Abstract: At HUAWEI CONNECT 2020, Hou Jinlong, President of Huawei Cloud and Computing BG, released an intelligent body, which is the industry's first systematic reference architecture for the intelligent upgrade of government and enterprises.
Recently, at HUAWEI CONNECT 2020, Hou Jinlong, President of Huawei Cloud and Computing BG, released an intelligent body , which is the industry's first systematic reference architecture for the intelligent upgrade of government and enterprises . Customers and partners can create their own smart solutions based on agents. The intelligent body is composed of four layers: intelligent interaction, intelligent connection, intelligent hub, and intelligent application, which organically constitute an integrated intelligent system of cloud-network side-end collaboration. It is based on the cloud and AI as the core. Through cloud and network side-end collaboration, it builds an intelligent system that is open, three-dimensional perception, global collaboration, precise judgment and continuous evolution, and brings full-scenario wisdom to urban governance, enterprise production, and residents’ lives. Experience.
At this meeting, Shenzhen and Huawei announced the joint construction of Pengcheng intelligent body to create a digital economy model city.
▲Hou Jinlong, President of Huawei Cloud and Computing BG, delivered a keynote speech
The following is the full text of Hou Jinlong's speech:
Ladies and gentlemen, friends, good morning, and welcome to the Huawei Connected Conference.
Yesterday, Huawei Chairman Guo Ping delivered a speech on "Five Machines Collaboration to Create New Value in the Industry". We believe that the integration of the five technologies of connection, computing, cloud, AI, and application can accelerate the intelligent upgrade of enterprises and industries and bring new value in three areas:
- Reconstruct life experience . For example, one yard of subways and buses, free-flow tolls on highways, one-face walking around airports, unmanned supermarkets, etc.
- Optimize the production process . For example, AI assists CT diagnosis of the new crown, AI accelerates drug screening, AI allows synthetic fibers from random inspection to full inspection, and AI contract intelligent review.
- Enable industry innovation. For example, through the collaboration of cloud, 5G, AI, and the edge, drones can realize intelligent inspections of urban lifelines such as power grids, mines, and ports, and realize unmanned and automated inspections.
These values let us see that smart upgrade is the key to enterprises and industries to enhance their core competitiveness.
Four challenges of smart upgrade
In the practice of smart upgrade, we must face many challenges:
☞First of all, it is the challenge from the side. There are many types of terminals, and the environment varies greatly. The intelligent era needs to coordinate these complex and isolated terminals organically, and realize the continuous upgrade and iteration of software and algorithms, so that data and intelligence can flow.
☞Secondly, it is the challenge of connection. Existing physical connections cannot meet the diverse needs of industry scenarios, including bandwidth, delay, number of connections, and industry specifications. There is also a need to connect people, things, applications, and data in the digital world.
☞The third is the challenge of application and data. How to break the data island, realize the intercommunication of the data of various departments, how to make the new and old applications interoperate, and assist the evolution of the old applications, while making the development of new applications easier?
☞Finally, AI applications need to be combined with industry knowledge. But often those who understand AI don't understand the industry, and those who understand the industry don't understand AI.
Today, we are here to officially release the agent to solve these challenges through the integration of "5 machines". The intelligent body is the reference architecture for the intelligent upgrade of government and enterprise. It takes AI as the core, cloud-based, and through cloud network side-end collaboration to build an open, three-dimensional perception, global collaboration, precise judgment and continuous evolution of the intelligent system.
Agent: Intelligent upgrade reference architecture
▲Intelligent upgrade reference architecture diagram
As shown in the figure above, the agent includes four layers :
- Intelligent interaction : Connect the physical world and the digital world, allowing software, data and AI algorithms to flow freely on the edge of the cloud.
- Intelligent connection : seamless coverage and interconnection of everything, so as to realize application collaboration, data collaboration, and organization collaboration.
- Intelligent Hub : It is the brain and decision-making system of the intelligent body, based on cloud infrastructure, enabling applications, enabling data, inclusive AI, and supporting intelligent applications in all scenarios.
- Smart application : Accelerate the in-depth integration of connectivity, cloud, AI, computing and other technologies with industry knowledge, and collaborate with customers and partners to innovate to reconstruct experience, optimize processes, and enable innovation.
Through the deep integration of "5 machines", the agent can perceive, think, execute, and evolve. The biggest feature of an intelligent body is cloud-network side-end collaboration, which is an integrated intelligent system.
Why do we need cloud-network side-end collaboration?
This case shows that through the in-depth integration of 5G, cloud, AI, and intelligent edge, an integrated intelligent system can be formed, which can create the industry's current leading intelligent experience.
The following specifically introduces the various components of the agent.
