Cloud and AI are instrumental for smart city success: Huawei

Deng speaks at the summit.

Singapore will be the first country and first Smart Nation in the world in 2025, and Huawei will be there to support her all the way.

"Cloud and AI will be the powerful engine to make it happen," Edward Deng, President of HUAWEI CLOUD Global Market said at the Huawei Cloud Summit 2019 in Singapore, sharing that Huawei's own projections are that 100% of enterprise apps will be deployed in the cloud by that year, and 97% of large enterprises will be powered by AI.

"Cloud is the runway and AI, IoT and 5G will be the drivers of the process," he said.

Deng also introduced the concept of intelligent transformation as the successor of digital transformation. "Cloud and AI can drive all industries to be digitalised and 'intelligentised'. Many industries will benefit from this," he said.

Huawei's cloud customers include Sina, which owns the Weibo platform, and Yingke (Ink) which provides live streaming. Huawei cloud has enabled Ink to offer better video and image quality at lower cost, Deng said. Since adopting a Huawei cloud solution, Ink saw video transcoding costs fall by 50%, and storage as well as content delivery network costs cut by 25%. Sina, on the other hand, handles 300 million visitors daily with elastic virtual machine capability to handle peak times, and has slashed fixed costs.

On the AI front, Deng shared that Kingmed Diagnostics has 99% sensitivity rates with AI cervical cancer detection. The company has gone from handling 500 tests at a time to 2,000, with 80-90% of normal images automatically screened. Kingmed is offering its tests to more hospitals in China, and

expanding its services to hospitals in the Asia Pacific region as well.

In Beijing and Shenzhen, China, the traffic police bureaus have installed an intelligent traffic solution to address traffic jams. Average congestion time has been reduced by 17% while average vehicle speeds have increased by 15%. A pilot is under way in Bangkok, Thailand, Deng said.