BOE: Fully embrace the Internet of Things with chips, screens, devices and concepts

Jiwei.com reports that if you don’t know the theme in advance, you will really think you have entered a technology expo. In fact, this is part of BOE Global Innovation Partner Conference 2019 (BOE IPC 2019). Application solutions in the fields of terminal devices, smart IoT, smart medical engineering, etc. have made a wonderful appearance, which not only shows the innovative achievements of BOE in the field of IoT together with important global partners, but also shows its determination and action to fully embrace the IoT.

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"Chips, screens, gas/devices and + empowering application scenarios" is the theme of this year's conference. As an industry event held for four consecutive years, this conference held at the Beijing Yanqi Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center brought together more than a thousand companies and industry experts from around the world to discuss the application and future trends of the Internet of Things.

This conference is also the first IPC after BOE founder Wang Dongsheng stepped down. In the opening keynote speech "Integration and Symbiosis Empowerment Scenarios", BOE's current chairman Chen Yanshun paid tribute to Wang Dongsheng's contribution to the company's 26 years of development, pointing out that "Chairman Wang Dongsheng led BOE to achieve global leadership, laid a solid industrial foundation, and forged the cultural spirit of BOE people's concentration and continuous innovation."

BOE's "chip, screen, gas/device and +" is to organically integrate the soft and hard elements of the Internet of Things, develop symbiotically with global ecological partners, collaborate in innovation, form an Internet of Things ecosystem, empower scenarios, and create value. Chen Yanshun gave an annotation to this concept. In his speech, he pointed out that thousands of segmented application scenarios carry the personalized needs of the Internet of Things era, and to meet these needs, corresponding solutions are needed. Only by organically combining the algorithms formed by professional knowledge and excellent experience of various industries with the computing power represented by AI, sensing, computing, storage, transmission, display, etc., as well as functional hardware and software, and massive amounts of effective data, can the perfect integration of the elements of the Internet of Things be achieved, and a complete solution that meets consumer needs can be formed.

Stuart Russell, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and Kevin Ashton, the father of the Internet of Things, also gave their own interpretations of the evolution of the Internet of Things under the rapid development of artificial intelligence and 5G in their subsequent speeches. They particularly appreciated BOE's innovations in promoting the evolution of this field.

In recent years, BOE has deeply integrated 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and other IoT technologies to provide many innovative products and solutions for IoT segmented application scenarios. In the words of BOE President Liu Xiaodong, these achievements can be condensed into a set of numbers: 8852.

The first 8 refers to 800 million smart ports, the second 8 refers to 800 solutions, the 5 refers to 5,000 partners, and the 2 refers to the co-creation of 200 billion value. It is BOE's unremitting efforts that have achieved win-win results with many partners.

At the conference, Xu Liuping, Chairman and Party Secretary of China First Automobile Group Co., Ltd., Liang Baojun, Deputy General Manager and Party Group Member of China Unicom, Hans Carpels, Chairman of EURONICS, Europe's largest electrical appliance retailer, Zhang Zikang, Director of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, and Jia Ding, Executive Director of the 70th Anniversary of the National Day Gala, respectively shared their innovative cooperation cases with BOE (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), and demonstrated the results of adhering to the development strategy of "opening up both ends, chips, screens, gas/devices and harmony".

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In the financial report released in the first half of 2019, BOE summarized its "eight firsts". They are:

The overall shipment volume of display devices remained the first in the world;

The shipment volume of five major application fields, including smartphone LCD screens, tablet computer screens, notebook computer screens, monitor screens, and TV screens, ranked first in the world;

The shipment volume and shipment area of ​​innovative application products increased significantly year-on-year, and the company ranked first in the world in ESL (smart retail electronic label business) and wearable market share.

At a time when the global display industry is undergoing transformation and upgrading and the economy is in a downturn, it is not easy to achieve such results. The key is that BOE relies on the world's leading display technology, years of industry accumulation, and strong resource integration capabilities, focusing on application scenarios and continuously carrying out technological and product innovations.

In 2019, BOE has announced the investment in four 6th generation flexible AMOLED production lines, all with a designed capacity of 48K/month and a total investment of 46.5 billion yuan. Among them, the first phase of the Chengdu 6th generation flexible AMOLED production line has been fully operational, and the second phase is ramping up; the Mianyang 6th generation flexible AMOLED production line has been mass-produced; the Chongqing 6th generation flexible AMOLED production line project has started construction and is expected to be put into production in 2021; the Fuzhou project is under planning. At the same time, BOE has also built a leading and competitive Mini-LED technology platform through industrial chain cooperation, and launched new products in this field with ultra-fine partitioning and meeting multi-scenario applications.

In the innovation and cooperation results display area of ​​the conference, we saw the world's leading innovative display technologies such as 8K BD Cell, 8K Mini LED, 8K printed OLED, folding OLED, and large-size spliced ​​OLED, which can be applied to sensing technologies and applications in the fields of medical imaging, fingerprint recognition, smart windows, and biological detection.

BOE's six-petal flexible display

Transparent LCD display

8K Image Processing Engine

Towards a vast space

Starting from the LCD display industry and moving towards a larger space, BOE has repositioned itself to be an Internet of Things company that provides smart port products and professional services for information interaction and human health.

At this conference, Chen Yanshun stated that in 2019, BOE achieved a year-on-year growth of 100% in 12 IoT innovative application markets such as medical and automotive.

BOE's sensor and solution business group has set medical imaging, biological detection, smart windows, microwave communications, fingerprint recognition, application solutions and other directions as long-term business directions. With the strategic guidance of "opening both ends of the chip, screen, gas/device and", it fully opens the application end and the technology end, and works hand in hand with innovative partners such as companies and research institutions in the sensor field to innovate technologies, products and new applications, and jointly create new market opportunities.

In terms of specific applications, BOE provides shelf management systems in the retail field, trajectory tracking systems in the financial field, ultra-high-definition remote consultation systems in the medical field, office signage management systems in the office field, smart exhibition systems in the cultural and museum field, and other solutions for specific industries.

Even in the hottest field of artificial intelligence, BOE has made great progress. This year, BOE won the 2019 AIM image super-resolution competition of the world's top academic conference ICCV (International Conference on Computer Vision) with its 16x super-resolution algorithm technology, and took first place in the world; in the German 20BN-jester gesture recognition competition, which has the world's largest dynamic gesture recognition data set, BOE continued to rank first in terms of recognition accuracy.

Chen Yanshun told reporters, "The company started with display and sensor technology, jointly innovated with global partners, promoted the integration of IoT elements, continuously enriched and expanded technical capabilities and business areas, and provided diversified, differentiated, high value-added innovative products and professional services, forming a unique business extension of BOE."

In order to promote the symbiotic development with ecological partners, BOE has also launched a new industrial cooperation platform - BOE Smart System Innovation Center. It covers five major platforms: soft and hard integration technology development platform, new materials and equipment industry transformation platform, product and service marketing promotion and display platform, international talent exchange and training platform, and open technology and market cooperation platform. Through the five platforms to empower scenarios, BOE will make every effort to facilitate the insight into needs, attract talents, research and develop technology, industrial transformation and promotion marketing with partners, and effectively realize resource aggregation, information exchange, opportunity co-creation, value sharing, and ecological co-construction.

Chen Yanshun emphasized: "BOE will continue to firmly implement the IoT transformation strategy of 'open both ends, chip-screen-gas/device', and work hand in hand with global partners to cross-border integration, collaborate and innovate in thousands of segmented application scenarios, and create win-win situations."