Huawei Unveils Smart Real Estate Solution to Drive Intelligent Upgrade

[Shanghai, China, September 19, 2024] During HUAWEI CONNECT 2024, Huawei released the Smart Real Estate Solution at the session themed A Better Future with Smart Real Estate. The session brought together experts from leading enterprises in the real estate industry to discuss best practices in applying digital and intelligent technologies to planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operations in various segmented industries. This includes engineering construction, commercial real estate, integrated city space development, and hotels. With the Smart Real Estate Solution, Huawei aims to expedite intelligent transformation in real estate and create value together with clients and partners.

As the world's digital transformation progresses, real estate, as a highly traditional industry, is under immense pressure to change. Within the industry, there is a growing need for product quality, marketing efficiency, cost control, and eco-friendly solutions. Externally, technological advancements, changing consumer demands, and policies are driving industry innovation.

Against this backdrop, Huawei and industry experts have had extensive discussions surrounding embracing intelligent transformation, exploring industry upgrades, and promoting sustainable development. Wang Hui, General Manager of the Large Enterprise Account Dept, Huawei, believes that the real estate industry will adopt new development models, with its financial attributes gradually weakening and its manufacturing attributes strengthening. He emphasized that providing high-quality products to users will be crucial for enterprise competitiveness. The manufacturing industry's experience in managing the whole lifecycle of products, which involves R&D, production, supply, sales, and service, has significant reference value for the real estate industry to handle its entire process of investment, financing, construction, management, and operations. Wang explained that Huawei's products and technologies not only empower the creation of real estate products but will also become an essential component of real estate products at different spatial scales, from rooms and buildings to communities and campuses.

Ma Encheng, Chief Scientist at China Academy of Building Research (CABR), highlighted that CABR has developed the BIMBase platform, a leading platform for Building Information Modeling (BIM) in China. CABR will continue to strengthen the collaboration between local governments, industries, universities, research institutes, and end users to promote digitization in engineering-oriented fields such as construction, electric power, transportation, and industrial sectors.

Ji Chunhua from Suzhou Hengtai Holding Group talked about the company's intelligent exploration in the integrated development of city space and a railway station. He focused on how smart technologies empower the comprehensive development of Suzhou East Railway Station throughout the construction, management, and operations of the hub. He also shared some innovative practices from Suzhou Hengtai's collaboration with Huawei, where they combined digital and intelligent technologies to create smart systems, develop new scenarios, and serve emerging industries.

Zhao Bo, Chief Expert of China Government & Enterprise Real Estate Industry Business, Huawei, released the Smart Real Estate Solution that addresses the digital transformation needs of real estate companies. He explained that in the age of intelligence, enterprises need to establish their own digital governance system and drive their digital transformation with smart spaces and intelligent business scenarios. This strategy will help companies take flight on their digital journey towards high-quality development. Zhao also stressed that Huawei offers a wide range of cutting-edge digital products, spanning from hardware to cloud services, that cater to various scenarios, including individuals, households, communities, campuses, and cities. With a wealth of experience in facilitating enterprises' digital transformation and strong collaboration with industry ecosystem partners, Huawei is well-positioned to assist real estate companies in implementing their digital transformation strategies, from initial consulting and planning to solution design and implementation.

Huawei's Smart Real Estate Solution is being implemented in the industry. Zhou Chang, General Manager of the Information Technology Department, China Tourism Group Hotel Holdings, stated that they had partnered with Huawei to introduce intelligent technologies into their hotels. This helped them upgrade towards intelligent hotel operations, resulting in improved smart voice customer service, optimized energy consumption, and higher accuracy of demand forecast.

Dr. Yuanqing Lin, Founder and CEO of Aibee (Beijing) Intelligence Science and Technology, shared that commercial real estate has achieved rapid growth and continuous improvement in customer experience through offline space digitization and intelligent operation methods.

Zou Hengxiang, Senior Director of Eco-Cooperation at Shenzhen Ming Yuan Cloud Technology, emphasized how digital capitalization is driving intelligent transformation. The company has combined their Real Estate Research Institute's industry consulting capabilities and service digitization with Huawei's intelligent foundation. This allows them to empower the industry with experts' know-how and promote the integrated development of real estate investment, construction, and operations.

As the industry deepens collaboration, integration, and innovation, digital and intelligent technologies will play a vital role in supporting the transformation of the real estate industry, opening it up to broader development prospects. Moving forward, Huawei will continue to invest in the real estate industry and partner with industry players to find the best transformation path for the industry, creating a better future together.