Digital Twin + Smart IoT. Dahua Technology's "Digital and Intelligent Twin" Facilitates the Implementation of Digital Scenarios.
A tertiary hospital with a construction area of over 250,000 square meters is confronted with problems such as vehicle congestion, personnel infiltration, and numerous systems. How can integrated scheduling and intelligent management be achieved?
A distribution center with a daily order volume of millions. In a factory that has completed the "unmanned and dark-light" transformation and upgrade, how can the factory's own MES system be combined to quickly and accurately gain real-time insights into the operating conditions of the robots in the factory and promptly detect faults and abnormalities?
The above problems are precisely the many real pain points that Dahua Technology received from customers during the early stage of collaborating with them on digital twin projects. Even today, when the application of AI intelligence is relatively widespread, there are still a large number of problems in industrial manufacturing, urban governance, and residents' living scenarios that cannot find the optimal solution.
However, the emergence of the "Digital and Intelligent Twin" solution has gradually brought new solutions to these once-troubling industry problems.
In 2024, Dahua Technology combined digital twin and intelligent IoT technologies to launch the Digital and Intelligent Twin - Dahua Luban software products and solutions, and recently introduced a major update - Dahua Luban 2.0.
The Dahua Luban series is supported by four underlying technologies: video fusion, IoT perception, AI intelligence, and spatiotemporal computing. It can restore the video + scene in a three-dimensional manner, creating a real-time perceived digital and intelligent twin world and conducting dynamic intelligent analysis of the space.
1. From "Digital Twin" to "Digital and Intelligent Twin"
"Digital Twin" refers to a technology that collects, transmits, processes, and analyzes data, builds models and simulations, constructs a digital model highly similar to the physical entity in the virtual space, and then realizes the monitoring, analysis, and optimization of the physical entity through real-time data exchange and analysis.
According to Mordor Intelligence data, the global digital twin market size is expected to be $19 billion (approximately 138 billion yuan) in 2024, and it is rapidly booming at an ultra-high speed with a compound annual growth rate of 36.9%. According to the data from the "Digital Twin Development Research Report" of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, in China, more than half of the prefecture-level administrative regions have carried out the construction of digital twin cities, and there is a strong demand in the fields of cities, water conservancy, transportation, energy, and manufacturing.
While the industrial demand and application are booming, the national policy also continuously invests in support. In December 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, the Ministry of Finance, the People's Bank of China, and the Financial Regulatory Administration jointly issued the notice of the "Special Action Plan for Digital Empowerment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (2025 - 2027)", further promoting the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, building a modern industrial system, providing policy support for the digital twin development of enterprises, and achieving an ultra-high-speed development.
In recent years, the application of digital technology in China has developed rapidly with remarkable results. However, it is undeniable that various industries still face problems such as difficult data integration, difficult technology integration, and the need for in-depth scenarios. For example, in the scenarios of hospitals, factories, and scenic spots mentioned above, the current solutions still have many pain points: The traditional grid view mode for watching videos is extremely inconvenient, and the data of multiple intelligent platforms are isolated from each other, forming insurmountable data islands.
In order to meet the increasingly in-depth digital upgrade needs of customers, Dahua Technology took the opportunity of the continuous application and implementation of AI and large model technologies. In early 2024, it officially launched the Digital and Intelligent Twin - Dahua Luban solution. Its naming implies inheriting the craftsmanship spirit of the famous craftsman Luban in the Warring States Period. It hopes to fully utilize the four core technologies of IoT perception, video fusion, AI intelligence, and spatiotemporal computing to rebuild the magnificent "Golden Palace" in the digital world and apply it to all aspects of industrial society, making it possible to solve many industry pain points.
Four capabilities
Dahua Technology told 36Kr that the construction of the digital twin system cannot be separated from the strong support of data. Therefore, in the construction process of many upper-level digital twin platforms, it is inevitable to interface with the products and platforms of IoT perception.
