Juniper Networks focuses on AI technology to fight the epidemic

With the advent of the "post-epidemic era" of normalization of the epidemic, social enterprises have resumed work and production, and colleges and universities have resumed classes and school. The reliance on IT technology for epidemic prevention and control is stronger than ever before, including two aspects: technology identification and process control. Juniper Networks MIST architecture combines WIFI with patented virtual BLE technology, and 16 antenna arrays support positioning information; in addition, MIST recently launched an advanced analysis service that can provide different observation perspectives and unique insights from various source data. In addition to optimizing the end-user network service experience, it can also identify user location information and time-space movement trajectories, and thus have the possibility of mastering the behavioral data of mutual influence caused by contact between people in the workplace.

Using AI to build a solid Great Wall for epidemic prevention and control is one of the practices of Juniper Networks' AI strategy in the Chinese market. Based on the positioning technology capabilities of the above MIST products, Juniper Networks is currently working in-depth with leading domestic GIS discipline laboratories to build an effective big data intelligent prediction and early warning platform for the safe resumption of work of enterprises after the epidemic. This platform relies on digital mapping and spatial analysis technology, indoor and outdoor positioning technology, big data mining technology, cloud platform technology, and deep learning methods to continuously deepen the content of information technology construction, and provide monitoring, tracing, prediction, personnel control and other services for the current COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control. This system platform aims to follow up on the development of the social epidemic, continuously update and iterate the technical solution capabilities, and provide methods and experience support for possible future epidemic prevention and control. At the same time, this system further improves and enhances the comprehensive capabilities of disease control and population health management of government and enterprises in the smart city scenarios enabled by 5G, wireless WIFI and AI.

The two parties will also work together to develop solutions with practical value, such as providing control technology support for the end of the current epidemic (home isolation, centralized isolation area isolation). For those who are not isolated in the specified area, the system will issue an alarm and automatically report to the control department; for those who are isolated with some symptoms, automatic dynamic body temperature detection and alarm functions will be provided, and the body temperature data will be sent to the cloud management/monitoring platform. Juniper Networks Mist has a strong ecosystem of technology partners that can provide comprehensive solutions to support enterprise contact tracing, social remote positioning, and other indoor positioning use cases. These include wearable BLE terminals, real-time notification systems, and applications that can use MIST OPEN-SDK for high-precision indoor positioning.

—— Close tracking: If a person is confirmed to be COVID-19 positive (or has symptoms), the company can quickly identify and calculate through the AI ​​platform the people who have had contact with the patient in both time and space and are at risk of infection, thereby notifying the corresponding employees or customers.

- Movement trajectory tracking: With the help of AI platform, the historical movement trajectory and residence time (from arrival to departure time) of employees who report positive COVID-19 can be viewed. High-traffic hot spots can be identified so that customers can take safety measures such as reconfiguring workspaces and deploying additional cleaning work.

-- Hot Zone Alerts: By viewing the number and location of devices (people) in a specific area, companies can set up real-time, location-based push notifications (alerts) to disperse or divert people from congested areas. They can also view trends over a period of time to identify certain areas and take proactive measures.

——Urban health code connection: The information of the epidemic personnel in the enterprise and the information of the possible infected persons in the space-time trajectory can be sent to the city health department to adjust the corresponding health code of the personnel, and then isolate the personnel in specific places or at home. And with the help of the automatic temperature monitoring system, the health status of potential infected persons can be tracked in real time.

In addition, this epidemic prevention and control system platform will explore the realization of multi-dimensional user spatiotemporal trajectory profiling and risk control modeling based on the network real-time big data collection/analysis software and hardware product solutions of Juniper Networks' cloud computing microservice architecture, and use large-scale AI algorithm platforms including data lakes and federated learning to build commercially available landing product solutions, realize rapid iteration of the integration of industry, academia and research, and contribute to the rapid recovery of the national economy after the epidemic.

Juniper Networks China CTO Jing Youhao said: "In the past 20 years, Juniper has experienced expansion from the carrier market to the enterprise market and consumer Internet customer market; from basic network architecture to CI/CD cloud service platform software and hardware comprehensive technical solutions, Juniper Networks has been leading the trend of network technology and iterating industry technical solutions. In the next 10 years of technological innovation evolution driven by industrial Internet and enterprise digital transformation, Juniper Networks focuses on technological change drivers such as artificial intelligence and big data analysis. Through the technical reserves and talent layout in recent years in scenarios such as real-time big data analysis of networks, artificial intelligence network automated operation and maintenance, and industrial application empowerment, combined with the company's software and hardware product R&D strength and effective strategic investment and acquisition, we will once again help our target customers achieve breakthroughs in data AI to improve industrial productivity."