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Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

Zhi DongXi (public number: zhidxcom)

Author | Yang Chang

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Zhidong reported on February 9 that when Chinese athlete Gu Ailing completed a difficult action on the ice and snow jumping platform more than a dozen stories high, I believe many spectators pinched a handful of sweat for her. Yesterday, she successfully won the women's freestyle ski jumping competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and at the same time, the "black technology" of the Winter Olympics in the equipment of ice and snow athletes was also pulled out.

A seemingly ordinary protective helmet, in fact, weighs only 700g, but it has a super high impact deformation resistance, which uses materials and design technology in aerospace technology.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

In addition to increasing the help for the Chinese team, Chinese technology also provides thoughtful services for foreign athletes, including smart beds, epidemic prevention robots, catering robots, etc. in the Beijing Winter Olympic Village that foreign athletes praise in the vlog, as well as digital twins, cloud broadcasting and other technologies that many people can't see, no wonder IOC President Thomas Bach said that the Beijing Winter Olympics is an unprecedented Winter Olympics, and also hopes that the technology of the Beijing Winter Olympics can be widely used in the world.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲ IOC President Thomas Bach gave a New Year's greeting to media staff through the Alibaba Cloud holographic module

Since the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, we have seen a variety of scientific and technological achievements such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, AR, naked-eye 3D and cloud to bring a shocking experience to the audience. (The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics shocked the screen, and these black technologies made a great contribution!) )

Now, the technology eggs of the Beijing Winter Olympics continue to be opened one by one. Specifically in various Winter Olympic scenarios, how does China's intelligent technology empower the smooth operation of the Beijing Winter Olympics and receive many praises? Wisdom stuff takes you to the end of everything.

First, AI motion capture takes into account both referees and coaches, and intelligent cabin escort

This Winter Olympic Games has a total of 7 major events, 109 small events, many of which are high difficulty, high risk coefficient competitions, so in the competition and training process of these projects, what intelligent technology escorts the ice and snow athletes participating in the Winter Olympics?

1. AI, high-speed cameras and other auxiliary referees make quick and fair judgments

In some Winter Olympic games, only by the referee's naked eye to judge, the ruling result may be controversial, or even misjudged, the Beijing Winter Olympics through cross-country skiing auxiliary referee system, intelligent camera to intelligent capture, auxiliary judgment.

In the short track speed skating competition where the Chinese team just won two gold medals, the athletes moved extremely fast, and the referee made a fair ruling after reviewing the video. Part of the credit for this fair ruling was first recorded by netizens on a super high-speed 4K orbital camera system called "Cheetah", and the whole network set off a boom of thanking the "Cheetah", and later some netizens said that the short-track speed skating venue Capital Gymnasium was installed with 40 4K camera arrays and 3 8K VR cameras.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Netizens comment on the cameras in the Winter Olympic Games (Source: Weibo)

In fact, these two types of cameras are used for live broadcasting and broadcasting of events, and are not used for adjudication, Zhao Wei, head of the special equipment section of the second special equipment department of the CCTV General Station Technology Bureau, clarified that the short-track speed skating competition uses an independent arbitration camera system. Most of the arbitration camera systems include multi-camera video recording and slow-motion replay systems, which record the game information of each lap or each athlete through fixed camera accurate shooting, and can analyze each movement of the athlete in detail in slow motion mode.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲ In the short track speed skating competition, the referee decides by replay (source: Migu video)

However, the camera named "Cheetah" mentioned by netizens is not ordinary. The camera system consists of a gyroscope railcar and a 360-meter-long U-shaped track, and its design standard is about 90 kilometers per hour, exceeding the movement speed of top athletes of 70 kilometers / h, which can track the position of athletes in real time and split the athletes' wonderful sports moments into frame-by-frame pictures. In this way, the audience can also see the details behind many of the athletes' high-speed movements.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Ultra-high speed 4K orbital camera system (Source: CCTV)

2, AI can also be a coach

AI technology is increasingly used in sports training, such as the previous preparation for the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, the diving team and other Chinese athlete teams have used AI to assist training. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, these intelligent technologies have been more widely used.

