How Huawei is accelerating digital transformation to support today’s smart airports
How Huawei is accelerating digital transformation to support today’s smart airports Huawei offers a comprehensive transportation solution, which leverages ICT technologies to digitize all transportation elements SHANGHAI, China, October 28, 2020/ -- In this special interview, DeeDee Doke, head of content production at
Airlines. magazine interviews Mr. Wang Guoyu, Vice President of the
Global Transportation Business Unit, Huawei Enterprise Business Group,
about some of the developments underway at Huawei (www.Huawei.com) aiming to create a seamless passenger experience for all.
DeeDee Doke: Do rail, aviation, and other
transportation modes collaborate on solutions to provide seamless travel experience for passengers? Are the industries still operating in silos?
Wang Guoyu: In fact, what you asked is just the current situation. And in my opinion, transportation operators, all of them
realize the situation and almost all of them want to change the
situation, break the different silos, and build the platforms. As you
know, transportation moves passengers and freights in physical world,
combining railway, subway, roadway, aviation and so on.
Telecommunication moves data in digital world, through different data
centers, applications and systems. Transportation digitalization will
provide seamless journey for passengers.
This year, COVID-19 has brought significant impact. For example, it made online transactions and working from home into a new normal, which
means digital transformation is becoming an essential need for many
industries. The main challenge of transportation remains the conflict
between increasing mobility demand and poor transportation efficiency.
For instance, in many airports, punctuality is only 75%. In large
cities, during peak hours, vehicle speed can be less than 10KM/h.
To improve transportation efficiency, MaaS (Mobility as a Service) for
passengers and Multimodal Transport for logistics is more and more
popular. It integrates passengers flow, freight flow, business flow
seamlessly across multiple transportation modes.
MaaS, or Mobility as a Service is the focus of public transportation.
MaaS is combining railway, subway, roadway and aviation to meet
passengers’ travel needs, lowering the cost and improving efficiency.
Technologies such as 5G, IoT, cloud, big data and AI will definitely
play a key role in MaaS.
Huawei offers a comprehensive transportation solution, which leverages
ICT technologies to digitize all transportation elements, including
passengers, freights, vehicles, and business flows. This solution
consolidates multi-source data into the unified data lake, so we can
develop algorithm and data model, build an indicator system for
scenario-based solutions.
DeeDee Doke: It takes a long time to achieve digital transformation. What should we pay attention to during the process?
Wang Guoyu: I think there are 3 points need to be considered.
First of all, for digital transformation, we need to
begin with the overall architecture and design from top down. We have
developed an innovative solution architecture consisting of three
horizontal layers and three vertical business flows.
At the first layer is the infrastructure connection layer. 5G, IoT and
machine vision can fully connect all objects, such as people, vehicles,
and all the things, and streamline all airport service and systems. 5G
can deliver enhanced performance, including higher bandwidth, lower
latency, and more dense coverage, to support passenger online services
and smart inspection robots.
The second layer is the platform. It is based on cloud, providing
unified storage resource, computing resource and network resource. All
these 3 resources are the basic digital resources. We use this unified
platform to provide big data technology to facilitate data value, to
mine the data value and to share the data service. And the third layer
is the application layer. In this layer, we can gather
ecosystem partners with extensive industry experience, and more AI-based applications. For passenger flow, cargo flow and flight flow, we need
to identify key scenarios along these business flows, to develop
scenario-based solutions.
Secondly, life cycle management is very important to
digital transformation. It starts with consultation and planning, then
proceed with system development and integration, and we need continuous
operation and maintenance to help customer keep its industry position.
Last but not least, one tree doesn’t make a forest. One company also cannot achieve so much alone. Vendors, partners and
customers need to work hand in hand to build an open ecosystem to
realize this vision.
Huawei’s strength is within digital technologies, but partners and
customers have the industry know-how knowledge. The combination of the
two can create chemistry, and this collaboration of chemistry could
potentially be the secret to success.
DeeDee Doke: How can we apply AI, IoT, and big data during airport digital transformation?
Wang Guoyu: The development of big data, IoT and AI will have significant impacts on the aviation digital transformation.
For example, Shenzhen Airport takes the lead in implementing intelligent stand allocation. Originally, it takes about four hours to manually
allocate stands to over 1,000 flights every day and every night. The
intelligent stand allocation system uses AI algorithms. We consolidate
more than 60 operation rules to reduce the allocation time, and the
result we can reach from 4 hours to one minute. So, we can improve
bridge-to-aircraft docking rate and bridge turnover rate. After
deploying this system, more than 2 million of passengers can board and
disembark through contact stands instead of shuttle bus every year.
Shenzhen Airport also launched a flight support process system based on
big data, which deploys IoT and machine vision to collect data on key
ground support nodes, as accurate as 95 percent. This system monitors
the whole flight support process, detects and handles exceptions in real time, and improves the airport's punctuality rate.
The smart airfield ground light solution is another reference. We use
IoT and AI technology to control the ground lights instead of manually.
We plan the taxi path and detect aircraft conflicts. So, we can reduce
aircraft taxiing time, increase the efficiency of runways and taxiways.
Normally it takes at least 20 minutes from landing to docking. If 3
minutes can be saved for each flight, the taxiing efficiency can be
improved by at least 15%. Shenzhen airport handles more than
1,000 flights every day, and this solution helps to save 3,000 minutes
every day.
Video of full interview - https://bit.ly/3moKaxm.
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How Huawei is accelerating digital transformation to support today’s smart airports
How Huawei is accelerating digital transformation to support today’s smart airports
How Huawei is accelerating digital transformation to support today’s smart airports
How Huawei is accelerating digital transformation to support today’s smart airports
How Huawei is accelerating digital transformation to support today’s smart airports
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