Huawei Hongmeng car operating system in-depth analysis

Huawei Intelligent Car Solutions BU President Wang Jun said that Huawei's intelligent car parts business is a long-term strategic point of opportunity for Huawei, and it will continue to increase its investment, especially in the field of software for intelligent driving, to create the best experience of intelligent driving system.

In 2021, it is expected that the R&D investment will be $1 billion, and the R&D team will reach 5,000 people, including more than 2,000 people in the intelligent driving team, and more than 10 R&D centers will be built around the world.

Huawei provides five intelligent solutions, including high-level automatic driving (ADS), and builds a "cloud-pipe-end" architecture. The cloud is the intelligent vehicle cloud; the pipe is the intelligent network; and the end extends from the vehicle machine to the three terminals of intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, and intelligent electric.

Intelligent cockpit is currently the most mature application in the process of intelligent driving, the market size is expected to reach 100 billion yuan by 2025 and 152.7 billion yuan by 2030. Among them, in-vehicle entertainment systems accounted for up to about 60%.

Intelligent cockpit, as the center of human-vehicle intelligent interaction, mainly covers innovation and interaction in the field of cockpit interior and cockpit electronics, and embraces the emerging technology trends in the automotive industry, and builds a human-computer interaction system from the perspective of consumer application scenarios.

Huawei's development strategy of "platform + ecology" is to provide more interactions for the intelligent cabin through the "Hongmeng car OS platform + Hongmeng car ecological platform + intelligent hardware platform", so as to build a full-scene travel experience of human-vehicle-life.

Currently, Huawei's Hongmeng OS operating system has been installed in some models of Geely and BYD, and will be part of Huawei's intelligent cockpit solution to enter the front of the whole car, including the extreme fox, Sailix and other brands that have already started in-depth cooperation with Huawei is expected to take the lead in the installation of the car.

According to Huawei's layout in the field of intelligent cockpit, it is expected that in the future it will mainly cut into the intelligent cockpit industry chain as a Tier2 supplier, which will generate more supporting opportunities. #HuaweiHongMeng#

Huawei's smart cockpit solution consists of a computing platform, a software platform, a display platform, and an ecosystem.

Intelligent cockpit computing platform for Kirin car module, Kirin 710A has been applied in the glory series of cell phones mature, based on the smartphone Kirin chip to build IVI module, to play the scale effect of industry chain synergies, reduce hardware costs. The future will be Huawei's first intelligent cockpit chip, benchmarked against Qualcomm 820A, the manufacturing process has reached 12 nanometers, using 8-core design.

In terms of operating system, Huawei launched the automotive Hongmeng 2.0, which is simultaneously oriented to cell phones, smart wearable devices and automobiles, and achieves a latency of 10ms and a throughput of 2.4Gbps. Hongmeng 2.0 adopts advanced distributed capabilities to seamlessly connect life scenarios from inside to outside the car.

The display platform includes hardware such as in-vehicle smart screen and AR-HUD, and combines visual, sound, AI and other capabilities to create more intelligent cockpit hardware.

The car domain ecological platform realizes the seamless connection of cell phone + car + N terminal and multi-functional interaction.

Huawei intelligent cockpit solutions:

HarmonyOS (can be understood as a fusion system) is Huawei's own operating system developed by Huawei, which was called LiteOS in the early days, and was developed for the Internet of Things (IoT), and is mainly applied to the Internet of Things (IoT), smart home, car networking, remote control, and medical care, and other fields. The Hongmeng system will be compatible with Linux, Unix, and Android, realizing a seamless collaborative experience across terminals.

Hongmeng OS is based on a distributed architecture, inherently smooth, kernel security, and ecological **** enjoyment. The starting point of Hongmeng OS is different from Android and iOS, it is a brand new microkernel-based distributed operating system for all scenarios, which can simultaneously meet the requirements of smooth experience in all scenarios, architecture-level trusted security, seamless collaboration across terminals, and multi-terminal deployment in one development.