For example, in the preparation of many national teams such as ski jumping and Nordic biathlon, the national team demonstrated the application of a multimodal biomechanics rapid feedback system for snow skill projects specially developed for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲AI assisted training system (Source: Shanghai University of Sport)

The system uses AI non-interference three-dimensional motion capture, ultra-wideband precision positioning test, Beidou navigation, high-speed motion automatic follow-up robot, UAV photography and other technologies to systematically analyze the athletes' sliding, jumping, flying and landing postures, accurately measure the starting height and other indicators, and provide scientific data support for coaches and athletes to adjust the training program.

The Chinese national team also used a personalized large database analysis and diagnosis system in its preparation. The system assists athletes in skill enhancement training by establishing champion models of high-level athletes that include morphological, functional, physical/psychological qualities, etc.

3. The intelligent mobile cabin generates a diagnostic report in 30 seconds

Many of the Winter Olympics have high risk factors, such as short-track speed skating, free ski jumping, etc., and require rapid medical rescue equipment to cope with unforeseen needs.

These smart medical devices include smart mobile cabins, 5G ambulances, and more.

The intelligent mobile cabin covers an area of less than 20 square meters, equipped with portable intelligent cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine, ECG monitor, horizontal cone beam CT, frostbite facial data acquisition system and other key integral equipment for on-site diagnosis and treatment of frostbite and maxillofacial trauma, and two important system platforms are built-in, one is an intelligent diagnosis and treatment platform based on medical big data and AI, and the other is an expert remote audit network platform based on 5G network and voice intelligent prompt technology, and it takes only 30 seconds for CT images to be imported to reports. Significantly improve the level of on-site treatment at the Winter Olympics.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Intelligent mobile cabin (Source: Peking University Stomatological Hospital)

The Beijing Emergency Center is equipped with at least 1 5G ambulance and an indefinite number of other emergency vehicles for each venue of the Winter Olympic Games, of which the 5G ambulance can transmit the diagnosis and treatment data and images directly to the designated hospital when the emergency doctor is treated on the spot, and realize the "admission to the hospital on the car" through the video communication of the ambulance command center and improve the efficiency of emergency treatment.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲5G ambulance

The Beijing Winter Olympics also used a very small wearable device: a temperature sticker, used to help achieve smart epidemic prevention, which looks like a Band-Aid, but is actually a wireless electronic thermometer with a built-in chip. The temperature sticker is used directly under the armpit or upper arm for easy carry-on by venue staff.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Smart body temperature sticker (Source: China Youth Daily)

The body temperature sticker is bound to the mobile phone App, which can remotely upload the measured body temperature, regularly collect the temperature data of the staff in the Winter Olympic venues, and once it exceeds 37.3 ° C, it will automatically notify the epidemic prevention personnel. In addition, the body temperature sticker has specially increased the attendance access and positioning functions to improve the efficiency of epidemic prevention and control.

4, assisted driving to improve travel safety, AR to give athletes navigation

In Zhangjiakou's Winter Olympic Village, National Speed Skating Hall, Bird's Nest and other venues, Beijing Winter Olympic athletes and staff can experience accurate AR navigation, through the mobile phone App and camera to identify the surrounding environment to lock the location, after entering the destination, the user follows the displayed AR virtual arrow, you can smoothly find other locations in the Winter Olympic Village you want to go. Behind these navigation applications are the AI enterprises we are familiar with, SenseTime and Megvii.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Intelligent AR navigation

In addition, the Beijing Winter Olympics also applied a lot of automatic driving and assisted driving technology, like the torch relay stage, not only there are robots to pass the torch, there is a section of the road is self-driving cars to be responsible for the torch relay.

Some buses in the Winter Olympic Village are also equipped with Intel's subsidiary Mobileye Assisted Driving System, which provides early warning reminders for drivers driving buses through AI technology such as computer vision.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Mobileye driver assistance system

Second, 5G + VR, the audience gets a new experience of watching the game

The beijing winter olympics viewing experience is also with the past there are many breakthroughs, affected by the epidemic, many spectators can not come to the scene to watch the game, how to provide a better viewing experience for hundreds of millions of viewers around the world, has become one of the important tasks of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee.

1. All AI virtual anchors are on the battlefield

The Beijing Winter Olympics will also use more intelligent technologies to cover more groups and provide more thoughtful services.

