For a long time, intelligent, unmanned and green mines have been the direction of energy technology innovation supported by the state. Jiang Chihua, a partner of Saifu Fund, said that under the impetus of a number of policies in the field of "smart mines", the unmanned mine industry with a scale of more than 100 billion yuan is entering a period of high growth.
On January 13, Huituo, a smart mine unmanned solution provider, told the China Times reporter that Huituo completed nearly 300 million yuan of C round financing. Set another record for the largest single financing on the track.
The round of financing was led by CICC Capital's CICC SAIC Emerging Industry Fund, and Yuexiu Industrial Fund and BOC International's Bohai Zhongsheng Fund jointly followed, and Hanergy Investment continued to serve as the exclusive financial advisor. In the past six months, Huituo has won two rounds of financing totaling more than 500 million yuan, setting a new high for the track.
Since 2017, Huituo has continuously set new track financing records, and has successively received investment from Institutions such as Guoke Jiahe, Saifu Investment Fund, Kaihui Fund, Hanergy Venture Capital, etc., and continues to be favored by the capital market.
The head of investment of Guoxin Central Enterprise Operation Investment Fund said, "Huituo Smart Mine unmanned technology has filled a number of gaps in the world's extremely cold climate-related fields, helping the industry to further solve the "card neck" link of key core technologies." This is also the original intention of our focus on ensuring the safety and control of the industrial chain and supply chain, promoting the intelligent upgrading of mining enterprises, promoting the improvement of mine safety production level, and investing in Huituo. ”
Lu Rong, managing partner and president of Yuexiu Industrial Fund, also said, "The scenario-based penetration and application of artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology deserve long-term attention, especially the commercialization progress of autonomous driving in mining areas. In addition, the unmanned mining area has a more urgent alternative demand than other scenarios, which is in line with the ESG investment concept. ”
In the field of artificial intelligence, automatic driving has application malleability, and the mining area is likely to be one of the first scenarios to realize the commercial landing of automatic driving. Compared with open roads, trunk logistics, parks, ports and other scenarios, mining areas have a stronger demand for transformation and willingness to pay, and the commercialization speed is also faster.
This "closed environment" can be said to be the most ideal scenario for unmanned technology to land, because most of the mines are in sparsely populated places, external interference is low, and safety is relatively controllable.
There are many advantages of unmanned mine driving, first of all, it can avoid driver fatigue driving, and safety is greatly improved. Secondly, compared with other traffic scenarios, the traffic scenes in mines are relatively simple, and automatic driving is easier to land. Finally, due to the poor working conditions in the mining area and the high labor cost, unmanned driving can greatly reduce costs.
Chen Long, co-founder and CEO of Huituo, said, "Compared with traditional mines, unmanned mines first solve the two major pain points of mine safety and age-appropriate labor shortage, and can also save costs and improve efficiency for mining enterprises. ”
According to him, platformization and openness are the core of Huituo's overall solution for unmanned mines. The strategy of platformization and openness enables Huituo to quickly link mining equipment manufacturers and integrate systems to promote the intelligence of the entire industrial ecology. At present, Huituo has achieved large-scale replication in multiple mine scenarios.
2021 is a year of comprehensive acceleration of the commercialization process of Huituo, and the commercialization speed and scale ability lead the industry. By the end of 2021, the total amount of commercial orders will reach 500 million yuan, and the repurchase rate will exceed 70%, ranking first in the industry.
In addition, Huituo is promoting the industry standardization of the entire mine unmanned, and has created a set of delivery processes in the landing process of a large number of projects. Huituo cooperated with Huaneng Group Yimin Coal and Power Company and Baidu to complete the project delivery in only half of the specified time, and took the lead in the industry to realize the "safety officer get off the car" level unmanned and manned mining truck mixing operation.
According to public information, Huituo is the largest unmanned solution provider for mining areas in China. With the support of the world's first parallel driving technology, we have developed core technology products represented by cloud intelligent scheduling and management system, mine vehicle unmanned driving system, excavator collaborative operation management system, etc., to create a smart mine unmanned full-stack solution - "Yugong YUGONG", which has been applied to many open-pit mines in China.
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