(Shanghai, October 25, 2018 PRNewswire=Yonhapnews) Huawei officially launched IoT Cloud Service 2.0 at HUAWEI CONNECT 2018 and announced its IoT strategy of "Provide IoT Infrastructure and Build up an Ecosystem." Through expanded connectivity, cloud services, and AI, Huawei is committed to building more robust industrial IoT and supporting industrial digitalization.

Michael Ma, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, releasing IoT Cloud Service 2.0 at HUAWEI CONNECT 2018

According to the Global Industry Vision 2025 report announced by Huawei, the number of connected devices is expected to exceed 100 billion by 2025. High-value connectivity in industrial applications is anticipated to increase significantly. As industries pursue industrial IoT, enhance industrial efficiency, and promote industrial upgrades, data derived from comprehensive sensing and perception of everything is expected to be fully realized.

The key requirements for building IoT infrastructure are expanding connectivity, improving cloud services, and strengthening AI capabilities. Huawei realizes trustworthy interconnection of all things, and through cloud services, provides support for rapid service deployment and global reach. Additionally, Huawei has set the goal of advancing AI capabilities to enable industry partners to generate revenue from IoT applications. Through communications technologies developed over the past 30 years, Huawei is expected to realize this goal.

Expanding Connectivity: Supporting Trustworthy Interconnection of All Things

Connectivity is the foundation of IoT. To build a secure foundation, Huawei not only expands the number of connections but also seeks to achieve continuous coverage, seamless evolution, security and reliability across the entire network, pursuing connections that can be managed and controlled. Huawei NB-IoT is characterized by low power consumption, wide coverage, and large capacity, and supports seamless evolution to 5G. Huawei builds a mature and open ecosystem and provides comprehensive security solutions covering chipsets/OS, data transmission, and IoT platforms. Currently, the number of devices connected to the IoT platform reaches 200 million globally. Among these, 90 million IoT devices are connected to China Telecom's e-Surfing Cloud, and 1 million smart city infrastructure devices are connected across the world.

Enhancing Cloud Services: Providing Ubiquitous IoT Services

In the future, demand for IoT connectivity is expected to increase significantly. The key to improving IoT cloud services is supporting their availability anytime and anywhere. Through collaboration between the OceanConnect IoT platform and OceanConnect Edge, complete coverage, flexible services, unified management, service collaboration, and data collaboration become possible, enabling the expansion of IoT cloud services from the network core to the edge.

Advancing AI Capabilities: Unlocking IoT Value

To create value from the vast amount of data acquired through connectivity, intelligent analysis is necessary. Intelligence is the key technology for IoT monetization. "Intelligence" comprises algorithms located at the network core and edge, as well as device perception. In intelligent systems, devices serve as human sensory organs. The eye is the most important and effective tool for humans to perceive information. Therefore, smart cameras can serve as "eyes" in a fully connected intelligent world, becoming valuable information-gathering tools for industrial IoT and helping industries generate greater value. Huawei has made substantial investments in AI chipsets, software-defined intelligent cameras, edge video analytics, and OceanConnect AI. By advancing AI capabilities, Huawei supports industry partners in generating revenue from their IoT applications.

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei launched IoT Cloud Service 1.0 (DMP and AEP). This time, Huawei launched IoT Cloud Service 2.0 to make it easier for industry customers to utilize its IoT infrastructure capabilities (connectivity, cloud, and intelligence). IoT Cloud Service 2.0 presents three major improvements.

First, Huawei provides pre-integrated industry verticals and platform cloud services, such as connected vehicles, intelligent transportation, smart cities, and smart campuses, for various industries seeking to complete digital transformation. This enables industry partners to develop innovative applications more quickly and flexibly. They can also explore more scenarios to discover new and valuable industry solutions that integrate AI capabilities.

Second, to extend connectivity to more industries, Huawei launched IoT Hub, a lightweight cloud service. IoT Hub is a secure and reliable lightweight device management service that enables IoT devices to connect to the network in a simpler, safer, and more cost-effective manner.

Third, to promote ecosystem partners, Huawei launched OceanConnect Market, which promotes product innovation, display, and commerce based on integrated development, launch, and O&M tools.

Michael Ma, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, said, "By combining IoT and intelligence, we wish to collaborate with partners to promote industrial IoT and expand the market." He added, "Together with our partners, we will be able to advocate for and promote a fully connected, intelligent world."

From October 10-12 this month, HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, an international flagship conference held annually by Huawei in the ICT industry, took place in Shanghai. The purpose of this conference is to build an open, collaborative, and sharing platform cooperating with customers to seize new opportunities and create a smarter future.