Huawei Wang Tao: Facing the intelligent world 2030, Huawei proposes eight major prospects

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What will the future look like in 2030? Wang Tao, Huawei's Managing Director, President of ICT Products and Solutions, and President of ICT Strategy and Marketing, proposed eight major prospects at the Smart World 2030 Forum on September 22 and released the "Smart World 2030 White Paper".

Facing the future of 2030, eight major prospects for the intelligent world

Focusing on the needs of the development of human society, Huawei attempts to explore the intelligent world of 2030 and discover new solutions for everyone, every family, and every organization. Opportunities create endless possibilities for the future. What will the future look like in 2030? Huawei proposes eight major prospects for the intelligent world.

Outlook 1: Medicine makes health calculable and life quality. In 2030, people will rely on highly sensitive biosensors and massive health data stored in the cloud to make health computable. Human beings will be able to achieve active prevention, from "treating the disease" to "treating the disease before it occurs"; with the help of technologies such as the Internet of Things and AI, future treatment plans will no longer be the same; large medical equipment will become more portable and realize home telemedicine linkage .

Huawei predicts that by 2030: the total global general-purpose computing (FP32) will reach 3.3 ZFLOPS, a tenfold increase from 2020. The total amount of AI computing (FP16) will reach 105 ZFLOPS, an increase of 500 times compared with 2020.

Outlook 2: Food, use data in exchange for production, and benefit green diet. In 2030, people can use the multi-data map of agricultural conditions to achieve precision farming; through data collection, simulate the temperature, humidity and other factors required for crop growth and development, and create a "vertical farm" that is not affected by the unpredictable climate; through 3D printing is used to obtain artificial meat that meets personal health needs and has the best taste, truly realizing the transition from relying on the sky to relying on data.

Huawei predicts that by 2030: the total number of global connections will reach 200 billion; the total amount of data generated globally every year will reach 1YB, an increase of 23 times compared with 2020.

Outlook 3: Live, new interactive experience, humanize the space. In 2030, based on 10G home broadband, holographic communication and other technologies, we will create a digital catalog of items and realize the separation of storage and housing through automatic distribution; build an intelligent management system to create automatic interactions between things, making it possible for humans to live in zero-carbon buildings. work and life; based on the next generation Internet of Things operating system, it can realize the adaptation of home and office environments and create a space that "understands you".

Huawei predicts that by 2030: the number of global fiber-optic broadband users will reach 1.6 billion; the 10G home broadband penetration rate will reach 23%.

Outlook 4: Smart and low-carbon travel opens up the third space of mobility. In 2030, travel will be a multi-dimensional innovative system. New energy vehicles based on autonomous driving technology will allow us to have an exclusive mobile third space; new manned aircraft will not only improve emergency rescue efficiency but also reduce the cost of delivering emergency medical supplies. , and can even change the way we commute; by customizing and efficiently sharing travel plans with others, it can increase the utilization rate of transportation and promote green travel.

Huawei predicts that by 2030: electric vehicles will account for 50% of the total number of cars sold; vehicle computing power will exceed 5,000 TOPS; smart vehicle connectivity (C-V2X) penetration will reach 60 %.

Outlook 5: Cities and new digital infrastructure make cities warmer and more livable. With the popularization and application of new digital infrastructure, urban environmental governance plans will be further optimized, and resource utilization and governance efficiency will be greatly improved. By realizing cross-district unified management and a unified platform, residents will be able to enjoy better Convenient and humane services, living in a warm and more livable city.

Huawei predicts that by 2030: the penetration rate of 10G enterprise WiFi will reach 40%.

Outlook 6: Enterprises, new productivity will reshape new production models and enhance enterprise resilience.

In 2030, digital transformation will promote the further upgrading of enterprises, and new productive forces such as collaborative robots and autonomous mobile robots will be integrated into enterprises; through the flexible reshaping of production, logistics and other links, a new human-centered production model will be realized; the supply chain will be digitalized Under the influence of the Internet, enterprises will become more visible and networked, and they will have stronger resilience to cope with the ever-changing market environment.

