Unicom Zhiwang technology rushes to the AI car networking era
Self-driving minibuses leave from high-speed railway station, unmanned delivery vehicles are operated on a pilot basis, and unmanned sanitation vehicles are working on their posts … With the application scenarios blooming, intelligent networked vehicles are speeding up their "entry" into people’s lives.
At the 2024 China Unicom Partner Conference "Artificial Intelligence Empowering Smart Car Networking Forum", Unicom Zhiwang Technology released three innovative products of car networking, namely "knowing how to control", "knowing how to navigate" and the whole ecological platform of Unicom’s life.

In recent years, China Unicom has actively implemented the mission and responsibility of central enterprises, accelerated the layout of artificial intelligence and car networking industries, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries such as automobiles and transportation. At present, the intelligent cockpit products of Unicom Zhiwang Technology have been mass-produced in 7 models. Relying on the integration capability of China Unicom, Intelligent Network Branch has become the only company in the industry that integrates network connection, customer operation, platform operation, intelligent transportation and digital operation.
The "Artificial Intelligence+"version of the Internet of Vehicles, the mobility and innovation of China Unicom are continuously injecting new kinetic energy into enhancing industrial competitiveness and vitality.
Deeply cultivate the industry, based on its endowment, and move forward with the times.
The three "knowledge" product system released this time closely follows the development characteristics and needs of the artificial intelligence+era intelligent networked car industry, showing the height, depth and breadth of Unicom Zhiwang Technology’s understanding of the industry and users.
"Zhiyu" is a vehicle networking service product, which is based on AI endogenous, and can realize integrated scheduling and performance optimization of data, algorithm and computing power, and can provide excellent network connection services for vehicles.
"Zhilue" is an intelligent operation product of the Internet of Vehicles. It is developed based on big data, AI, cloud computing and other technologies. It is based on industry data training and takes multi-modal interaction as the interface, aiming to help car companies realize intelligence, automation and efficiency in their operation process, and comprehensively improve their operation level.
"Knowing the way" is a product of the intelligent transportation industry. It takes the integration of perception and traffic brain as the core. By using the technologies of computer network integration, synaesthesia integration and AI endogenous, it can comprehensively perceive and accurately analyze traffic, and provide more intelligent base capacity for the future transportation industry.
After smart cars enter the new development stage of AI cars from intelligent driving, it can be seen that Unicom Zhiwang Technology has quickly formed an open and inclusive idea for the new stage, new demands and new trends. Behind the product system of "people and cars" is the two-wheel drive of technology and industry. Wang Jianfei, deputy general manager of Unicom Zhiwang Technology Co., Ltd. stressed that the advantage of Unicom’s "people and cars" lies in people, at home and in the car.

First, the advantage lies in people. China Unicom’s system is different from other operators, and it has a centralized system for the whole network. "A little concentration on the whole network has brought great advantages to foreign cooperation: China Unicom has responded quickly to the unification of user support experience and feelings and the unification of tariffs. China Unicom has 440 million users, which is a very large market and target user for car companies. "
Second, the advantage is at home. At present, China Unicom promotes FTTR service among home users. At the same time, China Unicom has also laid out a smart home ecology in the family, satisfying modern people’s dependence on the whole family life and yearning for smart families. "In this deployment process, we tried to get through to the car, so that people can have some integrated application scenarios with their families in the time and space of the car space. This is the advantage of our’ home’."
Third, the advantage lies in the car. "At present, in the field of vehicle networking, Unicom Zhiwang Technology has the largest market share in China. We have a great advantage in the field of automobile operation services and have a deep understanding of automobile enterprises. The understanding of individual users and home users, the understanding of car owners and users, and the understanding of car companies and partners are superimposed, which provides strong support for us to build a fully open cooperation platform. "
It is understood that the start of Unicom Zhiwang Technology’s "people and cars" platform is based on its own resource endowment and positioning. Wang Jianfei believes that the combination of China Unicom’s two major capabilities, namely, networking communication and network computing and digital intelligence, and the advantages of users determines that the "people, cars and homes" ecological platform will eventually open up user resources, operating experience and platform advantages to the industry. "It is one of our publishing purposes and also a differentiated advantage to let the current car companies and partners in the industrial chain and those who provide rights and interests on the Internet make profits on the project. We provide differentiated effective forces for various car companies and form differentiated capabilities. " This is also the understanding of Unicom Zhiwang Technology on "people and cars".
