On July 15, Tencent released the smart high-speed operating system “Tencent Traffic OS High-speed Edition”. This is a professional operating system formed by combining the characteristics of high-speed services after Tencent released the general product solution for transportation OS in November last year, serving the digital transformation and smart upgrade of the high-speed industry and ecology.
“As a digital base for all scenarios of highway construction, management, maintenance, transportation, and service, the high-speed version of Tencent Traffic OS connects everything downward, including vehicles, facilities and equipment in physical space, as well as data units and business systems in digital space. etc.,” said Shi Xuesong, vice president of Tencent Smart Transportation, “Upwards, the concept of openness and low threshold is used to support scene innovation, incubate industrial application ecology, and improve highway traffic safety, efficiency and service level.”
At present, the high-speed version of Tencent Traffic OS has been applied in the cooperation between Tencent and Shudao Group Sichuan Digital Transportation Technology Co., Ltd. (Sichuan Digital for short). In the pilot project of building a strong transportation country and the west section of the Chengdu Second Ring Smart Expressway (referred to as Chengdu Second Ring West), the two parties have explored and formed coverage perception, computing, management and service based on core technologies such as “high-speed OS + real-time twinning”. and other full-chain digital solutions, which will be officially released at the 24th China Expressway Informatization Conference.
Chen Ken, member of the Party branch, director, deputy general manager (in charge of the work) of Sichuan Digital Company, and president of the Future Transportation Engineering Institute, said, “Sichuan Digital will work with Tencent to leverage their respective technological advantages to continue to explore the digitization, networking and intelligence of expressways. , to jointly build a smarter Chengdu City Second Circle, and build a model benchmark for a country with strong transportation.”
Wide connection, breaking high-speed data silos
The transportation industry has the characteristics of huge volume, complex business scenarios, and lengthy industrial chain.
Taking expressways as an example, it usually involves multiple business subsystems such as construction, maintenance, monitoring, communication, toll collection, emergency response, decision support, travel service, and service area management, covering hundreds of types of sensing, control and service equipment. In the traditional business format, these systems are like independent chimneys, hardware and data are difficult to communicate with each other, and business collaboration relies heavily on manual labor.
Due to the strong binding of software and hardware in the construction phase, when faced with new business requirements in the operation and maintenance phase, the speed of system iterative upgrade is difficult to respond in time. The development of new business applications requires not only high renovation costs, but also the situation of being demolished and rebuilt, which seriously affects high-speed operation, control and service quality.
In the process of high-speed intelligent upgrade and integrated development, the interconnection between different units and systems is very important.
The high-speed version of Tencent Traffic OS has the characteristics of wide connection and standardization. Through this OS, hardware devices and data information can be accessed and managed in a unified manner, breaking the “data chimney” and “information island”, realizing the effective circulation of business data information and automation of business processes, shortening the system iteration cycle, and avoiding the situation of tearing down and rebuilding .
Aiming at the pain points of low efficiency of coordination and linkage and high difficulty in dealing with emergency management scenarios of high-speed tunnel accidents, Tencent Traffic OS Express Edition utilizes a wide range of IoT capabilities to connect equipment, systems and related departments to realize cross-system integration of tunnel information. After an accident occurs, use the capabilities of message access and process automation to link relevant management personnel to notify the accident situation and location, and realize the management and control process of one-click triggering and one-click disposal.
In the specific cooperation between Tencent and Sichuan Digital, the two parties will jointly build a high-speed OS-based IoT platform, establish a unified IoT access standard, and efficiently utilize the existing and newly built sensing equipment on the west side of Chengdu Second Ring Road. Under the premise of reducing the cost of transformation, the two parties have formed an all-weather multi-source fusion perception system with radar as the main component and video as the auxiliary in the pilot project.
All-weather perception, lane-level twinning
Based on the fusion of real-time perception and high-precision map data, the two parties also used real-time digital twin technology to restore lane-level traffic flow, and build a real-time computable digital space covering multiple elements such as people, vehicles, roads, and the environment. Under the unified management of the traffic OS, the two parties will open up various systems such as perception, twinning, situation analysis and vehicle-road coordination in the west of the Chengdu Second Ring Road to achieve efficient coordination of high-speed operation, management and service in multiple business scenarios.
