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The theme of this year's 517 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is "Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development", highlighting the key role of innovation in digital technology and applications for sustainable economic and social development. Infrastructure operators and infrastructure companies, as leading players in the industrial chain, are practitioners and leaders in digital innovation and development, and they actively promote the digital development of the economy and society, promote the construction of the information society, and contribute to sustainable development through digital technology innovation and digital application innovation. In the past year, infrastructure operators and infrastructure companies have launched a number of innovative practices, and the editors of Communications Industry News selected the editors' choice for World Telecommunication Day 2024: Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development Operation Pioneers from three dimensions: digital technology innovation capabilities, sustainable development applications and practices of digital technologies, market impact and social impact.
Application of "ship face" recognition technology
Operator: China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd
Project introduction: China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd., Weihai Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government and Marine Development Bureau jointly discussed the solution of "double bucket and same display, double face and same inspection" for fishing boats, and used Unicom Digital's AI capabilities to pioneer ship face recognition technology in the industry, and innovated and developed the "fishery administration verification and recording" system. In May 2021, after on-site investigations, the AI team of China Unicom Digital Technology quickly formulated an implementation plan for data collection, algorithm architecture, model training, and deployment. With the strong support of Weihai Unicom and the staff of the fishing port, in September of the same year, the "fishery administration verification and recording" system has begun to take shape, first in Weihai Yuanyao Fishing Port for trial operation, after the effect has been recognized, it has been gradually extended to the fishing ports of Wendeng, Rongcheng and Rushan subordinate districts and counties.
Editor's evaluation: "Fishery Administration Verification and Record" is like the nervous system of the port, accurately processing every piece of data to ensure that every fishing vessel can identify the "real body" within 5 minutes, and opening a new chapter for improving the intelligent, information-based and refined management of Weihai Fishery Administration.
The 5G network signal in Shenzhen's urban villages has been upgraded
Operator: China Mobile Communications Group Guangdong Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Branch
Project introduction: Shenzhen's urban villages carry about 60% of the resident population, but the urban villages are densely populated with buildings, and the deployment of wireless networks is difficult. How to improve the 5G network experience in urban villages as soon as possible, so that the majority of urban village residents can enjoy the success of the development of the urban digital economy, has become a topic that China Mobile Shenzhen has been trying to think about and solve. The 5G network coverage scheme in traditional residential areas is mainly based on RRU external spotlight antennas, which is complex in project deployment and has poor uplink and downlink experience. In response to the shortcomings of 5G network coverage in urban villages, China Mobile Shenzhen and Huawei overcame difficulties by deploying the 5G innovative pole and micro-station solution, improving the downlink experience by 1.4 times and the uplink experience by 2.1 times, effectively improving the 5G network experience and quality of life of residents in urban villages, and meeting users' needs for the ultimate 5G gigabit 5G network experience, such as new 5G live broadcasts, calls, and new videos.
Editor's evaluation: In the past, urban villages have always been difficult to cover communication networks because of their complex building environment and dense population distribution, and difficult site selection is the focus and difficulty of the construction of communication base stations in urban villages.
Shanghai Schneider 5G green intelligent manufacturing factory
Operator: China United Network Communications Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
Project introduction: Shanghai Unicom and Schneider Electric team, based on the innovative practice of Shanghai Schneider Low-Voltage Terminal Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd., based on the pioneering 5G multi-campus + lightweight 5G C sinking private network, realized high security of the user plane and control plane without leaving the campus, and created a modular and platform-based 5G application construction system. The project innovatively integrates 5G technology into intelligent manufacturing scenarios, realizes the world's first commercial 5G LAN scenario, and creates a new 5G+PLC flexible production model based on 5G LAN, increasing PLC utilization by 85%, promoting the deep integration of 5G and industrial control, and opening up the path of IT and OT integration based on 5G.
Based on the 5G private network in the factory area, the project further planned and implemented a number of scenario applications with business characteristics, including the construction of applications such as auxiliary management based on 5G + Tianyan and intelligent decision-making based on 5G + digital twins, realizing the refined, personalized and intelligent management of equipment, improving business efficiency by 45%, reducing procurement and labor costs by about 20%, and building a complete green intelligent manufacturing system, becoming a model for building a green factory.