For example, in order to allow hearing-impaired audiences to better watch the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, various official media platforms have launched various sign language broadcast digital people to provide intelligent sign language generation services for the hearing impaired, such as Tencent's 3D sign language digital intelligence "listening" in CCTV, and CCTV News has an AI sign language anchor launched by Baidu Intelligent Cloud.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Tencent 3D Sign Language Digital Homo sapiens "Listening"

New media platforms such as China Weather WAP Huawei Station and Zhangjiakou Meteorological Public Account have launched a full-time weather AI virtual anchor "Feng Xiaoshu". Because compared with the Summer Olympic Games, the schedule and viewing services of the Winter Olympic Games are more closely related to the meteorological conditions, and it is more inseparable from timely and accurate meteorological information.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Full-time weather AI virtual anchor "Feng Xiaoshu"

"Feng Xiaoshu" facial expressions, body movements are very natural, looks very similar to the real person, the AI virtual anchor behind the Xiaoice framework digital twin virtual human technology. During the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, "Feng Xiaoshu" will continue to broadcast the "Winter Olympics Public Spectator Meteorological Index" to provide meteorological information services for public health and safety.

2. 360 degrees free to choose the viewing angle

During some of the Winter Olympic Games, spectators can also experience a 360° free view of the game. By using technologies such as the interactive multi-dimensional viewing experience of ice and snow projects, viewers can freely choose the perspective from which they can watch the game through mobile phones, televisions, VR devices, etc., and have a more immersive viewing experience.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Free view to watch the game

The implementation of this technology is inseparable from the array of 40 4K cameras and 3 8KVR cameras set up in the capital stadium mentioned above. These cameras not only accurately capture the details of the athlete's movements, but also enable the audience to freely choose the angle from which to watch the athlete's game, as well as the viewing effect of experiencing "bullet time".

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Array of cameras in the Metropolitan Gymnasium

From live image data acquisition to the audience's viewing experience from a free point of view, the interactive multi-dimensional viewing experience technology behind the ice and snow project integrates a series of end-to-end technological breakthroughs, such as VR/360° program shooting, content generation, efficient encoding and decoding of 8K video streaming, adaptive transmission and interactive VR presentation.

In addition to seeing more completely, many viewers also hope to see more understanding, in yesterday's game, Gu Ailing completed a record-breaking deflection rotation of 1620 degrees for two weeks, this action audience with the naked eye is more difficult to see every detail. Baidu Intelligent Cloud's 3D+ AI technology - "space-time freeze-motion" technology quantifies the athletes and freezes the high-speed continuous action into the 3D space, helping the audience to see the anti-heaven action of Gu Ailing's victory in a second.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲3D+ AI analyzes Gu Ailing's anti-heavenly actions

3. The first full 4K cloud broadcast, the broadcast efficiency is significantly improved

Because of the epidemic, most people can only watch the games of the Beijing Winter Olympics through broadcasting, and the quality of broadcasting is particularly critical.

The core information system of the Beijing Winter Olympics is all running on Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for the realization of cloud broadcast technology, which is also the first time in the history of the Olympic Games that full 4K broadcasting is carried out through cloud technology, and no longer only rely on satellite transmission technology.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Engineers do technical debugging such as cloud broadcasting in the Winter Olympic Games

Traditional production and playback technology must be carried out in the field scene, through cloud broadcast technology, the broadcast of the event is divided into three links, namely the front-end signal acquisition, cloud editing processing, and the final guide production link. This reduces the cost of broadcasting, while improving the production efficiency of the broadcast production team, so that many events are broadcast more quickly and there are more tricks, thus bringing more diverse experiences to the audience.

In the cloud broadcast service of the Winter Olympic Games, China Unicom provided a variety of technical support, including 5G communications.

In addition to the OB trucks and studios that everyone is already familiar with, the Winter Olympics will also move the 5G ultra-high-definition studio to the 350-kilometer-per-hour Winter Olympic "Fuxing" high-speed railway.

This 5G ultra-high-definition studio is transformed from a train car, and the staff can complete multi-party connection, virtual production and other program broadcast work in it. The finished video will be sent to the base stations along the way in 5G through the on-board terminal, and then forwarded to the CCTV main station to provide 4K live broadcast and retransmission for the audience.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

Third, smart beds, robot chefs, athletes' lives are taken care of properly

According to the official data of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, from January 23, 2022 to February 8, 2022, there were 5,869 athletes and accompanying officials at the airport, and 7,166 other stakeholders, and it is not easy to serve these closed-loop management of the Beijing Winter Olympics involved in the Olympic games and related staff.

