In the electric power industry, with 5G+AI drone inspections, manual inspections that took two months to complete in the past can now be completed in only 2 hours.
opened the world's first underground coal mine 5G network in the underground coal mining operation area 534 meters above the ground in Xinyuan Coal Mine, realizing unmanned, automated, and visualized operation of the mine...
These scenarios are all 5G applications in the industrial field The new experience brought by 5G+ Industrial Internet is promoting industrial enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation. So, what are the difficulties to be solved in this process? Where will the future 5G+ Industrial Internet go? On November 20, at the "2020 China 5G+ Industrial Internet Conference", Huawei's rotating chairman Hu Houkun gave his own suggestions on these issues in a speech.
What attracts the author most is that Hu Houkun put forward the three keys to the development of 5G+ industrial Internet: continuous innovation, security assurance, and industry integration . These three points are worthy of industry thinking.
Continuous innovation across the entire chain
Hu Houkun believes that the development of 5G+ industrial Internet requires continuous innovation, especially in the key areas of basic network capabilities, industry terminals and industry applications. The author deeply agrees with
. The development of technology is one aspect, but the application in the scene is more important, especially the scenes involved in the industrial field are diverse. 5G needs to carry out targeted and continuous innovation for different scenes.
This point is fully reflected in the application of Xinyuan Coal Mine "5G+ Coal Mine" mentioned at the beginning. As the first integrated application of 5G and coal mines in China, this project has overcome many "unknown" difficulties and opened the way for 5G innovation in specific scenarios. For example, in response to equipment safety issues, the 5G Communication Coal Industry Application Innovation Alliance established by Yangmei Group, China Mobile and Huawei made special explosion-proof modifications to 5G base stations and successfully developed the first 5G base station for mining. Another example is the inability to receive satellite signals for more than 500 meters underground, resulting in the difficulty of "precise timing". The Innovation Alliance has specially developed underground 5G base station network synchronization timing to solve this technical problem and increase the accuracy to less than 100 nanoseconds. The network has high reliability, high controllability, and ultra-high security. In terms of terminal innovation, Hu Houkun pointed out that although there are currently more than 60 5G modules in the industry, compared with the more than 1,400 types and prices of 4G modules, the types and prices of 5G modules are still relatively small. High, the type of industry terminal is not enough to match the market demand of various industries . In this regard, it is also necessary for the industry to launch more types and lower prices of 5G modules.
Application innovation, especially application innovation beyond connection, is also very important for the development of 5G+ Industrial Internet . This requires different technologies such as 5G, cloud, and edge computing to converge, and requires vendors in different fields to collaborate and innovate. In this regard, the "Bloom Cup" 5G Application Contest organized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is a microcosm. The comparison of the two figures can particularly illustrate the problem: there were more than 300 participating projects in 2018, and this year it has grown to more than 4,000. This is more than ten times higher, which is enough to show that application collaborative innovation has entered a new stage.
Therefore, the innovation of 5G+ Industrial Internet not only requires continuity, but also requires the entire chain of networks, terminals, and applications.
"New security concept" that keeps pace with the times
"5G+ Industrial Internet, while accelerating industrial digitization, is also facing new security challenges." Hu Houkun pointed out that he believes that there are three main types of new challenges: virtualization, cloud The introduction of new technologies such as globalization and edge computing, massive industrial equipment access, and more complex security scenarios.
Therefore, 5G+ Industrial Internet has broken the relatively closed and credible security environment of traditional industries, and security risks such as viruses, Trojan horses, and advanced sustainability attacks are increasingly threatening the industrial field. As industry plays an important role in the national economy, once a safety problem occurs, it can easily lead to seriouss consequence.
In this regard, lessons learned from abroad are not uncommon: In March 2019, Norsk Hydro, a Norwegian aluminum company, was attacked by ransomware, which caused the host computer to crash, causing multiple factories to be closed and production interruptions; in August 2018, TSMC Computers in the operating headquarters and Hsinchu Park were invaded by viruses, and all production lines were shut down. This incident directly affected 3% of its operating income in the third quarter... The new security situation inevitably requires a "new security concept" that keeps pace with the times. Hu Houkun suggested that will build a security system through close collaboration of the entire industry chain, clear boundaries, and break through barriers from two aspects: building a security system and accelerating industry security architecture upgrades.