Structure diagram of Huawei HarmonyOS:

Based on HarmonyOS, we can enjoy Huawei's "1+8+N" ecosystem, and realize full interconnectivity across terminals.

Compared to traditional operating systems, HMS for Automotive is a truly car-oriented operating system, which includes HMS-A (HMS for Automotive), 12 car subsystems, and multiple HOS-C APIs to build a software platform that is truly oriented to the "car" scenario.

HMS-A (HMS for Automotive), 12 car subsystems and multiple HOS-C APIs are the three highlights to build a real software platform for the "car" scene.

The HMS for Automotive OS software platform will be responsible for providing the underlying software system mainly based on the HMS OS operating system.

Huawei's HOMOS operating system adopts a distributed architecture and modular design, which can realize parallel intelligent operating systems on different smart devices by combining and extracting different modules.

Based on the Hongmeng OS operating system, there is sharing and connection between the car and other intelligent terminals, and a set of systems to meet a variety of hardware devices, connecting people, cars, and homes, and realizing the true significance of the interconnection of all things.

Hongmeng car OS also provides more than 500 car control class API interfaces, API interfaces can open up the above functions, to facilitate the development and customization of the subsequent car companies, Tier1 and other developers.

In the Hongmeng Vehicle Domain Eco-Platform, Huawei will join hands with developers to provide more useful automotive applications and related hardware, and build an intelligent cockpit ecosystem through cooperation*** with them.

There are two main types of car ecosystems: user interface-oriented app ecosystems and cockpit hardware ecosystems.

The application ecosystem is mainly to unite with more application software enterprises to **** the same development.

Hardware ecosystem is facing more hardware equipment manufacturers, interconnection, joint innovation, continuous upgrading, and then through the open API to help eco-partners to quickly develop hardware and software services to meet the needs of the user, in line with the characteristics of the differentiation of the cabin of the car companies, to bring the ultimate experience for the user.

HI is the core brand of Huawei's intelligent automotive parts business, and the core of HI is to help automakers build cars using Huawei's inside model.

HiCar connects cell phones and cars, radiates cell phone applications to cars, and seamlessly connects cell phones + cars + N terminals to further improve the human-computer interaction experience, and is expected to be installed in 2021 with a volume of 5 million units.

Huawei HiCar mainly provides two important open capabilities.

One is the ability to access cell phone applications and services, so that virtualized automotive hardware resources can be accessed directly through applications on cell phones. Secondly, HiCar provides the open capability of accessing automotive hardware devices. Through the integration of HiCarSDK, hardware such as cars can quickly access HiCar and enjoy the rich application ecosystems and services of cell phones, such as transferring the content played on the cell phone to be played on the car, which ultimately achieves the seamless flow between the cell phone and the car.

Intelligent trend, Huawei has a leading technology advantage in the field of electric intelligence, and can realize the service ability from components to full-stack service, is expected to drive the industry chain to speed up comprehensively.

According to the "White Paper on Intelligent Cockpit Development Trends" jointly released by Roland Berger and Horizon, the future development of intelligent cockpits will be divided into four stages.

The first stage is the integration of electronic information systems, which is manifested in the transformation of sub-systems into functional domains and the realization of interconnection of various systems.

The second stage is to enhance the perception of the car.

The third stage realizes human-machine **** driving, vehicle perception ability is further enhanced (voice control, gesture control, etc.), and realizes the consumer's experience of the whole cycle of getting on the car - driving - getting off the car.

The fourth stage will create the final form of the intelligent cockpit, constantly enriching the scene from the perspective of user experience.

The current development of intelligent cockpit is in the first stage, and the development of domain controller has become the current mainstream.

The future development of intelligent cockpit is driven by both the demand side and the supply side. From the demand side, the deepening of consumer awareness of the electronic experience is in line with the trend of automotive consumer upgrades. From the supply side, the traditional cockpit is composed of independent and dispersed subsystems, it is difficult to form a linkage, unable to meet the trend of consumer upgrading, thus giving birth to the cockpit domain control to achieve more functions and realize the cost side of the downturn.