Empowering campuses with technology and intelligence 

Routine campus security management requires security personnel to perform security checks at the entrances and exits as well as manual patrols. However, most campuses don’t have enough security staff to cover an entire campus.

Supported by the smart security system, the campus network implements all-scenario situational monitoring and provides multiple intelligent security solutions, such as automatic detection and alarms, warning of suspicious personnel crossing walls, as well as automatic identification of issues such as illegal parking and materials being put in the wrong places. The solution can improve campuses’ security management efficiency and reduce security staff’s workload.

Easy access control

Campuses can contain many businesses and organisations. In addition to employees of various companies, a number of service providers and visitors may also enter a campus on a daily basis. Monitoring and managing the flow of people and vehicles in a campus is a daunting task. Huawei’s intelligent access control solution unifies ICT resources to jointly manage multiple authentication methods, such as card swiping, QR code scanning, and the use of ID cards. It also supports cloud-based and local authentication, providing quick access to campus employees.

Meanwhile, visitors and receptionists can apply for access through web pages and apps. Visitors can also use multiple authentication methods – such as card swiping and licence plate recognition – to enter without waiting. Visitors’ access area permissions are automatically synchronised to each access control system and perimeter system, implementing an effective authorisation process.

Intelligent equipment and facility management

Routine testing and inspection of key equipment and facilities is an important task in campus operation management. Typically, a medium-sized campus has about 20,000 test points. In the past, one engineer could inspect 50 test points every day. To complete the inspection, 10 engineers need to work continuously for 40 days. Despite the cost of manual inspection, it’s still difficult to detect system problems and potential risks comprehensively and efficiently.

With the development of artificial intelligence technologies, the intelligent equipment and facility management system has shifted from passive fault response to proactive fault prevention, and from manual fault processing to automated fault detection and assisted processing.

With the world shifting toward low-carbon economies, there’s more demand for conservation and environmental protection on campuses, too. Science and technology should play a critical role in reducing carbon emissions.

By unifying system interfaces and standardising data formats, the solution streamlines data channels between subsystems to collect and detect system running status and parameters. GIS-based video linkage helps analyse and quickly locate faulty devices. The operations and maintenance (O&M) system manages alarms and faults of devices from different vendors in a unified way and automatically combines and de-duplicates alarms and events of the same type, improving O&M efficiency.

The new inspection mode – which relies heavily on intelligent system analysis but also takes manual judgment into consideration – shortens the inspection cycle from 40 days to four hours, making inspection 80 times more efficient while also using proactive prevention to reduce faults.

Digital campuses reduce carbon emissions

With the world shifting toward low-carbon economies, there’s more demand for conservation and environmental protection on campuses, too. Science and technology should play a critical role in reducing carbon emissions – Huawei provides energy-saving ICT infrastructure and helps construct energy-saving buildings to assist government campuses in achieving low-carbon goals.

To help build zero-carbon data centres and networks, Huawei offers efficient and intelligent green ICT infrastructures. Huawei also collaborates with industry partners to build low-carbon campuses. Huawei’s modular data centre supports simple and efficient one-stop deployment of the entire cabinet. The intelligent cooling solution of the data centre implements dynamic cooling policies, reducing energy consumption by 8–15 per cent.

The smart campus ecosystem that Huawei has pioneered is a cooperative network in which all parties work closely with each other, depend on each other, and grow together

By better integrating chips and components, Huawei’s optical transport products can reduce power consumption by up to 45 per cent compared with traditional devices. Wireless access devices use leading engineering design and algorithms, as well as advanced hardware materials and heat dissipation technologies to reduce power consumption by 15 per cent.

Constructing energy-efficient buildings is another effective means to reduce carbon emissions. Huawei’s smart campus solution uses multiple systems – such as real-time power consumption monitoring, historical power consumption analysis, and power demand prediction – to intelligently adjust the running status of devices and buildings. The solution has been successfully applied in Huawei’s own campuses, which has led to the company being able to operate and manage all its campuses in a unified manner. In 2020 alone, the solution helped Huawei’s campuses in China save 200 million kWh of electricity and reduce operating expenditure by approximately US$21.6m.

Building a prosperous ecosystem for smart campuses

The government smart campus industry involves security, energy, weak current systems, and operations, as well as vendors from various fields, such as terminals, networks, platforms, and applications. Governments, enterprises, industry organisations, and other industry chain participants must work together to support the healthy and sustainable development of the industry.

In 2020 alone, the solution helped Huawei’s campuses in China save 200 million kWh of electricity and reduce operating expenditure by approximately US$21.6m

The smart campus ecosystem that Huawei has pioneered is a cooperative network in which all parties work closely with each other, depend on each other, and grow together. Adhering to its ’platform + ecosystem’ strategy, Huawei is committed to:

• Building open, easy-to-use and secure platforms
• Establishing mutually beneficial relationships with partners
• Helping customers use digital platforms.

In the smart campus domain, Huawei has developed 10 types of partners, including consulting and planning, system integration, and application development partners. It also devises tailored ecosystem plans for different partners, and issues smart campus partner certificates to those with interconnection testing and training certification.

Huawei now has more than 300 campus partners, while nearly 1,000 development and service engineers worldwide have obtained Huawei’s development expert certification and service expert certification. Moving forward, Huawei will attract more partners as it aims to build an open ecosystem and create greater value for campus customers.

For more information on Huawei’s latest campus solutions, please visit Huawei smart campus.