Recently, the joint project 5G smart grid end-to-end security solution jointly organized by China Southern Power Grid, China Mobile, and Huawei won the 5G application security finals of the 3rd "Blooming Cup" 5G Application Contest hosted by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology First prize. This project well reflects the "new security concept". On the one hand,
is the close collaboration of the entire industry chain. The security solution brings together the power of China Southern Power Grid, China Mobile, and Huawei, and also reflects the integration of ICT (information and communication technology) and OT (operational technology); on the other hand, it is full-stack, end-to-end security protection. The solution is based on a full-stack software and hardware architecture, provides end-to-end integrity protection capabilities, and provides dozens of security protections in physical security, platform security, cloud security, network security, data security, business security, industry terminal security, etc. ability.
In short, the development of 5G+ Industrial Internet has deepened the integration of ICT and OT. It also makes the security of 5G+ Industrial Internet more complex and challenging than traditional industrial control security and Internet security. At this time, we need to change our thinking. Advance, use a systematic way to achieve the upgrade of security solutions.
meets demand, builds standards, builds platform
Aiming at "industry collaboration", Hu Houkun puts forward three key points: touches demand, builds standards, builds platform . What is the nature of
Industrial Internet? In essence, it is the combination of industry and information technology. Its source of traceability is industry. In essence, it is reproduced through industrial knowledge, reproduced through tools, and finally injected into the main industrial process to achieve efficiency improvement. This determines that the application of ICT technology in the industrial field needs to bend down, pinpoint the needs, and then meet the needs through continuous innovation.
For example, the smart Xianggang jointly created by Xiangtan Steel, China Mobile and Huawei is a good example. Crane is an important equipment for steel production. It often runs high in the factory. In the past, manual operation was required. Not only was it inefficient, but also the working environment was harsh and dangerous. Remote control of unmanned cranes is a good direction, but it needs Transmit multi-channel and multi-view ultra-high-definition video to the server in real time, and require ultra-low-latency motion feedback to remotely drive the remote crane. This places extremely high requirements on the network, requiring as low as 20ms. The network delay and the rate as high as 1Gbps are based on the innovation and application of 5G networks based on such specific scenarios, which created the "5G + smart crane" that allows machines to run autonomously.
If demand is the prerequisite for scenario-based innovation, then the establishment of the standard is to standardize the application of 5G in different industries and scenarios, and to copy and promote better and faster, and building a platform allows industry collaboration. A platform that can be carried can not only promote innovation, but also incubate and cultivate more cross-border talents . When
interviewed Lu Yong, senior vice president of Huawei and president of the China region, he systematically explained the innovative promotion paths of 5GtoB: "0-1", "1-3" and "3-N". Specifically, it is firstly "0-1", aiming at the "targeted" breakthrough joint innovation in the first-mover industry; then "1-3", identifying which are the individual needs of a single customer and which are the industry commonality Based on this process, the industry solutions that meet the common needs are refined, and then verified; the last is "3-N", which is replicated on a large scale.
has one thing in common, whether it is looking for needs, establishing standards, or building platforms, that is " industry collaboration ", which is also the consensus of everyone at the "2020 China 5G+ Industrial Internet Conference". China has 41It is the only country in the world that has all the industrial categories in the United Nations Industrial Classification, and each type of industrial enterprise has its own unique industrial know-how, none Companies, it is impossible for any company to understand all categories, only industry collaboration, each company exerts its best aspects, together can achieve a win-win situation. Z1z
Postscript: The digital transformation of the deepwater zone
Deputy Minister of Industry and Information Technology Liu Liehong revealed at the previous press conference that my country's 5G and industrial Internet development has entered the fast lane. In terms of 5G commercial use, a total of more than 690,000 5G base stations have been opened, and the number of connected users has exceeded 160 million, all of which are in a leading position in the world. The industry is actively exploring "5G + Industrial Internet". The number of base stations used in the industry exceeds 32,000. Six typical application scenarios have emerged: data collection and perception, high-definition video, machine vision, precise remote control, on-site assistance, and digital twins.
5G+Industrial Internet is essentially the integration of IT, CT, and OT, involving technologies and enterprises in three different fields, and is a very complex system engineering . It can be said that the development of 5G+ Industrial Internet also represents the digital transformation of the industry into a deep water zone. At this time, how to do it is a topic of concern to the industry.
Hu Houkun made three suggestions at the "2020 China 5G+ Industrial Internet Conference": continuous innovation, security assurance and industry integration. It can be said that it is just the right time. It comes from Huawei's thinking and practice in the 5G+ industrial Internet field. It can be predicted that the entire industry will continue to innovate in networks, terminals, and applications, take the road of collaboration and integration, coupled with security upgrades and evolution, and the future of 5G+ industrial Internet will definitely be better, and it will definitely be a key to the digital transformation of the industry Accelerator key.
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