In fact, the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee has already prepared various "black technologies" to ensure the smooth holding of the Winter Olympics.

1, not only smart beds can be boasted, smart homes make athletes live more comfortably

The smart bed with alarm clock wake-up service can be said to be one of the hottest topics in the "black technology" of the Winter Olympics, and the American bobsleigh athlete Summer Bridger specially took a video to share with fans the excitement of staying in the Winter Olympic Village and seeing the smart bed that surprised her, which quickly became a hot search on domestic media platforms such as Weibo.

She shows in the video that the smart bed can be adjusted with a remote control, especially the zero gravity mode is very comfortable. In fact, in addition to being adjustable by remote control, the smart bed can also be automatically adjusted. If the athlete sleeps in the wrong posture and snoring, the smart bed can automatically adjust the bedside height to provide a more comfortable sleep experience for the athlete.

Moreover, athletes can also set alarm clocks through the App, control the smart bed to take off and land regularly, and wake themselves up.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Smart bed

In addition to the smart bed, each athlete's room is equipped with a smart door lock, and the athlete can open the door through fingerprints, passwords or swipe cards. The room is also equipped with intelligent controllers, intelligent temperature regulation systems, intelligent infrared sensing, video intercom, intelligent curtains and other more than ten functions. At the same time, the smart lighting system in the Beijing Winter Olympic Village apartment will learn and remember user habits and realize AI control management, and the smart energy management system will be based on technologies such as user behavior energy-saving algorithms to promote the staggered use of high-energy-consuming equipment.

In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the athletes' apartment building has replaced the central air conditioning system with a multimodal air conditioning system, which controls the temperature in each room individually, and the system control panel can display air quality values such as PM2.5 and the content of certain compounds, and once the standard is exceeded, the air purification system or fresh air system will be automatically activated.

2. Portable translator makes language communication barrier-free, as well as barrier-free travel reminders

The Beijing Winter Olympics not only seek to be safer, but also more intimate. Because the participating athletes come from all over the world and have different languages, in order to facilitate communication, the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee and iFLYTEK cooperated to deploy information barrier-free communication technology, and provided speech conversion and translation services for athletes and other participants from various countries through the unified public service App "Winter Olympic Pass" of the Winter Olympics, portable translation equipment, intelligent question and answer equipment, information release system, etc.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲iFLYTEK voice translation equipment

The Winter Olympic Village has also carried out the corresponding intelligent upgrading of barrier-free facilities, like the Beijing Winter Olympic Village deployed an intelligent operation and maintenance management platform, people who need barrier-free facilities can quickly view the facility information such as barrier-free toilets and ramps through the application, and receive pushed route reminders to best meet the needs of barrier-free.

3, the robot is a chef, the meal can also "fall from the sky"

China's cuisine is world-famous, and this time in addition to the variety of cuisines, there are also chefs in charge.

In the smart restaurant of the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics, media staff sit at the table, scan the code to order a meal, and then sit and wait for the food. Responsible for the rapid completion of food production is a variety of robots, there are robots responsible for stir-frying, there are robots responsible for making pot rice, want to eat Chinese or Western food can be. The smart restaurant is mainly country garden Qianxi Robot Group to be responsible for the completion of the transformation.

After the robot has made a meal, you don't have to get up to pick up the meal, but wait for the big meal to "fall from the sky", and the food delivery robot will use the cloud rail transmission system in the air to deliver the meal to the location of the orderer.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Cloud rail system food delivery (source: Global Times)

If you want to order a drink, there is also a smart coffee robot of Orion Starry Sky in the smart restaurant, the Great White Robot, which can make a cup of "hand-brewed coffee" in 4 minutes.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲The intelligent coffee machine robot "Big White" used in the Beijing Winter Olympics

Smart bartending robots are no less impressive, and can make a good-looking cocktail in 3-5 minutes.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

In addition, in order to ensure the food safety of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee also used China's self-developed ultra-miniature trusted chip and used blockchain technology to build a food safety guarantee platform for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

4. Prevention and control of the epidemic, robots become "vanguards"

The epidemic has always been an important hot spot that people across the country and the world are paying attention to, and the Beijing Winter Olympics have also attached great importance to this in the preparation process, in addition to closed-loop management, there are also a number of intelligent facilities to achieve better epidemic prevention and control.

