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One year later, Dongguan Songshan Lake once again ushered in the Huawei Developer Conference.
A year ago, the Hongmeng system was really launched here, from behind the scenes to the front of the stage; a few days ago, also here, Huawei’s consumer business CEO and managing director Yu Chengdong announced that Hongmeng OS had been upgraded to version 2.0. Version 2.0 will be expanded from smart screens to more Huawei devices, and a beta version of mobile phones for developers will be released in December.
This time, the developers are really "boiling". The source code was opened at 18:18, and dozens of developers had already uploaded and contributed code that evening, and Hongmeng's official website reached 5 million visits within a few hours.
The picture scroll depicted by Hongmeng OS is slowly unfolding-a full-scenario smart life ecology and a world where everything is connected. So the question is, how far are we from becoming the person in the painting?
What is Hongmeng OS 2.0?
This is a smarter operating system. Our lives may have been rewritten by Hongmeng.
Closer, Hongmeng has already "started" with 12 million third-party devices. According to Midea’s developer conference Songhu dialogue, 15 products equipped with Hongmeng will be launched on Double 11; further away, from Huawei The small goal of Wang Chenglu, president of the Consumer Software Department: hundreds of millions of devices in a year can't be overstated.
Maybe you will ask: Home appliances? Isn't it a cell phone?
Don't worry, although Huawei mobile phones that fully support the Hongmeng system will have to wait until 2021, the situation of "playing without a mobile phone" does not exist. If you are using the first batch of phones that can be upgraded to EMUI 11, such as the P40 and Mate 30 series, you can experience the Hongmeng system soon. EMUI 11 is equipped with Hongmeng's core distributed technology. After the upgrade, you can also "touch" the soymilk oven with your mobile phone as shown in the HDC conference.
As the core of Huawei's full-scenario strategy "1+8+N", the importance of smart phones cannot be underestimated. It is the entrance for users to enter the full-scenario smart life. However, if you look at Hongmeng with the eyes of Android, and just confine your eyes to the phone, the road will be narrowed. Why Hongmeng OS was born, we have to look back, it is a series of ups and downs.
The tortuous Hongmeng "birth feast"
Set the time back more than a year ago. In March 2019, we learned about the existence of this "mysterious spare tire" from the dialogue between Yu Chengdong and the German media. On May 21, Yu Chengdong said, “Huawei will launch its own operating system this fall at the earliest and next spring at the latest. It will integrate mobile phones, computers, tablets, TVs, cars, and smart wearables into one operating system.” At that time, for Hongmeng, we only heard its shadow, but didn't know its name.
The launch of the "Spare Tire Project" was inseparable from Google's cut-off. At the time, it was natural to compare this mysterious operating system with Android. But in fact, Hongmeng is not against Android, Ren Zhengfei said, Hongmeng is not developed for mobile phones, but for the Internet of Things. Their eyes have long been aimed at the post-smartphone era.
However, Hongmeng’s "birth banquet" in August was not satisfactory-no tool documentation, no demo, and no source code. The doubts about Hongmeng's strength became louder, and the Hongmeng road signs given were regarded as "painting pie." But at least, after many years of spare tires finally turned positive, Hongmeng OS progress bar began to advance at double speed.
Source: Huawei Voice Community
And this time, Hongmeng 2.0 brings not only PPT, but also a comprehensively upgraded distributed technology, open source code and complete developer support. The pie painted last year was delivered to you this year, and Hongmeng is moving along the established road signs. In the name of the Internet of Things, it connects all things with humans and machines, and empowers the whole scene ecology with distributed power. The 2.0 version of the hard core is online, and you will be caught off guard.
Huawei's IoT strategic layout
Behind the twists and turns of Hongmeng's development is Huawei's long-term focus on the Internet of Things industry.
What exactly does the Internet of Things do? It uses smart devices to perceive and recognize the physical world, and then through the network transmission interconnection, calculation, processing and mining, realize the interaction between people and things, things and things, to achieve real-time control, precise management and scientific decision-making of the physical world.
