decoding the underlying logic of the internet of everything to see how hongmeng leads the way in smart office
2024-09-05
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according to data released by the ministry of industry and information technology, as of the end of november 2023, the number of iot connections in my country has exceeded 2.3 billion, and the rapidly developing iot industry is driving social and economic changes.
with the support of new technologies, the office model of enterprises has also ushered in earth-shaking changes. the new generation of smart office can bring employees an immersive work experience through intelligent systems, stimulate their creativity, and greatly improve work efficiency.
according to the huawei harmonyos 2030 white paper, by 2030, ai assistance will help the industry achieve an average 30% improvement in work efficiency. facing the trend of the times, leading companies with a keen sense of smell have already made arrangements in advance. with its forward-looking design concept and native intelligence, native security, and full-scenario features, huawei harmonyos next has shown great potential in internal office scenarios as soon as it was released, and has been favored by many leading companies.
on august 30, at the shanghai hongmeng ecosystem partner forum, several internal office applications announced the launch of hongmeng native application development cooperation. representatives from fudan university information office, aia, and fanwei also shared how to leverage the innovative features of harmonyos next to achieve a comprehensive upgrade of internal office applications, providing a valuable reference for more internal work applications of government and enterprises to accelerate the adaptation of native hongmeng versions. in fact, before this, a large number of companies have already started the process of making their internal office applications native hongmeng.
these internal enterprise applications are a very important part of the strategic layout of the hongmeng ecosystem. although most applications are not perceived by the majority of consumers, those who use these apps are employees of institutions and enterprises that perform important functions in thousands of industries. these well-known companies have launched native hongmeng adaptation at this time, which also shows that the hongmeng ecosystem has completed the aggregation of commonly used consumer applications in the first phase and has officially entered a new stage of launching hongmeng adaptation for enterprises and institutions in thousands of industries. i believe that in the near future, not only ordinary consumers can become part of the hongmeng world, but enterprises and institutions will also be able to truly achieve autonomous and controllable digital upgrades through hongmeng.
so, how did the hongmeng ecosystem rise so quickly? through hongmeng's rise, from concept to product, from challenges to opportunities, from single products to ecosystems, we can see that a world where everything is intelligently connected is getting closer and closer to us.
a do-or-die battle for “ecology”
according to the latest data released by counterpoint research, harmonyos's market share in china has increased from 8% in the first quarter of 2023 to 17% in the first quarter of 2024, officially surpassing apple's ios and becoming china's second largest operating system.
it took five years to sharpen a sword. from the initial birth of the harmonyos system in 2019 to the current "native harmonyos" harmonyos next, along the way, whether it is ai big models, ai frameworks, or core technologies such as encryption security have been recognized by the market.
however, huawei's ambition goes far beyond this!
"if a mature operating system needs a solid foundation, a prosperous ecosystem, and an ultimate experience, then hongmeng has completed two major battles, and the remaining battle is the ecosystem," gong ti, president of huawei's terminal business software department, said at the developer conference, "if the ecosystem succeeds, hongmeng will succeed!"
as an operating system, the sheer number of hardware cannot determine success or failure. only building a healthy and prosperous ecosystem is the key to hongmeng's success. it is precisely because of this that hongmeng has always adhered to the concept of open collaboration with many brands and win-win cooperation since its birth.
as early as 2020, huawei donated the basic capabilities of harmonyos to the open atom open source foundation, forming the openharmony open source project. in order to help more partners and developers quickly access the hongmeng ecosystem, huawei has now opened up top technologies and capabilities such as the harmonyos sdk to all developers, providing more than 3,000 meta-service apis and more than 40 scenario-based controls, bringing comprehensive support to developers in six major areas from application frameworks to ai, graphics, etc.
in addition, huawei has worked with ecological partners to build more than 20 harmonyos native industry application "model rooms", greatly reducing the difficulty and cost of accessing the new system, helping developers to "move in with their bags" efficiently, and allowing more applications in thousands of industries to quickly become "harmonyos-based".
the hongmeng ecosystem is not a one-man show, the puzzle is taking shape!
