The Light of Domestic Products: The whole world begs me to sell

Factory Manager Zhang took the information and looked at it carefully, and his eyes lit up after reading all the contents.

Purchasing a satellite "air-space integrated" fire protection system solution for one month?
I have to say that such a commercial cooperation plan does seem to be okay.

You must know that since the establishment of the Phoenix Satellite Department, the top management of the department has considered the issue of satellite commercialization the most.

Any industry, any enterprise that wants to truly flourish must be inseparable from commercial operations. Only when commercial operations can see profits will there be a steady stream of capital inflows.

Even if it is as strong as the Phoenix Group, it did not continue to launch more satellites after launching three "viewing satellites" to ensure the update of the Phoenix Map APP. The biggest reason is that it cannot find a commercial model.

At present, the commercial operation of satellites of various companies around the world generally focuses on selling satellite data and providing satellite leasing.

For example, it is common to sell satellite map data, ocean data, or collect regional data according to customer needs.

Not to mention far away, such as the fight between Da Mao and Er Mao this time, although Da Mao destroyed Er Mao's communication base stations and communication facilities as soon as the fight started.

But Ermao, who reacted, quickly obtained thousands of sets of "Starlink" communication equipment terminals provided by SpaecX, and quickly restored Ermao's basic communication.

This is the business model of communication satellites.

In addition to communication satellite positioning, commercial remote sensing satellites in Europe and the United States have also played a huge role.

Taking advantage of the advantages of high-definition remote sensing satellites, several commercial satellite companies mobilized dozens of high-definition satellites to point at the border between Damao and Ermao, and sold top-secret picture information such as the deployment of key military forces in Damao to Ermao.

This is also the commercial operation of remote sensing commercial satellites.

of course.

A small number of domestic commercial remote sensing satellites can also do such things, but why is it difficult for domestic commercial satellites to develop globally?

One is because although the technical level of domestic commercial satellites is not bad in terms of various indicators, it is still lacking in comparison with commercial satellites in some European and American countries.

The development of domestic commercial satellites is very late, and it gradually improved after about 2017.

I still remember that during the great earthquake that year, all the communication networks in the earthquake area were completely paralyzed, and there was no way to get any contact between the earthquake area and the outside world.

At that time, in order to restore communication in time, I had to pay a lot of money to ask for Aramco's Iridium satellite phone.

In addition to communication satellites, because there were no high-resolution satellites in China at that time, it was impossible to obtain the first-time high-resolution satellite pictures of the earthquake-stricken areas to understand the disaster situation.

In the end, we also had to spend money and seek help from the international community, and finally got the satellite pictures of the disaster area only one day after the earthquake!
In addition to the late start and the gap in technology between Europe and the United States, another important reason is that commercial satellites are an asset-heavy industry.

If you want to grab customers and take orders, at least you must have satellites first.

but……

Aerospace is a money-burning industry. The cost of launching a satellite is tens of millions or hundreds of millions. The threshold is extremely high, and it is impossible to do it without some capital strength.

Not to mention that once it participates in international competition, it will face a group of large commercial satellite companies that have been established for decades and have many commercial satellites in operation.

It is conceivable how difficult it is for ordinary small companies to compete with them!

For example, SpaceX founded by Mask, everyone now thinks that SpaceX is too awesome, but in fact few people know that in 08, the SpaceX rocket company faced bankruptcy after the third rocket launch failure.

Mask, who was already a super-rich man at that time, had already emptied all his family assets. When he was desperate, he even mortgaged all the villas and sports cars, and finally made up the fourth rocket launch.

Fortunately, SpaceX's fourth rocket launch was successful, which allowed Mask to lobby NASA with the news of the successful rocket launch, and finally came back to life.

It can be seen that aerospace is really not something that ordinary people can afford.

Therefore, the procurement plan proposed by Shancheng City this time is very interesting.

Although it can be regarded as data collection, such outsourcing and customized services are indeed a new way.

Gao Ming at the side looked at Director Zhang and said with a smile:

"I'm not going to hide it from you two. In fact, our city's meteorological department also has a similar satellite remote sensing monitoring platform, but."

"The two are also very clear that our city certainly doesn't have so much money to set up a satellite department and launch several satellites for monitoring. The cost is too high."

"The meteorological department in the city is connected to the National Meteorological Center, and the monitoring data is given to us by the meteorological center above."