Low threshold to support application scenario innovation
In the process of smart highway construction, a large amount of infrastructure has been laid, and a large amount of data and engine capabilities have been accumulated. Relevant departments and enterprises can aggregate and deposit them on the transportation OS to form a reusable capability “reservoir”.
However, technological precipitation and digital assets need to rely on the traction of application scenarios to release value. The traditional application development model has a high threshold and needs to rely on professional background technicians to complete. However, back-end technicians are not familiar with the business, and front-line business personnel do not understand technology, resulting in a long application development cycle and low efficiency.
In addition, the expressway business system is complex and often involves different departments and market entities. In order to promote the implementation of more high-speed application scenarios, it is necessary to introduce more developers from different fields to form a flourishing application development ecosystem.
In this context, an open platform with a low threshold is indispensable, whether it is for the optimization and innovation of application scenarios or for the incubation of the development ecology.
Tencent Traffic OS can componentize and modularize the general capabilities in the “reservoir”, lowering the threshold for platform application development. Front-line business personnel without software development experience can also achieve rapid construction and iterative upgrades of application systems through drag-and-drop and orchestration, greatly improving the efficiency of application development and innovation.
In addition, around the construction of industry application ecology, Tencent Traffic OS can provide unified data resources and development resources, and open it to developers through channels such as component market and open subscription, attracting more excellent companies and products inside and outside the industry to converge on Traffic OS , forming a rich application ecology.
Taking the cooperation between Tencent and Sichuan Digital in the Chengdu Second Ring Road West project as an example, Shi Xuesong said, “Through the construction of development platforms and open platforms, the development threshold and data sharing costs can be lowered, helping developers to use the Chengdu Second Ring Road West conveniently and efficiently. High-speed digital assets can quickly realize the construction, deployment and expansion of business applications in a low-code or even no-code way, and solve the problem of the last mile of IT technology landing.”
Create a digital base for all-scenario traffic
In November 2021, Tencent Smart Transportation officially released the general product solution for transportation OS. Just like a typical operating system, Tencent Transportation OS is also versatile and can be widely used in all traffic scenarios such as rail transit, airports, expressways and ports. On the basis of realizing the coverage of all elements and the whole chain, it will help the efficient coordination of the whole life cycle of construction, management, maintenance, operation and maintenance, and service.
In addition to the cooperation with Sichuan Digital in the field of smart high-speed, Tencent Traffic OS has also obtained mature applications in the fields of airports and rail transit.
For example, in the construction of smart airports, Tencent Traffic OS can extract general capabilities in different business scenarios, extract and encapsulate them into components, deposit them on an open platform, and provide them to upper-layer application developers in a unified, secure, and compliant manner , reduce the cycle and cost of system and application development, and realize on-demand response and efficient iteration of business scenarios such as passenger service, terminal management, and emergency warning.
Since 2019, Guangzhou Metro and Tencent have jointly explored the development and application of rail transit operating systems. In September 2021, the two parties jointly released Suiteng OS 2.0, and at the same time launched a series of demonstration applications including smart stations and smart line network command centers.
Suiteng OS 2.0 has the characteristics of standardization, componentization, low threshold and openness. At present, Suiteng OS2.0 has built more than 5000 rail transit models, connected to more than 20 professional systems, and each station has access to more than 20,000 devices. The development tools of the type, lower the development threshold. Guangzhou Metro’s front-line business personnel completed the digitization of nearly 300 stations in just six months, saving a lot of cost and construction time.
Suiteng OS2.0
The digital construction of public transportation, water, rail and air is a long-term and arduous systematic project, which requires efficient connection and interconnection of different transportation modes, infrastructure, business units and digital platforms. An intelligent transportation operating system based on the design concept of openness, componentization and low threshold will become the digital base of the whole traffic scene.
Shi Xuesong said, “As a native digital enterprise, Tencent will leverage its technical capabilities such as cloud, network, graph, AI, and big data to polish the transportation OS into a bridge between the existing construction achievements in the IT field and the future cloud-native environment. Become a digital base for business and applications.”
In the future, Tencent will continue to be a digital assistant in the transportation industry, and actively work with ecological partners to create a future transportation life with full perception, strong computing, intelligent decision-making, universal reach, and evolvability, and bring more benefits to the people. Safe, efficient and convenient transportation service experience.
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