Abstract
With the continuous development of science and technology, the intelligent development of community
system becomes a trend. Meanwhile, smart mobile devices and cloud computing technology are
increasingly used in intelligent information systems; however, smart mobile devices such as smartphone
and smart pad, also known as thin clients, limited by either their capacities (CPU, memory or battery) or
their network resources, do not always meet users' satisfaction in using mobile services. Mobile cloud
computing, in which resource-rich virtual machines of smart mobile device are provided to a customer as a
service, can be terrific solution for expanding the limitation of real smart mobile device, but the resources
utilization rate is low and the information cannot be shared easily. To address the problems above, this
paper proposes an information system for intelligent community, which is composed of thin clients, wide
band network and cloud computing servers. On one hand, the thin clients with the characteristics of energy
efficiency, high robustness and high computing capacity can efficiently avoid the problems encountered in
the PC architecture and mobile devices. On the other hand, the cloud computing servers in the proposed
information system solve the problems of resource sharing barriers. Finally, the system is built in real
environments to evaluate the performance. We deploy the proposed system in a community with more than
2000 residents, and it is demonstrated that the proposed system is robust and efficient.
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