Author: Sun Yan Source: IT Times
After entering the era of AI intelligence, cars are like smartphones, and the hardware configuration is becoming more and more homogeneous, while the hardware customization that only top luxury cars can have in the past is becoming the standard, and the speed of new energy vehicles surpassing traditional oil vehicles is determined by software.
Xiaomi is a representative of the car with the idea of mobile phones, and uses the "people, cars, homes" ecology to drive the selling point of software and hardware customization, as a killer feature against traditional car companies. The surging OS operating system has created a set of Internet of Everything ecosystem, deeply integrating software and hardware, realizing the interconnection between the car machine and the mobile phone, and the interconnection between the car and the Xiaomi ecological hardware. Looking at the passenger car sector, only Huawei, which also makes cars across borders, and Geely, which acquired Meizu, can compete with Xiaomi in this regard. Users can not only install hardware such as smart dual dials, ambient lights, and mobile phone holders on the car machine expansion, but also quickly customize a car that understands you better through Xiaoai's AI large model.
Software and hardware customization is becoming a new trend in the car circle, spreading from passenger cars to commercial vehicles, and in the field of commercial vehicles, to create a car that understands you better, will face more complex and diverse software and hardware customization needs, and car companies must have an in-depth understanding of the application scenarios of thousands of industries. One of the earliest companies to provide software and hardware customization in the field of commercial vehicles is Westwell Technology, which has changed the bulky and unchanged heavy trucks in our impression, and made hardware selection as simple as building blocks, and now, it will go deep into the logistics industry for many years of accumulation to empower software custom solutions and AI large models, iterate products more quickly, and learn the industry more intelligently.
Hardware determines the upper limit of vehicle performance, software determines the vehicle iteration speed and intelligent boundary, with the personalized customization of "software and hardware", the upper limit of performance, iteration speed and intelligence is constantly broken, and commercial vehicles can also understand the industry more and more they use, and the more they use it, the more they understand you.
Software determines the speed of iteration and "understands your car"
In the early days of the emergence of AI large models, human worries were replaced by it, but after large models penetrated into thousands of industries, it was discovered that AI accelerated the development of the industry and expanded the boundaries of human capabilities. Large AI models are making their way into people's closest digital companions, including mobile phones, computers, and more.
Nowadays, AI large models have become a new trend in the car, and more than 20 passenger car brands have announced that they are equipped with AI large models, and they have truly entered the lives of ordinary people.
In fact, in the field of commercial vehicles, the intelligent driving system has long been able to imitate more than ten years of "masters" to complete more dangerous, heavy and repetitive driving tasks.
Logistics scenarios such as seaports, airports, mines, parks, and highways have different autonomous driving needs, how can the autonomous driving system be customized according to the "field"? How to imitate the driving ability of humans to actively judge the "field"?
Multi-sensor fusion positioning and deep learning deployment architecture are built, which not only adapts to a variety of vehicle models, but also adapts to the customization of thousands of "fields", and truly quickly customizes unmanned driving scenarios.
The speed of software upgrade has far exceeded that of hardware upgrade, and Westwell Technology has long been well versed in this, and has laid a good foundation for later software upgrade at the beginning of hardware design. The hardware customization covers the Qomolo, the autonomous driving heavy truck family of Xijing Technology, and the "Transformers" share the same wire-controlled chassis, reserve the autonomous driving wiring harness and sensor interface in advance, and upgrade from "manual driving" to "unmanned driving" in 6 hours at the fastest through OTA upgrades.
For enterprises at different stages of autonomous driving development, Westwell Technology has reserved enough room for upgrades. Software and hardware customization covering the whole life cycle will provide greater potential for commercial vehicle scenarios to achieve cost reduction, efficiency increase, and green and low-carbon, thus leading to a "new AI ecology".
System-level intelligence, cost reduction, efficiency increase, green and low-carbon is the "system that understands you"
In a container seaport, the intelligence of a single vehicle is not enough to drive the intelligence of the entire production chain, but the system-level intelligence of the Internet of Everything can be achieved. When the vehicle is damaged or the energy is exhausted, it depends on the weather and the speed of loading and unloading at the dock to decide whether to "rescue" or unload the cargo first.
Only system-level intelligence that integrates software and hardware can truly improve overall operational efficiency and reduce energy consumption. As a result, Westwell Technology integrates autonomous driving, Internet of Things, intelligent systems, and new energy replenishment systems into an integrated technology stack of "vehicles, stations, clouds, and networks", which is not only applied to seaports, but also to airports, inland ports, railways, factories and other scenarios.
Last year, Westwell Technology launched the world's first container logistics model TerminalGPT, and this year, Westwell Technology not only wants to empower the vehicle end with the AI model, but also empower the platform-level system. X-Terminal, a large-scale model platform, came into being, which not only opens up "people" and "vehicles", but also opens up "fields", integrating multiple software and hardware systems such as safety monitoring, energy efficiency management, and intelligent operation into one platform for overall planning, so as to achieve true unmanned.
Driven by AI's "invisible hand", human-computer interaction can be interacted with in natural language, and the vehicle can operate safely, automatically avoiding blockages, and arranging the optimal path by itself.
At the upcoming TOC Europe, the European container supply chain exhibition, Westwell Technology will release a new and upgraded fleet-level intelligent management system. It can agile perception, real-time analysis, independent decision-making, and precise execution, and plan the best path for each equipment by controlling horizontal and vertical transportation equipment, avoiding vehicle collisions and deadlocks, and truly maximizing the operation efficiency of large logistics scenarios.
It will be based on the latest convergence technologies such as the Internet of Things, 5G, and AI, and will collect, monitor and manage the energy use and carbon emission data of equipment in the field in a unified manner. At the same time, it also has the ability of digital twins, which can be rehearsed in advance to find the solution with the least risk, the best efficiency and the lowest cost. In this way, we can help large logistics scenarios such as terminals formulate energy management plans, reduce carbon emissions, and move towards green operations.
Only by truly reducing costs and increasing efficiency can we achieve green and low-carbon. Only those who truly achieve green and low-carbon development are the ones who "understand your system". Green and low-carbon has always been the key word of Xijing Technology, and in its upcoming white paper on the green transformation of large logistics, it will systematically introduce the progressive path of green and low-carbon, and use the technology engine to drive the harmonious coexistence of "people, intelligence and ecology".
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers predicts that by 2035, the scale of China's smart car industry will exceed 200 billion US dollars (about 1.44 trillion yuan).
Software and hardware customization is leveraging this trillion-dollar market. In addition to autonomous driving and new energy, superimposed AI large models and system-wide intelligence, Westwell Technology has gradually established its own "AI new ecology" and established its own ecological barriers in the field of large logistics.