Longfor showcases an "invisible Longfor"
Hanshan Temple is well - known both at home and abroad because of the poem "Mooring by Maple Bridge at Night" written by Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. As of today, over 2 million people visit it every year.
In the ancient city of Gusu District in Suzhou, which covers an area of 14.2 square kilometers, there are more than 500 cultural relic protection units like Hanshan Temple. The large number of tourists poses a high - difficulty challenge to the daily maintenance of the block. They receive more than 100 reports from citizens every day just about "minor issues" such as overflowing trash cans.
In 2023, Longfor Qianding Digital Technology took on the project of the smart city service platform for the ancient city of Gusu. After some time, the architectural features of the ancient city were replicated in real - time in the cloud. The field staff in the ancient city were equipped with electronic work badges for real - time positioning, and terminal sensors were installed in key areas and nodes. The ancient city is like having its own neural network. Whenever there is a problem, the online system powered by AI automatically reports the incident and assigns it to the nearest staff member.
Smart city service platform for the ancient city of Gusu, Suzhou
This system has changed the underlying logic of space management and property services. Previously, it relied on "human power", increasing the density of employees per unit area and the frequency of inspections, and having people "search for problems". Now, smart sensors are installed at each key maintenance point. With the help of tools and AI inspections, "problems find people". Especially in the "embodied" era, the emergence of "mobile inspection robots" has further solved the problems of missed inspections and false alarms during periods with weak manual coverage, such as at night and on holidays. Services are put into an "invisible factory" and become a quasi - industrial solution. Solving problems now precedes perceiving problems, and the number of daily reports from citizens has dropped to single digits.
Relying on its self - developed digital system technology integrated with AI, Qianding Digital Technology has become an AI leader for many spaces and enterprises. In addition to being applied in Longfor's own property, commercial, and office spaces, it has also been promoted to more scenarios such as block governance, city libraries, municipal parks, and health - care parks. In these scenarios, the shift from "people searching for problems" to "problems finding people" is just the crucial first step. The ultimate goal is to build a "nervous system" through digitalization to enable buildings to achieve efficient and intelligent evolution.
01 Behind the "Digital System": Longfor's Capability Accumulation from Over a Decade of Transformation
Technology is a force that can change an enterprise itself. Longfor started its digital transformation in 2014. That year, those who understood digital technology in front - line projects were "selected", and the "coders" in the group's digital technology department were required to go down to the front - line. They formed a digital "manual channel" from the group to the front - line.
The most effective application should be in real - world scenarios. This is the basic logic of Longfor's digital transformation. Qianding Digital Technology is in charge of the technology layout. In their words: "Business should be the master of products."
With a "master", technology can better serve people. For example, in the engineering construction stage, in the past, dozens of people were needed, and each person spent 2 - 3 days collecting information on project design changes, which was called "clearing informal vouchers". This problem was solved by a system developed by Qianding Digital Technology. These change information became data, and the system automatically generated reports. After verification, the reports were directly sent to the construction enterprises of each project with just one click. Information flows on its own without people having to carry it around.
The process from the maturity to the application of technology is simple, but it is difficult to go from 0 to 1. In the real - estate industry, where the design and construction process lasts about two years, the primary problem faced in digital transformation is that data is discrete or there is simply no underlying data. Therefore, digital transformation has become a long - term investment for Longfor. Since 2014, Qianding Digital Technology has invested tens of billions. Based on business scenarios, it has developed more than 150 intelligent agent "product packages" for more than 120 sub - scenarios. Finally, these serve as a tool to support and feed back to the business .
It is used to improve productivity. This integrated and modular system, with its technical foundation consisting of spatial data grid products and algorithms developed by Qianding Digital Technology, directly manages physical space through a digital management platform, making the space more energy - efficient and more comfortable for users.
It is also used to change production relations. With the in - depth integration of business scenarios, the data of all business systems are connected, and capabilities are aggregated. Every square meter can be monitored through dynamic data to improve operational efficiency.
Smart operation platform for Longfor Jinchen Tianjie in Chengdu
With the support of Qianding Digital Technology's system, Longfor's property management and commercial space have achieved top - notch labor - efficiency ratios in the industry. As a top performer in the fields of residential products, property services, and commercial operations, Longfor has accumulated investment, construction, management, operation, and service capabilities and systems over 32 years. These have been integrated and replicated in this digital system and verified through more than 8,000 front - line projects, becoming an explicit part of Longfor's organizational capabilities, product, and service capabilities.
This is another "invisible Longfor".
02 Algorithm Reaches the "Last Mile": Value Output from Construction Sites to the Whole Region
A large construction site generates 5,000 square meters of work area every day, but the coverage rate of manual inspections is less than two - thirds. More seriously, even experienced quality and safety inspectors need to memorize more than 500 construction specifications, and the accuracy rate of their judgments on complex problems is often less than half. This "triple - difficulty" situation of difficult coverage, difficult judgment, and difficult coordination not only affects the inspection efficiency but also may lead to the omission of safety hazards, directly affecting the building quality and construction cost.
Although many enterprises have invented solutions such as "flying inspections", humans are not as reliable as machines and systems when it comes to repetitive tasks.
From data accumulation to digital twin, Longfor is now working hard to establish a virtual space with two - way data flow, collect real - time data from tangible spaces and scenarios, and then use this data to manage and maintain the space to achieve lower energy consumption, better experience, and higher efficiency.
During the construction process, the details such as the tendering process, construction techniques, and resource allocation in each piece of land often grow into core issues such as safety, quality, delivery schedule, and cost control. In the past, all these had to be handled by humans. Costs had to be manually filled in Excel offline, and the tendering process relied on manual checks one by one, which was time - consuming, labor - intensive, and full of uncertainties. Qianding Digital Technology has realized the integrated management of the construction supply chain and service supply chain through a smart supply chain system. Just in project management, it covers multiple aspects such as safety, quality, technology, and progress, realizing the life - cycle management of projects from construction to delivery and ensuring product quality, delivery efficiency, and customer satisfaction in all dimensions.
