【EV Vision Report】On December 21, Huawei held the "2021 Huawei Intelligent Vehicle Solution Ecosystem Forum" in the form of online live broadcast, and Wang Jun, chief operating officer of Huawei Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU and president of the intelligent driving solution product line, said at the forum: "Traveling 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. ”
This year, the automotive industry has shown a good momentum of rapid growth, especially smart cars have become a hot spot in the industry and will change the pattern of the industry in the next few years.
Wang Jun believes that after the practice and summary of recent years, intelligent cars have four major characteristics: bit management watts; computing power to drive horsepower; software-defined functions; software is deeply involved in the definition, development, verification, sales, service process of the car, and constantly optimize each process, bringing users a continuous optimization experience.
This change mainly comes from the blessing of digital technology, communication bandwidth, computing power and software code scale has increased by hundreds or even thousands of times, how to develop these systems efficiently and high-quality is a huge challenge to the industry. Only when the whole industry works together can we strive to solve it. In order to better cope with this challenge, the traditional vertically integrated development model, talent model and supply chain system are changing, based on new digital architecture, technology and engineering, and evolving to a cross-border integration of the "platform + ecology" cooperation model.
User-centric, in-depth collaboration and joint innovation of the industrial chain, iterative development of software and hardware, continuous delivery of vehicle characteristics, and continuous optimization of user experience. Under the new industrial division of labor and cooperation model, Huawei adheres to the development strategy of "platform + ecology", "We 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." Wang Jun stressed that Huawei has a deep technical accumulation in the fields of communications, computing and operating systems, adheres to the principle of "doing something and not doing something", and builds a platform with technological innovation, and in the past year or so, it has developed about 300 partners, and the development speed has exceeded expectations.
iDVP Ecosystem
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 in-vehicle operating system, the multi-domain collaborative software framework HAS Core, and a perfect tool chain, builds a hardware ecology and software ecology, jointly defines hardware interfaces and software interfaces with partners, jointly develops atomic services, realizes the hierarchical decoupling of software and hardware, and helps car companies quickly develop cross-vendor and cross-device applications to bring users a continuously evolving experience.
Software-defined automobiles require the joint efforts of the whole industry, and the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers established an SDV working group with 22 start-up members on December 21 last year, with the goal of coordinating OEMs and parts companies to promote the standardization of software and hardware interfaces for intelligent vehicles, reduce the complexity of intelligent vehicle research and development, and strengthen the intelligent automobile industry chain.
After the establishment of the SDV working group, domestic and foreign car companies and parts manufacturers actively participated, there have been more than 70 companies to join the working group, and we are very open, but also good at cooperation, in October this year successfully released more than 520 jointly defined APIs, including 230 device abstract APIs and 290 atomic service APIs, after the interface standardization, will greatly simplify the application development of diversified devices.
As one of the important members of the SDV Working Group, Huawei has completed system pre-integration with 20 devices from 10 manufacturers based on standardized interface specifications. After completing the pre-integration, Huawei and its partners developed one-click rest and welcome modes, which are typical multi-device linkage scenarios, and the efficiency of development has increased by 10 times, and an iDVP interoperability laboratory has been built in Suzhou to better support device docking and verification.
MDC Ecology
Intelligent driving is the strategic commanding height for car companies to win future competition, and faces three major challenges: long investment cycle, high scene complexity and technical difficulty.
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.
At the just-concluded Guangzhou Auto Show, two intelligent electric vehicles of GAC and Great Wall chose MDC as the intelligent driving computing platform, one is GAC Aegean LX Plus, equipped with Huawei MDC, and the application comes from MDC partners. One is the Great Wall Salon brand of Mecha Dragon, dual MDC configuration, algorithm from another MDC algorithm partner. These two car companies have started the commercialization journey of passenger cars in Huawei's MDC ecological cooperation model.
In the commercial vehicle and work vehicle scenarios, Huawei also has many application cases. For example, based on Huawei's MDC and vehicle cloud service platform, Tianjin Port has jointly built a horizontal transportation system in an intelligent terminal system, which realizes the horizontal transportation of containers between the yard and the ship through unmanned trucks. At present, the scene simulation of 3 berths, 3 boats and 76 unmanned trucks has been realized, and the smooth running of all equipment, all elements and the whole process has been realized, and the test of real ships and real vehicles is underway. Compared with before the automation transformation, while reducing safety risks, the overall operation efficiency has increased by 15%, the energy consumption of single-box operations has decreased by 20%, and the comprehensive operating costs have decreased by 10%, achieving a qualitative leap.