Intelligent interaction
Cloud-side collaboration accelerates the free flow of data and AI
Intelligent interaction is the "five senses" and "hands and feet" of the agent, allowing the agent to perceive and execute. The core technology of intelligent interaction is the edge-cloud collaborative operating system IEF. IEF can be built into the equipment of various partners, making the equipment the intelligent edge of Huawei Cloud and realizing intelligent on-demand deployment. IEF can interface with various operating systems, such as Hongmeng, so that Hongmeng Eco can also be easily connected to Huawei Cloud.
Huawei has open sourced KubeEdge, the core of IEF, and contributed it to the CNCF Foundation. It is the most popular open source community in the edge field. There are currently more than 500 core contributors, which have been widely used in many industries.
For example, based on IEF, the National Expressway Mast Management System manages nearly 100,000 mast edge nodes across the country, makes all node management automated and intelligent, and automatically collects more than 300 million pieces of information every day, and more than 500,000 edge nodes Applications can be pushed from the cloud to the edge for deployment and upgrades, making the high-speed smoother, and at the same time providing good support for vehicle-road collaboration and autonomous driving in the future.
Smart connection
All things connected, all things connected
Intelligent connection is the "torso" of the agent, connecting the intelligent center and intelligent interaction.
For smart connections, seamless coverage and interconnection of everything can be achieved through physical connections such as 5G. On the basis of intelligent connection, through HUAWEI CLOUD ROMA to realize application and data collaboration, revitalize historical applications and data assets, realize the flow and sharing of data assets between new and old applications, create a network of applications, and a game of chess; through WeLink The collaboration between people and organizations allows employees, customers, and partners to enjoy the new experience brought by the intelligent body.
Smart hub
Hybrid cloud, build an ideal base for smart upgrades
The intelligent center is the "brain" and decision-making system of the agent. Its core is the hybrid cloud base and three enablements : application enablement, data enablement, and AI enablement.
With the intelligent upgrade of the industry, many customers hope to have a wealth of high-end services, but also to support local deployment and meet the habits of enterprise operation and maintenance to ensure data security and compliance, but traditional private cloud and pure public cloud solutions cannot be completely To meet the demand, therefore, we hope to create a hybrid cloud solution that truly meets the needs of government and enterprises. The HUAWEI CLOUD hybrid cloud solution synchronizes public cloud capabilities and can be deployed locally. From resource mixing to capability integration, it matches the organizational structure and business process of government and enterprise, and realizes a cloud from the user's perspective.
First, it is necessary to match government and enterprise organizations and business processes. For example, the Huawei Hybrid Cloud 5-level VDC (virtual data center) solution can match the multi-level organizational structure and process of government and enterprise. It provides agent maintenance and co-maintenance, so that enterprise IT staff can start from the second line. Operation and maintenance personnel become first-line production personnel.
Secondly, HUAWEI CLOUD hybrid cloud can be deployed locally, data stays locally, and your data is yours.
Third, let government and enterprises synchronize the latest high-end services of the public cloud and synchronize with the latest technology in the world.
With a hybrid cloud base, the three enabling platforms are also critical.
1 Application enablement makes application development easier.
Every enterprise has a large number of new applications to be developed. HUAWEI CLOUD ROMA provides low-code and zero-code development capabilities, supports all-cloud online development, cloud-on-cloud one-click deployment, which can continuously accumulate industry assets and realize software asset reuse. Lego Style development. At the same time, every enterprise has many old applications and old databases. HUAWEI CLOUD ROMA provides a platform-based and service-oriented way to allow new and old applications and data to be interoperable, allowing enterprise IT to remain unbroken, and achieving a smooth enterprise application and technical architecture. Evolution. Take Huawei itself as an example. With ROMA, the application development time has been reduced from 10 months to 1 week.
2 Data enable makes data application easier.
A lot of customer data is distributed in different departments, but only when the data is shared globally can it exert greater value. HUAWEI CLOUD DAYU provides an original logical data lake solution that allows data to be physically distributed in different departments, logically can be centrally managed and analyzed, and realize global data sharing.
3AI enabled, Huawei Cloud ModelArts makes it easier to develop AI.
Let me introduce AI enabling in detail below.
Smart hub
AI enabled, accumulate industry knowledge
Accelerate main business process innovation
AI enablement is the core of the agent. ModelArts makes the development and management of the entire life cycle of AI simple and automated, so that Xiaobai can also develop AI applications, know how to write code, and then AI; let the experts be more specialized and focus on the research of algorithms and models. ModelArts accumulates the expert's industry knowledge in the suite and industry workflow, so that the experience of the industry's old experts is templated to help partners and developers to quickly develop smart applications.
Taking PetroChina as an example, after accumulating industry capabilities, with the help of Huawei Cloud Knowledge Atlas Suite, a professional model in the field of oil logging was quickly constructed, which realized intelligent identification of oil, gas and water layers, shortened evaluation time by more than 70%, and reached an accuracy rate of experts. Level.