it took google and apple more than ten years to build the current android and ios ecosystems. in contrast, less than a year has passed since yu chengdong announced the full launch of harmonyos native applications in september last year. harmonyos has gained the launch adaptation of more than 5,000 applications across the country with an unstoppable momentum, of which more than 1,500 have been put on the shelves, covering convenient life, travel and tourism, financial management, social information, government affairs and people's livelihood, productivity tools, audio and video entertainment, games, news media, corporate office and other fields. the rise of the harmonyos ecosystem is amazingly fast.
since this year's huawei developer conference, huawei has entered a new stage of aggregating internal office applications for enterprises and has received strong support from leading companies in various fields, which has enabled them to gain a more efficient and convenient new office experience:
• midea group announced that the group’s three internal office applications – “midea cloud sales”, “midea service” and “retail assistant” – have completed the development of core functions of hongmeng native applications, greatly improving the efficiency of collaboration between employees within the “midea” enterprise, between distributors and agents, and between installers and customers;
• after the hongmeng version, the multi-terminal synchronization experience of the internal mobile office application ezhangtong app of china mobile guangdong company has become smoother. employees can obtain work information anytime and anywhere on multiple devices such as mobile phones and tablets, breaking the many bottlenecks that restricted office processing efficiency in the past;
•after starting the development of harmonyos native applications, bank of communications’ internal collaborative office applications, jiaorongtong and bank of communications e-diantong, have undergone comprehensive upgrades in terms of technical framework, security strategy, functional layout, user interface, cross-end collaboration, etc., to achieve cross-device flow and help employees grasp important work information anytime and anywhere.
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the native harmonyos support for many vertical segment applications has achieved full coverage of office scenarios. the harmonyos ecosystem is accelerating its integration into various industries, bursting with strong innovative vitality.
2. start a "protection" practice from the source
as of june this year, hongmeng has achieved more than 900 million ecological devices and more than 2.54 million developers. however, if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. with the global application of huawei smart devices, smart interconnection and multi-terminal interoperability, while office efficiency is improved, it is also accompanied by the generation, collection and processing of massive privacy data.
when corporate users obtain more convenient services, it also means opening up more data. according to the "2023 national mobile application security observation report" released by the china telecommunication research institute, 38% of apps currently have problems with illegally collecting personal information, and 66% of apps have medium- and high-risk vulnerabilities, which may cause users' devices to be attacked.
in the internet age, information security is undoubtedly the lifeblood of an enterprise. especially for key industries such as education, finance, energy, and medical care, the information processed often involves the core interests of the public.
it is with these in mind that harmonyos next has innovatively reconstructed the privacy and security management logic of the underlying technology, bringing the security level of the operating system to a new level.
in huawei's view, security construction cannot only focus on a certain area such as devices or the cloud. it is necessary to grasp the current security risks as a whole and establish a comprehensive security ecosystem. for this reason, huawei has specially released the new harmonyos next star shield security architecture. based on the hongmeng kernel and security root technology to reconstruct the security system and order of the operating system, the star shield security architecture has rebuilt a complete security and privacy protection system from the system layer, framework layer, and application layer. it can ensure the purity and reliability of applications from the source and make native applications safer.
prior to this, the problem of abuse of permissions has been widely criticized. under the new security access mechanism, harmonyos next only provides the data required for the current scenario through the underlying system capabilities, minimizes precise authorization, and realizes the transition from "managing permissions" to "managing data", completely innovating the way users manage permissions.
for example, uploading a picture in daily work generally requires permission for the entire gallery. however, under the new mechanism, uploading pictures only requires authorization of the required single picture, without the need to give permission to use the entire gallery. this completely revolutionizes the way users manage permissions and shields the potential risks of permission abuse to the enterprise to the greatest extent.
in terms of information security and data sharing, considering the information age, fully connected smart office software may be as popular as today's smartphones in the future, and any terminal may become a huge "information library". for enterprises, this may include top-secret information such as employee identities, company technology core, contract documents, etc. once maliciously hacked, a large amount of sensitive data will be stolen and abused, causing great losses to the company.
therefore, harmonyos next will encrypt the user's data at the device level, achieving a technological innovation from personal single-device security, multi-device security to multi-person multi-device collaborative security. once important files are shared, only authorized users can open them. even if the authorized user forwards them to others, they still cannot read them as long as they are not on the authorized list, ensuring that the entire process of sending files is controllable.
at the end of last year, huawei's hongmeng kernel passed the sgs brightsight security assessment and won the industry's first eal6+ certification. eal6+ is the highest security level for the operating system kernel. the endorsement of an international authoritative organization also fully proves the reliability of harmonyos next in the security field.
