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Recently, Huawei's strategic product HarmonyOS, like a depth bomb, detonated the technology circle. Hongmeng uses a system to cascade all the hardware into one to provide a consistent collaborative experience. Aside from questions such as "Is it necessary to introduce other mobile phone companies?" and "Can we strive for more rescue opportunities for Huawei mobile phones?", let's mainly talk about what changes the Hongmeng system might bring to the medical equipment industry? Hongmeng is here! Should the medical device industry embrace it?

Huawei has been in the medical equipment industry for a long time and has successively tried in digital hospitals, telemedicine, and hierarchical diagnosis and treatment. At the meeting, Huawei's new flagship watch equipped with HarmonyOS, the Huawei WATCH 3 series, attracted much attention. The biggest highlight of this product is its fully upgraded active health management function.

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Equipped with the Hongmeng system, deepening the health management track

Sports health is an important part of Huawei's CBG IoT strategy, which includes smart home, Internet of Vehicles, and office scenarios. Huawei has been deeply involved in the field of sports and health for many years. Not only has the growth rate of smart wearables shipments become the first in China, it has also established various health laboratories and multiple global research centers. In 2009, it invested more than 1,000 people. .

In Huawei's view, smart wearables are the only smart devices that can be in close contact with users 24 hours a day, and can help users understand their physical state uninterruptedly. In addition, wearable devices can be connected to all-scene applications, and only when the data is accurate can the connection with the hospital be opened, and health management suggestions can be provided to users.

Focusing on active health management, Huawei has created a series of products, equipment and services. In 2015, Huawei WATCH was first released, and heart rate monitoring became a daily routine for users; in 2018, Huawei WATCH GT was released, introducing professional institutions for the first time to jointly carry out heart health management; in 2020, Huawei released WATCH GT 2 PRO ECG, this smart watch is Huawei's first device to obtain the "Class II Medical Device Registration Certificate" from the National Medical Products Administration; In May 2021, Huawei's first smartwatch that can measure blood pressure has passed the medical device registration test. The next step will be to open the registration with professional medical institutions. Clinical Trials.

The Huawei WATCH 3 series cooperates with three-party professional blood glucose testing to achieve a brand-new way of blood glucose management. It supports users to authorize the transmission of blood glucose data to the sports health APP, and view blood glucose data, blood glucose analysis and blood glucose knowledge base from the "blood glucose" card, thereby realizing proactive Closed-loop ecology of health management.

On the basis of retaining functions from heart rate monitoring to all-weather blood oxygen monitoring, Huawei WATCH 3 series has added functions such as wrist skin temperature and body temperature detection, and fall detection. At the same time, it also conducts health research. Huawei will cooperate with Tongji Medical University of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Professional medical institutions such as Tongji Hospital affiliated to the hospital jointly initiated respiratory health research to achieve preliminary screening for respiratory infections, guard users' health around the clock, and bring innovative health monitoring functions to more users.

Prior to this, Huawei also joined its heart health research through cooperation with 301 Hospital. 301 Hospital quickly builds a heart health research app based on HUAWEI Research, cooperates with Huawei's smart wearable high-performance heart rate sensor, and relies on more than 70 cooperative hospitals across the country to finely identify the risk of arrhythmia, and provide users with atrial fibrillation and premature beats, screening, and diagnosis , Tracking, follow-up and other one-stop integrated management and atrial fibrillation risk prediction services. At present, more than 2.47 million users have participated in heart health research, and more than 1.41 million users have participated in sleep apnea research.

He Gang, COO of Huawei's consumer business, said that Huawei will continue to explore new directions for digital health in the future, provide consumers with more professional active health management, scientific exercise experience, and bring the digital world into everyone's healthy life. In the future, research on hypertension management , Coronary heart disease screening research will also continue to be implemented.

It is reported that Huawei’s research in the health field began many years ago. Currently, it has invested in the construction of three sports health science laboratories in China. They are the Sports Health Science Laboratory in Tian’an Cloud Valley, Shenzhen, the Xi’an Sports Health Science Laboratory, and the The Dongguan Songshan Lake Sports Health Science Laboratory is under construction.

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Is Hongmeng system really popular?

At the HarmonyOS 2.0 press conference, Huawei brought a very imaginative smart life scene that many people yearn for. But a true smart life is far from enough by only relying on a product or a company.

In order to strengthen the Hongmeng ecosystem, Huawei not only released the "100" machine renewal plan, but also stated that it will continue to push to upgrade HarmonyOS 2 to smart terminal devices such as mobile phones, tablets, and smart screens that Huawei has previously launched. It is expected to achieve closeness in the first half of next year. System upgrade of hundreds of equipment.