HarmonyOS Smart Cockpit Ecology
The cockpit is the center of human-computer interaction, with strong user perception and the pursuit of personalized, intelligent and diversified service experience.
With the goal of hardware modularization, interface standardization, and system platformization, Huawei builds an intelligent cockpit ecosystem around the HarmonyOS vehicle-machine operating system, incrementally develops 9 types of vehicle enhancement capabilities on the HarmonyOS operating system, opens 1,517 in-vehicle service APIs, and more than 13,000 HarmonyOS APIs, and provides comprehensive and open tools and technical support to reduce the difficulty of cockpit system integration and development, and help partners quickly develop and migrate applications. Bring a rich experience of people and cars life.
Based on the HarmonyOS vehicle-machine operating system, Huawei has established cooperation with more than 150 software and hardware partners to try its best to change the current situation of hardware curing, few applications, and slow upgrades of the cockpit system, jointly define hardware interfaces, achieve hardware plug-and-play, replaceable upgrades, and interconnection between diverse hardware, and open to applications through API interfaces, rapidly develop cockpit systems with full-scenario coverage and multi-device collaboration, and provide consumers with personalized, intelligent, and diversified service experiences.
In the latest cockpit DEMO vehicle, partners' in-vehicle canopy, electronic rearview mirrors, holographic projection, steering system and intelligent health seats have been deployed.
Star Flash Technology
The deployment of vehicle wired communication cables is complex and difficult to expand, and the commonly used Bluetooth and Wi-Fi latency, reliability, and security cannot meet the requirements of on-board device interconnection. There is a demand for opportunities, independent innovation of star flash technology came into being, with ultra-low latency, ultra-high reliability, accurate synchronization characteristics, can meet the intelligent car, intelligent terminal, intelligent manufacturing, smart home for high-quality short-range wireless connection needs, will redefine short-range wireless communication technology.
Huawei has conducted experiments in active noise reduction, interactive screen projection, panoramic surround view, wireless battery management and other scenarios, and achieved excellent test results.
Officially established on September 22, 2020, the Star Flash Alliance is committed to promoting the innovation of a new generation of wireless short-range communication technology and industrial ecological development, carrying smart cars, smart homes, smart terminals and intelligent manufacturing and other scenario applications, meeting the ultimate performance needs, and ultimately promoting the internationalization of standards and industries.
Up to now, there are more than 140 member units, covering the upstream and downstream enterprises of the whole industry chain in 4 major scenarios. Welcome more enterprises to join the alliance and jointly promote the development and application of Star Flash technology.
If a worker desires to do good, he must first use his weapon. From service design, development verification, compilers, to remote upgrades, Huawei provides developers with a full set of service-oriented development tools, which can greatly simplify the difficulty of development and improve development efficiency.
Huawei's Intelligent Vehicle Solution Innovation Center, located in Huawei's Suzhou Research Institute, has been built and put into use, and is mainly open to car companies and partners for joint development, testing, verification, and display of achievements. The innovation center includes 9 laboratories such as MDC, converged sensing, intelligent cockpit, and on-board gateway, and more than 100 engineers are arranged in advance to support the development and testing of partners, and we look forward to incubating more and better innovative applications together. In the Yangcheng Peninsula, not far from the Suzhou Research Institute, an industry-leading intelligent networking test ground has been built and will soon be put into use.
Taking 3,000 typical traffic accident scenarios in China as a reference, Huawei has built an intelligent driving test area with 13 test areas, 103 static road elements, and full scene coverage through cluster analysis of the impact of risk elements on driving, as well as a dynamic control square with a diameter of 300m and 14 system laboratories in the field, which can meet the most stringent test requirements and ensure the delivery of high-quality products.
In addition, Huawei is also actively investing in talent training, organizing more than 10 well-known college students to participate in training through the training camp; sponsoring 4 intelligent driving competitions, carrying out Huawei engineers to enter the campus to guide students to develop intelligent driving systems; and establishing a talent certification system for course learning, hands-on experiments, and examinations to promote the learning and development of college talents.
Wang Jun concluded by saying that commercial success is the common goal of ecological partners. Huawei will open up major exhibitions, exhibition halls, media, and digital marketing channels, jointly display and jointly market with partners, and give priority to recommending or selecting partners in the ecosystem in the project to carry out deeper cooperation and promote the business success of partners.