Huawei predicts that by 2030: every 10,000 manufacturing employees will work with 390 robots; 1 million companies will build their own 5G private networks (including virtual private networks).

Outlook 7: Energy, green energy is more intelligent and protects the blue planet. In 2030, energy will be greener and smarter. People can deploy new energy power plants offshore and on lakes, and use virtual power plants and energy clouds to build a full-link digital energy Internet of "source, network, load, and storage." Zero-carbon data centers and zero-carbon sites are expected to become a reality.

Huawei predicts that by 2030: global renewable energy production will account for 50% of global power generation.

Outlook 8: Digital trustworthiness, digital technology and rules shape a trustworthy future. In 2030, digital trustworthiness will become a basic requirement for social infrastructure. Technologies such as blockchain, AI anti-counterfeiting, and privacy-enhanced computing are combined with digital rules such as GDPR and the Privacy and Security Protection Act to build a digitally trustworthy smart world.

Huawei predicts that by 2030: more than 50% of computing scenarios will use privacy-enhancing computing technology; 85% of enterprises will use blockchain technology.

Looking forward to the future of 2030, the outlook for the four major industries

Wang Tao also proposed at the meeting the outlook for the four major industries of communication networks, computing, digital energy and smart car solutions towards 2030. .

In 2030, the coverage of communication networks will move from the ground to the air, space and ground, meeting people’s multi-space and multi-dimensional connection needs; powerful computing power will help thousands of industries move from digital to intelligent; green Smarter energy can protect the blue planet; the smart car industry will also usher in the great development of smart driving, smart space, smart services and smart production.

First, communication network 2030. From connecting tens of billions of people to connecting hundreds of billions of things, a green three-dimensional ultra-wide network with native intelligence, security and trustworthiness, deterministic experience and communication perception integration capabilities is the future development direction.

Huawei predicts that the number of global connections will reach 200 billion; the per capita monthly wireless cellular network traffic will reach 600GB, an increase of 40 times; the IPv6 address penetration rate will reach 90%; the penetration rate of Gigabit and above home broadband users will reach 55%, an increase of 50 times; the average monthly household network traffic reached 1.3TB, an increase of 8 times.

Second, calculate 2030. In the YB data era that humanity is about to usher in, a hundredfold increase in computing energy efficiency will help us gain the ability to transcend ourselves, allowing our cognition to transcend tiny quarks to the vast universe, and use digital means to achieve the dual-carbon goal, allowing thousands of people to move forward. The industry is moving from digitalization to intelligence.

Huawei predicts that general computing power will reach 3.3ZFLOPS, an increase of 10 times; AI computing power will reach 105ZFLOPS, an increase of 500 times; the data generated globally each year will reach 1YB, an increase of 23 times; cloud services account for 10% of enterprise revenue The proportion of application expenditure reached 87%.

Third, digital energy 2030. In the next ten years, mankind will enter the digital energy era and comprehensively promote low-carbon, electrification, and intelligent transformation. New renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics and wind power will gradually shake the status of traditional fossil energy sources. Power electronics technology and digital technology are being deeply integrated to achieve "bit management watts" of the entire energy system and realize various intelligent applications on the "energy cloud" .

Huawei predicts that renewable energy will account for 50% of total global power generation; the terminal electrification rate will reach 30%; photovoltaic kWh will be as low as US$0.01; and photovoltaic installed capacity will reach 3,000GW.

Fourth, smart car solutions 2030.

In the future, by bringing the digital world into every car, we can truly realize intelligent driving, intelligent space, intelligent services and intelligent production, accelerate the integration of the automotive industry and ICT technology, and cross-border cooperation will win the most. become a new trend.

Huawei predicts that electric vehicles will account for more than 50% of new car sales; in-vehicle computing power will reach 5,00Tops; the penetration rate of new self-driving cars in China will exceed 20%; and in-vehicle single-link transmission capabilities will exceed 100Gbps.