In recent years, Huawei has always had plans and plans to expand to other areas. Before this, it has been rumblings that it will cooperate with car manufacturers to build cars. In response, Huawei officials have denied. In fact, Huawei's ambition to enter the automotive industry ' lies in providing relevant solutions for car networking.
Huawei's actions in the area of vehicle networking are quite frequent. As early as in 2013, Huawei launched the on-board module ME909T and promised to spend more than 100 million yuan each year for research and development related to vehicle networking. Since then, Huawei and many auto manufacturers have launched Strategic cooperation, including Mercedes-Benz and Audi's Hass chips for on-board communication modules; cooperation with Toyota, deployment of WiFi hotspots to cars, and connection with call centers; at home, Huawei and Dongfeng Motor and Changan Automobile respectively Become a strategic partnership, develop car networking products.
On June 5th, Huawei introduced the progress of its cooperation with Audi in Shenzhen Putian Base and announced its positioning in the market of car networking, market strategy and latest developments. Huawei's LTE product line president Xiong Wei accepted “including According to an interview with a reporter from the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper, Huawei's cooperation with Audi covered the automobile, molds, module platforms, and applications. In addition, Xiong Wei also revealed that Huawei will cover 100,000 U.S. vehicles this year. .
Car networking standards dispute
At present, China’s car networking environment has been initially formed and the market has great potential. From a policy perspective, the state has already regarded the development of car networking as an important aspect of “Internet +” and artificial intelligence in the real economy. As one of the key transformation directions for the automotive industry, "Made in China 2025," "Guidelines for Actively Promoting 'Internet Plus' Action," "Notice on Printing a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Development Plan," and other important policies have all proposed the development of car networking.
With the strong support of policies, China's car networking market has developed strongly. According to related surveys and forecasts, the scale of China's car networking market is expected to reach 216.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2025, accounting for one quarter of the global market, and the five-year average compound annual growth rate will reach 44.92%.
However, to achieve interoperability between the car and everything, we must have a unified standard. This is the importance of the V2V standard. At this stage, there are two support camps for the establishment of vehicle and car communication standards. One is The Dsrc solution, which is currently used by most companies for communication standards; the second is the LTE-V solution.
Dsrc (Dedicated Short Range Communications) is a special short-range communication technology and is an efficient wireless communication technology. Based on the 802.11P standard, it can realize the recognition of moving objects under high-speed motion within a specific small area (usually tens of meters). Two-way communication, real-time transmission of images, voice and data information, organic connection of vehicles and roads, widely known ETC system is based on this technology.
The United States issued the V2X recommendation announcement at the end of 2016. It plans to force Dsrc technology and provide a specific timetable: In 2021, 50% of new cars need to be equipped with Dsrc, which is 75% in 2022 and 100% in 2023. Almost simultaneously , The European Commission adopted the 'European Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System Strategy' final framework. The goal is to have a large-scale deployment of a cooperative intelligent transportation system on the roads of European Union countries by 2019 to achieve 'between car and car, car and road facilities' Smart Communication', and Dsrc is the recommended technology.
However, Huawei and Qualcomm and other companies have adopted LTE technology to enter the Internet of Vehicles and are facing challenges to the old standard. Why does Huawei consider LTE-V2X technology?
In this regard, Xiong Wei explained that in autonomous driving, Huawei believes that the infrastructure of roads and roads also needs to make some changes. In order to build the entire ecosystem and make traffic more efficient and safer, Huawei has done a lot. Research, and reached agreements with relevant domestic ministries.
Car networking platform war
The fast-growing Internet of Cars has attracted attention from hundreds of billions of dollars of prospects and the characteristics of the Internet. As far as the domestic market is concerned, Internet giants represented by BAT have all laid out the field of car networking. 3. The boom of the automakers' car network is increasingly fierce.
Interestingly, the three BAT companies have all proposed to establish a car networking platform. However, various organizations have different understandings and strategies for how to effectively build a platform to maximize profits. Among them, Baidu takes CarLife as the core platform of the Vehicular Network. Accompanied by MyCar cloud computing service; Ali chose to cut in from the system, the core of the vehicle networking platform is YunOS, for the vehicle (vehicle navigation) environment, Ali optimized YunOS, and released YunOS for Car; and Tencent's car networking product array In addition to the vehicle ROM, there is also a mobile phone interconnection, that is, a vehicle linkage APP. In addition, Tencent also accesses the MyCar module in QQ and WeChat, enabling human-car interaction.
Then, what are the strategic layouts of Huawei, which is pursuing the integration of cloud-end-end products, and whether it will provide support for Vehicular Interconnect? Minister He Liyang stated: “The key to the success of the digital transformation of auto companies is to build an eco-friendly digital cloud platform that integrates eco-developers and industry application partners through platforms to meet the needs of transnational sales of their products and services in a global market environment. Vehicle owners and vehicle users provide personalized travel service requirements.
He Liyang also stated that the parts of the car connection include car connection, wireless connection, mobile connection, LTE, C-V2X connection, Huawei's ability is stronger. Huawei provides a big data platform, which is a cloud-based platform. Huawei also supports the car networking platform. This is the part of Huawei's definition of support.
In addition, regarding the privacy concerns and data security issues of the Internet of Car concerned, and how to balance the privacy, the contradiction between data and technology provision. He Liyang said that data is the customer's most valuable asset, Huawei does not touch the data, and does not hold the data. In addition, Huawei does not develop applications. Huawei develops platforms. On Huawei's platform, these applications will flourish. This is Huawei's strategic focus.