Source: People's Daily Online-People's Daily
Currently, the digital economy is driving the entire society into a new era. As the basic guarantee and important support of the digital economy, new infrastructure has become the focus of attention. Driven by national and local new infrastructure-related policies, provinces and cities have begun to explore new infrastructure practices one after another, accelerating the pace of information infrastructure construction.
In the initial stage of the large-scale construction of new infrastructure, in order to better facilitate the implementation of new infrastructure in various provinces and cities, Huawei and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology wrote the "Blue Book of New Infrastructure—Intelligent Upgrade in the Digital Economy Era", based on both parties The research and understanding of new infrastructure and industry experience, from the perspective of the construction of digital industries and industrial digitalization, provide references and suggestions for the government and enterprises to use the new infrastructure for intelligent upgrades.
5G, cloud, and AI are the three elements of new infrastructure and the "engine" of the digital economy
The new infrastructure is committed to creating a new type of digital, networked, and intelligent infrastructure. 5G is a digital highway. Cloud calculates and stores data, making computing ubiquitous; AI mines, analyzes and makes decisions on data, making intelligence omnipresent; 5G, cloud and AI are the three elements of new infrastructure.
5G is a digital highway, from changing lives to changing society. 1G to 4G have solved the problem of connecting people, and 5G has opened up the Internet of Everything. 5G is not just an iteration of mobile communication technology, but an important turning point for the next round of technological revolution. The 5G network has the three characteristics of large bandwidth, high speed, low latency, high reliability, and massive connections. It can support millions of connections per square kilometer, which will bring tremendous changes to our lifestyles and provide high quality for vertical industries. Development brings new opportunities. 5G's low-latency and high-reliability features can support the dispatch of sensitive services, provide safer and more reliable network connections for vertical industries such as the Internet of Vehicles, industrial control, and smart grid, and also make application scenarios such as autonomous driving and telemedicine come true .
Cloud makes computing ubiquitous, and going to the cloud is an important symbol of digital transformation. As an important part of new infrastructure and new technology infrastructure, cloud computing plays an important role in the production of digital society. Cloud computing has the characteristics of large-scale integration of resources, high reliability, high expansion, and on-demand provision. It makes computing power like water and electricity at your fingertips, and provides inclusive and comprehensive computing public services for traditional industries. It has strong public service attributes, which is also a notable feature of cloud computing as a new infrastructure. Cloud computing has changed the traditional information infrastructure architecture, accelerated the agility of infrastructure, and promoted enterprises to reposition and improve the current key business models and complete digital transformation. Nowadays, the development of cloud computing has entered a mature period, and going to the cloud has become an important symbol of the digital transformation of enterprises.
AI is a key factor in smart upgrades, allowing smarts to do everything. Thanks to the advancement of algorithms, data, and computing power, the development of AI has moved from the partial exploration stage of technology applications to a new stage where technological development and social environment collide. In certain fields, the scene-based AI application of artificial intelligence based on images and videos has matured. AI is accelerating the in-depth integration of industry knowledge, from the support system to the main business process of the production system, becoming the center of intelligent upgrading, driving labor and work in the industry Changes in ways and work organization. According to GIV@2025 (Huawei Global Industry Outlook), the adoption rate of AI by global enterprises will reach 86% in 2025. Take Huawei itself as an example. AI has been introduced into all main business processes. It has been applied in more than 200 scenarios, including R&D, manufacturing, sales, and supply, which is equivalent to creating more than 8,000 digital employees.
5G+cloud+AI innovatively integrates perception, transmission, storage, computing, and decision-making, accelerating the productivity of cities, enterprises and industries at different levels, and will become the "engine" of new infrastructure for industrial development and drive new changes in the industry. At the same time, with the support of strong technical capabilities, it will integrate the upstream and downstream superior resources of the new infrastructure industry chain, promote the integration of traditional industries and information technology, support industry format innovation, and use the cluster effect of information technology to build new digital productivity for the new infrastructure. Industry development provides collaborative innovation services. In the future, the integration of 5G, cloud, and AI will drive more digital application scenarios to reality.
