On December 21, at the "2021 Huawei Intelligent Vehicle Solution Ecological Forum" held today, Huawei proposed that it will adhere to the development strategy of "platform + ecology", focus on ICT technology, build an ecosystem around the three major platforms of iDVP, MDC and HarmonyOS intelligent cockpit, and work with partners to help car companies build good cars.
Compared with traditional cars, computing and software have become the core of smart cars, which requires the joint efforts of the industrial chain to solve. Huawei believes that openness can quickly promote scientific and technological progress, and the era needs ecological enterprises the most.
Yu Chengdong, Managing Director of Huawei, CEO of Consumer BG, and CEO of Huawei Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, said in his opening speech: "Huawei adheres to the 'platform + ecology' strategy, in the field of intelligent vehicles, based on the new electrical and electronic architecture, new platform, Huawei launched the intelligent vehicle digital platform iDVP, intelligent driving computing platform MDC, and HarmonyOS intelligent cockpit, providing three digital bases and development tools for smart cars, making the development of partners more convenient and efficient. Bring consumers a smart travel experience. Huawei looks forward to more partners joining the ecosystem of intelligent evolution, jointly accelerating the evolution of intelligent vehicles, and bringing the digital world to every vehicle. ”
After practicing and summarizing in recent years, Huawei believes that the traditional vertically integrated development model, talent model, and supply chain system are all changing, and based on new digital architectures, technologies, and engineering, they are evolving into a cross-border integrated platform + ecological cooperation model.
Wang Jun, Chief Operating Officer of Huawei's Smart Vehicle Solution BU and President of the Intelligent Driving Solution Product Line, pointed out: "Going alone is fast, and everyone is far away. Over the past year or so, we have developed about 300 partners in the field of smart cars, and the pace of development has exceeded expectations. Huawei has been striving to improve the platform capabilities of ecological development, keep complexity to itself, leave convenience to customers and partners, and support partners to achieve business success in an all-round way, from development, testing, talent training to business cooperation. Facing the future, we will further increase investment in ecology and promote the sustainable development of the industry. ”
iDVP ecosystem: Build an open and win-win digital base for smart cars
In the intelligent vehicle digital architecture, Huawei provides the basic elements of the intelligent vehicle digital platform, including the computing and communication architecture CCA, the on-board operating system, the multi-domain collaborative software framework HAS Core, and the perfect vehicle-level tool chain, to build a hardware ecology and software ecology, jointly define hardware interfaces and software interfaces with partners, jointly develop atomic services, realize the hierarchical decoupling of software and hardware, and help car companies quickly develop cross-vendor and cross-device applications to bring users a continuous evolutionary experience. Huawei actively participates in industry alliances, builds consensus, and contributes industry standards based on its own practices.
Since the establishment of the SDV Working Group of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, more than 70 companies have joined, and more than 520 jointly defined APIs have been successfully released in October this year. As one of the important members, Huawei has completed system pre-integration with 20 devices from 10 manufacturers based on standardized interface specifications.
Cai Jianyong, general manager of the intelligent car control field of Huawei's intelligent car solution BU, said: "With the advent of software-defined cars, the complexity of software and hardware is getting higher and higher, posing a severe challenge to the automotive industry. Hierarchical decoupling, open collaboration, and win-win cooperation are the foundation for the intelligent automobile industry to become bigger and stronger. ”
Continental joined the CAAM SDV Working Group in March 2021. Lu Nan, Director of Innovation and Strategic Cooperation In China at Continental Investment (China) Co., Ltd., said: "Software-defined vehicles will inevitably reconstruct the value chain of the automotive industry and become a key technology for the future smart mobility ecosystem. ”
MDC Ecology: The open MDC intelligent driving computing platform accelerates the development of intelligent driving
Huawei's MDC Intelligent Driving Computing Platform provides developers with a toolchain and rich SDK covering all scenarios, supports software development and porting of partners, and meets the core requirements of intelligent driving applications for vehicle rules and safety. At present, more than 70 partners have joined the MDC ecosystem to jointly promote the pilot and commercialization of intelligent driving scenarios such as passenger cars, ports, mining cards, and parks.
