China Mobile Anhui, Huawei MBB Automation Engine (MAE), and Huawei Customer Support (CS) launched the Intelligent AR Site Inspection solution. So far, this solution has been applied at scale in Hefei, Wuhu and two other cities in Anhui province.
It has been used more than 10,000 times in three months to check nearly 1,000 equipment rooms, improving inspection efficiency by 50%. China Mobile Anhui now intends to bring this solution to more cities in the province.
The mobile communication network is the information infrastructure of this generation. To ensure stable operation of the mobile communications network, operators must conduct regular inspections of equipment rooms and other site resources. Traditional inspections, however, are laborious and expensive. Operators have to find smart solutions to improve efficiency and quality and reduce costs.
To this end, China Mobile Anhui takes the lead in site survey innovation. With the help of Huawei’s MAE and CS teams, it combines intelligent algorithms with AR and the experience of experts to develop the Intelligent AR Site Inspection solution. MAE digitizes and learns the CS team’s experience from routine inspections through intelligent algorithms to constantly optimize inspection models. This, in turn, enables intelligent problem identification, fault association analysis, and intelligent decision making, providing the following benefits:
Automatic Equipment Room Inspection Using Image Recognition: The inspection covers 25 items from 11 categories, such as door locks, batteries, grounding, and surge protection. It can identify nine types of problems, such as oxidized batteries, abnormal temperature gauges, and expired warranties. Voice alarms and a visual display help engineers collect photos quickly and accurately, increasing inspection efficiency and ensuring every item in the inspection is checked.
It has been used more than 10,000 times in three months to check nearly 1,000 equipment rooms, improving inspection efficiency by 50%.
Proactive risk remediation through knowledge graphs: Inspection personnel check for abnormal equipment and performance alarms by following inspection rules. If there are issues, staff can refer to MAE’s online knowledge graphs or easily contact experts at the Network Operations Center (NOC), who can view images streamed from AR devices in real time and provide instructions. accurate to solve problems. This greatly improves equipment room inspection and problem management efficiency.
China Mobile Anhui connects smart site inspection with a third-party system for outsourced maintenance and brings the application online, making site inspection and review an automatic and intelligent online process with 50% greater efficiency and an accuracy of 80%. Labor costs are greatly reduced, with an estimated savings of CNY millions per year.
It can identify nine types of problems, such as oxidized batteries, abnormal temperature gauges, and expired warranties.
Commenting on the success, Ma Hongbo, President of Huawei Wireless’ MAE Product Line, said, “We will continue to improve the intelligent inspection capabilities of MAE, and our goal is to bring it to 85% of the inspection items of the Anhui facility and improve accuracy to over 90% by the end of the year. We will broaden and deepen cooperation with our network intelligence partners to build a benchmark for autonomous networks.”
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