Digital Convergence and Harnessing Intelligence, H3C Unveils Smart Campus Solutions at NAVIGATE 2021 Summit

H3C officially launched its smart campus solutions on April 9 at Smart Campus Summit, one of the three industry summits of H3C’s annual flagship event, NAVIGAT 2021 Summit. By leveraging digital convergence and harnessing intelligence, H3C builds digital brain for smart campus, and develops safe, convenient, green and efficient application scenarios and facilitates intelligent upgrades of smart campus.

Li Li, Vice President of H3C and President of Solution Department, delivers a welcome speech at the Smart Campus Summit, April 9, 2021.

As the basic unit of a city, campuses have gradually become the most important arena for production and living. These campuses are not only in the vanguard of the efforts to promote effective allocation of production factors and social resources conservation, but also important drivers of the development of digital economy, pointed out Li Li, Vice President of H3C and President of Solution Department, at the Smart Campus Summit.

To facilitate innovation in the operation and user experience of campuses, solution providers must integrate and accumulate various technologies of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry, and meanwhile have profound understanding of the real needs of various industries, and create synergy between technological innovations and industry needs so as to benefit more people with smart facilities.

CAICT: Promoting the Application of Digital and Smart Technologies for High-Quality Development of Smart Campuses

Liu Gaofeng, Deputy Director of Industry and Planning Research Institute of China Academy of Information and Communication Technology (CAICT) makes a speech at the Smart Campus Summit, April 9, 2021.

“Smart campus is an intelligent organism in a smaller physical space. Its features include comprehensive perception, ubiquitous connectivity, active services, intelligent evolution, people-oriented development philosophy, green and efficient operation, and increase in business value,” Liu Gaofeng, Deputy Director of Industry and Planning Research Institute of China Academy of Information and Communication Technology (CAICT), said at the event.

Liu stressed that smart campus solutions providers need to, through the application of digital and smart technologies and for better satisfying people’s needs, strive to help people in smart campuses work more efficiently and live a happier life, realize smart and lean operations and efficient allocation and full sharing of resources and space in smart campuses, and promote high-quality industrial development and rise in business value for smart campuses, in a bid to achieve comprehensive digitalization of smart campuses and facilitate their high-quality development.

Making Smart Campus the Second Home of Users

Will Wang, General Manager of H3C Solution Business Department, delivers a speech at the Smart Campus Summit, April 9, 2021.

H3C is committed to making smart campus the second home of users by bringing them sense of security and belonging, sense of good experience and sense of achievement and value, and helping them realize their self-worth, Will Wang, General Manager of H3C Solution Business Department, said at the event.

In so doing, H3C endeavors to support the operation of smart campus with such digital technologies as those involving connection, computing, data, AI, and cloud platform, and improve user experience by strengthening system guarantee, workflow optimization, and the construction of cultural system.

As an important part of China’s efforts to build its digital strength, smart campuses will need to be able to unlock the value of data faster through technological innovation, deployment of application, and ecological construction.

Based on its newly released Cloud & AI Native strategy, H3C provides overall solutions and all-round services covering such aspects as consultation and planning, designing and implementation, operation and maintenance (O&M) and management for the construction of smart campuses, and accelerates the digitalization and intelligentization of smart campuses with scientific and technological innovations.

In the new era, smart campuses need to pay attention to the integrated development of digitalization, workflow system, and culture.

H3C Oasis Platform Are at the Core of Building the Overall Capabilities of Smart Campus

Since the smart campus industry is currently in the exploration stage, the construction of smart campuses is faced with a multitude of problems and challenges, such as the lack of overall planning and unified design, the absence of sharing of vertical data among various departments, as well as poor system O&M after the completion of the construction.

To address such problems and challenges, smart campus solutions providers should not simply focus their efforts on technicalization or digitalization, but need to adopt an overall perspective, make scientific planning, and leverage smart applications for the development and construction of smart campus, Wang stressed.

H3C’s solutions to smart campus boast capabilities covering all the aspects of the construction and development of smart campus, including top-level planning and consultation, important and key solutions, implementation of construction tasks, and guarantee for O&M.

With H3C Oasis Platform at the core, the company’s solutions can achieve full data-driven capabilities and ensure perfect and mature project management and visual management of overall quality control process and O&M.

In particular, H3C’s solutions to smart campus have realized the following features:

Digital Operation

All the people, property, objects, and incidents in the smart campus are visible, manageable, controllable, and predictable. Data drives business operation and facilitates the operation and decision-making of the smart campus.

Rich Service Experience

H3C’s solutions to smart campus can satisfy the needs of various users. They provide contactless passage and personalized information services for visitors, efficient digital workspace for employees, and visible data support for decision-making for managers and operators.

Empowering Industries

H3C’s solutions to smart campus turn various ICT capabilities, such as those needed for using the Internet of Things (IoT) and videos, and capabilities in various business systems into common business, data, and integrated asset of the smart campus through servitization and integration to empower smart campuses of various industries.

Joint Innovation

H3C follows the strategy of “Platform+Ecosystem” and practices Turnkey delivery. Based on its Oasis Platform, H3C provides users with full-stack digital capabilities, top-level planning for digitalization, digital lab for innovation, and end-to-end turnkey solutions, and ensures integrated delivery.

H3c’s Ecological Industrial Alliance for Smart Campus is officially established at the Smart Campus Summit, April 9.

At the event, H3C and its 12 ecosystem partners jointly established its Ecological Industrial Alliance for Smart Campus, which is expected to help H3C and its partners achieve progress together and make joint innovations to speed up solution iteration, meet users’ diversified needs, and accelerate digital transformation of enterprises.

Building New Benchmark for Smart Campus, Opening up Infinite Possibilities

Sun Zengli, Vice Director of the Service Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, makes a speech at the Smart Campus Summit, April 9, 2021.

H3C has so far delivered many smart campus benchmark cases. Sun Zengli, Vice Director of the Service Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University shared that, in the construction of the smart medical lab of the biomedical experiment center of MED-X Research Institute under Western China Science and Technology Innovation Harbour, H3C has, based on its Oasis Platform, realized integrated management of firefighting, security, logistics, energy efficiency, and lab environment, and eventually achieved digitalization of all production factors, all scenarios, and all workflows in the smart campus, and met the demand for lean management.

H3C’s solutions to smart campus cover scenarios including reception of visitors, daily office work, performance and efficiency of equipment, and intelligent security. Among them, the scenario of office work sees H3C ensure considerate services and applications throughout a day’s work, such as reservation for breakfast, checking-in via facial recognition, visitor services, and smart services for meeting and fitness activities.

In the future, H3C will further deepen cooperation with more partners in the smart campus industry to continue improving solutions to smart campus, so as to provide users with safer, more efficient, and more economical smart services and help more smart campuses realize comprehensive intelligentization in aspects including security management, economic development of industries, enterprise services, and employee services.

As campuses constantly evolve from traditional campuses to smart ones under the influence of digital transformation, H3C, based on its Cloud &AI Native strategy, endeavors to help clients build cloud and AI native capabilities and continue to deliver the best practices for the construction of smart campuses by providing users with fully-cloudized products with endogenous artificial intelligence, and solutions with integrated intelligence and the capacity for comprehensively empowering users.