Talent, specialty and times have jointly created the industry position of Unicom Zhiwang Technology today. According to Wang Jianfei, first, the vast majority of employees of Unicom Zhiwang Technology come from automobile-related enterprises, not communication enterprises, which is relatively rare in the industry; Second, I have a profound understanding of the needs of car companies. I have been deeply involved in the car networking industry for 15 years and have been accompanying the growth of car companies and industries; Third, the rise of new energy and self-owned brand cars has given China Unicom and Unicom Smart Network a better development opportunity.
The left hand is industry understanding, and the right hand is data security.
Intelligent networking is an important direction for the future evolution of the automobile industry. From the perspective of industry practice, there are generally two paths to improve the networking level of automobile intelligence: one path is called "bicycle intelligence", which mainly relies on the combination of the vehicle’s own sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms to realize intelligent driving; The other path is "vehicle-road collaboration", which emphasizes the linkage between the vehicle’s own intelligent equipment and roadside intelligent infrastructure, cloud control platform, high-precision map and other off-site facilities, and comprehensively relies on the multi-dimensional means of vehicle, road, cloud, network and map to empower intelligent driving.
In the whole cycle of smart travel, the autonomous driving strategy can be segmented according to the scene. Zhou Guangtao, Dean of the Intelligent Vehicle Networking Research Institute of Unicom Zhiwang Technology, said: "In the parking lot environment, the speed has been reduced to less than 20 km/h, and the delay of the network has reached 200 to 300 milliseconds. We have built smart parking capabilities in some parking lots with the minimum closed-loop scheme." In November, 2023, Unicom Zhiwang Technology released "Vehicle-Road Cloud Integrated Solution 2.0 Based on 5G+MEC+C-V2X Fusion", and put forward the concept of front-end construction of minimum closed loop.
How to understand this minimum closed loop? "Compared with bicycle intelligence, Cheluyun collaboration has changed from one agent to three agents (car end, road end and cloud). To achieve collaborative control, three people have to shake hands to accomplish this." The cloud can provide services after interactive integration of vehicle-road related data, which requires very high time nodes for on-vehicle cloud and on-road cloud processing. "The closed loop in the car is completed within 50 milliseconds and 100 milliseconds. The completion of the closed loop with the outside view of the vehicle must also meet this indicator. Therefore, we sink the edge cloud and UPF, and introduce the edge to the position closest to the vehicle, the base station and the intersection, so that the vehicle transmits the data to the edge cloud through 5G, and the roadside transmits it to the edge cloud through wired and wireless, and changes the traffic lights through roadside distribution, forming a decision for the vehicle and forming a three-way linkage with controllable delay. This is called the minimum closed loop. "
At the same time, with the deepening of automobile networking and intelligence, the data generated by vehicles themselves is increasing day by day. It includes two aspects: first, it is collected by the car itself, for example, in order to do the training of automatic driving, the current automatic driving link will collect data, including communication and interaction with the roadside of infrastructure, in order to prepare for further automatic driving; Second, the behavior data caused by the operation of people in the car will be more used to improve the competitiveness of the car itself from the perspective of car networking products.
"Two types of data play an important role in the research and development, manufacturing and even life cycle of vehicles. It can be said that data, as the underlying infrastructure of future car networking applications, supports the improvement of car networking products and the improvement of service operations. " Xu Wenjing, deputy general manager of Unicom Zhiwang Technology Co., Ltd. said: "Unicom Zhiwang Technology can provide comprehensive data transmission, data governance, data security and data model analysis services for this purpose. This is also one of the key products that we will provide services to the industry in the future. "
China Unicom has always adhered to the three security principles of "data security is the lifeline, zero tolerance for security incidents, and keeping sensitive data indoors", and is committed to building a self-controllable, safe and reliable data life-cycle security system to protect users’ privacy and data assets, and at the same time promote the effective utilization and value creation of data.

"As the’ chain length’ of the network security modern industrial chain, China Unicom has a natural responsibility and perfect solutions, which can provide end-to-end data security private network and car networking network security products." According to Xu Wenjing, China Unicom has developed a four-dimensional security protection system for the car networking industry, integrating management, technology, organization and operation, and built six data security protection products covering the whole life cycle of data, including data asset maps, data encryption, data classification and grading, data desensitization, data security gateways, data auditing and other product capabilities. "
On the data management level, in order to ensure data security and user privacy, first, a clear data security management system has been established; The second is to implement role-based access control through data classification and grading to ensure that access to sensitive data is limited to authorized personnel; Third, back up data regularly and make a recovery plan to deal with data loss or damage; Fourth, do the risk assessment of data security periodically, find hidden dangers and loopholes in time, and deal with them in time to nip potential risks in the cradle.