During the use of building spaces, the central air - conditioning refrigeration system is a major energy consumer. The traditional management model relies on human experience and responsibility, which is prone to lags and loopholes. To address this industry pain point, Qianding Digital Technology's AI - powered intelligent control solution for cooling stations calculates the optimal cooling capacity required for the current space based on multi - dimensional and massive data such as real - time temperature, humidity inside the building, outdoor weather, and the number of people in the building. The system manages the equipment and automatically issues instructions to cooling units, pumps, cooling tower fans and other equipment to find the optimal balance between temperature and energy consumption.
Schematic diagram of the application of the AI - powered intelligent control platform for cooling stations
Practical data shows that after applying Qianding Digital Technology's intelligent control solution for cooling stations, the comprehensive energy consumption of the refrigeration system can be reduced by more than 15%.
More reliable, stable, predictable, and quantifiable than humans, the model is based on Longfor's mature experience accumulated from one scenario after another. This system, which originated from numerous internal spaces and service scenarios of Longfor, has started to output its most useful parts after being fully developed.
Currently, Qianding Digital Technology has launched four major solutions, each corresponding to a problem in the digital transformation of real - estate: The real - estate operation and management solution covers different fields such as project development, construction, asset management, property management, and supply chain, realizing digital management throughout the project's life cycle; The zero - carbon smart space solution integrates building intelligent control, smart park, smart security, energy management, zero - carbon, and other aspects into a "one - stop" smart space solution; The smart enterprise service solution, which empowers overall enterprise efficiency, includes platform modules such as human resources and integrated business - finance management; The AI intelligent agent solution focuses on real - world business scenarios to continuously create value.
Schematic diagram of the four major solutions
From real - estate peers such as Greentown, China Railway Group, China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, and CCCC, to leaders in different industrial sectors such as Taikang Life Insurance, China Tourism Group Investment, and Liandong U Valley, and then to companies with public attributes such as Qingdao Metro, China Telecom, and Beijing Heating Group, they have successively become partners of Qianding Digital Technology.
Because they are deeply involved in their respective fields and have a stronger sense of pain regarding processes and algorithms that have been difficult to optimize for a long time. They know that there is a "last - mile" problem between large models and specific usage scenarios. Solving this problem is the key to winning the second half of the competition.
03 Promote Space Evolution: Build a "Nervous System" with Digitalization
In the non - incremental era, the long - standing problems and inefficiencies of urban spaces and low - performance assets are being rapidly magnified.
According to the "National Building Stock Survey Report" released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban - Rural Development, as of the end of 2024, the total number of buildings in China reached 602 million, with a total construction area of 107 billion square meters. A significant portion of these real - estate properties are held in the asset portfolios of various enterprises, and most of them require better digital and intelligent tools to enhance operational value and asset utilization.
What these spaces need is often not just an intelligent control system but more importantly, the computing model behind the system.
At the core of technology are people. The model depends on the data collection and processing capabilities and space operation and maintenance experience of those who design the system. Different enterprises develop different algorithms. Qianding Digital Technology's system is not only an integrated tool for digital and AI technologies but also comes with Longfor's capabilities.
Currently, Qianding Digital Technology's business has five advantages:
· Qianding Digital Technology has the best - practice experience and four major methodologies from Longfor's more than a decade - long digital transformation, which cost billions of dollars.
· It has undergone more than three to five years of business refinement within Longfor, achieving in - depth integration with business scenarios.
· It has more than 150 AI intelligent agents that have been actually implemented and more than 7,500 accurately - trained industry - specific model algorithms.
· It holds more than 800 domestic and international patents.
· It has gathered nearly a thousand experts from well - known domestic and international universities and senior industry professionals, with Longfor's digital transformation team, which "understands both business and digitalization", as the core.
"If a system cannot be used internally, don't output it externally," said a person in charge of Qianding Digital Technology. When providing technology, they can also provide management and operation and maintenance diagnosis services according to the actual situation of the project to make the combination of the system, the operation and maintenance organization, and the space closer.
In this system, technology is the "hardware", while people and systematic capabilities are the "software".
Based on Longfor's successful experience, Qianding Digital Technology provides a ready - made toolchain and methodology to help enterprises avoid detours in digital transformation. From investment in real - estate development, cost procurement, smart construction sites, marketing management, customer acquisition, and inventory management, to zero - carbon spaces where a smart space system serves as the brain to ensure low - energy operation of buildings, it realizes digital management throughout the entire process of investment, construction, management, operation, and service ; From the 24 - hour security electronic fence, AI surveillance, intelligent incident reporting, and intelligent inspection systems in communities and elderly care parks to achieve "full - area visibility and on - call service", to open - space scenarios such as parks and farmlands, it realizes the twin of space and data. Create smart spaces and enjoy smart services.
Smart operation platform for Taikang Home elderly care community
The reason why a mobile phone can become a smart terminal is that a large amount of data and intelligent applications are integrated into it, forming a "nervous system". The same goes for real - estate and specific space scenarios. For many years in the past, they only had the "shell". Now, Qianding Digital Technology puts the process of building the "shell" into a "digital workshop" to make the construction process more precise and closer to industrialization; It integrates a digital system into the physical shell, making the data platform a part of the building. Data connects devices, spaces, and people. With the addition of AI and algorithms, these spaces also have their own screens and cockpits. Spaces can be "digitally controlled" and intelligently controlled, interact with people, and be adjusted by people, ultimately achieving the evolution of space.