In the early hours of one morning, a transport truck loaded with construction waste was racing along the highway. Although there is no parking, but with the help of 5G, Internet of Things, AI and other technologies, the vehicle’s license plate, number of axles, load, speed, overrun rate, direction and other information have been displayed in the monitoring center. On the screen, as long as the vehicle exceeds the limit, the system will issue an early warning, take photos for evidence, and notify the owner of the vehicle through the front electronic display. This method can realize 24 hours all-weather transportation monitoring, greatly improving the efficiency and accuracy of governance.
This kind of non-stop "super-controlling artifact" is not a virtual picture in a movie, but a real application that is actively deployed in major cities in my country. Highway law enforcement, operation and maintenance, and management are becoming more intelligent and efficient due to the integration of digital technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and big data.
In fact, a landmark event occurred in the field of highway transportation on January 1, 2020: 487 toll stations at provincial borders in 29 interconnected provinces across the country were all cancelled, which marked that the operation and management of expressways had entered a national network. New stage of globalization. Under this new normal, there are more urgent needs for digital transformation in terms of fee auditing, management scheduling, and travel services.
At the same time, the new infrastructure boom has erupted since the beginning of the year. The National Development and Reform Commission clearly pointed out that the new infrastructure includes integrated infrastructure, that is, the in-depth application of Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to support the transformation and upgrading of traditional infrastructure such as transportation, and the formation of intelligence Integrated infrastructure such as transportation.
Driven by both demand and policy, the digital transformation and intelligent upgrade of expressways are just around the corner. So, what are the challenges of future smart highway construction? How does the smart highway use the new generation of digital technology? Recently, at the 22nd Expressway Informatization Conference, Huawei and many partners introduced in detail its strategy and related solutions in the field of smart highways, bringing a new answer to the industry.
Smart high-speed construction ushered in an inflection point
In the past two decades, China has grown into a major transportation country. As of 2019, the total mileage of China-Guangzhou Expressway has reached 149,600 kilometers, a 20-fold increase in 20 years. Similarly, benefiting from the rapid economic development and the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, the number of cars has also achieved rapid growth in the past two decades, directly driving the four elements of transportation: people, vehicles, roads and the environment have created new Appeals and new connotations.
This has also brought a brand new turning point for the already well-known Chinese highway infrastructure. In fact, highway informatization has made great progress in the past two decades. The three major electromechanical systems, including monitoring systems, toll collection systems, and communication systems, have been widely used. If China’s highway infrastructure wants to achieve a new leap, it should be injected with powerful Digital capability has become an inevitable choice.
Wisdom high speed has become the focus of national construction
Therefore, in recent years, new-generation digital technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence have been continuously integrated into business scenarios in the transportation field such as highways. However, in the long run, there will still be many challenges in new technologies, new models, and new business formats in my country's smart high-speed construction in the next ten years.
For example, data perception related to highways needs to be further improved, and the transformation and upgrading of smart highways cannot be separated from data. Although the current highway informatization has been built for many years and already has abundant data, there are still many data missing, such as a large number of For bridges, tunnels and other data, the road cannot be fully perceived without sufficient data.
Secondly, Wisdom Express has not yet formed a comprehensive management and control network. The current operation, maintenance and control of highway equipment and systems is still a passive mode. In addition, a large number of new equipment has emerged in recent years. In addition to traditional electromechanical equipment and cameras, such as site all-in-one machines, various Internet of Things equipment, and various levels of operation Management center equipment, etc., urgently need a comprehensive management and control network and operation and maintenance platform for unified, efficient and automated management and services.
For example, after the completion of the cancellation and upgrade of toll stations last year, the stable operation, maintenance management and service guarantee of the free flow mast are directly related to the policy operation of the entire highway. The Ministry of Transport requires the mast system to be repaired in 4 hours and the provincial center requires 2 hours to repair. The traditional operation and maintenance model is stretched out.
