HarmonyOS
Mine HarmonyOS operating system launched by Huawei, first in the industry
On September 14, Huawei launched the Mine HarmonyOS operating system (HarmonyOS for Mining Industry). This is the first time when Huawei has opened HarmonyOS for business and enabled its industrial use cases with a commercial version. This is a significant development and we need to explore more of what it means and what is Mine HarmonyOS operating system and why it is launched.
According to the information, Huawei Coal Mine Corps and National Energy Group have created an industry-first HarmonyOS Mining system application and named it “Kuanghone” (translated). Mine Hongmeng (Mine HarmonyOS) brings the same connected features to the mining field as it works on consumer devices.
With Mine HarmonyOS, the company wants to break the barrier between the agreements and equipment, and bring services for the digital and intelligent transformation of the coal industry for prosperity.
Huawei Coal Mine Corp:
This new Huawei subsidiary was established in March this year. Senior vice president of Huawei – Zou Zhilei took the chair as the chairman of Coal Mine Corp. The company has the vision to enable intelligent connected technologies to the mining industry.
To do this, Huawei is working with its industry partners to create a powerful smart mine solution that includes safety, consumes less Human resources, and is energy efficient.
Smart Mining Challenge and Solutions:
He pointed out that the current development of smart mines faces many challenges consisting:
- Weak digital infrastructure requires supplementary lessons, industrial software, especially R&D tool software, is stuck, and low-end production equipment and industrial control system upgrades require new technology empowerment;
- At the connection level, the connection of production equipment has not been opened up, the agreement is seven countries and eight systems, the cost of collecting data is high, and a large amount of data is isolated.
- Fragmentation of industrial scenes, lack of high value-added applications, and weak corporate R&D capabilities.
- The demographic dividend is gradually reduced, and production capacity has shifted to quality first, green manufacturing, R&D innovation, and high-end intelligent manufacturing.
Zou believes that smart mining is a combination of two industries of technology and mining. While only, a unified industrial internet platform can solve any issues in the industry system and construction structure.
Huawei’s Smart Mining Solution:
Huawei has adopted a layered approach for its mining solution that different architecture based on Huawei Cloud and the Mining ecosystem to mix up and form intelligent coal mining.
The solution covers Minhong Internet of Things, industrial bearer networks, cloud infrastructure, digital platforms, and mining applications. Among them, Kuanghong builds the base of the unified interface and unified data format of the mine, laying the foundation of smart mining.
Zou said the past 10 years of evolution in the mobile internet will gonna happen in the industrial internet in the future. HarmonyOS’s applications have the potential to exceed expectations and they’ll become the foundation of the next generation of the industrial internet.
“Huawei’s entry in the mining field will not cover the world, nor does it want to control the industry, instead it will adopt an integrated (Huawei Inside) model,” said Zou.
Huawei coal mine business chief said, the construction of smart mining solutions requires openness and win-win complementary advantages, Huawei will work with partners to build a smart mining ecosystem.
TAILG has launched a brand new electric scooter, which is powered by the HarmonyOS operating system and an all-around stylish look to provide a better experience for consumers.
It has a custom-made avant-garde handlebar, as well as an exclusive smart touch screen, which can display various driving data of the vehicle in real-time. It also equips with a variety of smart unlocking features, including one-key ignition.
The latest TAILG brings HarmonyOS features such as APP control, NFC unlocking, mileage prediction, smart fortification, and vehicle inspection. The TAILG HarmonyOS electric scooter packs a 72V23AH graphene battery, a 1000W cloud-powered motor, and a GPS positioning system.
Looking at the price segment, the TAILG HarmonyOS scooter starts at 3899 yuan, and the high-end version is priced at 4588 yuan. This new electric scooter will be sold in offline stores across China.
Last year in August, TAILG and Huawei announced cooperation to upgrade electric vehicles, the two companies will establish a joint innovation laboratory to conduct research on IoT and other technologies. This will also allow both firms to achieve technological advantages.
