How advanced is the "Smart Island" with 20,000 people? Let me help you experience it first!

[51CTO.com original article] On March 21, Huawei China Eco Partner Conference 2019 was grandly held at the Straits International Convention and Exhibition Center in Fuzhou. The theme of this conference is "Intelligent Evolution Born from Gathering". I have long heard that Huawei and its ecological partners built a "Smart Island" in just 30 days to fully display the industry's leading smart applications, aiming to bring the most cutting-edge smart experience to every guest attending the conference. So I walked around the entire "Smart Island" in a down-to-earth manner and personally experienced various smart applications. Unexpectedly, in addition to successfully reaching the top of the number of steps that day, I also gained a variety of convenient and thoughtful smart experiences, which was really a surprise.

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My smart experience started with the entrance. During the registration period, I uploaded my selfie, so when I arrived at the gate at the entrance, I could enter directly through facial recognition (no ID required), and the whole process took less than 2 seconds. This is much more efficient and faster than the conventional scanning code and ticket entry of traditional conferences.

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When I arrived at the exhibition hall, I found that Huawei's smart guide screens were deployed in front of more than ten experience points. When I walked to the electronic display screen, the camera on the screen recognized my identity through my face, and then displayed all the sub-forum times and conference room names that I had registered for before, and displayed the route map from the current location to the registered sub-forum. For such a conference with tens of thousands of people, this guide route will make the conference more orderly and smooth.

When I entered the 11,000-square-meter exhibition hall of this Eco Partner Conference, I couldn't help but sigh that this is the place where AI is the culmination of everything. The overall exhibition hall is based on the logic of "platform + AI + ecology" to empower industry applications, with AI as the main line. It has built 21 main exhibition areas such as industry + AI, digital platform, Huawei Cloud, and ecological joint innovation, with nearly 440 exhibition points, including more than 160 joint solutions from Huawei and ecological partners. If what I felt before was the application of smart "points", then in this exhibition hall, people feel an immersive smart experience that combines "pieces" and "surfaces".

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After leaving the exhibition hall, the author began to measure the entire "Smart Island" on foot. Four experience points among them left a deep impression on the reporter.

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The first experience point is on the Minjiang River. The reporter found on the map that this small island is backed by distant mountains and surrounded by water on three sides. There are only three bridges for outside access. Therefore, Huawei deployed a "smart water affairs" experience point on the river surface - river surface monitoring. Huawei's smart cameras are connected to sensors and transmit video images to Huawei Cloud in real time. When abnormal conditions occur on the river surface, such as illegal entry of ships or abnormal water level rise, the front-end camera can accurately identify them, and make judgments and alarms with the help of Huawei Cloud EI behind it.

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The second impressive experience point is the ubiquitous cameras. Huawei's smart camera is equipped with Huawei's smart chip. There is still a lot of redundancy in the performance of just one camera, so Huawei can provide "computing power" sharing for ordinary cameras through software-defined smart camera technology, so that ordinary cameras can also have face recognition capabilities. The reporter secretly calculated that if a city previously installed 300,000 cameras, once the equipment is outdated, it will cost a lot to replace them all with smart cameras. However, if it is replaced with a smart "1 to 3" camera with computing power sharing like Huawei, the previous equipment only needs to be replaced a little to enjoy the smart face recognition function, which means that the total upgrade cost is reduced by 70%, and the return on investment is quite high.

The third experience point is intelligent perimeter protection. Huawei deployed perimeter protection systems outside the conference and at the booth. Only through smart cameras and the intelligent video analysis system behind them, most objects that cross the border, such as people, small animals, and various items, can be identified. In the eyes of reporters, this system is most suitable for deployment in residential areas. The traditional infrared system has a very high false alarm rate, and falling leaves will also trigger alarms, making security guards exhausted. If Huawei's system is used, the false alarm rate of the traditional perimeter is reduced by more than 90%, and security guards can save the trouble of repeated inspections.

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***One of the most impressive experience points is the ultra-high-speed capture system. This system is installed on major traffic roads. Through intelligent algorithms, the camera can monitor whether the vehicle and the driver have any illegal behaviors, such as talking on the phone while driving, not wearing a seat belt, etc. Don't be lucky, the author has heard that even at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, this system can clearly capture the driver's illegal actions!

After a day of walking, there are actually many great experience points, such as smart street lights that can use sensors to control lighting for energy saving and environmental protection; unmanned retail stores allow people to buy things without queuing to pay, that is, after choosing the items to buy, the bill will be automatically deducted (pushing the bill); Huawei's customer analysis system can identify the age, identity and hobbies of the target group, realize accurate information push, and optimize the layout of stores... But as the saying goes, "seeing is believing", no matter how clear and moving my own feelings are, it is better for you to come to Fuzhou "Smart Island" to experience it yourself. From March 21st to 22nd, Huawei China Eco Partner Conference 2019 in Fuzhou Straits International Convention and Exhibition is waiting for you. Welcome to experience the extraordinary applications of the intelligent era!

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