Practicing new infrastructure and co-building urban smart bodies
In order to better practice the new infrastructure and promote the rapid development of the new infrastructure, at the Huawei Full Connect 2020 held in September this year, Huawei released an intelligent solution. The agent is a cloud-based, AI-centered, open intelligent system with three-dimensional perception, global collaboration, precise judgment, and continuous evolution. It realizes the integration and collaboration of 5G, cloud, AI and applications. Intelligent upgrades provide a reference architecture and become an important engine for promoting new infrastructure and economic growth.
The city is the "integrator" of factors such as life and production, the main battlefield of new infrastructure, and the main battlefield for the practice of intelligent entities. The construction of a new type of smart city requires a system concept and overall design. The city and ICT technology must be considered as a whole to plan the layout and create a city-level integrated intelligent collaborative system—urban intelligence.
The urban intelligent body aims to make the city "perceive", "think", "evolve" and "have a temperature", improve the level of urban comprehensive governance, make residents' happiness stronger, make enterprises more efficient, and make the industry more creative Power, which requires cities to be like the human body, not only with a "brain", but also with a "trunk", "nerves", "features" and "hands and feet".
Therefore, the urban intelligent body solution includes a four-layer architecture: intelligent interaction, including Huawei and partners’ side-end devices, which are like the “facial senses” and “hands and feet” that fully perceive the people, objects, spaces and processes in the city, and Interact with them in real time; intelligent connections, including 5G, F5G, Wi-Fi6, IoT and other technologies, are like "torso" and "nerve", allowing data to be gathered at high speed, urban signs can be sensed in real time, and intelligence and execution can quickly reach the scene , To activate the innovation potential of the city; the intelligent hub, including cloud infrastructure, AI enablement (ModelArts), application enablement (ROMA) and data enablement (DAYU), is the intelligent brain and decision-making system, allowing AI to play a key role. Network collaboration, based on city data to discover problems in time, study trends, prevent risks, and respond appropriately; smart applications, through collaborative innovation with customers and partners, accelerate the in-depth integration of ICT technology and industry knowledge, reconstruct experience, optimize processes, and use Be able to innovate.
At Huawei Full Connect 2020, Shenzhen and Huawei announced the joint construction of the Pengcheng Intelligent Body to create a model city for the digital economy. Based on "data", Pengcheng intelligent body integrates 5G, cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other new generation information technologies to create a data-driven, city-level integrated intelligence with deep learning capabilities The collaborative system provides citizens and enterprises with active, accurate, intelligent and efficient city services.
At present, urban intelligent bodies have been practiced and explored in various industries in Shenzhen: in the field of digital government affairs, 98% of administrative approval items have been processed online, and 95% of administrative licensing items have "zero running"; in terms of smart transportation, Shenzhen The city’s AI smart signal light control "one network" and other smart transportation services have been built, and the speed of motor vehicles during peak hours in the city has increased by 10%; in terms of smart airport construction, Shenzhen Airport has fully realized face-to-face boarding, intelligent allocation of seats, and airport departures. The flight punctuality rate reached 90%, and the average waiting time of passengers was shortened by 40%.
In the weather forecast scenario, high-definition cameras are deployed in all districts of Shenzhen to collect image data of clouds, rain, and fog in the sky, and the collected data is transmitted back to the cloud in real time using 5G, and the data of each district is assembled into a panoramic puzzle of the sky. Fitting with weather radar data, using AI technology can accurately predict weather changes within 4 hours. At the same time, the cloud-trained model is pushed to the edge, so that the camera can also recognize subtle weather changes such as light rain and fog in real time. Through the integrated collaboration of the cloud and the network side, it provides smart weather applications, allowing users to use their mobile phones anytime, anywhere Understand the weather changes within one kilometer, and make travel arrangements based on the changes.
Not only in Shenzhen, Huawei has also joined forces with cities such as Chengdu, Fuzhou, Nanchang, and Changchun to build smart cities. Through continuous exploration and practice, it provides a new reference for the construction of new smart cities and toward full-scenario wisdom.
The agent is an open ecosystem. In the process of intelligent upgrading of government and enterprises, a prosperous software and service ecology and edge computing ecology are the key to the development of intelligent bodies, and will also give birth to two major industrial opportunities. According to Huawei's forecast, in the next five years, the global space of the edge computing industry will reach 500 billion US dollars, and the global market space of the software and service industry will reach 1 trillion US dollars. On the road to the future of smart cities and smart society, Huawei is willing to work with partners to prosper the ecology, expand the industrial space, create urban smart bodies, and build wisdom in all scenarios.