Huawei Wins Two Awards at China Telecommunication Industry IoT Conference 2017

[Beijing, China April 13, 2017] Gaining recognition for its innovation in the IoT field, Huawei won two prestigious awards at the China Telecommunication Industry IoT Conference sponsored by People's Post and Telecommunication Publishing. The awards, "Best Practice and Innovation Award in IoT Platform and Solution" and "Best NB-IoT Industry Contribution Award," highlight Huawei's position as an industry leader in R&D, product service, and service innovation in the IoT field.

Zhang Lufeng (right), Huawei IoT Solution Chief Architect, accepts the awards on behalf of Huawei from Liu Qibin (Left), Editor-in Chief, Communications World Weekly

The rapid development of IoT has opened up broad market space for the ICT industry. Huawei's IoT strategy focuses on vertical industries and constructing upstream and downstream ecosystems, cooperating with partners to provide industry solutions. These solutions pertain to Internet of Awareness, Internet of Everything, and Smart Everything, and enable digital transformation. Vertical markets in particular are embracing IoT to promote digital transformation. According to data reported by global market research organizations such as Gartner, IDC, and Machina, many enterprises have already benefited from IoT construction.

"The research clearly shows that the IoT market has the potential to generate significant profit for industries," said Zhang Lufeng, Huawei IoT Solution Chief Architect.

In 2015, Huawei first proposed the 1+2+1 IoT ICT strategy, in which the IoT platform is the key to ecosystem construction. At HUAWEI CONNECT 2016, Huawei released the OceanConnect IoT platform ecosystem, strengthening its strategic development direction in the IoT ecosystem.

"The growth of any industry is not supported by a single company," remarked Zhang. "Working with partners in the industry chain to build a strong platform ecosystem and promote industry development is our future IoT development direction."

By opening up the 200-plus APIs and serial Agent software that its IoT platform has provided, Huawei continues to build partner ecosystems on both the application and terminal sides of operations. At present, Huawei has partnered with over 100 prominent enterprises, including those in the Connected Car, smart home, public utilities, and smart city industries. In addition, Huawei cooperates with global standards organizations and industry alliances to develop globalization standards and promote the growth of the IoT industry. Huawei's IoT developer ecosystem construction team has secured more than 500 business partnerships through unified online and offline ecosystem platform operation.

Zhang Lufeng gives a speech at the award ceremony

      Compared with other IoT access technologies, Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) features excellent coverage, low device power consumption, and a large network capacity. Huawei continuously invests in and promotes NB-IoT industry development. In 2016, Huawei and GSMA took the lead in establishing the NB-IoT Forum, promoted the NB-IoT industry with global industry partners, and released the world's first commercial NB-IoT network version and chip. In 2017, Huawei plans to continue working with industry-leading operators and partners to expand the application of NB-IoT in various fields, including public utilities, smart city, logistics and warehousing, smart building, smart agriculture, and environmental monitoring.

In the future, Huawei intends to continue increasing investment in IoT and cooperating with industry partners to foster a successful IoT ecosystem, promote industry development, and build a better connected world.