FRIDAY, March 29, 2024
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Huawei to pour $100 bn into network architecture upgrade

Huawei to pour $100 bn into network architecture upgrade

Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said that over the next five years the Chinese company will invest US$100 billion to reshape network architecture in order to make it simpler, faster and more secure.

“We want to satisfy society and the people, because our ultimate goal is to serve our customers. Who are our customers? 6.5 billion people, and possibly more in the future owing to more IoT connections. IoT will be even more powerful than 5G. Therefore, we are committed to creating value for customers and ensuring we satisfy people's needs,” Ren said.
He said the Huawei Ocean Connect IoT platform and cloud system serves all Internet of Things application development needs for Thailand’s use cases.
Some applications have been deployed in Thailand over the Huawei Ocean Connect IoT platform and cloud system after mobile operators launched NB-IoT networks nationwide.
He said IoT is driving the five new S-Curve industries: digital economy, robotics and automation, aviation and logistics, biofuels and biochemical and medical hub. These are intended to be the new industrial base for economic development.
“The increasing demand for IoT technologies in all types of industries, the rapid infrastructure development to carry off the digital economy transformation, and the opportunity of know-how along with the contribution from the government have taken Thailand forward in the area of IoT,” Ren said.
He said that robotics used in factory automation have also been increasing as a result of the advancement in hardware technology and the IoT inroads. By integrating Big Data and analytics in factory automation, intelligent sensors and actuators from IoT devices can communicate using IP to improve performance and efficiency.
There are new opportunities to integrate IoT in hospitals and healthcare and the market has seen strong demand for developing new technologies.
Telemedicine monitoring mainly uses technologies related to the IoT technology to build a patient-centric, remote consultation, and continuous monitoring service system focused on helping critically ill patients. The smart wheelchair technology can comfortably deliver a user to a destination. GPS positioning applications for patients with heart disease are another simple IoT application.
To drive Thailand’s IoT ecosystem and development, the firm provides a Huawei Ocean Connect IoT platform based on Huawei Public Cloud to help SI partners to bring IoT developments to the market faster.
The local SI partners would get comprehensive support for technical training, devices partnership matching, and mobile operators’ integration.
The Huawei Ocean Connect IoT platform can further support SI partners, startups, and developers of applications for whole marketplaces such as logistics, manufacturing, energy, hospitals and healthcare, business enterprises, schools and cities.
To promote IoT in Thailand, the IoT Alliance partners with local and global players to help local organisations, government, industry and global IoT device vendors contribute to the country’s  IoT development while supporting the Thailand 4.0 policy.

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