Li Zhenya, general manager of the BU MDC field of Huawei's intelligent vehicle solution, pointed out: "Intelligent driving is a brand new industry, as the standard-bearer of the platform standardization of the intelligent driving industry, I often think about the standardized division of labor, technology development paths, business models and other regularity issues in the industry, and I firmly believe that only platform standardization, collaborative innovation and the establishment of an industrial ecology can make the intelligent driving industry go wider and wider, faster and faster, and go farther and farther." ”
In order to support the Chinese College Students' Formula Driverless Competition and help cultivate intelligent driving talents, Huawei MDC cooperated with the Formula College Students series of events to apply MDC to driverless Formula racing for the first time. Yan Jianlai, deputy secretary-general of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China and founder of the Formula China University Series, pointed out that the industry is progressing and talents are first, and they will have the courage to assume social responsibility and cooperate to cultivate intelligent networking applicable talents.
Xu Wei, Director of the Intelligent Driving Technology Department of GAC Research Institute, pointed out: "In the face of the transformation of intelligent vehicle 3.0, GAC Group put forward the 'e-TIME' action and the '1615 strategy', vigorously promoted the research and development of the field of intelligent connection and digitalization based on the Xingling architecture, and accelerated the pace of transformation into a technology-based enterprise. GAC and Huawei began to cooperate in 2017 and will release a number of strategic models based on Huawei's MDC in the next three years. GAC and Huawei have joined forces, and I believe that everyone can have better expectations for GAC's future intelligent driving! ”
Huawei is also actively exploring and practicing the application and implementation of intelligent driving in vertical industries. Tianjin Port, together with Huawei, and relevant partners, have newly developed the core system of automated terminal 2.0, the intelligent horizontal transportation system, based on the intelligent driving concept of vehicle-cloud collaboration. Based on the high-precision service map provided by HUAWEI Vehicle Cloud, the unified scheduling of the "train timetable" in the cloud, and the MDC intelligent driving calculation platform, the whole process of port level transportation is realized. On October 17 this year, the intelligent container terminal of section C of the north Xinjiang port area of Tianjin Port was officially put into operation, which is not only an excellent practice of strategic cooperation between Tianjin Port and Huawei, but also a Chinese example of a new model leading the intelligent upgrading and low-carbon development of the world's ports.
Yang Jiemin, Vice President of Tianjin Port Group, said: "Tianjin Port Group will anchor the goal of world-class smart ports and green ports, and work with Huawei and other partners to continue to explore, innovate and practice, accelerate the construction of 'smart zero-carbon' ports, and continue to lead the intelligent upgrading and low-carbon development of world ports." ”
HarmonyOS Smart Cockpit Ecosystem: Building Diverse Experiences
Huawei aims at hardware modularization, interface standardization, and system platforming, and builds an intelligent cockpit ecosystem around the HarmonyOS vehicle-machine operating system, and Huawei has incrementally developed 9 types of vehicle enhancement capabilities on the HarmonyOS operating system, opened 14,500+ HarmonyOS and car domain incremental development APIs, and provided comprehensive and open tools and technical support to reduce the integration and development difficulty of the cockpit system, and help partners quickly develop and migrate applications. Bring users a rich experience of human and car life.
Wang Qingwen, General Manager of the Smart Cockpit Field of Huawei Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, said: "Openness and integration, gathering the crowd and going far. Integrating the cockpit into the ubiquitous intelligent world is a common vision for us and our partners. ”
HarmonyOS intelligent cockpit-empowered Himalayas has the ultimate experience of in-vehicle scenes. With the blessing of HarmonyOS seamless circulation Kit, the car machine public version application has realized the content synchronization of Hongmeng OS multi-terminal devices and no sense switching. Wu Bingbing, General Manager of Himalayas' Internet of Vehicles Business Unit, said: "With technology to empower the cockpit and infiltrate the soul with sound, we hope to help Huawei's smart cockpit become the spiritual home of every car owner and user. ”
Changshu Auto Accessories Group has opened up a health management system solution for smart cockpits and personal wear through HarmonyOS, and jointly innovated with Huawei to bring a comprehensive upgrade of audiovisual perception to the cockpit. Sun Feng, deputy general manager of Changshu Auto Accessories Group, said: "Technology empowers manufacturing, innovation creates the future. We hope to work with Huawei to create smarter cockpit products and work together to develop and manufacture smart cockpits. ”
Overall, Huawei has continued the previous "car-making" strategy, adhered to the "platform + ecology" development strategy, and will further increase investment in ecological cooperation, comprehensively support partners to achieve commercial success, build a new ecosystem for the intelligent vehicle industry, and bring the digital world into every vehicle.