The roadshow introduced four outstanding applied projects initiated by sci-tech innovation teams from University of Cambridge, Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). They are “Glitterintech” focusing on the chip technology – the industrial base of information technology and developing the chip-size spectrometer for wearable devices; “Zhuanzhuzhilian” focusing on the information technology to promote the digital transformation of traditional industrial manufacturing industry, for the cost reduction and quality and efficiency enhancement; “Zhierxing” and “Bitcom Technologies” utilising the information technology to empower the green transportation and contribute to the energy conservation and emission reduction. 

At the event, the roadshow presenters exchanged with guests from industrial parks and over ten investment institutionsincluding Addor Capital, Sky9 Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Winsoul Capital and Infinity Equity.

The chip-size spectrometer will revolutionise wearable devices. Relying on University of Cambridge’s leading technologies in optical communication, sensing, processing, computing chip-size silicon-InP-hybrid integrated optoelectronic chip technology, “Glitterintech” empowers chips, focusing on the creation of chip-size optoelectronic integrated products and solutions, and the core technology is the world’s pioneering on-chip integrated spectrometer chip +AI algorithm - a miniaturised, low-cost and high-sensitivity spectral analysis. The team has established a start-up company in 2021, focusing on providing global customers with advanced on-chip optoelectronic integrated chips, including spectral analysis detection, communication optical switching, AI optical acceleration algorithms and intelligent sensing solutions.

“The LED spectrum detection chip developed by the team has reached the world’s leading level of detection performance,” Yan Ting, the roadshow presenter and Product VP, introduced, “its spectrum chip has gone through many rounds of technology iteration. The product-level 8-inch wafer has been put into film in 2023, with characteristics of programmable, strong temperature drift tolerance, and performance comparable to commercial desktop spectrometer.”

With the application advantages of high precision, low cost, mass production and easy embedding, in terms of specific application scenarios, “Glitterintech” focuses on the consumer market of photonic health chip. Combined with near-infrared analysis technology, it takes the data entrance of the Internet of Things era -  consumer wearable sports devices equipped with chip-level spectrometer - as a commercial breakthrough, gradually covering and improving the health market, biomedicine, chemical and pharmaceutical, environmental monitoring, food agriculture and sideline and other application scenarios.

The wave of the fourth industrial revolution deepens the integration of informatisation and industrialisation. It is the right time to realise intelligent manufacturing, including the development of industrial digital twin technology, the construction of a digital twin system for the whole life cycle of industrial manufacturing, and the promotion of the digital transformation of traditional manufacturing industry.

Dr. Zhang Wen, the founder and CEO of the project, is the Deputy Director of the Southeast Digital Economic Development Institute. The core team is composed of several senior technical experts of digital twin from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. It has the core capabilities of industry-level application of digital twin technology supported by knowledge graph, 3D model, simulation model and AI model, as well as the construction of industry-level digital twin L1-L4 system and platform.

“With model-driven self-evolution and data-driven value chain reconstruction, industrial digital twin is one of the key technologies in the evolution from digital workshop to smart factory, and ultimately to the future factory,” Jiang Li, the roadshow presenter and co-founder of the project, stressed. According to his introduction, “Zhuanzhuzhilian” can provide a complete and professional pan-future factory construction service based on a wealth of successful practical experience of digital workshops, smart factories, and future factory construction. In the first stage of future factory construction - “virtual infrastructure”, relying on the team’s three basic capabilities in knowledge graph modeling, 3D modeling and data and model mapping, “Zhuanzhuzhilian” can help enterprises realise the start-up and operation of business in the virtual world, and greatly reduce their costs of virtual infrastructure. For the second stage of future factory construction - “scenario application” and “intelligent evolution”, the team has built a series of rich digital twin deep application scenarios in the main scenarios of digital design, intelligent production, delicacy management, high-end products, green manufacturing, etc. Through digital twin’s simulation and intelligent capabilities, it can realise the symbiosis between physical and virtual equipment and complete the intelligent evolution of key user devices.

The other two roadshow projects, “Zhierxing” and “Bitcom Technologies”, are aimed at the smart transportation, empowering green transportation and optimising the traffic efficiency by artificial intelligence and big data.