At the same time, Huawei is also actively working to broaden Hongmeng's "circle of friends." As of May 21, 2021, the HarmonyOS ecosystem has developed more than 1,000 smart hardware partners, more than 50 modules and chip solution partners, including home furnishing, travel, education, office, sports and health, government and enterprise, audio-visual entertainment Partners in many fields, including Midea, Supor, Joyoung, Xiaoxiong Electric, iFlytek, BOE, 360, Runhe Software, etc.

Their reason for joining is not difficult to understand. On the one hand, in view of the weak points of the simple interconnection of the Android system, the distributed technology of the Hongmeng system is a key part of the "Internet of Everything" ecosystem, which can realize deep interconnection across devices. On the other hand, for now, not every company has the ability to build its own IoT ecosystem. Therefore, following Hongmeng's east wind may be a good choice.

As we all know, mobile phones are the core of the Hongmeng ecosystem. If Huawei wants to truly create an Internet of Everything ecosystem, in addition to upgrading its own brand, it must seek the support of other domestic smartphone manufacturers. However, due to the deep binding between domestic mobile phone manufacturers and Android, the Hongmeng system may not be favored by mainstream domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

Up to now, among mobile phone brands, only Meizu, which is separated from Huawei, has responded enthusiastically, but its smart home products use Hongmeng, and the mobile phone is still running Android; it has the same glory as Huawei. It was only a verbal expression of support for Hongmeng, while still giving priority to using the Google system.

As for OPPO, on May 24, Huang Hongtao, an employee of its public relations department, published a Weibo stating that the Huawei Hongmeng OS system is a system developed on the basis of AOSP (Android Open Source Project). The basic version is too low and suitable. The cost of configuration and maintenance is high, so Hongmeng OS system is not optimistic. Although the incident ended with Huang Hongtao's public apology and resignation, it is not difficult to see that OPPO and other Chinese mobile phone manufacturers are not friendly to Hongmeng ecology.

In addition, Xiaomi also said euphemistically that it would consider using it unless Huawei makes Hongmeng's business independent. And in the field of Internet of Everything, Xiaomi has also been groping for a long time. Last year, Xiaomi also released its own IoT operating system, Xiaomi Vela, directly against Hongmeng, which has attracted the participation of Sony, Samsung and other major manufacturers. This also indirectly means that Xiaomi said "no" to Hongmeng.

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Should the medical device industry embrace it?

Huawei has been deploying medical services for a long time, especially for medical devices. It has cooperated with Philips, GE, United Imaging, etc., mainly on the cloud platform. Huawei has a layout in the medical field of smart hospitals, regional public health informatization, and hierarchical diagnosis and treatment. Based on Huawei's full-stack cloud, big data and artificial intelligence technology core bottom layer, it realizes the interaction between patients, medical staff, medical institutions, and medical devices. . Judging from the cooperation between Huawei and medical companies in recent years, Huawei has focused on exporting smart medical-related technologies to "pave the way" for medical companies.

Huawei has the 5G technology that subverts medical care. In the field of equipment, the enhanced mobile broadband, high-reliability and low-latency links, and massive Internet of Things brought about by 5G technology will accelerate the trend of miniaturization and intelligentization of medical equipment. Ultrasound and on-board CT. Moreover, the seamless flow of multiple devices and integration into a super terminal is the biggest feature of the Hongmeng system. In the future, the integration of medical devices under the effect of 5G technology may become a reality.

According to this assumption, Huawei's 5G technology and Hongmeng system may promote the ecological operation of medical devices. At the medical service provider side, information can be flexibly interacted between doctors, patients, and hospital departments, so as to allocate medical resources rationally and help remote Medical treatment, to alleviate the uneven distribution of medical resources and cross-regional medical treatment problems.

In addition, the development of 5G itself requires an Internet of Things operating system, and the development of Google's Fuchsia is not very smooth, and the promotion and service support of the next generation of Fuchsia in China will not be so strong. In addition, due to historical reasons, from withdrawing from the Chinese market more than a decade ago to supporting the US government's "stuck neck" against China in recent years, to supporting the US government's blockade of Huawei in all aspects, there is a high probability that it will not return to the Chinese market.

As a local company in China, Huawei will have stronger support. These two points magnify the probability of Huawei's success in China. In October 2021, Hongmeng will open source hardware above 4G. It can be seen from the historical process that Hongmeng was not born temporarily in response to the US blockade, but the company's technological strategic preparations for the next generation of the Internet of Things. So, as a member of the medical device industry, should we embrace it?