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will smart driving arrive faster?

from september 11th to 13th, the beidou application conference was held in china's "auto valley".

at present, the national level is promoting the large-scale application of beidou, and the ministry of industry and information technology has selected a number of pilot cities. beidou satellite navigation system is widely used. this selection mainly targets three areas: mass consumption, industrial manufacturing and integrated innovation.

in terms of industrial manufacturing, automobiles are the largest area of ​​beidou's large-scale application.

in this context, it is meaningful to see china's "auto valley" hosting the beidou application conference.

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now is a time of great change in the automotive industry.

wuhan economic and technological development zone, as the headquarters of dongfeng, has a deeper understanding of this. at the opening ceremony of the beidou application conference, the relevant person in charge of the economic and technological development zone mentioned:

“in the past, we viewed cars as a simple means of transportation and a mechanical product made of welding and stamping;

now, we believe that a car is a mobile intelligent terminal, a new energy storage unit and a digital living space. it is an innovative product that integrates multiple transformative technologies such as big data, the internet, and artificial intelligence.

to complete this transformation, we cannot do without positioning navigation, environmental perception, path planning, decision-making and control technologies. "

what role can beidou play?

beidou can currently achieve centimeter-level positioning and nanosecond-level timing. beidou + automobile directly points to autonomous driving.

the industry believes that high-precision positioning is a rigid requirement for l3 autonomous driving.

a research report by founder securities shows that since 2023, l3-level functions represented by urban noa are being rapidly implemented in the market. brands such as huawei and xpeng have successively released high-end smart driving models. nio, zhiji and weipai also plan to expand urban noa to more than 100 cities in 2024.

in severe weather, repetitive scenes, non-line-of-sight scenes and unstable vehicle sensors, high-precision positioning can fully meet the various positioning accuracy requirements in intelligent driving.

founder securities research institute believes that 2024 may become the first year of intelligent driving.

in 2020, the beidou application conference was also held in wuhan, with optics valley as the host venue.

many of wuhan’s leading beidou companies are located in optics valley, such as mengxin technology, which develops beidou high-precision positioning chips, jio space, a gis basic platform software provider, and yixun beidou, a beidou terminal manufacturer.

optics valley has corresponding representative enterprises in the upstream, midstream and downstream of the geographic information industry.

what's in chegu?

beidou application scenarios.

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there are also beidou industry-related companies in chegu, but chegu’s most unique advantage lies in the automobile industry, coupled with the low-altitude flight field which has been booming in recent years.

let’s talk about the automotive industry first.

auto valley has a world-class automobile complete vehicle and parts industry cluster, with 10 complete vehicle companies, 14 complete vehicle factories, and a new energy vehicle production capacity of over 1.4 million vehicles. countries such as the united states, britain, france, germany, and japan have all built complete vehicle or parts companies in the region.

wuhan economic and technological development zone has the largest industrial scale in the province, and the automobile industry makes the greatest contribution.

however, if beidou is to be applied on a large scale in the automotive industry, in addition to vehicle manufacturers, a suitable ecosystem is also needed.

wuhan economic and technological development zone is the first area in central china where all roads support the testing of intelligent connected vehicles. the total mileage of open test roads exceeds 3,379 kilometers, and the number of travel service orders has exceeded 1.76 million.

at the beidou application conference, dongfeng motor corporation announced that it will invest more than 60 billion yuan in the next three years to build a source of original automotive technology, using beidou high-precision positioning and navigation as its core technology, and launch 30 new passenger car new energy products and 14 commercial vehicle new energy basic models.

dgbeacon learned that the economic development zone plans to further expand the scale of intelligent connected test roads, promote the networking and joint control of all traffic lights in the central urban area, accelerate the holographic transformation of intersections and expressway ramps, and build an unmanned driving operation city that reaches tens of millions of people.

this kind of advanced exploration is rare in the country.

in addition to the automotive industry, aircraft is also a major area where the ministry of industry and information technology is promoting the large-scale application of beidou.

just as cars need to be equipped with beidou chips, the high-density, massive low-altitude aircraft that will appear in the sky in the future will also need to be equipped with high-precision maps to know where they are and where they are going.

the economic and technological development zone established the general aviation and satellite industrial park 10 years ago. it has now built the largest general aviation airport in hubei province and has leading drone manufacturing companies such as rising sun and blue sky.

low-altitude economy is the current trend, and the economic and technological development zone has ushered in a new opportunity besides smart connected vehicles.

both of them are closely related to beidou.

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high-precision positioning is seen as a reliable aid to intelligent driving. in the field of integration and intersection of the two, a number of upstream and downstream companies have been born.

from a domestic perspective, the main domestic navigation equipment terminal companies include huace navigation, zhongheda, sina navigation, beiyun, etc.; the positioning service providers include qianxun location, unistrong, higer communications, etc.; the positioning algorithm companies include meixin technology, zhendian technology, and gongji technology, etc.

in the future, more similar companies will inevitably emerge.

wuhan’s goal is to have 800,000 motor vehicles equipped with beidou technology on-board terminals by 2025, and to have all commercial low-altitude aircraft (uavs) produced in wuhan covered by beidou navigation.

as early as 2021, wuhan's car ownership exceeded 4 million. so, assuming wuhan achieves its set target, the proportion of motor vehicles in wuhan equipped with beidou technology on-board terminals will be less than 1/5 by next year.

looking at the whole country, this is already a fairly high proportion.

in 2023, the number of motor vehicles in china will reach 435 million, including 336 million cars. the main applications of beidou in the automotive industry include high-precision positioning navigation and in-vehicle satellite communication, and the chinese automobile market has reached about 30 million vehicles.

many mainstream automobile brands, including dongfeng, saic, geely, xiaopeng, ideal, faw, and gac, all have models equipped with the beidou high-precision positioning service system.

but when you think about it, the proportion of cars equipped with the beidou system is only about 1/10.

the national government has clearly proposed to "expand the proportion of beidou vehicles installed". in the field of motor vehicles, every 1% increase in this proportion is a huge market.

it is precisely because of this opportunity that wuhan proposed to attract and cultivate 1,000 beidou industry enterprises by 2025, and the scale of related industries will reach 100 billion yuan.

with the help of the beidou application conference, an industry event, wuhan can gather high-quality resources in the industry, attract more attention here, and generate collisions of ideas, thus accelerating the arrival of the era of intelligent driving.

text/chai gui

[source: jiupai news]