Liu Haiquan, the founder and CEO of the project, graduated from the School of Automotive Engineering of Tsinghua University and has more than ten years of experience in vehicle development and mass production. Wang Yafei, the co-founder and CTO of the project, is an associate professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, responsible for the development and application of the project’s autonomous driving algorithm. Qu Xiaobo, the Chief Scientist of the project, is a professor of the School of Vehicle and Mobility of Tsinghua University and the first fellow in intelligent transportation of the European Academy of Sciences, specialising in the development of intelligent transportation and smart city planning and scheduling algorithms.

Ding Yincheng, the presenter of the roadshow and the Director of Commercialisation, said that the current bus industry has obvious sore point. On the passenger side, the route detour, frequent stops and cumbersome transfers, slow speed, all reduce the passenger’s travel preference. On the management side, the traffic flow is full-loaded in the peak time compared to the spare time, leading to an unbalanced resource utilisation rate, and the large car body and high energy consumption are also disadvantages. On the operation side, the heavy loss, high-qualified drivers with  high workload cannot be ignored.

Bus is the largest component of urban public transport. How to revitalise the bus resources, so that it can really play a role in the era of low-carbon travel? In the framework of “Zhierxing”, “people, road and vehicle” together constitute the three elements of traffic. It is necessary to start from these three elements to solve the problem of public transportation inefficiency. Specifically, at the human-vehicle interface, it needs to dispatch buses on demand, build scheduling systems, optimise vehicles and adopt flexible buses, and build modular small vehicles. At the vehicle-road interface, it needs to enhance the vehicle-road synergy, adopt intelligent driving technology, and designate exclusive lanes for bus.

“Among public travel tools, ride-hailing car is highly efficient but with high price, while public bus enjoys low price but low efficiency, ‘Zhierxing’ provides a new choice of travel with a price close to public bus but efficiency close to ride-hailing car,” Ding Yincheng introduced, “The team has completed the design of the car body, completed the definition of the vehicle model, and realised the design of access between adjacent carriages, the transfer of buses and the walking inside the bus. It is expected to complete the bus production target this year.”

Men Xuefeng, the roadshow presenter and Deputy General manager introduced that “Bitcom Technologies” is creating a “1+N” development model. “1” refers to the field of intelligent parking that the team initially focused on, aiming at many problems in the open parking scene inside and outside the road. In face of  the government supervision end, from the decision-making, management and service dimensions, “Bitcom Technologies” provides services as data sorting and analysis, GIS-based visual management, intensive operation monitoring panel, overall service quality analysis and user complaint processing to alleviate the pain points in parking policy such as parking facility planning without evidence, unreasonable resource allocation and charging standards. In the enterprise operation end, it provides delicate order management for intelligent parking, GIS-based visual management, intensive operation monitoring panel, data sorting and analysis, and fee  management and other services to alleviate pain points in parking management such as high operating costs, low charge rates, mountained user complaints, and difficult on-site management. For the public service, it provides comprehensive services via App including parking space inquiry, parking guidance, vehicle location, online and on-site payment, information query, to solve pain points in parking service such as the inconsistent parking information, inaccurate vacancy information, undisclosed  charging standards, inconvenient parking payment, etc..

Based on the full-region intelligent operation management center, with the smart parking business as a breakthrough to develop value-added business, “Bitcom Technologies” expands the business segments, extends the business chain, realises the multi-level, multi-sector, multi-dimensional operation mode, actively expands the business segments from “1” to “N”, and provides users with the overall solution of “charging pile + smart parking + urban management 3.0”. Among them, the smart energy storage system covers “one-stop” electricity services from electricity sales services, photovoltaic power stations, energy storage power stations, intelligent transmission and distribution equipment, energy monitoring, to new energy applications and low-carbon smart energy management system. The smart street lamp system utilises information and communication technologies to inspect, analyse and integrate the key information in the urban operation system, and realise the intelligence of urban services and urban management, to be an important carrier of smart cities.

“The development goal of ‘Bitcom Technologies’ is to become a leading solution provider of city-level smart parking, charging, urban management, big data application and urban operation service provider,” Men Xuefeng concluded.

Over the past three years, the CUNJC has successfully held eight roadshows on International Technology, introduced more than 30 high-quality application-oriented start-ups to domestic investment institutions and local industrial parks, and introduced a number of entrepreneurship and innovation projects with broad commercialisation prospects, strong technological competitiveness and solid talent foundation.