What kind of experience does the company that releases smart watches and wearable devices at high frequency suddenly open an innovation conference in the name of AI and set up an AI research institute?
Before knowing the truth, it may give people the illusion of using artificial intelligence hotspots, but when the audience is listening, it will completely change or even subvert your cognition with great probability.
This is the answer given by the first AI Innovation Conference of Huami Technology.
"When we formulated the corporate mission and built the company vision, we always believed that one thing was that AI would completely reconstruct the global medical and health industry." This is the viewpoint repeatedly emphasized by Wang Huang, founder and CEO of Huami Technology, at the press conference.
A series of hard-core AI innovative technology carriers, AI capabilities and actions around AI make us realize that besides the standard image of smart wearable devices, it is time to re-recognize the "technical side" of Huami Technology.
What kind of configuration is a hardcore conference?
Aside from the external sense of form such as the construction and layout of the scene, we see such an answer.
Release a new generation of smart wearable chip "Huangshan II" and release the second generation of PPG bio-tracking optical sensor BioTracker? 2 and 5 brand-new health big data AI engines, and established the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. ...
It is not difficult to see that one of them has enough weight and gold content to support a venue. Interestingly, it also broke the previous practice of publishing at every meeting.
These high-tech technological achievements that will profoundly affect the progress of the medical and health industry have been fully concentrated at this AI innovation conference called Huami Technology.
After the whole game, let's see the concentrated outbreak of the AI capabilities of Huami, which constitutes the AI technical face of Huami Technology to face and reconstruct the global medical and health industry.
I am used to or familiar with all kinds of smart watch products and innovative functions of Huami. To unlock Huami's comprehensive AI capability, the difficulty coefficient is not low.
On the one hand, it is vertical and focused enough, and most of it is high-tech ability in the medical and health field.
On the whole, it is the superposition and interaction of three dimensions: chip, algorithm engine and sensor, which constitutes the all-round ability of Huami characteristic AI.
Pay enough attention to Ai, "Huangshan II" has been launched.
"If you are serious enough about AI, you will definitely make your own chips." This is the view of Wang Huang, the founder of Huami Technology.
Of course, everyone in the industry knows that making chips means high investment, long research and development, deep technical reserves and uncertain road to production and application.
Once you have a tailor-made chip, the user experience of the product will have a qualitative leap, which will bring about the improvement of commercial value and is also the best proof of your own strength.
Since the value of AI has been recognized, the AI chip of smart wear scene has become a subject that must be overcome.
Following the release of the world's first wearable AI chip "Huangshan 1" in September, 20 18, and its successful large-scale application in its smart watches, the new smart wearable chip "Huangshan 2" independently developed by Huami was officially released.
So what evolution and upgrade did Huangshan 2 bring? You can really feel it with a few data.
Based on the advanced RISC-V architecture, the NPU of AI local biological data calculation is redesigned. After adopting the convolution neural network acceleration technology, the recognition speed of "Huangshan 2" is 7 times that of "Huangshan 1" and 26 times that of other software algorithms on the market.
In addition, AON mode of ultra-low power sensor is added, and ——C2 coprocessor is equipped like Apple, which can theoretically reduce the overall power consumption of Huangshan 2 by 50%.
It is understood that the film was successfully filmed last month, and a new smart watch equipped with "Huangshan II" will be launched in the first half of next year. The next generation "Huangshan III" has also been designed.
Huami, who has been sitting on a self-developed 2.0AI chip, seems to be the most powerful player in this field and is destined to take a more leisurely and imaginative development path.
▌ The five AI biodata engines are concurrent, benefiting every user.
With the Huami smart watch, we may all have such actions and usage habits: you can test your ECG in three steps in minutes; Raise your hand to know the immediate heart rate; You can check the quality of sleep that night when you wake up; When exercising, the watch can automatically identify the movement mode and record the whole process without resetting.
Seemingly habitual and extremely simplified operation, behind this is a series of sophisticated and accurate biological data engines playing their respective roles, escorting your health and sports around the clock.
Specifically, the second generation of heart data AI bio-engine RealBeats? 2. The effective monitoring time of atrial fibrillation at night and during the day is 65438 0.87 times and 6.64 times of that of the previous generation, respectively.
After two years of continuous exploration, Huami Technology has launched the AI bio-engine of blood oxygen data-oxygen beat? The measurement success rate reached 100%.
Huami Technology also released a brand new sleep data AI bio-engine SomnusCare? The accuracy of sleep data detection is over 80%.
ExerSense, a new AI recognition engine for human activity patterns based on sports big data? , match the motion model in real time, and finally judge the current motion mode of the user intelligently, and the user does not need to carry out tedious manual operations.
Based on the same intelligence concept, there is also a set of human health assessment system, Huami-Pai? Help users to master daily exercise intelligently and create an absolutely personalized health assessment system for each user.
Five biodata engines, RealBeats? Aerobic heartbeat? 、SomnusCare？ 、ExerSense？ , Huami-Pai? Aggregation and concurrency effectively ensure the high quality and accurate use of users every time.