In addition, how to accelerate the integration of new digital technologies into the scene of smart companies. This involves not only how some traditional business scenarios use technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence to improve intelligence, further reducing costs and increasing efficiency; but also how to further explore new scenarios and new services based on digital technologies such as 5G, big data, and artificial intelligence. Innovation.
Finally, Wisdom Express is a long-term business covering "construction, management, maintenance, transportation, and service". With the deepening of digital transformation, data-based scientific and comprehensive decision-making capabilities will become more important. How to rely on advanced digital technology , Products and solutions, and gradually change the traditional decision-making methods that rely on experience in the past, and scientific decision-making based on data and data value will be the general trend.
In response to these trends and challenges, Lu Haikong, general manager of Huawei's China government and enterprise transportation industry, said bluntly that Huawei hopes to realize the whole life cycle of expressway "construction, management, maintenance, transportation, and service" to realize the whole road network perception, all-weather traffic, and the whole process. Management and control, full-process service, and continuously improving highway safety, efficiency, service, and management through "human wisdom, advanced technical means, and collaborative operating mechanism", helping the digital transformation and upgrading of the entire highway transportation industry.
To speed up smart high-speed, Huawei has to play these cards
Although expressway is only a subdivision of the transportation industry, due to the large scale of business, numerous and complex scenarios, the integration of new technologies such as big data, Internet of Things, and AI is accelerating, making the construction of smart expressways not a single manufacturer or a certain number of companies. What can be achieved with only one technology will definitely be the comprehensive effect of multiple products, multiple technologies, and multiple solutions.
To this end, Huawei's multiple departments continue to deepen their efforts in the field of smart high-speed, and take a multi-pronged approach in terms of products, technologies, scenarios, and solutions.
In terms of product technology, Huawei provides a solid technical foundation for smart high-speed with multiple core technologies of “cloud, network, edge, and end”. HUAWEI CLOUD provides a solid foundation for the smart high-speed brain. Through big data and artificial intelligence algorithm platforms, it breaks data islands around "building, management, maintenance, operation, and service" and enables high-speed industry applications; Huawei wireless, data communication and transmission, It will provide smart high-speed services with high-reliability, low-latency, and large-bandwidth next-generation digital network pipelines through 5G, optical fiber dedicated lines, and Internet technologies; smart computing provides powerful AI computing power at the edge, and real-time analysis and processing of road information , To meet the real-time requirements of smart high-speed services; software-defined all-smart cameras can provide scene video surveillance for the road side.
Huawei Smart High Speed Solution
For example, in response to the "visual, measurable, controllable, and serviceable" operation and monitoring requirements of expressways, Smart Express is eager to have a next-generation digital transmission network to support free-flow tolling and autonomous driving in the era of road network integration. demand. To this end, Huawei uses its deep technology accumulation in 5G+F5G to prepare for the smart and high-speed next-generation digital transmission network at the product technical level. 5G focuses on massive object connections, focusing on high bandwidth, large connections, and low latency; while F5G focuses on fixed connection scenarios, focusing on Tbps-level bandwidth, 100,000-level connections, and us-level experience. The two technologies have their own strengths and complement each other. , Very suitable for various business scenarios of smart high-speed road network collaboration.
At the solution level, Huawei has worked with many partners to create multiple solutions covering road network perception, road network cognition, smart road network, and free flow tolling.
A very important direction for the construction of Smart Highway is: vehicle-road coordination. Huawei’s vehicle-road collaboration solution adopts a “1+2+3” architecture at the architectural level: a digital base, including vehicle-end TBOX/modules, roadside holographic sensing, RSU/5G/4G, and Huawei Cloud, supporting transportation infrastructure Digital construction of facilities; two intelligent engines, C-ITS traffic management and control services and C-AD autonomous driving services; facing three types of industry application scenarios, cities, highways, and parks, work with partners to jointly develop smart high-speed applications.