Huawei's Ocean Connect IoT platform has been rated as one of the leaders due to its technological innovation and market achievements. | Source: Huawei
People have long given high hopes to the Internet of Things, but it seems to be a slow-heating industry. Twenty-one years ago, China’s earliest attempt at the Internet of Things, Bill Gates’ Venus Project, came to an end. In 2008, the first International Internet of Things Conference envisioned a bright future not far away. However, the imaginative changes have always been Progress is slow.
The reason is simple. The Internet of Things is not an independent industry. Its development requires cognitive changes and practical support from various industries. How easy is it to infiltrate new technologies into all walks of life in the national economy on a large scale?
However, today's Internet of Things is very different from the environment faced by pioneers more than a decade ago. Whether it is policy, economic, social demand or technological development, it indicates that the bright future of the Internet of Things is within reach. The layout of the Internet of Things has become an irreversible industry trend, and countless companies have invested in the Internet of Things.
Huawei has already incorporated the Internet of Things into its strategic map. From Boudica IoT chip to Ocean Connect IoT platform, from network integration services to HiLink strategy, Huawei's investment in IoT is not only a forward-looking strategic layout, but also a development of a communications company. .
However, based on reality, the road to the development of the Internet of Things is not unimpeded. Huawei’s Chief Strategy Officer Shao Yang also pointed out the four major pain points in the development of the Internet of Things industry: ecosystem, connection experience, control experience and product cost.
The fundamental problem is the fragmentation of the system. In response, Huawei launched its own cross-terminal operating system solution-Hongmeng OS.
You may have no idea about the operating system, but you have a deep understanding of these situations: people who are used to iPhones are awkward picking up Android phones, and people who are used to Windows are basically blinded by MacBook.
Different categories, different manufacturers, and countless devices are equipped with different operating systems and have different control APPs. There is a gap between the systems. Fortunately, mobile phones and computers can be done by simply squatting in a "pit". But for the Internet of Things, the operating systems are isolated from each other. What connection does the Internet of Everything use?
This is where Hongmeng OS is working. This distributed operating system for all scenarios will be a major breakthrough in the development of the Internet of Things.
So, how is it achieved, and to what extent can it be achieved?
Where is Hongmeng OS 2.0 strong?
Wang Chenglu introduced us to the three cores of Hongmeng OS distributed technology-distributed soft bus, distributed data management and distributed security.
Distributed soft bus technology is the base, it redefines the relationship between hardware devices, "touch" non-inductive connection is realized based on the development of this technology.
It allows the hardware capabilities to flow. Imagine that each hardware puts its own hardware capabilities in a shared resource pool according to its type. When the user wants to use it, he can call the most suitable hardware to complete the work from the hardware resource pool. Your mobile phone can call the camera of the TV, and the screen becomes bigger in seconds.
Distributed data management solves the problem between applications and hardware devices. After all, going to someone else's home is different from looking for things in your own home. The speed of file reading and writing and data operation between devices is a matter of experience. The distributed database and distributed file system of Hongmeng OS makes cross-device "coming" like accessing local files, and the user experience is smoother.
Software development also ushered in the "great liberation". Distributed applications were "packaged" into multiple function-independent feature modules, which can be run on different hardware terminals to achieve one-time development and multi-terminal deployment. Simply put, developers no longer need to write an application four times for tablets, mobile phones, watches, and PCs, but can migrate the application part to the appropriate device.
Security and privacy issues are important at all times. Especially when you live in such a smart ecology: the mobile phones, tablets, computers, TVs, air conditioners and other devices around you are recording, generating, and transferring data all the time. There is a "crisis" behind the convenient life.
