However, in this system dispute, it is far from the HarmonyOS system. In the wearable field, in June, Samsung released the smart watch system One UI Watch；; In July, Huami launched a brand-new Zepp OS.
For this operating system, Huami founder Wang Huang said:
The self-developed operating system has also become a key step in the closed loop of Huami closed technology.
Magic mobile phone operating system has always been the mainstream of smart watch operating system. On February 20 17, 17, Huami officially announced its own operating system name-WOS, which is a smart watch customization system developed by Huami through AOSP in Fantasy.
This system has been iterated several times, including WOS development version and WOS 2.0, and officially changed its name to Amazfit OS…… in September of 20 18 ... ...
On July 13, Zepp OS was officially released at the next Beat conference of Huami. According to Fan, co-founder of Huami Technology and rotating president of Global Innovation Center, this system is different from the previous smart watch operating system.
Fan explained:
It is the "acclimatization" of these two types of operating systems used in smart watches that made Huami determined to develop a "native smart watch operating system focusing on health", and Zepp OS quietly established a project within Huami.
In essence, Zepp OS is a brand-new smart watch operating system. Compared with the previous AOSP-based Amazfit OS, Huami chose the same microkernel as Amazon Internet of Things operating system-FreeRTOS. The first feature that this microkernel brings to Zepp OS is that the system occupies less space.
At the scene, Hui Mei, a fan, compared the occupied space of Zepp OS with that of WatchOS and Amazfit OS. The system space of Zepp OS is only 55MB, which is only 1/28 of WatchOS and110 of Amazfit OS.
This system is compatible with both low-performance single-chip microcomputer and high-performance SoC, which lays a foundation for the further application of Zepp OS in intelligent hardware products such as smart cameras and smart door locks.
Aiming at the application of Zepp OS in smart watches, Fan Huimei listed a series of data to illustrate the key performance of the system:
Functionally, Zepp OS not only integrates the core functions of previous bracelets and watches, but also has a Zeus watch applet framework.
In the era of mobile internet, due to the lack of early application ecology of Apple mobile phones, users will try to "jailbreak" some function plug-ins when they first start using Apple mobile phones, and these functions will take several years to get official support.
"It is generally difficult for officials to meet the customized needs of users. Due to the outstanding performance of Huami smart watches overseas, there are also such a group of professional enthusiasts who add personalized dials and other functions to Huami smart watches through "jailbreak". So Huami developed a Zeus watch applet framework on Zepp OS.
Through this framework, Huami has created a set of light applications similar to WeChat applets for Zepp OS. In addition, Huami also released a small program development toolkit, through which developers can quickly get started and develop more personalized applications.
What does applet framework and applet development toolkit mean for Huami or Zepp OS?
This means that developers who have developed PC, webpage, front-end and WeChat applets can develop light applications such as children's skipping counting and regular medication through this framework, which will continue to catalyze the relatively scarce smart watch application system at present.
Lei Feng. Com also experienced the Huami smart watch equipped with Zepp OS system on the spot, and the system fluency has really improved. According to the official, Zepp OS is expected to be officially listed in Q4 of 20021year.
The self-developed operating system Zepp OS is just another big project completed by Huami at this stage. Prior to this, Huami has accumulated in the field of self-developed chips and self-developed AI algorithms for many years.
Among them, it is not the system but the chip that occupies most of the investment in R&D.
One detail is that at the next Beat conference of Huami, when the promotional video was officially released, Wang Huang wore a pair of white gloves and held a wafer to let the audience guess "What is this", and this wafer was loaded with 4,000 Huangshan II series chips developed by Huami.
20 18 In August, Huami released "Huangshan 1", which was hailed as the first artificial intelligence chip based on RISC-V open source instruction set in the field of smart wear, and this chip was also carried into two products, Amazfit Smart Watch 2 and Amazfit Midong Health Watch released the following year.
In June 2020, Huami released "Huangshan II" with higher computational efficiency and lower power consumption by adding AI local biological data NPU and ultra-low power consumption coprocessor C2.
At this conference, Huami officially released "Huangshan 2S" equipped with 2.5D GPU, convolutional neural network accelerated processing unit and dual-core RISC-V architecture.
According to Zhao Yajun, vice president of hardware technology of Huami Technology, the chip was successfully streamed in March this year and will be one of the core chips of Amazfit smart watches in the future.