Editor's evaluation: This project is a successful practice of deepening and expanding 5G technology from the peripheral auxiliary link of production to the core control link, which will bring profound changes to the production mode and production form of the manufacturing industry. As an expert in digital transformation in the field of energy management and automation, Schneider Electric's innovative 5G factory construction will affect the transfer of its entire industrial chain to 5G, helping the entire industrial chain to improve industrial chain efficiency and green emission reduction through "5G + Industrial Internet".
5G-A demonstration business hall
Operator: China Mobile Communications Group Jiangxi Co., Ltd
Project Introduction: 5G-A is a key stage in the development of 5G to 6G. Jiangxi Mobile opened a three-carrier aggregation (3CC) network in the business hall of China Mobile Honggutan Huizhan Road in Nanchang, and specially arranged a 5G-A experience area with "10 Gigabit speed is faster than fast" in the business hall, where users can experience new calls, cloud phones, glasses-free 3D and other applications supported by the 5G-A network. Mobile terminals that support 5G-A have been displayed and sold over the counter, and the 5G-A signal logo can be seen on the mobile phone interface. Through on-site comparison, it only takes 5 seconds for the same movie to be downloaded on a mobile phone supported by the 5G-A network, which is a great improvement compared to the download rate of 5G mobile phones. In the naked-eye 3D display area of the business hall, the 5G-A network can effectively ensure the transmission of 3D content in Migu video, and the mobile terminal can achieve 3D viewing effect.
Editor's evaluation: 3CC can achieve 260M usable ultra-large bandwidth by networking 2.6G (100M+60M) and 4.9G (100M) frequency bands with three carriers. The 5G-A demonstration business hall will help promote the commercial deployment of 5G-A, which will provide solid support for more and more application scenarios of digital intelligence products.
Integrated scheduling platform for Internet of Vehicles, computing and networking
Operator: China Unicom Intelligent Network Technology Co., Ltd
Project introduction: Relying on China Unicom's computing network capabilities, the integrated dispatching platform of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) computing network integrates the computing network infrastructure of the center-region-edge, forms a nationwide operational computing network service capability, and supports the development of vehicle-road-cloud integration. In how to solve the key problems of the Internet of Vehicles computing network and application perception, cross-domain switching, and how to empower the application scenarios of the Internet of Vehicles, systematic solutions are proposed, including proposing a national service architecture, building an integrated scheduling platform for the Internet of Vehicles computing network, and creating 5 leading technical solutions and a number of industry-first application scenario solutions. The platform has passed the authoritative evaluation of Thiel Labs.
Editor's evaluation: The integrated scheduling platform of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) computing network realizes the unified management of the IoV computing network infrastructure, and provides basic functions such as orchestration, scheduling, and perception of computing resources. The project team proposed for the first time in the industry to build an Internet of Vehicles computing network to support the large-scale development of vehicle-road-cloud integration, and developed the industry's first integrated scheduling platform for Internet of Vehicles computing network to overcome the industry problem of computing network empowering Internet of Vehicles.
Beidou high-precision positioning empowers urban traffic management applications
Operator: China Mobile Group Beijing Co., Ltd
Project introduction: The integration of "5G + Beidou" can form high-precision positioning and transmission technology, and light up new application scenarios in many industries with extremely high requirements for "position" and "time" changes. In 2020, China Mobile released the world's largest 5G+ Beidou high-precision positioning system. At present, sustainable development applications and practical explorations have been formed in many fields. In the field of transportation supervision, real-time tracking and analysis of the location data and lane data of transportation vehicles in the transportation industry can achieve effective vehicle scheduling and refined traffic management; In the field of public security traffic management, it provides strong support for optimizing the timing of traffic lights at intersections, predicting traffic congestion, and planning travel routes. In the field of intelligent navigation and autonomous driving assistance, it provides navigation services for intelligent lane-level positioning; In terms of high-precision timing, China Mobile's Beidou module contains high-precision time information, which can calibrate the time for pan-traffic IoT devices, including intersection traffic signals.
