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On August 23, as one of the important forums of the 8th Future Network Development Conference, the 2024 China Unicom AIoT Ecological Cooperation Conference with the theme of "Investigating Things, Creating New Intelligence and Creating the Future" was grandly held. Ouyang Wu, Deputy Secretary-General (Director-level) of the China Communications Society, Ma Yang, Party Group Member and Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Communications Administration, Li Yan, Senior Vice President of Unicom Digital Technology and General Manager of the Internet of Things Business Unit and Dean of China Unicom Internet of Things Research Institute, Zhang Guopeng, Deputy General Manager of Jiangsu Branch of China Unicom, and other relevant representatives from government, industry, academia and research from all over the country gathered together to discuss development plans. The conference was jointly hosted by the China Communications Society, Zijinshan Laboratory, Jiangsu Future Network Innovation Research Institute, Jiangsu Future Network Group Co., Ltd., Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd., and Jiangsu Branch of China Unicom.

Insight into the value of AIoT industry and jointly explore the future of IoT industry

Photo: Ouyang Wu, Deputy Secretary-General (Director-level) of the China Institute of Communications, delivered an opening speech

At the meeting, Ouyang Wu, Deputy Secretary-General (at the bureau level) of the China Institute of Communications, delivered an opening speech. He highly recognized the innovative achievements in the AIoT field such as the Gewu platform and Yanfei core module created by China Unicom, and hoped that Unicom would be able to build a close cooperation bridge between the government and enterprises in the future and guide the industry to develop in a healthier and more sustainable direction.

Photo: Ma Yang, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of Jiangsu Provincial Communications Administration, delivering a speech

Ma Yang, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Communications Administration, delivered a speech. He expressed his expectations in several aspects, including infrastructure construction, promoting technological innovation, improving the industrial ecology and strengthening security guarantees. He hoped that all parties would work together to create a new situation for the development of the AIoT industry.

Photo: Li Yan, Senior Vice President of China Unicom Digital Technology and General Manager of the Internet of Things Business Unit, and Director of China Unicom Internet of Things Research Institute, delivered a speech

Li Yan, senior vice president of China Unicom Digital Technology and general manager of the Internet of Things Business Unit, and dean of China Unicom Internet of Things Research Institute, pointed out that the combination of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things has become an important engine for forging new productivity and promoting the digital transformation of the economy and society. At present, China Unicom Digital Technology's Internet of Things has gradually built an AIoT core capability system that integrates "end-network-cloud-intelligence-security", and the business scale has always maintained rapid growth. The number of connections on the Gewu CMP platform exceeds 560 million, and the Gewu DMP platform has built more than 1,000 general object models and 30+ industry object models in subdivided fields, achieving stable load-bearing at the tens of millions level, and has created an Internet of Things product matrix at the tens of millions and hundreds of millions level. He said that through this conference, he hopes to provide customers with excellent services and contribute wisdom and value to the industry.

China Unicom fully embraces AI and launches a new AIoT product system

At present, the rapid development of the Internet of Things industry is strongly driving all industries to move towards the intelligent, green and professional AIoT era.

In this context, He Fei, deputy general manager of the Internet of Things Division of China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd., released the "S" plan, which is "smarter and safer". He said that China Unicom's Internet of Things business has gone through the foundation-building period with the "C" plan, which focuses on network connectivity, and the growth period with the "D" plan, which connects "end-network-cloud" as the core. It has now entered a new stage of leapfrog development with the "S" plan as the core, which is the comprehensive integration of "end-network-cloud-intelligent security". Among them, the "S" plan refers to "smarter" and "security". In terms of intelligence, it focuses on the four dimensions of connection, platform, hardware, and application to comprehensively improve the intelligence level of the Internet of Things; and in terms of security, it has built a solid security capability system, covering a security platform base, 4 types of customized IoT security products, and a wide range of N scenario-based security applications, to comprehensively build China Unicom's Internet of Things into a safe and reliable intelligent Internet of Things.

Based on the smarter and safer "S" plan, Li Kai, CTO of the Internet of Things Business Unit of China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd., released a number of AIoT achievements. He emphasized that China Unicom Digital Internet of Things adheres to the innovative concept of "network software, software hardware, and hardware intelligence" to forge autonomous capabilities. Based on the new AIoT capability base, it has created a number of AIoT products with core advantages such as extreme cost, extreme power consumption, extreme performance, and extreme security, including Yanfei's low-power and wide-voltage Cat.1 module, Yanfei's low-cost RedCap module, Yanfei's high-computing power 5G AI module, side-plug-in Cat.1 Dongle, and Yanfei AI inference machine products, which fully meet the scenario needs of commercial enterprises, industry, smart cities, etc.

Figure: China Unicom AIoT product system comprehensive renewal launch ceremony

The release of the "S" plan and AIoT achievements marks a comprehensive renewal of China Unicom's AIoT product system. It represents that China Unicom Digital Internet of Things is focusing on the development of the AIoT industry, deeply rooted in industry scenarios, and has the ability to create more intelligent, efficient and secure solutions, which has effectively promoted the overall upgrade of the industrial chain!

Strengthen the construction of AIoT cooperation ecosystem and jointly explore new opportunities in the era of intelligent interconnection of all things

Many guests shared their views on the future development direction and trends of AIoT. Fan Jian, chief scientist of big data of China Unicom, said that China Unicom uses the Yuanjing big model to intelligently upgrade the Unilink industrial Internet platform, create a new industrial application ecosystem, and promote the development of the industrial Internet in a smarter, more efficient and safer direction. Dr. Xu Ke, partner of Deutsche Telekom International Consulting (China), emphasized the importance of AIoT as a key technology to promote the development of intelligent ecosystems in promoting industrial upgrading, creating new market opportunities and building a more intelligent and interconnected future society. Du Jiadong, deputy director of the 5G Application Innovation Center of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and chairman of the 5G Industry Application Group of the 5G Application Industry Array, shared the development trend of mobile Internet of Things in the AI ​​era.

Photo: Jing Wei, Vice President of Jiangsu Yuyue Medical Equipment Co., Ltd., shared his thoughts

In addition, the conference also invited representatives from Yunjin Smart Technology Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Yuyue Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. to share their practical applications in the AIoT industry.

In order to fully recognize the outstanding partners of the past year, China Unicom Digital IoT also awarded the Best Ecosystem Partner Award, Best Science and Technology Cooperation Award, and Best Value Contribution Award to its partners. The company is committed to working hand in hand with partners to integrate innovation and build a new AIoT industry ecosystem.

The signing ceremony of five major projects including the "Yuyue Group Smart Healthcare Project" was also witnessed at the meeting. China Unicom is building a win-win IoT ecosystem by establishing an open cooperation platform.

Photo: Yuyue Group’s smart medical project signing ceremony

This year marks the 30th anniversary of China Unicom's founding, and also the 10th anniversary of China Unicom's professional operation of the Internet of Things. Through this conference, China Unicom demonstrated its innovative achievements in the field of AIoT to the industry, and also deeply promoted the deep integration of AI technology and the Internet of Things industry, broadening the boundaries of technology application. In the future, China Unicom will continue to play a good role as a bridge between AIoT industries, and work with partners to create new heights of value in the AIoT industry through exploration and practice, leading the industry's collaborative innovation and jointly creating ecological prosperity.