Ke Li

On October 27th, Dahua Technology, a pioneer in video-centric smart IoT solution and service provider, hosted its annual summit "Dahua Heart of City – Leading The Intelligent Twins Evolution" in Shenzhen, China. More than 400 industry representatives, industry experts, and mass media have witnessed the achievements of Dahua Heart of City (HOC) on empowering various industries and leading the smart applications in the era of "Intelligent Twins", as well as the release of cutting-edge technologies based on 5G, AIoT, and big data. Dahua HOC Leads The Intelligent Twins Evolution Dahua President, Mr. Ke Li, delivered a speech on behalf of the company and expressed warm welcome and gratitude to the guests. By reviewing the strategy and achievements of Dahua HOC in the past year, Mr. Li shared the situation in which AIoT built digital twins and promoted the new growth of smart economy. According to him, the continuous evolution of technology has caused users' needs to be constantly updated, forging user value to lead "The Digital Twins" to "The Intelligent Twins". Supported by security and network systems, Dahua Technology has released five products of the third generation of "Ruizhi" series Based on its years of expertise in the industry and understanding of customers' business, Dahua Technology has been continuously enhancing its core capabilities in AIoT and big data with focus on intelligent twins, in order to create closed-loop management from the sensing level to the business level, and to build a new smart city architecture with closed-loop value chain. At the same time, Dahua Technology will continuously work together with its partners to strengthen the new driving force of closed-loop customer value. Sensing, intelligence and computing Mr. Jun Yin, Vice President of Dahua R&D Center, delivered a keynote speech regarding "AIoT, Building The Cornerstone of The Intelligent Twins" and explained the significance of Dahua Technology's AIoT strategy: video as the core, to build leading sensing and intelligent capabilities; and reliance on whole network computing, to fully and truthfully build the data value of intelligent twins. Based on the company's "4 Full" strategy, Dahua Technology has comprehensively upgraded its three core capabilities of "sensing, intelligence, and computing". Supported by both security and network systems, Dahua Technology has released five major products of the third generation of Dahua "Ruizhi" Series. Mr. Yin also added that Dahua Technology will continue to accelerate the commercialisation of new technologies, build a four-dimensional digital world to support the application of AIoT, and join hands with partners to strengthen the openness of AIoT capability in order to create new value for users. Video-centric cloud architecture In order to achieve customer value for better service and to enhance the flexibility and adaptability of video-centric cloud and software architecture, Dahua Technology released a new DAHUA GAIA big data platform that drives the city from digital to intelligent. The vigorous development of smart cities relies on the participation of all partners in the value chain With the topic "DAHUA GAIA Creates Intelligent Twins Value", Mr. Wenkai Zhou, General Manager of Dahua Software Product Department, shared: "DAHUA GAIA includes 'four ones' – one storage computing network, one intelligent video & image engine, one intelligent data engine and one business-enabled platform – which is a set of architecture that supports online data, value computing and business application". Healthy and orderly development Mr. Zhou added that DAHUA GAIA is the powerful foundation of Dahua HOC. It strengthens Dahua HOC's top-level design and scenario application capabilities, and boosts the construction of new smart cities, entering the "Intelligent Twins" together with customers. He also elaborated the DAHUA GAIA series software products and outstanding industry cases, which attracted lots of interest from guests and media. The vigorous development of smart cities relies on the participation of all partners in the value chain. Dahua Technology has always adhered to the concept of open cooperation and win-win. Together with its partners, the company has been injecting vitality into Dahua HOC, exploring a more refined city governance method and applying it to every aspect of city development, creating a more attractive and distinctive city that leads to a healthy and orderly development of new smart cities in the country.

