1.Industry Background: From Information Silos to Intelligent Integration
With the in-depth advancement of digital transformation in industries such as energy, chemical engineering, and manufacturing, enterprises are facing unprecedented challenges. Under the traditional operation mode, monitoring systems, equipment management, and personnel scheduling operate independently, forming numerous "information silos". On-site operators rely on walkie-talkies and telephones for voice communication, unable to share videos and data in real time; the command center needs to switch and query among multiple systems, making it difficult to form a unified situational awareness; during emergency responses, information transmission attenuates layer by layer, resulting in low decision-making efficiency.
Especially in complex environments such as underground workshops, high-altitude operations, and confined spaces, the limitations of traditional communication methods are more prominent. How to break down information barriers and achieve in-depth integration of humans, machines, and the environment has become a core issue that industrial enterprises urgently need to solve.
2.System Architecture: A Three-Tier Integrated Intelligent Brain
The Perception-Communication-Intelligent Computing Integration Platform adopts an innovative three-tier architecture design, constructing a complete technical system from the Perception Layer, Network Layer to the Intelligent Computing Layer.
Application Scenarios and Core Services
● Production Operation and Maintenance: Intelligent assistance includes intelligent identification of production factors, causal intelligent analysis, automatic report writing, and intelligent problem solving; core services cover personnel positioning and physical signs, hierarchical audio and video communication, intelligent task assignment, and abnormal driving of vehicles and ships.
● Emergency Disposal: Intelligent assistance includes intelligent plan matching, emergency disposal, exercise script planning, and exercise training; core services cover information identification and recording, information integration and sharing, process evaluation and recording, and abnormal construction operations.
● Regional Control: Intelligent assistance includes identification of abnormal personnel behaviors, regional management, and equipment safety monitoring; core services cover intelligent technical support, intelligent emergency assistance, personnel skill filing, and abnormal intrusion into regions.
● Target Tracking: Core services cover geographic information integration, plan optimization and upgrading, and network security assurance.
Perception Layer
It covers a variety of information collection terminals. In addition to traditional video surveillance and thermal imaging surveillance, the platform innovatively introduces intelligent devices such as AR smart wearable terminals, smart watches, quadruped robots, wheeled robots, and rotor UAVs. These devices are no longer isolated information collection points, but realize real-time aggregation and sharing of data through unified interface standards.
Supporting Terminals and Systems
● Core Terminals: AR smart wearable terminals + smart watches, video desk phones
● Intelligent Devices: Rotor UAVs, quadruped robots, wheeled robots, orbital robots
● Traditional Devices: Video surveillance, thermal imaging surveillance, body cameras, emergency intercoms
● Featured Functions: Mobile phone live operation, intelligent identification, map-based information integration, and ecological compatibility
Network Layer
Based on various network forms such as enterprise intranets, 5G private networks, and VPNs, it builds a high-bandwidth, low-latency, and highly reliable communication infrastructure. The platform supports multiple interaction modes such as real-time audio and video transmission, multi-party conferences, and group communication, ensuring the smooth flow of information between different levels and regions.
Intelligent Computing Layer
It is the core brain of the entire platform. The video IoT integration terminal can perform patrol analysis on hundreds of channels of video, supporting more than 90 types of target detection, including personnel behavior identification, smoke and fire identification, and equipment abnormality identification. The video analysis terminal provides more powerful AI computing power, enabling intelligent interpretation and event prediction of complex scenarios. By integrating multi-modal large models, image recognition algorithms, and speech recognition technologies, the platform has achieved an intelligent leap from "seeing" to "understanding".
3.AR Smart Wearable Terminals: Initiating the First-Person Perspective Operation Revolution
As the core innovation of the platform, AR smart wearable terminals have completely changed the interaction mode of industrial operations. This device adopts waveguide display technology, providing a 40° ultra-wide viewing angle and 1500nits high-brightness display, which is clearly visible even in strong light environments. The split design separates the display unit from the computing unit, which not only reduces the wearing burden but also provides scalable computing power support.
Equipped with a domestically produced chip and an array noise-canceling headset, the device can make clear calls in a 90-decibel noisy environment. Through 5G private network or local area network connection, operators can share first-person perspective images in real time, view video surveillance of other operation areas, and receive task instructions and operation guidance. More importantly, the AR terminal supports UWB and Beidou positioning, which can accurately track personnel positions and realize electronic fencing and trajectory management.
In practical applications, the AR terminal has demonstrated strong information integration capabilities. Inspectors can directly see equipment operating parameters, historical fault records, operating procedures and other information in their field of vision; in case of abnormalities, they can call experts with one click for remote guidance; during multi-person collaborative operations, they can view teammates' positions and status in real time, greatly improving the safety and efficiency of operations.
4.Application Value: Seeing Practical Results from Emergency Drills
In the application case of a large hydropower station, the platform has demonstrated excellent practical value. Through intelligent algorithms to automatically verify alarm information, the system can quickly distinguish between real alarms and false alarms, reducing the emergency response time by 40%. The AI-based intelligent task assignment system automatically generates the optimal task assignment plan based on factors such as personnel skills, positions, and workload, ensuring that each task is performed by the most suitable personnel.
More impressively, the platform's situational awareness capability. The command center can grasp the overall situation through a single map: personnel distribution, equipment status, environmental parameters, and operation progress are clearly visible. Through speech recognition technology, the system can automatically record and analyze communication content, generating operation reports and decision-making suggestions. In emergency drills, the platform can even create realistic accident scene videos through multi-modal generation algorithms for training and drills.
5.Empowered by Homsh Technology: Dual Guarantee of Safety and Efficiency
On the basis of this powerful platform, Homsh Technology's iris recognition solution adds a key safety guarantee to the system. By deploying an iris management system on the cloud platform, each operator has a unique biometric identity. In links such as AR device activation, key operation execution, and sensitive information access, iris recognition provides financial-grade security authentication.
The ongoing Phase II project will integrate the iris module directly into the AR terminal to achieve device-level identity binding and data encryption. This not only improves the security of the system but also simplifies the operation process, allowing operators to focus more on core tasks.
6.Looking to the Future: Building a New Ecosystem of Industrial Metaverse
The Perception-Communication-Intelligent Computing Integration Platform is not only a technical system but also a revolutionary upgrade of the industrial operation mode. It breaks the limitations of physical space, allowing remote experts to "be present" on site; eliminates the loss of information transmission, enabling decisions to be based on full real-time data; improves the efficiency of human-machine collaboration, making intelligent algorithms a powerful assistant for humans.
With the continuous evolution of technology and the continuous expansion of application scenarios, this platform is becoming the core base for the digital transformation of industrial enterprises. From energy to chemical engineering, from manufacturing to transportation, more and more enterprises are joining this ecosystem, jointly promoting the arrival of the Industry 4.0 era.