Unlike traditional digital twin platform solution providers, Dahua Technology's uniqueness lies in that it is not only capable of doing digital twin projects, but also a global leading provider and operator of intelligent IoT solutions with video as the core. It is one of the few enterprises in the market that can tailor integrated solutions for customers.
With the continuous deepening of the application scenarios of digital twins and the pain points of customers, combined with Dahua Technology's own outstanding capabilities in large models, IoT perception, artificial intelligence, and other aspects, Dahua Luban can create an integrated solution for customers, thereby presenting customers with a more complete, efficient, and demand-fitting one-stop service.
2. Breaking the Boundary between Virtual and Real, Landing Hundreds of Projects
When the Digital and Intelligent Twin - Dahua Luban was initially released, it innovatively perfectly fused the three-dimensional model with the real-time video captured by the camera, and added IoT perception data. Through AI intelligence and spatial computing, it made the static digital world dynamic, truly establishing a mapping with the physical world and achieving real-time and real-scene dynamic perception.
The traditional grid view method is prone to causing visual fatigue and it is difficult to quickly and accurately locate the place where an event occurs, making information integration and analysis extremely inconvenient. Compared with the traditional digital twin solution, Dahua Luban can present the static scene dynamically, can intuitively perceive the real-time situation in the space, and greatly improve the management efficiency.
Dahua Luban integrates real-time video data into the three-dimensional model, enabling managers to quickly locate the accident occurrence point and respond promptly
The recently upgraded Dahua Luban 2.0 has even proposed the concept of "3 All + 1 Integration" - All Fusion, All Connection, All Intelligence, and Integrated Delivery. It realizes full-time and full-scene video fusion, integrates multiple IoT perception data, breaks the information island, is driven by AI algorithms, and accumulates rich delivery experience, solving the problems of long and difficult project implementation of digital twins.
Xu Yukun, the person in charge of the Digital and Intelligent Twin business of Dahua Technology, told 36Kr that within just this year, Dahua Luban has successfully landed hundreds of application scenarios, covering multiple industries such as culture and tourism, medical care, education, industry, park governance, and urban governance.
For example, in March this year, Dahua Technology signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Xingyi Wanfenglin Tourism Group Co., Ltd. The two sides will cooperate in building a smart scenic area and carrying out new forms of cultural and tourism business cooperation. Wanfenglin Tourist Scenic Area is also one of the first batch of landing partners of the Digital and Intelligent Twin - Dahua Luban.
Wanfenglin Scenic Area is a national 5A-level tourist scenic area located in Guizhou Province. Its southern end borders Guangxi, and its northern end connects to the main peak of Wumeng Mountain, with a total area of more than 2,000 square kilometers. The large-scale scenic area and the large-scale tourist flow have undoubtedly brought considerable pressure to the intelligent management and control of Wanfenglin Scenic Area. For this reason, Dahua Luban and Wanfenglin Scenic Area have jointly created a set of scenic area intelligent systems that are full-coverage, full-intelligent, and full-service. It can construct a virtual scenic area model and integrate information such as scenic spot distribution, tourist flow, and facility conditions.
Dahua Luban lands in Wanfenglin Scenic Area
Through the Dahua Luban platform, once there is a tourist gathering or emergency in the scenic area, the scenic area managers can quickly lock the target location and track and handle it; at the same time, the data of each platform is aggregated, and the operation, security, maintenance and other departments can work collaboratively on the same platform and share data; AI intelligence can also conduct panoramic playback and abnormal behavior warning in key cultural relic areas. Scenic area managers can also use this to understand the tourist density in real time, rationally plan the tour routes, make resource allocation and safety warnings in advance, improve the tourist experience and the operational management efficiency of the scenic area, and greatly improve the tourist satisfaction and the revisit rate of the scenic area.
In addition, in the education scenario, by creating a virtual campus and teaching scenarios, Dahua Luban helps school managers realize the digital management of campus facilities and equipment. With this platform, managers can conduct video patrols between the virtual and the real, effectively optimize the campus layout and resource allocation, and improve the efficiency and quality of teaching management.
