and offers APIs and SDKs for partners to build custom applications.
Xinghan large-scale AI models
Among the main highlights of Dahua’s smart city solutions is Xinghan Large-Scale AI Models, which are industry-specific large-scale models (with visual parsing at their core) that integrate multimodal capabilities and industry expertise. Consisting of V-Series (Vision Large Model), M-Series (Multimodal Large Model) and L-Series (Language Large Model), Xinghan provides rich benefits including higher accuracy, high generalisation capability, complex behaviour recognition, and more. It can help transform smart cities from reactive surveillance networks into proactive, adaptive urban intelligence systems, thus improving safety, mobility, energy efficiency, and citizen services through deeper visual understanding.
During the event, Dahua was also invited to participate in a series of panel discussions alongside other distinguished guests and industry experts. John Li, general manager of the Government Business Department at Dahua Technology, represented the company in an informative debate on GovTech and how digital tools can strengthen public services.
In addition, Max Huang, project director of Government Business at Dahua Technology, joined a panel of experts discussing how next-gen tech contributes to the urban revolution. He said, “LLM (Large Language Models) makes our IoT system smarter. It understands the city very well. It enables the central data brain to think independently, which can significantly improve city governance. Utilising LLM, we can truly make the city operation safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.”
Aiming to address the various challenges of urban growth, such as traffic congestion, environmental degradation, and public security, Dahua consistently develops advanced intelligent smart city solutions that significantly enhance urban living while prioritising sustainability.
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