"Humans can find their way to the moon, but they still get lost in the mall." Sun Tao gets lost every time he goes to the mall, "For me, large shopping malls are like a maze, and there are high-speed rail stations, and I can't always find the exit I want to go." ”
In fact, many people will have such an experience: want to find a net red shop in the mall, want to find their car in the parking lot, want to find the nearest boarding route at the airport, want to find the department to go to in the hospital, but the GPS navigation system in the mobile phone is not "fragrant" at this time. This is because the current satellite positioning signal is difficult to penetrate multi-storey buildings, resulting in low accuracy indoors, which is really helpless. In order to help everyone smoothly "know the road" in large buildings such as parking lots, hospitals, shopping malls, terminals, etc., a product that integrates the scientific research strength of Guangdong and Hong Kong was born in Guangzhou.
The source is in Hong Kong, the development is in Guangzhou
YardStone, a team that keeps you from getting lost
Guangzhou Mashi Information Technology Co., Ltd., an incubation enterprise of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao (International) Youth Innovation Workshop, is an innovative technology enterprise incubated by the Fok Ying Tung Research Institute of HKUST. Its benchmark product "SeeleLane Precision Location Service Platform" can provide indoor and outdoor integrated maps, positioning, navigation and other location IoT services for large indoor scenes such as hospitals, museums, parks, transportation hubs, commercial complexes, and parking lots.
Many members of the Team of Mashi Technology come from HKUST, as well as many returned students from famous universities around the world, as well as graduates of first-class universities in China. Due to the current difficulty of satellite positioning signals penetrating multi-storey buildings, the GPS navigation in mobile phones is less accurate indoors. Majishi Technology has identified this pain point and launched a precision indoor location service platform based on the research and development results of the Internet of Things R&D Department of the Research Institute in terms of indoor positioning, trajectory tracking, multi-sensor data fusion algorithm and other aspects for many years.
Accurate indoor positioning and navigation can help us "identify the way" and quickly find the destination. Allowing the research and development results in the laboratory to "know the way" and successfully docking enterprises to achieve industrialization is also an important part of the process of industry-university-research cooperation. Gao Min, dean of the Fok Ying Tung Research Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology of Guangzhou, introduced that the earliest technical source of this precision indoor location service platform was the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and later the relevant technical research was transferred to the Fok Ying Tung Research Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology located in Nansha District, Guangzhou, and then the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao (International) Youth Innovation Workshop operated by the Institute was industrialized by the guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao (International) Youth Innovation Workshop. The project "went" from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, from the success of basic scientific research to industrialization, Gao Min compared this process to "dot line surface", point into line, line into surface, face into body. "Technical research is like a point, a technology is equivalent to a line, it may require many technical points; a product developed by a collection of multiple technologies is equivalent to a plane; and the operation of a successful company needs to combine multiple aspects, equivalent to a cube." Gao Min said.
Chose the hardest path to take
Overcoming difficulties every day
"When it comes to map engines, we chose the hardest path to take." Sun Tao, director of product and ecological cooperation at Guangzhou Mashi Information Technology Co., Ltd., told Nandu reporter, "Self-developed indoor map engine, which is one of the few in China, and the map engine rendering effect is good, and it is even more rare." We have invested a lot of resources to overcome one technical problem after another, in order to have today's absolute leading map engine rendering efficiency and map rendering effect in China; in terms of positioning algorithms, we are also unique, not using the fingerprint positioning algorithm that is currently commonly used by everyone, but creating a set of Trace+ algorithms, which has the characteristics of high positioning accuracy and good real-time, and solves the problem that the traditional indoor positioning algorithm cannot handle the indoor driving navigation of vehicles at high speed. At present, the indoor driving navigation system of Zhilu has provided indoor driving navigation services for hundreds of large parking lots across the country; in terms of Bluetooth positioning hardware, we have launched six generations of products in order to polish the long endurance, indoor and outdoor integrated positioning system, and each generation of products is the result of the painstaking efforts of engineers. If there are any difficulties encountered in research and development, I think every day is difficult. To overcome the difficulties, it is the team of friends who insist day after day and pursue excellence in technology and products. Because of everyone's persistence, we have the appearance of our zhilu products that we are proud of today. ”
"Seeklane" precision indoor location service platform, mainly through WeChat Mini Program, public number, APP and other carriers, is committed to providing convenient and accurate indoor location services in six major scenarios such as large parks, transportation hubs, large hospitals, museums, commercial shopping centers and indoor parking lots, which can provide refined map services, map navigation services, high-precision and highly available positioning and navigation services, integration with scene information systems, and support location-based management services for these scenarios. Meet the needs of finding people, cars, places, services, etc., as well as daily operation and management needs.
Codestone Technology has passed the authoritative certification of China Saibao Laboratory, truly realized the meter-level Bluetooth indoor positioning navigation, the first real consumer-level indoor driving navigation, and the original Trace+ algorithm can ensure that the indoor and outdoor integrated positioning and navigation services have high robustness, excellent scene compatibility and excellent interactivity.
The SeekLaneMap map engine independently developed by Codestone Technology can highly restore architectural models and refined customized interior models in the face of complex scenarios such as multiple buildings, and present more realistic three-dimensional multi-dimensional images of buildings, decoration interiors, exhibits and so on for users.
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The scientific research forces of Guangdong and Hong Kong are constantly moving towards integration
The Greater Bay Area is already a world-class science and technology innovation center
At the first Greater Bay Area Science Forum, which ended in December 2021, Gao Min said in an interview with the media that the current scientific research cooperation between Guangdong and Hong Kong can no longer be the same as that of a few years ago. He analyzed that in recent years, a number of Hong Kong universities with cutting-edge scientific research achievements have come to the mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area to run schools, including the Hong Kong Chinese University in Shenzhen and the City University of Hong Kong in Dongguan. Under this trend, Guangdong and Hong Kong have further complemented each other's advantages, and the scientific research forces of the two places are constantly converging.
"The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is already a world-class science and technology innovation center", Gao Min believes that although there is still some gap between the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the top level of the world, the Greater Bay Area has gathered many world-class universities, and has achieved many achievements in basic scientific research, and a number of world-class companies and enterprises have emerged, some of which have gradually entered or even completely entered the "no man's land".
Gao Min spoke highly of the work done by the Greater Bay Area in recent years in promoting collaborative innovation of institutional mechanisms between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. He said that great progress has been made in scientific and technological cooperation in the Greater Bay Area, and the problem of the transit of scientific research funds that existed before has now been solved, and Hong Kong scientists can apply for national scientific research projects in Hong Kong and obtain funds, which is a great impetus and promotion for the development of scientific research. In addition, there have been great breakthroughs in data linkage and sharing of scientific research equipment. In the past five years, more than 200 scientific research teams from Hong Kong, Macao and overseas have used Guangzhou Supercomputing, which has greatly promoted scientific research in Hong Kong and achieved very fruitful results. "Guangzhou supercomputing has a fiber optic line connected to the Fok Ying Tung Research Institute, and the research institute has a special line connected to the University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong, it can be said that any teacher at a University of Hong Kong who uses Guangzhou Supercomputing is similar to using a local area network." Gao Min said.
Gao Min also said that at present, many experts and scholars are very concerned about how to industrialize scientific research results, there are many methods and ideas, but also constantly summarizing experience, hoping to explore a transformation path with Chinese characteristics in Nansha, Guangzhou, and also expect to be able to build Nansha into a "Silicon Valley", a large number of innovative enterprises can grow around the university, grow and become a world-class company.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Kun