Smart application
Collaborative innovation to create new value in the industry
Smart application is the presentation of the value of an agent . Through collaborative innovation with customers and partners, it reconstructs the experience, optimizes the process, and enables innovation. It is very important for business departments, IT departments, and partners to participate in depth together. Only by focusing on the issues and scenarios that business departments care about can it be easier to create more valuable smart applications.
Take Shenzhen traffic governance as an example. In order to achieve comprehensive governance, the Road Management Division takes the lead, the cooperation of various departments, and the in-depth participation of Huawei and partners. Focusing on business needs and scenarios, the barriers between departments are broken, the overall process is optimized, and the cloud network is realized. Side-to-side collaboration has created an "integrated traffic management command business platform". The congestion index has dropped by 8%, law enforcement efficiency has increased by 50%, and command efficiency has increased by 25%.
Detailed introduction to the agent
Please scan the code to download "Agent White Paper"
The Practice of Agents in Huawei
Huawei's own digital transformation is to adopt an intelligent body architecture.
- In terms of intelligent interaction , through IEF, more than 6 million interactive devices such as cameras, smart screens, and sensors are connected to realize edge intelligence.
- In terms of smart connection , WiFi 6 and 5G were introduced to cover all parks. Close to 200,000 employees, over one million partners and customers are connected through WeLink.
- In terms of the smart hub , all Huawei resources and data are aggregated on Huawei Cloud, and IT capabilities are provided on the cloud. At the same time, AI is introduced into all main business processes of Huawei. At present, it has been applied in 200 scenarios, such as sales, R&D, manufacturing, supply, etc., creating more than 8,000 digital employees.
Intelligent body creates whole-process smart supply
In the field of supply, Huawei has operations in more than 170 countries and regions, with 190 central warehouses. We introduced AI capabilities into all links of the entire supply process through the agent, and achieved:
- The accuracy rate of cargo volume estimation is increased to 70%.
- In the packing process, there are more than 8,000 kinds of packing boxes and more than 30 kinds of car models. The AI sorting algorithm is introduced to increase the vehicle loading rate and save nearly 100 million yuan each year.
- The customs declaration process involves 23 languages around the world. With the help of OCR technology, the accuracy of text recognition is 99%.
- Intelligent route optimization reduces the exception fee for delivery by 35%.
So far, the order fulfillment cycle has dropped by 76%, saving more than RMB 7 billion last year. We will turn all these capabilities into services on Huawei Cloud and open them to everyone.
Agents make project delivery easier
Engineering delivery is a key business of many companies. Huawei delivers more than 3 million sites each year, and more than 50 million installation items require acceptance. In the past, supervisors, customers, Huawei, and partners were required to visit the site in batches, and multiple inspections were time-consuming and laborious.
After the introduction of AI, it is transmitted to the back-end through video in real time, using visual analysis and item quality inspection algorithms to check job compliance in real time, and remotely intelligently accept all components. The acceptance time for each site is reduced from 4 hours to half Within hours. After we introduced AI into all aspects of project delivery, we saved more than 6 billion yuan in costs last year.
Agents are being practiced and explored in thousands of industries
In addition to Huawei's own practice, the agent is also exploring and practicing in 600 projects. Taking the high-speed free flow as an example, more than 9,400 toll stations and 80,000 lanes have been renovated across the country, and a national highway network has been realized, creating an era of non-perceived traffic at toll stations. At Yongfeng Steel, through the fusion of AI and industrial mechanisms, the accuracy of steel intelligent rating results is over 95%, and the rating efficiency is hundreds of times that of manual labor.
Open ecology: symbiosis, co-creation and sharing
Agents are an open ecosystem. In the process of intelligent upgrade of government and enterprises, a prosperous software and service ecology and edge computing ecology are the key to the development of agents, and it will also give birth to two big industrial opportunities.
In the next five years, the global space for software and services will reach US$1 trillion, and the cloudification and SaaSization of the software industry is accelerating. Huawei Cloud is positioned as a neutral cloud service provider , and its application software and service ecosystem are completely open. Through application enablement, AI enablement, and data enablement, it will help software SaaSization and intelligent upgrade , build the best SaaS service development and operation platform , help partners to succeed in business, and reshape the sustainable software and service industry.
In the next five years, the global space of the edge computing industry will reach US$500 billion, and the edge ecology of Huawei Cloud will be completely open. The partner's device can use IEF to access the intelligent body, communicate with the Hongmeng ecosystem, and enjoy the bonus brought by the intelligent upgrade.
We hope to work with our partners to prosper the ecology, enlarge the industrial space, and help the intelligent upgrading of the industry. We always believe that: the success of customers and partners is the real success!
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