Imou new product launch was held with the theme ‘Gathering and Growing’ in Shenzhen, where industry experts, Imou primary partners from all over the world, and international media gathered together to witness the launch of Imou’s new products for both domestic and overseas market. The event also demonstrated the rapid growth of Imou in the past year and how Imou will support and benefit the partners in future. Consumer IoT industry Mr. Xie pointed out that Imou will continue to deepen its efforts in the consumer IoT industry Mr. Ke Li, Dahua President, Mr. Yong Ying, Dahua Senior VP, gave their opening remarks to launch the event. Mr. Yun Xie, CEO of Hangzhou Huacheng Network Co. Ltd. (Imou), gave a keynote speech on ‘Gathering and Growing’, sharing the achievements and big moments of Imou since the brand upgrade last year, and elaborating on products, Imou service system, brand communication, etc. Mr. Xie pointed out that Imou will continue to deepen its efforts in the consumer IoT industry, continuously expand in the global market, and strive to enable everyone to enjoy smart life.  Mr. Hongwu Zhao, Director of China Daily Hardware Technology Development Center, shared the report on the development trend of the smart lock industry. He pointed out that the entire smart door lock market is still a blue ocean market, and the industry is positioned to be the most promising area to experience a market breakout. 3D AI facial recognition technology Mr. Xianwen Dai, Head of Business Operation-Industrial from Alibaba, gave a speech on the new era of cross-border trading. As an important partner of Imou, Alibaba firmly believes that the Internet can help create a more beneficial environment by enabling companies like Imou to use innovation and technology to grow and compete more effectively in the domestic and global economy. The event saw the launch of many new heavyweight high-tech products for the domestic market, among which there was the highly anticipated Imou V8i Smart Lock - Imou’s first smart lock with 3D AI facial recognition technology to achieve more secured facial unlocking, allowing users to bid farewell to keys, free their hands, and enjoy more relaxed lives. AI-powered IoT camera The product launch also featured the release of the Wireless Security System in the overseas market For the overseas market, the release of Imou Ranger IQ received strong attention. As the first AI-powered IoT camera with capabilities to ‘watch, listen, speak, and act’, Ranger IQ can detect sounds/motion, identify human beings from moving objects or pets, warn off intruders with built-in siren, and act as the center of the alarm system to collaborate with detectors. The product launch also featured the release of the Wireless Security System in the overseas market. The brand new Imou Wireless Security System comes with the latest camera repeater technology, which allows for unparalleled long range coverage. Smart security industry The system also features plug-and-play setup, thus easily connecting with other security cameras. With the expertise in the smart security industry, Imou is striving to produce solutions that let everyone enjoy a secure, simple, and smart life through innovative technology. ‘Gathering and Growing’ with the partners, Imou is also seeking to continuously create value for partners. Being a user or a partner of Imou, you can always rely on Imou to enjoy your peace of mind, anywhere, anytime.

Dahua Technology, a solutions provider in the global video surveillance industry, presented “AI Creates Value” during the International Security Conference and Expo (ISC West) to security professionals on Wednesday afternoon. Keynote speech Dahua President Ke Li opened the keynote speech by expressing gratitude to all guests as well as to Dahua’s global network of partners and customers. James Wang, deputy general manager of Dahua overseas business, and Adam Burns, general manager of IoT vision solutions at Intel, were the keynote speakers. The evolution from video to vision makes surveillance more connected, intelligent and autonomous" Burns spoke to the trends in AI technology, while Wang defined the challenges of big data, the value of cognitive analytics, the increasing business intelligence opportunities, the expanding possibilities for improved business operations, and the system architecture components that make all of this possible. AI application in the security industry "Innovation has been the persistent force behind Dahua’s technology development,” said Ke Li. “Dahua will continue to lead the application of AI in the security industry, becoming a world-leading video-centric smart IoT solution and service provider that enables a safer society and smarter living.” “There have been several noteworthy advancements in AI in intelligence, computing, ecosystem and sensing,” said James Wang. “Dahua AI-powered security technologies mitigate the data challenges in physical security solutions like low processing efficiency, isolated data and massive data. Dahua AI security solutions, when applied to applications like retail, traffic management, logistics and warehousing, can boost business intelligence and performance, creating true value for physical security industry.” Content analytics “It’s been years since Dahua and Intel started their cooperation,” said Adam Burns. “The evolution from video to vision makes surveillance more connected, intelligent and autonomous. Intel AI solutions, including Movidius, Intel FPGA and nervana, drive intelligence in the camera, at the edge and in the cloud, enabling various vision-based intelligent analytics and the expansion of vision to all IoT markets.” Wang also introduced the Dahua deepsense series, a suite of products that adopt state-of-the-art AI-deep learning technology, which will be released during 2018 H1. Dahua deepsense series, including network (PTZ) cameras, network video recorders, servers, etc., supports various kinds of security solutions with an array of advanced capabilities including human characteristics analysis, face recognition, ANPR, metadata collection and analysis, people counting, image search, facial flow, traffic incident detection and traffic data statistics. Beyond seeing the world, the power of AI-deep learning allows devices to understand it in a better way, offering higher flexibility and accuracy for end-users and more business opportunities for Dahua customers and partners.