In the industrial manufacturing scenario, Dahua Luban can simulate and monitor the production information such as the equipment operation of the production line to the logistics flow of raw materials and products in real time, accurately predict equipment failures, optimize the production process, reduce the risk of production interruption, achieve intelligent manufacturing and lean production, and reduce costs and increase efficiency for the factory.
There are many such application scenarios.
Xu Yukun, the person in charge of the Digital and Intelligent Twin business of Dahua Technology, said that after six years of technical precipitation, Dahua Luban has currently achieved more than 40 key technology patents for digital twins and has been recognized by the Guidance Catalogue for the Application and Promotion of the First Edition Software Products in Zhejiang Province; Dahua Smart IoT Industrial Park has also been selected into the public list of the Excellent-level Intelligent Factory (the first batch) awarded by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, in which the Dahua Luban solution is loaded in the intelligent factory project.
3. Technology Drives Industrial Transformation, Empowering Thousands of Industries with Digital and Intelligent Transformation
In fact, as a global leading provider and operator of intelligent IoT solutions with video as the core, Dahua Technology has always been committed to using the company's accumulated digital and intelligent IoT capabilities to actively promote the digital and intelligent transformation of cities and enterprises.
Previously, Dahua Technology upgraded its corporate strategy, emphasizing the in-depth transformation from "intelligence" to "integrated intelligence". Based on the "Five All" capability base of "Full Perception, Full Intelligence, Full Connection, Full Computing, and Full Ecology", it continues to focus on the two core businesses of cities and enterprises, firmly adheres to the two technical strategies of AIoT and the IoT Digital and Intelligent Platform, and fully activates the value of video as the core data element.
The Dahua Luban series is an important part of the IoT Digital and Intelligent Platform and is also a concrete manifestation of the in-depth exploration of the value of video data elements and "integrated intelligence".
According to Dahua Technology, the IoT Digital and Intelligent Platform has been constructed since 2017, and a complete platform system architecture was formed in 2019. In 2021, the "One System, Two Platforms" were launched, namely the "IoT Digital and Intelligent Middle Platform System" and "City Platform 2.0 and Enterprise Platform 3.0", helping various industries to explore the value of video data. In 2023, the IoT Digital and Intelligent Platform 2.0 was newly upgraded. This platform fully integrates technologies such as IoT perception, computing and network integration, visual large models, and data intelligence, improves the software engineering capability, and empowers the applications of thousands of industries and customers.
At present, relying on video perception and data value mining, Dahua Technology's software business has achieved considerable development. In terms of cities, it has expanded various fields around efficient urban governance, autonomous operation, safety system upgrade, and ecological collaborative governance, covering more than 200 urban scenarios. In terms of enterprises, it helps enterprises build a large security system, digital and intelligent productivity, and improve business decision-making ability, provides digital management tools for enterprises, and helps enterprises solve business pain points.
Today, we have entered a new era of "digital and intelligent transformation" driven by AI.
In the manufacturing industry, digital and intelligent technologies are used in product design, production process optimization, and quality control to improve product production efficiency and reduce management costs for enterprises; in the construction of smart cities, digital and intelligent technologies help urban managers optimize urban planning, traffic management, and environmental monitoring, improving the management level of the city and the quality of life of residents; in the field of medical and health, digital and intelligent technologies can help hospitals improve the utilization rate of medical equipment and improve the patient's medical experience...
This is a digital project cluster involving multiple heterogeneous data, systems, and applications, and it is also a standard complex system engineering that requires all-round collaboration of digital infrastructure, perceptual data, IoT operating systems, and digital intelligent applications.
With the continuous penetration of AIoT technology in thousands of industries, the global smart IoT market is further opened. The industry needs more and more smart IoT solution providers and operation service providers like Dahua Technology that can provide complete, efficient, and integrated solutions to meet the massive personalized, fragmented, complex, and integrated needs of the industry. Through the deep integration of IoT perception, video fusion, AI intelligence, spatiotemporal computing, and digital twin, the value of video data can be fully explored and applied, and the further deepening of the digital economy construction becomes possible.