Established in 2004, TAILG is an enterprise specializing in R&D, manufacturing, sale, and service of new energy electric vehicles, Its products cover electric bikes, electric scooters, electric special bikes, electric tricycles, and other vehicles. It has an annual production capacity of 12 million vehicles and more than 30,000 stores exclusively in China.
(via – Sina Tech)
Today, HarmonyOS 3.1 developer preview testing is opened for smartphone users, this recruitment will enable developers to participate in the open beta activity with developer-only features directly into a real device.
According to the information, HarmonyOS 3.1 developer beta is currently being announced for the first phase of devices including Huawei P50 and P50 Pro. However, Huawei has confirmed to add more devices to the test pool later on. Also, a more friendly and subtle beta test is likely to begin in March.
To be mentioned, HarmonyOS 3.1 developer open beta recruitment is applicable until February 13, 2023. Afterward, Huawei will review the test applications. Selected testers will receive an email or SMS to download HarmonyOS 3.1 developer beta OTA rollout.
Also, this beta activity is available only for the Chinese models and only real authenticated accounts will pass the developer beta signup.
HarmonyOS 3.1 comes constructively adds a new ArkTS language, and with the latest public test, you will experience the improvements and efficiency of the app powered by ArkTS language, STage model, ArkUI, and more.
Below you can check the HarmonyOS 3.1 developer preview features:
- The ability framework adds a stage development model, including stage model life cycle management, scheduling, callback, context acquisition, authentication, and more. At the same time, the operation and management capabilities of the application are enhanced.
- The ArkUI development framework enhances the declarative Canvas/XComponent component capabilities, enhances component layout capabilities and state management capabilities, and optimizes the usability of some components.
- Application package management adds an interface for querying properties related to applications, ability, and ExtensionAbility.
- The common basic class library supports Buffer binary reading and writing.
- Web services add support for document preview and basic editing functions of document-type web applications, as well as cookie management and storage management.
- Added support for YUV, webp image codec, and other capabilities for graphics and images. Added native vsync capabilities, and supports self-drawing engines to independently control the rendering rhythm.
- Added camera configuration and preview functions in Media Services.
- The window service adds window-related interfaces under the Stage model, which enhances the window rotation capability and enhances the avoidance area query capability.
- The globalization service has newly added support for internationalization enhancement capabilities such as time zone lists, transliteration, and phone number attribution.
- The basic capabilities of common events are enhanced, and the commonEvent module is changed to commonEventManager.
- The resource management service adds a synchronization interface for resource acquisition, a new interface for querying resource values based on names, a new interface for querying number and float resource types, and a new way for Stage model resource query.
- Input method service adds input method cursor direction constant.
Android 14 is the next software version for the Android ecosystem. On February 8, Google stepped ahead to begin the development of this major upgrade with the first developer beta.
Google has released the roadmap for the development, beta testing, platform stability, and the final release of Android 14, which reveals meet the launch of Huawei HarmonyOS 4 later in the second half of 2023.
The first developer preview is already out for the Pixel devices. However, Google could open early access to other smartphone makers such as OnePlus by April when the open beta campaign kicks off.
As mentioned by the Android company, Android 14 is projected to reach platform stability by the end of July. But there’s still a possibility of these milestone timelines to delay, similar to last year.
For your information, the Android 14 developer preview will be a very useful and early gift to the developer community. It will pave a way for the app devs to know more about the upcoming APIs and app features ahead of the final launch.
Looking into the developer preview features, Android 14 promises to improve productivity, enhances performance, improvements to security, and privacy, and bring new customizations.
Yes, there are new tweaks and changes made over Android 12, while there are more that will be visible as the development progress further. Throughout this phase, these developers (and later users) will help to fix bugs and make improvements to the Android 14 source code.
HarmonyOS 4:
Aside from the Android 14 developer beta, Huawei is preparing for the HarmonyOS 3.1 rollout but the company is working on HarmonyOS 4 as a major release for the next generation of Huawei devices. For now, there’s no official launch date available but we are likely to hear more on this at the Huawei Developer Conference (HDC) 2023 event.
HarmonyOS 4 promises big upgrades over HarmonyOS 3 and a major restructure in the user interface (UI). Nonetheless, we’ll keep you posted.
(source – Android)