At last week’s Gitex show in Dubai, Huawei released a white paper showing the benefits of an intelligent campus approach to smart buildings.

The Intelligent Campus 2030 white paper for markets outside China envisions the future of the smart campus.

David Shi, vice president of Chinese firm Huawei, said that as digital technology advanced, the intelligent connectivity of everything would become a reality, which would allow campuses to be fully digital and intelligent. Future campuses, he said, would become fully perceptible, collaborative and constantly online smart buildings that were capable of self-learning, self-troubleshooting, and making decisions and executing them independently.

“Huawei is committed to bringing digital to every campus for pervasive intelligence and has been deeply involved with intelligent campuses for many years,” said Shi. “We have proposed to redefine campuses with ICTs and have leveraged the advantages of our product portfolios to reshape campus connectivity, platform and business. Up to now, we have helped over 1000 customers worldwide build secure, green, digital and intelligent campuses.”

The campus is a basic unit in the making of a city. It is the main place where people live and work. It acts as an important carrier to boost the digital economy, and a key point to realise green and low-carbon transformation. In recent years, the industry has conducted in-depth exploration and cultivated practices surrounding the intelligent campus. Huawei, along with industry experts and scholars, provides insights into its future in the Intelligent Campus 2030 white paper (www.huawei.com/en/giv/intelligent-campus-2030).

Eric He, CEO of Huawei’s campus team, said revolutions in energy and information took us closer to the intelligent world, where campuses would play a crucial role. He said the industry had entered the stage of intelligent campus 2.0, which is 10Gbit/s, digital, intelligent and green. During this stage, campus networks will evolve from simply transmitting data to providing quality connections, campus platforms will move beyond integrating IoT to providing data intelligence, and extensive business management will be upgraded to low-carbon operations.

“Relying on ICTs to redefine campuses, Huawei looks forward to working with customers and industry peers to innovate as well as envision and build intelligent campus 2030,” said He.

Based on the insights into and practices of global intelligent campuses, this white paper proposes a far-sighted definition of the future intelligent campus along with visions for its advancement. It outlines five trends that affect intelligent campus development, systematically depicts ten typical future scenarios, and defines six key technical features of future intelligent campuses for the first time. Innovatively, the white paper proposes a unique reference architecture for the intelligent campus and 22 quantitative indicators to predict the prospects of intelligent campuses, guiding their implementation and construction.

As enterprises are witnessing a surge in the number of devices and video conferences, their digital and intelligent office requires improved network performance, security and experiences. Huawei’s Wifi 7 products can strengthen signals by 100% and improve concurrency by 50%. In addition, Huawei’s application experience assurance ensures smooth video conferences and protects VIP services from being compromised, while the Wifi Shield prevents data eavesdropping to ensure 100% network security.

The Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment & Development (AAAID, www.aaaid.org) and Huawei (www.huawei.com) have collaborated to enhance its office experiences in five areas: seamless access, intelligent office conferences, full wireless network coverage, AI-based building control, and centralised IoT device access. Ibrahim Al Kindi, AAAID IT director, said this was just the beginning of a new era of intelligent office, and AAAID would continue to explore the digital and intelligent transformation of the office field.