On March 14, 2024, the Shanghai Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (hereinafter referred to as ‘AWE’) opened in Shanghai. Huawei set up a 1500 square meter exhibition area at this AWE, creating a fully interconnected and intelligent experience tailored for consumers who pursue a higher quality of life and explore technological interconnectivity. This innovative and reliable leading intelligent future lifestyle brought visitors a glimpse of ‘the home of the future’.
On March 15th, Ningbo Tingxiang New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and Ningbo Yilai Communication Equipment Co., Ltd. held a signing ceremony for the HUAWEI Smart Home Smart Water Space at the Huawei exhibition area of AWE. This marked the official launch of Zhejiang Province’s first ‘New Energy Smart Water Space’ project. The project is based on the Ningbo government’s vision for the development of new energy vessels in inland rivers and lakes, combined with national cultural tourism policies, to create a leading small new energy smart water space project in the country, with plans to promote it as a ‘standard product’ nationwide. The core product of this project is named Xiaojiu and is scheduled to be piloted in scenic spots in 2024, effectively promoting the intelligent upgrading of the cultural tourism industry.
The signing of the strategic cooperation agreement aims to pool the industry resources and technological advantages of both parties, fully respond to Ningbo’s cultural tourism development demands, and promote the intelligent upgrading of the water economy. By achieving the digitalization and intelligence of spaces, the project accelerates the development of multi-scenarios such as scenic lake sightseeing, water consumption, water socializing, and water entertainment, providing consumers with a new model of high-quality water tourism and leisure experience, and stretching the content of water cultural tourism to a higher level of value.
At the signing ceremony, Wu Haijun, Minister of Huawei Terminal BG’s All-House Smart Business in Greater China, Lan Rong, General Manager of Huawei Terminal in Zhejiang Province, and Fan Ke, Minister of Huawei Terminal’s All-House Smart Business in Zhejiang Province attended and witnessed the event together. Fang Jinze, Deputy General Manager of Ningbo Tingxiang New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and Xu Ji, General Manager of the Eastern Branch of Ningbo Yilai Communication Equipment Co., Ltd. signed on behalf of their respective companies.
On the day of the signing, responsible persons from Tingxiang New Energy and Huawei held in-depth discussions on the direction and long-term planning of the cooperation. Wu Haijun, Minister of Huawei Terminal BG’s All-House Smart Business in Greater China, stated that both parties will continue to deepen cooperation, promote the rapid development of the smart water space project, create new consumption scenarios by combining local culture and technological content, meet the sightseeing needs of more tourists, and help the intelligent upgrading of the water economy in Zhejiang Province and even the whole country. At the same time, both parties will also actively explore more innovative application scenarios to create a more diversified experience for tourists.
At AWE (2024), the new energy smart water space, Xiaojiu, boasts nine core features including Huawei’s customized smart home solutions, autonomous navigation, voice interaction, intelligent lighting, electrochromic glass, water-cooled air conditioning, fragrance systems, 180-degree panoramic glass, and audio-visual systems. As tourists’ consumption expectations increasingly align with emerging and technological projects, the introduction of Xiaojiu is set to break traditional water tour vessel forms and create a new luxury water business model that integrates technology. This paves the way for new ideas in the development of water-based cultural and tourism economy, providing visitors with an unprecedented intelligent, comfortable, and convenient water leisure and tourism experience.
According to the strategic cooperation agreement, Tingxiang New Energy, as the developer and manufacturer of Xiaojiu products, will continue to delve into the manufacturing of smart water and land-based new energy spaces. The application of autonomous navigation systems to small water spaces will enable ‘Xiaojui’ to truly achieve intelligent water space, creating a more free, private, and comfortable experience environment. Huawei, as the pioneer and leader in the smart space race, continuously focuses on user needs to promote the development of smart spaces, continuously refreshing users’ smart home experiences. Leveraging its profound accumulation in connectivity, interaction, and ecosystem, Huawei will play to its strengths in technological innovation and smart home industry innovation. Both parties will explore new ideas for the development of the water sector around ‘smart water space’, promoting water environmental protection and the intelligent upgrade of the water economy through deeper exchanges.
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### Collaboration for Smart Water Spaces and Whole-House Intelligent Solutions
At the same time, both parties have fully exchanged on cutting-edge technology, products, and technologies such as smart water spaces and whole-house intelligent solutions. Tingxiang New Energy will leverage its capabilities in new energy smart space systems and the R&D team’s unmanned smart water space navigation system, while Huawei will leverage its comprehensive strength and rich experience in technological innovation and ecological development.
Together, they will explore the deep integration of Tingxiang New Energy’s ‘smart water space – Xiaojui’ with Huawei’s whole-house intelligent technology, creating the first intelligent water space project in Ningbo. This collaboration aims to further enhance the development of the water economy, promote innovative breakthroughs in water smart space projects, and provide strong support for the expansion and application of the water smart space market.
With the Ningbo government’s vision for the development of new energy vessels in inland rivers and lakes and the industry transformation brought about by the ‘smart space’ trend, both parties will jointly promote the development of the whole-house intelligent industry. This partnership will create more possibilities and imagination for the market development of smart spaces, bringing intelligent convenience and aesthetic enjoyment to more families and industries.
### Huawei’s Whole Home Intelligence: ‘Seven Special’ Advantages
In the era of smart spaces, defining ‘good whole-house intelligence’ has become an urgent issue for the industry to address. Huawei’s Whole Home Intelligence answers the call with its unique ‘Seven Special’ advantages: stability, ease of installation, user-friendliness, a sense of high quality, flexibility and richness, low cost, and guaranteed lifecycle.
At this year’s AWE, Huawei’s Whole Home Intelligence products with ‘Seven Special’ advantages made their debut in the exhibition area. Among them, new black technologies such as AI-assisted health sensors showcase Huawei’s leading position in the smart space industry.
### AI-assisted Health Sensors: Enhancing Family Safety
In the Huawei AI Health Experience Zone, the AI-assisted health sensors displayed by Huawei can detect the status of the elderly at home, enabling a variety of detection scenarios such as fall detection, sleep detection, bed exit detection, and bed fall detection. When an abnormal situation is detected, an alarm signal is immediately sent to the mobile phone of the designated relative, helping you to protect your family’s safety in a timely manner.
On the application level, based on the ‘Seven Special’ advantages of Huawei’s Whole Home Intelligence, AI-assisted health sensors can adapt to any space with high flexibility and can be easily used by the elderly and children.
### Smart Spatial Upgrading Solutions for Industries
Beyond consumers, various industries are also calling for smarter spatial upgrading solutions. Huawei’s Smart Hotel Space display area showcases smart hotel solutions that save time for builders, improve efficiency for operators, and enhance the experience for guests.
Huawei’s Whole Home Intelligence’s PLC wired connection allows property owners to combine power supply and signal transmission, which can greatly save on wiring materials and time. Meanwhile, Huawei’s Whole Home Intelligence solution can achieve unified device management, enabling whole-house intelligence, helping hotels optimize processes and operating costs, and empowering guest control management with the characteristic of ‘always fresh’.
### Leading the Era: Creating and Enjoying Life
As a pioneer in the field of spatial intelligence, Huawei’s Whole Home Intelligence, based on the powerful HarmonyOS ecosystem, presents a ‘future home’ blueprint that combines a sense of technology, high quality, and artistry for consumers and industry partners. In the future, Huawei’s Whole Home Intelligence will continue to consolidate product and service strength, join hands with more ecological and industry partners, innovate smart life experiences for consumers, and help the spatial intelligence industry reach new heights of development.
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