Huawei's edge computing approach: EC-IoT accelerates digital transformation in the industry

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a private communication technology company that produces and sells communication equipment. It was formally incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Huatian, Putian, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China.

Huawei is the world's leading provider of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions, focusing on the ICT sector, adhering to sound operations, continuous innovation, open cooperation, and building end-to-end in telecom carriers, enterprises, terminals and cloud computing. The solution advantage is to provide competitive ICT solutions, products and services for carrier customers, enterprise customers and consumers, and to make the future information society and build a better connected world. In 2013, Huawei ranked the world's largest telecommunications equipment supplier Ericsson, ranked 315th in the Fortune Global 500.

Edge computing refers to an open platform that integrates network, computing, storage, and application core capabilities on the side close to the source or data source, providing near-end services. Its applications are launched on the edge side, resulting in faster network service response, meeting the industry's basic needs for real-time business, application intelligence, security and privacy protection. Edge computing is between physical entities and industrial connections, or at the top of physical entities. In the cloud computing, historical data of edge calculations can still be accessed.

Huawei provides complete development and testing guidance for EC-IoT partners, enabling partners to develop innovative applications based on the open capabilities of edge computing and cloud management, to realize the whole process of industrial services and business model innovation, leading the industry digital transformation and releasing the industry. Great potential for innovation.

EC-IoT is an IoT solution built on edge computing that provides open integration with partners by providing open edge computing capabilities and cloud management capabilities.

The edge computing capability is mainly based on the open container/VM platform of the edge computing gateway. The client develops a custom APP based on the basic service API, and implements flexible deployment of the edge computing gateway, providing intelligent connection and data processing services nearby, allowing different types of Applications and data are processed at the edge of the network to implement key intelligent services such as real-time business, business intelligence, data aggregation and interoperability, security and privacy protection, and effectively improve the efficiency of intelligent decision-making of services.

The openness of cloud management capabilities provides a rich open interface and common protocols to open interfaces with industry applications of different partners, building a wide range of industry adaptability, developing more suitable industry scenarios, and deep customization of IoT applications.

At the end of 16 years, the Edge Computing Industry Alliance (ECC) jointly sponsored by Huawei, Intel, ARM, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and iSoftStone was formally established. At the 2017 Huawei Connected Conference, Liu Shaowei, president of Huawei's network R&D department and vice president of the Edge Computing Alliance, said that the alliance has now expanded to 116 units, and edge computing has also focused on the digitalization of the industry to public cloud services, becoming the industry. One of the hottest topics.

Liu Shaowei believes that the value behind the frenzy of edge computing lies in building a bridge between IT and OT.

"The past IT technology brought about a virtual world, and the OT field involved in traditional OT vendors is a physical world. The physical world is limited by the location, distance, power supply, volume, space, etc. If you want To become intelligent and to transform into digital, we need to take the technology of the virtual world. Edge computing is the most important node and bridge, connecting the gap between the virtual world and the physical world."

When talking about the progress in edge computing, Liu Shaowei said that Huawei is currently doing TSN industrial field network test beds for China and Europe, as well as edge computing development test cloud, and key in industrial wireless, data integration, SDN, security, etc. The technical development of the field will continue to be invested in technical research.

Liu Shaowei, President of Huawei Network R&D Department and Vice Chairman of Edge Computing Alliance

In this communication meeting, Shanghai Weipaig Smart Water Co., Ltd., as a user representative, introduced the cooperation with Huawei in edge computing.

It is reported that Weipai and Huawei have teamed up to build a smart water solution based on EC-IoT, and built a smart water industry IoT with “deep open edge computing + cloud management”.

"Since 2012, we have begun to try to transform the Internet of Things and the platform, and to transform and manage the traditional equipment and old equipment, not only for the equipment of the community, but also the pumping station of the entire city. Water plant, pipe network and water quality online monitoring. At present, after a series of strategic investment in industrial IoT, we have also changed from traditional manufacturing to technology-based IoT enterprises in the water industry.” Shanghai Weipai Smart Water Co., Ltd. Yang Feng, deputy general manager of the company, said.

In the process of transforming from traditional water to smart water, the biggest difficulty facing Weipaig is how to realize data standardization and data integration for various traditional instruments.

“Different water meter factories will build their own software and collect their own standard data. At this level, data chimneys are formed. There are also various instruments such as water quality analyzers and flow meters. Fortunately, the edge gateway that cooperated with Huawei helped us solve this pain point and realized the east-west communication. Now, the uploaded data is completely based on the standard data defined by Weipai, and the data is standardized from the bottom. And then to the upper level of analysis, data management becomes very easy."

Yang Feng, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Weipaig Smart Water Co., Ltd.

In addition, EC-IoT also solves the problem of fault diagnosis for water meters in smart water.

"The problem with water meter troubleshooting is that if all the device data is uploaded to the cloud for analysis, the resolution time will be longer and the cost will be higher. Because the massive amount of data has to be uploaded to the cloud, it is also for the network. High requirements are put forward. Using edge calculation, we now try to put the analysis and calculation on the edge layer. After analyzing the fault, upload the fault result, and the amount of data stored in the cloud is very small."

In the era of Internet of Everything, the security situation will be more severe, and for smart water, how to build a security strategy flexibly is another key.

"Currently, the traditional solution is not flexible enough in the construction of security policies. Especially in the isomerized network, how to ensure the security from the cloud to the device terminal? At this time, the edge gateway EC-IoT has exerted its value and put a lot of The security policy is embedded in it, interacting with the underlying layer to achieve safe control."

It can be seen that in the field of smart water, EC-IoT plays an indispensable role. From safety, connection and fault diagnosis, all the water supply related to the whole city, including water plant water, pipe network water distribution, and faucet. The terminal's pressurized equipment, as well as water quality online monitoring, all of these data are integrated to analyze, apply and manage the data in the cloud.

"If there is no such strong edge gateway to support, then we will face the underlying of isomerization. There are many obstacles in troubleshooting and data analysis. Next, Weipai continues. Work closely with Huawei to continue to promote these applications throughout the industry. Perhaps in the future, as long as you unscrew the water for the tap, it will involve the results of our cooperation.” Yang Feng pointed out.

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