In China, at present, although there are quite a few definitions of intelligent community, but there is not yet a perfect definition of intelligent community. 2001, the State Ministry of Construction, Office of Housing Industry, put forward a basic concept of intelligent community: "Intelligent residential community is the use of the 4C (i.e., computers, communications and networks, self-control and IC cards), through the effective transmission network, integrating diversified information service and management, property management and security, and residential intelligence, providing high-tech intelligent means for the service and management of residential community, with a view to realizing fast and efficient value-added service and management, and providing a safe and comfortable home environment". This is only a basic concept of intelligent community at this stage, with the generation and application of new technologies, new achievements and the development of our people's housing conditions, the connotation of intelligent community will also have corresponding changes.
With the advent of the digital age, the construction industry ushered in the "mouse plus cement" revolution, digital city, intelligent housing, network housing and a series of new terms and new concepts, they are changing the construction industry's previous concepts, while the building design, construction and management of higher requirements, intelligent buildings are known as digital Urban image engineering is becoming more and more important in modern city construction. Due to the acceleration of technological development, especially the high-speed development of digital technology, developers used to take the buildings equipped with intelligent systems as a selling point, but now the lack of intelligent systems has become a drawback. At present, the construction of residential areas or buildings will take the intelligent system as the basic configuration.
Functional role of the intelligent community
In recent years, with the development of China's national economy and the reform of the national housing system, people's living standards and their own quality of improvement, as well as the information society is increasingly approaching will lead to people in the concept of family housing needs a radical change. From the previous pursuit of living in the physical space and luxury decoration to enjoy the modernization of the spiritual connotation and romantic interest in the direction of the development of life, the pursuit of a higher level and realm. What the intelligent home offers is that people can do e-shopping without leaving home. Online medical diagnosis, visit virtual museums and libraries, on-demand VOD home theater, and even thousands of miles away from the remote control of home air-conditioning equipment for temperature regulation and control of home appliances, as well as the brightness of the lighting adjustment, when the family occurs in the security alarms (including: burglary alarms, fire alarms, gas leaks, and disease alarms). When a security alarm occurs in the home (including: burglary alarm, fire alarm, gas leakage, and disease emergency call, etc.), family members outside the home can receive the alarm information through the telephone line to inquire and confirm the security situation in the home.