The Internet of Things records store a large amount of personal data, but it is the easiest to "hack". The DDoS attacks that once made Twitter, CNN, Wall Street Journal and other hundreds of websites inaccessible were carried out using the Internet of Things. The cases of hackers controlling attacks on webcams, heart devices, and vehicles are even more chilling.
We need a more secure IoT system. The distributed security of Hongmeng OS puts forward a concept-to allow the right people to use the data correctly on the right equipment.
Fingerprints, faces, heartbeats, voiceprints...Multi-terminal authentication ensures the "right person"; "lends" the excellent security capabilities of Huawei mobile phones to other devices to ensure the "correct device"; manages data in hierarchical categories during the flow to ensure " Use the data correctly". Distributed security installs a "firewall" for IoT devices, which also resolves the contradiction between security and convenience.
Connection, application, development, security... The breakthrough of Hongmeng OS's distributed technology has revolutionary significance for the development of the Internet of Things. The bright future of the Internet of Things is no longer invisible and intangible. We are one step closer to the real smart life. .
Is the turning point of the future smart life coming?
As Wang Chenglu described, China’s software industry is thriving, but without “roots”, the tree without roots may die instantly, and the operating system is the “root”.
But vice versa, an operating system without an ecosystem has no value, and all companies involved in the Internet of Things want to build their own ecological chain. Emphasizing open source and strengthening and perfecting the technological ecological environment is the current trend of technology companies, and the difficulty of ecological construction is orders of magnitude different from the technological difficulty. If the operating system is the law of operation of a space world, then ecology is all aspects of this world. The scope, scope, and content of this world cannot be accomplished by a single company like Huawei.
Therefore, this is undoubtedly a milestone moment in Huawei's development: it has begun to open Hongmeng to third-party manufacturers and equipment. By donating source code, releasing SDK packages, providing tool platforms, and opening up distributed capabilities, Huawei throws an olive branch to hardware manufacturers and developers. What kind of smart life in the whole scene will be created by everyone.
The most "brainwashing" in the developer conference is "touch", and a few cases let us get a glimpse of the leopard. As a gold medal assistant, the smart screen is connected to the mobile phone, and the team starts brainstorming at any time; when away from home, the mobile phone and watch are connected, and taxi navigation is easier; at home, the mobile phone is connected to the oven, and you can sit and wait for a meal.
But this is only the tip of the iceberg in the future intelligent life. From the car TV printer to the small monitor door lock sphygmomanometer; from the gym to the library, from the movie theater to the small shop, the hardware equipment has a variety of shapes, and our life scenes are rich, the function of this super housekeeper Can do it for many days.
Meituan put forward the idea that the delivery staff’s helmet is equipped with a camera, and the mobile phone cooperates with the elevator access control of the community to provide better takeaway delivery services. APP manufacturers also have their own ideas. Zhang Chaoyang is thinking about whether application software can directly cooperate with the operating system.
Realizing the extension of space, can Hongmeng OS break the time limit in the next step? The sale of traditional hardware equipment is a final word, the functions are finalized, and what is bought will be what it will be after two years. In the future, hardware capabilities may also be able to upgrade regularly like software. The camera we buy now may be able to add facial recognition functions in the future. We not only value the current functions of the device, but also look forward to future service upgrades.
In fact, just as the speed increase is only the most "trivial" point of 5G, mobile payment changes not only the payment method but the life philosophy of "say goodbye to cash". Connecting to Hongmeng is only the most basic step. The way of thinking and looking at life is also the true meaning of the turning point of future smart life.
At that time, the payment method may only require the contact of two devices; movies and music will follow you as you drive home, from the car machine to the mobile phone, from the mobile phone to the big screen, and the service will follow you; there is no longer a need for many apps, touch, Connect, record, and solve, the life of a lazy person is so happy; multi-screen collaboration improves work and scientific research productivity; the way of playing games will also have more imagination as the device is connected...
This day needs to gather imagination. Xinghuo started a prairie fire, and the growth of Hongmeng World needs to rely on the power of glimmer.
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