Editor's evaluation: China Mobile has practiced the integration of "5G + Beidou" for the first time, Beidou solves the problems of high-precision timing and high-precision positioning in open space, and 5G solves the problems of high-speed data transmission and high-precision positioning of satellite shielded areas. The application of 5G + Beidou high-precision positioning will help the high-quality development of transportation in the capital and achieve carbon peaking, carbon neutrality and low-cost urban management.
Public computing power service platform
Operator: China Mobile (Suzhou) Software Technology Co., Ltd
Project introduction: With the progress of computing power construction in a province, problems such as multiple construction subjects of computing power resources, difficulties in integrated and collaborative operation, asymmetry between supply and demand, and imperfect resource supply system have gradually emerged. The project plan of the public computing power service platform is mainly as follows. (1) Unified operation portal. Build a one-stop service, ready-to-use unified operation portal. (2) Multi-cloud management platform. (3) Computing network brain platform. By deploying the mobile cloud computing network brain, it can intelligently dispatch global resources, with a scheduling capability of 10,000 levels per minute. Optimize strategic resource ordering based on multiple factors such as computing power maps, customer feedback, and costs. Through the service view, resource view, and command and dispatch cockpit, it helps the government realize on-network computing power management and intelligent scheduling. Realize the computing power public service capability of "one-point construction, serving the whole province and supporting the whole country".
Editor's evaluation: By building the computing power public service platform locally, it helps the local government give full play to the advantages of computing resource scheduling, helps the local government attract investment from high-tech companies and enterprises, and improves the development of the local digital industry chain. At the same time, by building this platform, the supply and demand of computing power can be coordinated for the whole province and even the whole country, and its important role in the national strategy of "Eastern Data and Western Computing" can be fully utilized.
China Mobile Intelligent Computing Center (Hohhot)
Operator: China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd
Project introduction: China Mobile Intelligent Computing Center (Hohhot) focuses on the new information service system of "connection + computing power + capability", adopts the industry's advanced computing, storage and network architecture, and introduces a number of new technologies such as GPU card deduction module, high-speed lossless network, cold plate liquid cooling, etc., to realize the synergy of intelligent computing and general computing resources, create a unified technical base, and build a unified operation system. At the same time, the intelligent computing center has also deployed about 20,000 AI acceleration cards, with a localization rate of AI chips exceeding 85%, an intelligent computing power scale of up to 6.7EFLOPS, and supporting the interconnection and parallel training of 10,000 AI acceleration cards, making it the largest single intelligent computing center of global operators.
Editor's evaluation: China Mobile Intelligent Computing Center (Hohhot) was selected as one of the "Top Ten Super Projects of Central Enterprises in 2023", filling the huge gap in computing power required for the wide application of artificial intelligence in mainland China, quickly enabling large model training in transportation, medical care, education, energy, finance and other industries, providing a solid foundation and strong engine for the innovation and development of artificial intelligence, and driving the development and growth of the artificial intelligence industry in mainland China.
FTTR+ all-optical home storage cloud dragon package service
Operator: China United Network Communications Co., Ltd. Hebei Branch
Project introduction: China Unicom Hebei will actively embrace the era of home cloud and AI, deeply tap the huge potential of cloud and AI technology, and innovatively launch the Cloud Dragon package, which is based on Huawei's iFTTR Starlight F50 to provide users with home local storage services and realize the universalization of storage. At the same time, China Unicom's home care service has also achieved a comprehensive upgrade of "terminal + cloud storage + AI application".
Editor's comment: China Unicom Hebei has world-leading capabilities in the field of whole-home optical broadband, and the number of users ranks first in the country. It not only saves users valuable time, but also brings them a wealth of information and economic value. The Yunlong package has brought significant improvements to the user's life and work experience, making the network transmission smoother, and greatly improving the efficiency and experience of life and work.
"One code to the end" innovative application
Operator: China Tower Co., Ltd. Beijing Branch
Editor's evaluation: In the end, one code supports the "big pattern" with "small incisions", and realizes "big applications" with "small labels", and the end of "sticking codes" is the beginning of the exploration of innovative applications of digital management, and realizes the deep extension of one code in different fields of production and operation.
Co-ordinator: Cui Liangliang
Nominated editors: Cui Liangliang, Gao Chao, Zhao Yan, Dang Bowen
Edit: Liangliang
Guidance: Xin Wen
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