Following the guidance of Beijing Winter Olympic volunteers, when Beijing Winter Olympic athletes and related personnel arrive at the Winter Olympic Village, they will first encounter intelligent security service robots that undertake intelligent epidemic prevention work. Entering personnel only need to brush valid identity documents, wear masks, you can quickly realize the identity identification, intelligent temperature measurement, nucleic acid, vaccines and other 8 links of information inspection links.

After entering the Winter Olympic Village, there will be a reception robot at the delegation reception center registered and checked by the delegations, and the robot will guide the athletes to the verification point or luggage storage. After the verification is correct, the athletes can check in, and the relevant person in charge mentioned that the use of the reception robot is also to achieve better epidemic prevention and control.

Walking into the Beijing Winter Olympic venues, athletes can also see the figure of other robots, such as the inspection robot that reminds the personnel in the venue to wear masks, and this robot can also provide hand disinfection services.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲ Patrol robot (source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Sports Channel)

There are also some full-time disinfection robots that work silently in the venue, such as the use of atomized disinfection robots in Wukesong Sports Center, which can complete the disinfection of 36 square meters of space in one minute, issue instructions through the App, specify the disinfection area of the robot, control the disinfection time, and visualize and trace the disinfection of the venue. In fact, we have already seen these disinfection robots in many railway stations, airports and parks, and now the Winter Olympics directly use these more mature disinfection robots for epidemic prevention.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Bucos disinfection robot (source: China News Network)

In addition, because of the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, all venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics are closed-loop management, which are divided into pollution areas, buffer zones and clean areas according to epidemic prevention requirements, and intelligent logistics robots undertake the transportation of large items in the buffer zone, with a maximum load of 300kg, reducing the cross-regional flow of personnel.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Intelligent logistics robot (Source: Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee)

5, use VR to experience space diving, as well as 3D simulation skiing

In the 1,000-square-meter entertainment center of Beijing Winter Olympic Village, athletes can not only play traditional entertainment facilities such as billiards, but also enjoy VR facilities, including manned space simulation and manned deep-sea exploration simulation, to get the feeling of entering the sea.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Manned space simulation and manned deep-sea exploration simulation experience equipment

In addition, the entertainment center has a 3D simulated ski machine, allowing players to watch and compete as if they are really in the snow.

Fourth, the new digital infrastructure of the Winter Olympics: from the digital twin venue to the energy brain

After watching the "black technology" that can be seen and touched in the Winter Olympics, next, let's explore the intelligent technologies behind the smooth opening and operation of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The Beijing Winter Olympics are divided into three divisions: Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, with a total of 25 venues, of which 10 are the original venues. In the transformation or construction of these 25 venues, intelligent technology has played a key role, in addition, the overall operation, command, security, medical, meteorological, transportation, service and other key scenarios of the Winter Olympics have also appeared frequently.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Real-life pictures of 12 competition venues and 3 Olympic villages of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games (Source: Economic Daily)

1. Digital twins help the operation of Winter Olympic venues

Let's first take a look at the smart technology used in the construction or renovation of each venue.

While completing the construction of the physical entities of each venue, the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee has also carried out intelligent upgrades of all venues, mainly to build a digital twin Of Olympic venues and other venues for intelligent transformation and the core information system to "go to the cloud".

Taking the "Ice Ribbon", the only new ice competition venue in the Beijing Winter Olympics, the National Speed Skating Hall as an example, the "intelligent" construction almost covers the entire life cycle of the "Ice Ribbon" pre-race construction, event guarantee and post-race utilization.

In the pre-competition engineering construction stage, the responsible unit successfully completed the construction problems of the expected design of the single-layer two-way orthogonal saddle-shaped cable net roof and curtain wall system through the building digital information BIM system and robot technology.

The National Speed Skating Hall also has a "super brain" – smart integration and digital twin platform. By accessing 36 systems and nearly 100,000 points of data, this "super brain" can automatically adjust the air and lighting facilities in the stadium.

