ICT Infrastructure, The Foundation of the Future Intelligent Society
ICT Infrastructure, the Foundation
of the Future Intelligent Society
INCA Annual Conference, Manchester – Oct 17, 2019
Dr. Wenbing Yao
VP, Business Development and Partnerships
Huawei Technologies (UK)
Huawei Confidential2
Cities: Digital Twin Cities enabled by new ICT technologies will
become a reality
Technologies: 5G, AI, new materials
Digital twin cities will become a reality
Industrial
cities
Digital
cities
Intelligent
cities
Technologies:
Broadband, Internet
Serving
governments,
companies,
individuals
Technologies:
IoT, 3G/4G
Infrastructure
gradually
transforming
Technologies:
Cloud, big data
Infrastructure
gradually
transforming in
cities
•Virtual
controls
•Response to
physical city
•Smart
controls of
physical city
•City perceives
itself
•Virtualizes real
city
•Mirrors real
features &
functions
Physical city
Digital twin city
Digital twin cities enable deep learning,
integration of virtual and physical, easy iteration
Huawei Confidential3
Industries: Entering a cycle of digitisation, facing huge digital
opportunities
• Industries are entering the cycle of digitisation. All enterprises face the same problem:
How can they adapt and flourish as their industry goes digital?
As technology continues to advance, technological changes may become more frequent and industry lifecycles shorter
1780 1845 1896 1945 1985 2040?2007-11
1. Steam
engines /
Textiles
2. Internal
combustion
Engines /
Railways
3.
Electrification /
Automobiles
4. Oil /
Airplanes
5. Digitisation/ICT
Watt's
engine
,
spinning
jenny
Next
30 years
Digital opportunities
2025
Source: Huawei GIV 2025
1.7trillion
5.0trillion
ICT
1.5 trillion
Retail
Finance
0.5 trillion
Utilities
2.9
trillion
Social&Personal
Services
6.4trillion
Manufacturing
1.1trillion
Others
3.0
trillion
ProfessionalServices
0.9 trillion
Transportation
Huawei Confidential4
Businesses: ICT systems will play more important roles, from
driving efficiency to participating in decision-making
x100
x1000
x10000
x10
Business Value
Adoption
Speed
40 years 20 years 5–10 years
Support
systems
Operations
systems
Decision -
making
systems Low-level
High-level
Front Desk,
Office… UC&C…
Version Control
Production Monitoring
CRM, ERP
Lights-out Manufacturing
Autonomous Logistics
UAV Delivery
Tactical Planning
Branding Strategy
Risk Identification & Mitigation
Financial Diagnostics
+ Intelligence
Huawei Confidential5
VR and AR are reshaping user experience, and promoting all-
around upgrades in computing, display, and networks
VR 2017
AR 2016
AR 2017
Source: Gartner, HUAWE IMI
Popular, 4K for both eyes,
100M bandwidth, 20ms
2023
Comfortable, 8K for both eyes,
300M bandwidth, 15ms
2019
2021
VR and AR have entered a period
of development
Ideal, 1G bandwidth, 10ms
Giant screen
cinema
VR live video
VR music
VR video on-demand
VR game
VR fitness
VR KTV
VR education
VR electric competition
VR social
Development and extension of ultra
HD video + evolving interaction
Revolution in interaction + integrating
industry applications
VR + Vertical
industries
(medicine, tourism,
shopping, real
estate, engineering,
etc.)
Source: Cloud VR Scenario White Paper, February 2018
Development of cloud VR by phase
for 17 valued scenarios
Era of immersive interaction: VR-based applications will drive traffic to increase by more than
30-fold, while graph processing capabilities are set to increase 1 million-fold.
Huawei Confidential6
$234 billion
Source: 5G ACIA
From 2016 to 2026, “Industry digitalisation revenue annual increase 13.3%”
5G enabled Industry digitalisation revenues account for 38% of the space in 2026
5G, is a key industry digitalisation enabler, a game changer…
Huawei Confidential7
"Connectivity + Computing + Cloud" Is the Core Engine of the
Intelligent Society
Upgrading Operations
Monetization of Technologies
Connectivity Cloud
Open
Secure
Intelligent