With the cancellation of provincial highway toll stations, the typical multi-technology integration scenarios such as free-flow tolling and highway supervising have extremely high requirements for the comprehensive capabilities of the solution. Huawei's smart site integration solution integrates communications, storage, computing, and power, with multiple reliability designs and integrated deployment of cloud and pipe ends, successfully meeting the needs of scenarios such as free-flow tolling and highway regulation. In 2019 alone, Huawei's integrated site solution has successfully deployed 16,000 sets in 29 provinces in China, ensuring that high-speed toll collection is unattended for 24 hours and ETC business is zero interruption.
Another example is that with the continuous advancement of the construction of smart highways, the model of “focusing on construction and single point” is gradually shifting to “focusing on operations, integration and services”. The operation and maintenance management of smart highways will be the most important construction in the future. direction. Huawei's highway unified operation and maintenance platform solution provides cloud-side collaboration and centralized overall management, can establish a unified operation and maintenance service system and platform for highways, and has a variety of flexible deployment methods that can help highway agencies at all levels to achieve Expressway operation and maintenance automation, visualization, and full-process management.
Walking with people who understand: Huawei practices new transportation infrastructure
From a long-term perspective, Wisdom Express is an all-round revolution in technology, development models, services, etc. It requires the construction of an overall system of "digital perception", "ubiquitous connection", "digital platform" and "smart application". In this change, the best results must be achieved through concerted efforts and joint innovation. Especially in the post-epidemic era, China's economy has begun a comprehensive and strong recovery, and the digital transformation of the transportation industry will enter the fast lane, and there is a stronger demand for smart highways.
According to Lu Haikong, general manager of Huawei's China government and enterprise transportation industry, Huawei, as a “knowledgeable” person who accelerates the digital transformation of various industries, integrates smart high-speed core business scenarios with the latest digital technology, and works with “expert” partners to continuously penetrate into the industry. In the scenario, create innovative scenario-based solutions to comprehensively promote the collaboration of people, vehicles, and roads to provide better protection and experience for people's transportation.
Huawei and partners jointly build smart high-speed solutions
It is reported that Huawei has joined hands with more than 20 units such as the National Transportation Investment Group and Expressway Group Corporation and more than 30 industry-leading solution partners to initiate comprehensive and deep cooperation in the field of intelligent high-speed technology innovation. At present, Huawei has participated in discussions and cooperation with more than 20 provinces including Chongqing, Guangdong, Beijing, Liaoning, Shandong, and Zhejiang in the construction and cooperation of smart highways.
For example, Huawei and Beijing Shoufa Group have jointly created Beijing's first high-tech and smart expressway: Beijing Section of Jingli Expressway. Unlike ordinary expressways, Jingli Expressway uses 5G to create innovative scene-based solutions to better support vehicle-road collaborative autonomous driving. In 2019, Huawei once again cooperated with many parties. Under more complex road conditions, using advanced technologies such as C-V2X cellular car networking communication technology and high-precision maps, L4 level autonomous driving and fleets of various types of cars and vehicles were tested in milliseconds. Formation full scene test.
In Hunan, Huawei worked with Hunan Express Group to conduct online toll auditing technology research based on artificial intelligence, big data, cloud-side-end collaboration and other technologies. The billing flow of vehicles running on the road network, license plate recognition flow, and full vehicle characteristics were multi-dimensional Data fusion, artificial intelligence algorithm online training, realizing second-level diagnostic analysis and online automatic early warning response, escort the healthy operation of Hunan Expressway toll.
There are numerous similar cases. As Lu Haikong said, in the era of "new infrastructure" in transportation, Huawei is willing to continue to "pull into the game" and continue to penetrate into the various business scenarios of Smart Express, always focusing on industry needs and challenges, and working with industry users and partners to work together Speed up for wisdom and high speed.
In general, Wisdom Express is becoming a major industry for Huawei's Chinese government and corporate affairs to implement the new concept of "knowledge and focus on digital transformation of the industry". Huawei is willing to actively understand Wisdom Express’s needs and dig deep into industry pain points, and dare to stimulate with partners The various digital trend demands of Smart Expressway are also using practical actions to deepen the various business scenarios of Smart Expressway. Huawei, a pedestrian who understands the "new infrastructure" of transportation, deserves more expectations!