On the technical level, it covers not only encryption technology, access control, data desensitization and other traditional technologies. Zhiwang Technology is also exploring the technologies of data anonymization and de-identification, such as K- anonymity and differential privacy, to protect individual privacy in data sets. At the same time, advanced technologies such as secure multi-party computing, federated learning and quantum key distribution also provide new solutions for data security. Xu Wenjing said: "The comprehensive application of these technologies can significantly improve data security and protect users’ privacy, and build a more secure and credible data environment. These measures together constitute a solid defense line for enterprise data protection."
"At present, operators’ understanding of digital platforms and users’ operations is actually far ahead of the times and enterprises. We hope that the digital platform originally used by operators can be provided to car companies to jointly operate users. " Wang Jianfei said.
Taking communication and intelligent calculation as the origin, draw the maximum concentric circle of vehicle networking
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pointed out in the Guide to the Construction of National Vehicle Networking Industry Standard System (Intelligent Networked Vehicles) (2023 Edition) that the vehicle networking industry is a new industry with deep integration of automobile, electronics, information and communication, road transportation and other industries, and it is a global innovation hotspot and a commanding height for future development.
The development of domestic intelligent networked automobile industry can be divided into several stages. The first stage is bicycle intelligence, and the car relies on its own perception to make decisions. In the second stage, roadside assistance is introduced, that is, vehicle-road coordination, which requires communication ability, which requires roadside to have better intelligent perception and data transmission ability. Zhou Guangtao introduced: "In the early days, China Unicom paid attention to the research and development of intelligent perceptual computing algorithms and the research and development of standardized roadside communication units and edge devices, and completed the birth of bicycle intelligence by promoting C-V2X technology in China."

At present, the infrastructure construction of the "Vehicle-Lu Yun Integration" project is in full swing throughout the country. "In the early stage, the requirements for cars were higher. Bicycle intelligence is not unimportant, but how intelligence will cooperate in the future." When the reporter asked which is more critical, the coordination between cars and roads, Zhou Guangtao believed that roadside intelligence should perceive the world, and the infrastructure of its own intelligent transportation is also upgrading. How to make a common judgment between the two and shake hands together is very important. "The handshake between the two is the blessing of a highly reliable network, like the fulcrum of a seesaw, which is very important. The fulcrum moves to the car, and the roadside will be heavier; The fulcrum moves to the road, and the car end is heavier. Therefore, the network should meet the needs of flexible connection in different scenarios, so that cars and roads can be better connected and a balance point can be established. "
With the development of the industry, the single agent problem has evolved into "car-Lu Yun integration". "The cloud must have the ability to think and calculate. The cloud on the car and the cloud on the road are not simply completed by the technology of C-V2X, and can support multi-network integration such as multi-5G and computer network." Zhou Guangtao said that through the collaboration of the networked vehicle road cloud, the vehicle road data is transmitted to the cloud for processing, and then distributed through the 5G network, making the coverage and penetration efficiency higher and faster. "So in this respect, we build our own edge cloud node capabilities, and meet different driving scenarios around the integration of vehicles and roads. We have built the technical capabilities and application scenarios of the scene-oriented 5G private network of the Internet of Vehicles to promote the integration of vehicles and Lu Yun. The technical route meets the landing needs of some smart driving related products."
The concentric circles of information and communication industry and automobile industry are more than just a corner of a city. Let the leading China intelligent networked car and the "car Lu Yun" solution go out, and China Unicom will do its best. Previously, in the second quarter of this year, China Unicom released the White Paper on the Situation Analysis and Digital Solution of China Automobile Going to Sea in 2024. Unicom Zhiwang Technology and Unicom International Co., Ltd. cooperated closely, which contributed an important force for Unicom to empower cars to go to sea.
Xu Wenjing believes that with the car companies going out to sea, there is a huge demand for connections and platforms, whether from factory building construction, supporting facilities to the field of car networking. "As a central enterprise, China Unicom’s mission is more to help overseas enterprises to better go out and even go up. We will continue to enrich and improve our reserves in car networking products, make these products and services more concrete and differentiated, and carry out more detailed and differentiated transformation for different countries to adapt to local development. "
China Unicom will continue to maintain its leading innovation capability in the field of vehicle networking based on artificial intelligence, and work hand in hand with industry partners.












































