In the International Building, commercial facilities are deployed in its annex building, while office facilities are distributed in the towers. The division of functions is clear in a unified manner, and the deployment is orderly. The project adopts the "white light positioning" and communication system independently developed by Great Aim Group, with functions such as accurate indoor positioning, underground space navigation and reverse vehicle tracking. Yang Feng said, the International Building is not the largest nor the highest in Hengqin New District. However, considered from intelligence, it is the most complete in scientific and intelligent functions. For example, the application of white light communication has not only filled a gap at home, but also filled a gap in the world. Meanwhile, the project has also employed advanced concepts such as green architecture and smart environment protection, built vertical greening so that the office space is placed in a vertical garden. The project has won prizes such as a demonstrative project of green construction in the construction industry of Guangdong and a demonstrative project of green construction in the national construction industry.
As the headquarters building of an enterprise at the level of a hundred billion Yuan, the International Building will also be settled by several associate enterprises and entities. It's reported that the group has joined the financial sector of central enterprise through increase in capital and share at the end of 2016. Yang said, since it is still under an approval process, related details cannot be disclosed since a confidentiality agreement is involved.
Xie Yongsheng, general manager of Hengqin Great Aim Investment Holdings Co., Ltd.
In the future white light communication indoor positioning system will realize an output value of 50 billion Yuan
Daily: I have heard that you have just come back from Shijiazhuang. Has the group's optical communication industry made an important breakthrough in Shijiazhuang?
Xie: Yes, Great Aim Optical Communication Co., Ltd. has managed to develop a "smart shopping cart for supermarkets" which serves functions such as commodity retrieval, shopping navigation, targeted advertisement push based on location and big data operation. The cart is currently the smart shopping terminal with the most complete functions across the world. Some time ago it finished technology verification in TKL Supermarket of Shijiazhuang and achieved a success. As planned, by 2025 the "smart shopping cart" will be promoted and applied in over 5,000 supermarkets and it is expected that the project will realize an annual output value not less than 30 billion Yuan
Daily: Is it the first commercialization case of white light communication industry?
Xie: No, it isn't. Our operation of white light communication technology in the field of indoor positioning has filled a gap of the field in China and even in the world. By the first half of 2016, the company's invention patents had increased from 7 to 32, which took the lead in the world. At present, our white light communication technology has been successfully applied to fields such as coal mine industry, smart shopping cart app, smart warehousing and logistics management system, underground public parking lot positioning and navigation and smart service robot indoor positioning and navigation system.
Daily: Coal mining industry should be the first field entered by the technology. How does it go on now?
Xie Yongsheng: After three years of efforts, the "KJ975 miners positioning management system" developed by us obtained a "coal mine product safety standard license" from the state in February 2016. With the light emitted by mine lights as the carrier, the system can achieve a high-accuracy positioning within 0.5 meters, which is significant to the rescue in a mine accident. The system has provided important professional technical support for mine production management. The company plans to expand 50 mine projects and cover lane-ways with a total length of 3,000 km from 2017 to 2020. The supporting facilities supplied by our Optical Communication Company will consist of lane-way positioning light, miner's lamp for positioning, and other auxiliary systems such as power cable and wireless substation, which will realize an annual output value of around 3 billion Yuan. In the domestic market, only taking coal mining enterprises as an example, there are more than 8,000 large and medium sized coal mines. Considering its applications in all mining markets and international market, the total market size should exceed 500 billion Yuan
Daily: Some enterprise in Zhuhai has already realized underground parking lot positioning and navigation with an App. What are the differences of Great Aim's white light communication technology in operation and technology?
Xie: In a large parking lot, when car owners forget where they have parked their car, they can locate their car with white light communication technology. As long as the lights in the parking lot are upgraded into lights mounted with a location module, with an App installed on the mobilephone, the users can easily find their car. Besides, for public facilities such as stadium, shopping mall or underground parking lot, when there is an instant increase of human traffic, the security and human traffic pressure will become very high. Therefore, the white light communication technology of Great Aim can divert and manage the human traffic at the site conveniently at the backstage system based on location.
Daily: How does the commercialization of the technology go on now?
Xie: We have established a close cooperative relationship with BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., the largest producer of display screens and LED lights. Both sides have signed a cooperation agreement with average annual sales of 500,000 smart positioning lights. Besides, both sides have also reached an intention of cooperation with ETCP, a leading enterprise of smart parking lot at home. Three sides plan to promote the application of white light communication technology in public parking lots nationwide. ETCP has cooperated with over 3,000 parking lots in eight large cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chongqing. The "navigation and reverse vehicle tracking system for underground parking lots" developed by Great Aim Optical Communication Co., Ltd can effectively overcome the "difficulty of navigation and vehicle tracking in the underground space" and be complementary with ETCP. Meanwhile, we plan to promote the said system among underground parking lots across the country. In 2016, there are over 200 million cars across China. With the development of urbanization, the scale of parking lots to be built in China will be increasingly large. It is predicted that by 2020, there will have been over 300 million parking spaces across the country, and over 90,000 parking lots will be needed. Calculated by an area of 10 ㎡ for each parking space, by 2020, the floor area of all parking lots needed will reach 3 billion ㎡ (the underground parking lots will account for approximately 30%). The promotion and application of "reverse vehicle tracking system for underground parking lots" on a large scale across the nation will drive the sales of positioning lamps, which will ultimately yield an annual output value not less than 5 billion Yuan.
Daily: How does Great Aim develop in smart service robot indoor positioning and navigation system? Can you share some details with us?
Xie: In 2013 China became the globally largest market for robots. The positioning precision of the smart service robot indoor positioning and navigation system developed by Great Aim based on white light communication technology has reached 15 cm, which has made the service robot really "intelligent". At present the technology scheme has passed the evaluation and is under testing. Nowadays, the whole service robot industry has a domestic market worthy of near 200 billion Yuan, which grows at a rate of 30% each year. In the current stage, more than 30 industrial parks (bases) related with robots have been built or planned across China. The planned area of robot industrial parks in different places surpasses 36,000 mu. It's predicted that as of 2020 the market of the industrial chain will surpass 500 billion Yuan. It's predicted that by 2020, the project will at least generate an annual output value of over 10 billion Yuan.
Daily: Will these cutting-edge technologies be applied in the International Building too?
Xie: Great Aim International Building will become the first commercial center that features "optical positioning" in Hengqin. As mentioned earlier, positioning and navigation system for underground parking lots, intelligent warehousing and logistics management system, etc. will all be applied. As of 2025, the white light communication indoor positioning system of Great Aim is predicted to generate an annual output value from commercialization of over 50 billion Yuan. If all industrial chains of the high-tech segment are moved back to Zhuhai, it will make a huge contribution to the economic construction of Zhuhai.