3. the transition from instructions to intentions
in 2005, the international telecommunication union released the "itu internet report 2005: internet of things", which formally proposed the "internet of things", laying the conceptual foundation for the "internet of everything".
as we all know, it takes time for a new technology to mature from conception. the internet of things is no exception. the architecture of the internet of things can be divided into the perception layer, transmission layer, and application layer. however, in the early days, related equipment could only collect information through devices such as thermometers and visible light sensors. the quality of the collected information was poor. at the same time, due to the lack of computing power, problems such as long waiting time and lag often occurred.
however, these pain points have been solved with the development of ai technology and communication technology. the emergence of ai big models has comprehensively improved ai's natural language understanding and general reasoning capabilities, thus evolving into an ai intelligent system that can perceive the environment and actively understand user intentions. with the support of ai intelligent systems, lot has grown into a more intelligent and digital aiot, evolving from "internet of everything" to "intelligent connection of everything".
"let ai collaborate with people and serve people" is the technical concept that huawei terminals have always adhered to.
in june this year, huawei and the air team of the tsinghua university institute of intelligent industry, led by academician zhang yaqin, jointly released the "ai collaborates with people and serves people - ai terminal white paper", aiming to promote industry consensus on the evolution of ai terminal capabilities and ensure that ai technology can serve people while also collaborating harmoniously with people.
after the terminal ai capabilities have gone through three stages of integrating ai at the application layer, integrating ai at the system layer, and a new ai-centric os, yu chengdong unveiled the "hongmeng native intelligence" harmony intelligence for the first time at the huawei 2024 developer conference.
the core value of harmony intelligence lies in its full-scene perception and collaboration capabilities. with the support of multimodal understanding, user personalized data analysis and other capabilities, smart devices such as mobile phones, tablets and smart screens can achieve efficient data synchronization and service, thereby improving user experience.
based on the powerful ai base of harmony intelligence, huawei xiaoyi has undergone a major upgrade, from an ai assistant to a system-level intelligent entity that can better understand and meet the personalized needs of users, from a tool to a real assistant, achieving a leap from "command-centric" to "intention-centric".
for example, we often use a lot of office software in our daily work. before, ai could only perform some simple operations such as recording and screenshots according to your instructions.
however, with the support of intelligent bodies, ai will actively think about whether your questions have deeper intentions. for example, if you provide a text of a meeting notice, it can actively pull up the calendar to create an itinerary based on the details of the content. or if you provide a picture of pure text, it can automatically help you extract the text from the picture and output it, turning your phone into a simple office assistant, greatly increasing office efficiency.
it is worth mentioning that, unlike the traditional open ai capabilities, the ai capabilities under the hongmeng native intelligent architecture are deeply integrated with the hongmeng subsystems, opening up core functions such as image intelligence, call intelligence, document intelligence, and cross-application collaboration to developers. through easy-to-use ai controls and api interfaces, developers can quickly build full-featured native intelligent applications.
the launch of harmonyos native intelligence is undoubtedly a major breakthrough for huawei in the field of ai. through the deep integration of ai and os, harmonyos native intelligence is driving the transformation of intelligent office, better perceiving work scenarios, and recommending more timely work services, bringing users an unprecedented new intelligent office experience.
conclusion
in the "2024 government work report" released at the beginning of the year, special emphasis was placed on deepening the research and development and application of big data, artificial intelligence, etc. at the same time, it was proposed for the first time to launch the "artificial intelligence +" action, which symbolizes the country's emphasis on intelligent upgrading in all walks of life. creating new intelligent productivity tools with ultimate experience has become a general trend.
for enterprises, with the rapid development of the smart office industry, the smart ecosystem created by huawei will also bring higher efficiency, more secure data protection and smoother user experience to partners. nowadays, more and more companies have chosen to upgrade their internal office platforms based on harmonyos, and hongmeng has become a torrent of the times.
yu chengdong once said: "we firmly believe that no one can extinguish the stars in the sky. today, the trend of harmonyos is set. let us welcome the brilliant galaxy that belongs to us together!" in the future, huawei looks forward to partners from thousands of industries and more massive applications joining the harmonyos ecosystem as soon as possible, and together we will be unstoppable.
source: serious finance