Outside the chip, Huami is also developing its own AI algorithm.
In the past few years, Huami has successively released five AI algorithm engines, and the layout is not deep. This time, Huami further released the blood pressure monitoring engine PumpBeats.
Wang Kongqiao, vice president of Huami Technology Algorithm, said.
In order to verify the accuracy of PumpBeats, Huami cooperated with the First Hospital of Peking University to conduct a clinical trial. This clinical trial began in April this year, and the first phase of the trial has been completed. 354 data of 27 patients were analyzed. The analysis results show that:
Wang Kongqiao also said that PumpBeats will be officially launched in Q4 this year. In the next step, China PumpBeats will focus on 24-hour continuous blood pressure monitoring, so as to realize the connection between night sleep monitoring and passive blood pressure monitoring, thus exploring a new way for recessive hypertension screening.
Why does Huami pay so much attention to the self-research of chips, systems and algorithms?
Wang Huang explained that if you want to realize the ultimate user experience of a smart watch, even the simplest smart bracelet, you must make your own chips, systems and algorithms.
Take the self-developed chip as an example. For a hardware enterprise, self-developed chip means that the performance of hardware products can be improved with a completely matched chip. Otherwise, one of the mainstream chips in the market needs to be selected for product adaptation, and there will inevitably be some performance compromises in the process of adaptation.
Looking back on a series of new products released by Huami this time, Lei Feng. Com found that Huami self-developed chip and AI algorithm have entered the normal R&D iterative sequence. With the release of Zepp OS, Huami finally built a self-developed closed-loop system of chips, systems and algorithms, so that Huami's ideas on product functions and performance can be directly designed and realized on the systems, chips and algorithms.
In the history of smartphone development, there is also a company that pursues the ultimate experience. This company is Apple. In the past product research and development process, Apple invested a lot of manpower and material resources in self-research of key technologies such as chips and systems, and created its own closed-loop technology, which gave Apple the reputation of ultimate experience.
However, Huami's goal is not to become an apple.
Huami's purpose of building a closed-loop technology is for the ultimate experience, but it has not moved towards an ecological closed-loop.
202 1, 1,1On October 5, 2002, 29.99% of the issued shares of Yitong Technology were acquired at a cash consideration of 959.68 million yuan (equivalent to 654.38+47.08 million US dollars). Both sides indicated that they would further expand the medical ecosystem market in China.
At this conference, Wang Huang revealed that Huami has reached a strategic cooperation with Yitong Technology, and authorized Huangshan Chip Technology and Zepp OS to Yitong Technology.
In an interview with the media after the meeting, Wang Huang further stated that Huami will continue to focus on the health field, and the authorized Yitong Technology will cooperate with more IoT-related enterprises (non-competitors) such as smart door locks and smart homes based on Huangshan chip and Zepp OS operating system.
At the press conference, at the end of the conference, Huami released a super egg-MRI nuclear magnetic resonance equipment.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (MRI) is a kind of equipment that can realize general health examination, but it can't sink into general health examination items because of its scarcity. Even if a person goes to the hospital to make an appointment for an MRI examination, he still needs to queue up. At the press conference, Huami demonstrated the portable low-field permanent magnet MRI nuclear magnetic resonance equipment developed by her team.
According to Wang Huang, this is the world's first portable low-field permanent magnet MRI which can be used for general examination. It can be placed in the doctor's office for high-quality imaging with a signal-to-noise ratio difference of 300 times, and can be used for preliminary screening of lesions in the body. It can improve the accuracy of targeting and treatment evaluation of diseases such as cancer and stroke.
In the past few years, Huami has been emphasizing that it is an enterprise in the field of "healthy cloud services". However, when people think of health, they think of the medical field. Due to the consumer electronic properties of core products such as smart bracelets and smart watches, many people will question Huami's positioning as a "healthy cloud service".
MRI is more like a strategic extension of Huami. Through it, the world has re-recognized the positioning of Huami as a "healthy cloud service". In the public's cognition, Huami began to step out of the label of consumer electronics.
However, Huami's strategic extension this time is not just MRI.
After the advent of the self-developed operating system, a more closed-loop product development system and a more open ecosystem will accelerate the iteration of smart watch application experience and application ecology.
Huami's next smart watch will be a real original smart watch.
Lei Feng. com