Through this digital twin system, staff can efficiently perform public security, equipment monitoring, energy optimization and other operations.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Beijing Winter Olympics National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon"

The Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee has also said that the core system of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be fully "on the cloud", including the core of the Winter Olympic Games, event broadcasting, information release, athlete arrival, medical treatment, accommodation, transportation and other information systems will be migrated to Alibaba Cloud, and the traditional IT computer room will be replaced by cloud computing and cloud data centers.

2. The "energy brain" guarantees the supply and use of electricity

Power security is also an important part of the operation guarantee of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and the Beijing Winter Olympic Power Operation Support Command Platform can monitor the power situation in the venue in real time and in a panoramic manner by using digital twins, knowledge graphs, intelligent voice and other technologies.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

In addition, the energy control center in the Winter Olympic venues can monitor the use of electricity, gas, water, heat and other energy sources in the venues in real time, and use big data, AI and other technologies to complete the visual management of building energy consumption and carbon emission monitoring, thereby reducing energy consumption.

The Winter Olympics venues are also deployed with an intelligent building operating system. The system is based on technologies such as 5G and AI, which can achieve real-time full situation perception of the entire Winter Olympic Village.

3, 5G, MR, etc. to ensure the smooth communication of the Winter Olympics

During the Beijing Winter Olympics, the 5G signal will cover all venues and the connecting roads between venues, in addition to 5G coverage, the Beijing Winter Olympics also has a special Winter Olympic communication technology operation command center to ensure smooth communication between the Winter Olympics.

The Winter Olympics communication technology operation command center is built by China Unicom. Through the three systems of the Winter Olympics communication comprehensive monitoring system, the comprehensive fault dispatching system and the network digital operation platform, the relevant personnel can realize unified monitoring, scheduling, response and service of the communication information network of all Olympic venues and facilities in the three major competition areas.

In addition, China Unicom has also used some other intelligent means to ensure the operation of communications, such as two-dimensional code marking related communication equipment, so that technicians can accurately locate; and MR digital venue monitoring technology, so that technical experts can remotely guide on-site engineers to complete troubleshooting and equipment maintenance.

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲ The monitoring screen of the Winter Olympics Communication Operation Command Center of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games

4. Accurate forecasting, smart weather to help

Beijing Winter Olympics also has an accurate meteorological forecasting system, which provides scientific and technological support for the smooth holding of various mountain snow events of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and through numerical weather forecasting, AI, big data and other technologies, it has realized the integrated meteorological monitoring of the Winter Olympics with ultra-fine "complex mountains + megacities", and the degree of accurate forecasting can reach "minute level, 100 meters level".

Gu Ailing's helmet, time and space freeze-motion, the Winter Olympics actually hid so much black technology

▲Beijing Winter Olympics Winter Olympics on-site meteorological service system

5. Smart security ensures the safety of personnel

In addition, according to the "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Heritage Report Collection (2022)", the early identification and automatic early warning system for geotechnical structure disasters is another set of intelligent systems to ensure the smooth progress of the event, based on aerospace remote sensing, remote laser vibration measurement, microchip sensing and other technologies, which can achieve second-level emergency response and early warning of dangerous situations.

In addition to considering meteorological and geographical environmental issues, the open venue of the Beijing Winter Olympics is also very important. The virtual "smart fence" comes in handy, through the field monitoring and intelligent mobile sentry car, the environment is complex, the area is vast snow field monitoring and intelligent judgment, to ensure the safety of the Winter Olympics and participants.

Conclusion: Behind the Winter Olympics is science and technology China

In order to support the smooth holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and other relevant departments have begun to promote the national key research and development plan "Science and Technology Winter Olympics" key special implementation plan since 2018, and it is not difficult to see from various reports of the Winter Olympics that these achievements have been applied to all aspects of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In addition, according to the "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Heritage Report Collection (2022)", a number of intelligent technologies will also be reused and promoted in society after the Winter Olympic Games.

These intelligent technologies such as AI, VR, AR, and cloud computing displayed at the Beijing Winter Olympics are actually a microcosm of the rapid development of China's intelligent technology, and also show the vigorous vitality of China's intelligent industry.

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