According to Wang Huang, these algorithms will be used from the cheapest smart watches to the most expensive ones, "without sacrificing any user's right to pursue health". Through continuous iterative upgrading, users will also enjoy the most advanced technological achievements and experiences.
Key role: optical sensor for biological tracking
With the algorithm and the massive and accurate data generated by hundreds of millions of devices, another important task for a company like Huami based on big health data and artificial intelligence is to collect data sensors.
The scope of digitalization is very special in the era of artificial intelligence. It is essentially a sensor and a driver, integrating the digital world, the physical world and the biological world.
So there is BioTracker 2, which is the most powerful wearable human optical sensor in the world, and can support the data acquisition of biological data engines such as exercise, sleep, heart rate, blood oxygen and personal health assessment system.
Five AI biodata engines, optical sensors, Huangshan No.2 artificial intelligence chip with powerful performance and extremely low power consumption have a complete AI health management platform, which constitutes a new health infrastructure platform with Huami characteristics.
"I believe that in the future, we will rebuild the global health care industry through this set of artificial intelligence," Wang Huang finally stressed.
Just like Tesla has made subversive achievements because of its own algorithms, data and chips. Huami, it is bound to one day, all its abilities suddenly mature and explode with its perfection.
What do you think of when you mention the Institute of Artificial Intelligence?
The unavoidable Microsoft Research Asia, Baidu Research Institute, Alibaba AI Lab and Despise AI Research Institute ... On the one hand, they are proof of their own AI capabilities and strength, and as legends, they provide future-oriented exploration for the development of their AI career.
We are using AI to deepen the key nodes in the medical and health field, and we have also seen such an action: the establishment of Huami Artificial Intelligence Research Institute is just the right time.
Huami Artificial Intelligence Research Institute will focus on the core technology innovation of artificial intelligence related to health big data and explore the vertical application of artificial intelligence in the wearable field. At the same time, explore innovative cutting-edge technologies in the fields of health big data mining, smart medical care, and brain-computer interface.
In addition, three high-energy external scientific research forces, led by Academician Zhong Nanshan, led by China Athletics Association and led by Institute of Advanced Technology of Chinese University of Science and Technology, have also become powerful intellectual support for exploring medical health.
It is worth noting that maybe we will experience this existence soon, and we will be able to have a voice exchange dialogue with the watch in the near future, so as to complete the sports health task more conveniently. The achievement of this experience is precisely because of the strategic cooperation between Huami and Yunzhisheng, an intelligent voice unicorn.
It is these luxurious intellectual resources that ensure Huami's vision and imagination for the future.
There is a view that creating large-scale value depends on innovative combination.
How did Huami achieve this high-intensity, continuous technological innovation combination and breakthrough through the release of "Huangshan 2" chip, five AI bio-engines and the establishment of AI research institute in one breath?
Dr. Wang Kongqiao, vice president of Huami Technology and president of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, gave the answers when answering Xin Mang X's questions: First, the thirst for innovation. As the latest electronic product, smart wearable is easy to capture health big data from human body, which is very attractive to researchers.
In addition, a group of experienced young researchers are very motivated to innovate, which makes the development of patents and algorithms very fast in the industry.
"I don't want everything to be the best, but the key technology is definitely hard core and definitely the world leader."
It is these large-scale and continuous innovations that promote the creation of large-scale value.
"In June 5438+February last year, the company set its mission as: connecting health with science and technology. At that time, we thought it would be a long and long-term thing to popularize health awareness among the general public, but no one expected that the time to practice the company's mission would come so quickly and urgently! " This is Wang Huang's latest view on the impact of the epidemic.
The main factor to change society is the "black swan event" with low probability and high impact. The role of the Black Swan incident is to "make new habits form in a short time". The concept that took a long time to accept was accepted by everyone at once.
This makes the mission focus on health, and Huami has won great recognition from consumers. On the one hand, we made every effort to fight the epidemic, and at the same time, our business performance increased against the trend during the epidemic.
Huami spared no effort to undertake corporate social responsibility professionally and efficiently on the road of fighting the epidemic, and the total donation amount reached 1 1.5 million yuan.
In the first quarter of 2020, the global shipment of Huami smart watches reached 980,000 pieces, an increase of 80.2% year-on-year. For the first time, it entered the top five in the global smart watch market. The revenue of Q 1 reached a record 108 billion yuan, which became the highest revenue in the first quarter of each year in the company's history, with a year-on-year increase of 36%.
A series of transcripts, as well as the people affected by the epidemic's stronger demand and awareness of the health industry, make Huami Technology's mission of connecting health more clear and firm.
Technology is always the most lasting and powerful driving force for innovation. At the beginning, we mentioned that great new opportunities are usually created by technological innovation.
Huami Technology truly and effectively participates in building a global healthy ecology with a set of AI portfolio products and capabilities that conform to the medical and health attributes and its own characteristics, creating huge opportunities, generating technical value and becoming the most trusted partner of users.