[Digital Current Affairs] What new directions for digital transformation did MWC 2019 Shanghai reveal?

On June 28, the three-day 2019 Mobile World Congress Shanghai (abbreviated as "MWC 19" ) officially ended, and it also made a wonderful summary of the technology circle in the first half of this year.

The theme of MWC 19 is "Intelligent Connection of Everything" . The organizers set up 7 exhibition halls in the Shanghai New International Expo Center . More than 550 companies from 110 countries and regions exhibited their technological innovations and products in the fields of Internet, communications, 5G, cloud computing, big data, AIoT , etc.

Among the many technological innovations, 5G technology is undoubtedly the most eye-catching. If 5G was just emerging at last year's exhibition, then this year, 5G has ushered in a real explosion. From education to entertainment, from smart manufacturing to transportation, from smart buildings to telemedicine, they are all previewing the new "5G new world" to the outside world .

Whether it is the fully covered 5G network or the various 5G terminals and solutions displayed by major exhibitors, all of these describe one fact - 5G commercial use has already arrived .

Today, let us review this event together to see what technological trends 5G technology has led and what new directions it will bring to digital transformation?

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As we all know, the significance of 5G technology is not limited to the improvement of network speed. For smartphones, the new generation of products must have more technological support. Therefore, at the MWC 19 booth, we saw many related companies actively cross-border, and "AI+IoT" will become the mainstream direction of smartphones.

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In order to expand the AI+IoT business, OPPO established the Emerging Mobile Terminal Business Department to build an open IoT platform, accelerate the development of AI+IoT technology, and provide open IoT access protocols. Combined with its smart assistant software, it empowers partners and developers to jointly create IoT ecosystem products, content and services.

vivo even announced an upgraded version of its AI assistant Jovi 2.0 at MWC 19. The new Jovi 2.0 integrates AI and IoT systems, has a more powerful autonomous learning ability, uses technical means to segment consumer usage scenarios, and gradually establishes a full-scenario, fully connected, and fully interactive smart service ecosystem.

In addition, OPPO and vivo have jointly established an IoT ecosystem platform. Using AI visual perception technology, the platform can promptly detect whether there are any smart home appliances connected to the Internet at home, and reflect the device connection status to the user's mobile phone, thereby stimulating the activation of home appliances, and initially possessing the function of a smart home entrance.

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ZTE has directly brought 5G terminal products other than mobile phones, such as Low-light full-color AI smart nursing camera and other products are worth looking forward to. Of course, behind these mobile phone manufacturers' vigorous cross-border efforts, they are inseparable from the support of new technologies from chip manufacturers. Qualcomm has built its Snapdragon 855 as a terminal-side AI commercial mobile platform, and has cooperated with terminal manufacturers such as Xiaomi and ZTE to achieve proprietary and programmable AI acceleration.

In short, the implementation of 5G technology will directly change the ecosystem of smartphones. Relevant technology manufacturers have proactively adjusted their product ideas and market strategies. With the deepening of AI + IoT, smartphones will further dilute the label of "communication tools" and truly become a powerful assistant for smart life.

The commercial use of 5G technology will give rise to a large number of new applications and scenarios. While bringing unprecedented convenience, it also puts forward higher standards for network performance. In the 5G era, new network technologies and architectures need to be established to meet the network needs of new application scenarios. Edge computing is a key technology for establishing a new network architecture.

On the one hand, the introduction of edge computing technology can not only reduce latency and bandwidth transmission costs, improve network content distribution efficiency and user experience, and effectively alleviate network congestion and even crashes; on the other hand, edge computing can better protect user privacy and data security.

Under this trend, edge computing has become a hot term at MWC 19. The three major operators are competing to invest and showcase the latest technological achievements in related fields.

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China Unicom The company focused on displaying "Industrial Edge Cloud AI Machine Vision Solution", "5G+MEC Smart Venue Solution", "5G Smart Port Solution", etc. Its specific approach is roughly based on the Unicom edge cloud platform, by sinking some core network functions, providing enhanced computing, storage and other capabilities on the user and base station side to meet the communication data transmission needs of different scenarios.

China Telecom exhibited the MEC platform released in April . This solution simplifies the interaction with 5G networks and network configuration operations through optimized platform design, streamlines the service provisioning configuration and management process, lowers the threshold for partners to deploy services, and enables customized vertical industry innovative applications, which has positive significance for promoting the development of the MEC industry.

China Mobile also displayed the Sigma platform , which is a PaaS system customized by China Mobile for edge computing scenarios . It mainly provides basic capabilities such as service activation, deployment, and operation and maintenance for edge computing applications, and is open to third-party applications. It can ultimately enable edge computing to empower vertical industries and build a developed application ecosystem. In addition, China Mobile also exhibited products and solutions such as the edge cloud system for 5G medical care.

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Market research firm Gartner believes that with the development of digital business, by 2022, 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed through edge computing. Therefore, the market application prospects of related technologies are very broad. This is also an important reason why operators and hardware providers focus on edge computing.

In the process of a technology moving towards commercialization, in addition to the support of the state and policies, the support and investment of leading companies in the industry are also crucial. With 5G licenses already issued, combined with the active performance of the three major operators, Huawei, ZTE, Ericsson, Shanghai Bell, OPPO, vivo and other major manufacturers at this exhibition, "The 5G era is coming" is not just a slogan, but a real change:

Technological innovations centered on ordinary consumers will deepen the integration of the mobile phone industry and AI technology, and further strengthen the position of smartphones in the development of IoT technology. Technological innovations that focus more on corporate users are the best proof of the trend of digital transformation, and digital business has become a hot area pursued by technology manufacturers.

The emergence of these changes not only reflects the latest achievements of digital technology, but also accelerates the pace of transformation of the entire industry and will further affect the future market landscape.

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