Having said this, Gao Ming deliberately paused, and changed the topic.

"However, according to my understanding, not only our mountain cities, but also most cities across the country are provided with monitoring data by the network of the meteorological center, but when there are more cities, there are more monitoring places, and the efficiency will naturally drop."

"So, it's not that there is no satellite monitoring for the mountain fire in our mountain city this time. In fact, when the satellite detects it, either the fire has already started, or our firefighters have already discovered it in advance."

Hu Lai nodded with a smile. He heard Zhou Damin talk about this situation in the previous meeting.

In fact, there are monitoring and early warnings for satellite forest fire prevention in China, but it is the same issue as Mayor Gao Ming said.

Originally, the National Meteorological Center had limited satellites, and it was impossible to use them exclusively to detect forest fires. After all, there were still tasks to detect people's livelihood such as weather forecasts and ocean conditions.

and.

As the National Meteorological Center, it is responsible for monitoring the mountains and forests of most domestic cities. It is impossible to cover everything under such a large monitoring area. It is already very good to be able to monitor once every 12 hours.

The reason for this is that in addition to the insufficient number of satellites for short-term coverage, there is also the need for ordinary remote sensing satellites to transmit data back and analyze images from the ground.

As a result, efficiency and timeliness are greatly reduced.

And what about the Phoenix "viewing satellite"?

The preprocessing intelligent judgment is directly carried out on the star.

It is no exaggeration to say that compared with the previous ordinary satellites, the Phoenix AI intelligent "observation satellite" is simply easy to beat.

High precision, AI intelligence, high recognition rate.

Just kidding, do you understand the gold content of AI smart satellites?

This is also the biggest advantage of "viewing satellite", and it is also a manifestation of Phoenix's strong chip capabilities.

Seeing Hu Lai nodding frequently, Gao Ming continued:
"The city has learned a lot from the wildfire and learned a lot."

"We did a simple calculation of this wildfire. The economic loss reached more than 5 million yuan according to preliminary statistics. Many century-old trees and rare tree species were also burned in this wildfire."

"So it's a painful experience, just let your Phoenix Group buy data and a full set of service plans every year in the months when wildfires are prone to occur."

"We will be fully monitored by your commercial company, we are very relieved!"

After saying this, Hu Lai and Director Zhang looked at each other.

In their eyes, both of them seemed to see the business opportunity of this service.

Mountain cities can purchase this service, so can other cities!
You must know that Yan Kingdom has a vast territory, and the mountains and forests around many cities in many places are indeed very easy to cause forest fires.

Such as Dian Province, such as GS Province, such as Liangshan Prefecture where several firefighters were sacrificed due to forest fires in the past two years!
Not to mention that all cities in the country purchase this service, even if only some cities purchase this service, the accumulation will add up, and it may really become a business model and really profitable.

and.

Even if you have to face losses in the early stage of operation, as long as there are more cities to purchase, the unit price will naturally drop. After the unit price is reduced, more cities are willing to accept such services!

This is the scale effect!
Thinking of this, Hu Lai didn't delay much, and settled the matter after a few words.

"Mayor Gao, we very much agree with the plan proposed by the city, and thank the city for providing us with such an order."

"Of course, from a technical point of view, we have no problem providing a satellite 'air-space integrated' early warning system, but I have to consult our satellite department for details."

"We will come down to discuss the specific details later!"

"it is good!"

After enjoying the guests, the city's visit to present the plaques in person this time is also a perfect ending.

After Gao Ming and his party left, Hu Lai hurried to hold a meeting with the main core members of the satellite department.

When Hu Lai explained the procurement services provided by the city at the meeting, both Zhou Damin, the person in charge of the satellite department, and the engineers of the technical department were very excited.

but.

When Hu said that it could be promoted in other cities and provinces, Zhou Damin suddenly frowned.

"Boss, from the perspective of satellite technology, there is no problem with our continuous monitoring and shooting of six or seven places, or even more than a dozen monitoring areas."

"However, once there are too many monitoring areas, the speed of AI intelligently identifying the fire source may not be able to achieve the ideal state, and even problems may arise."

Ok?
Seeing Hu Lai's puzzled look, Zhou Damin explained:

"To put it simply, our simplified version of the 'Viewing Satellite' only needs more than 3 minutes for each satellite imaging plus intelligent recognition because the shooting width is reduced."

"But this is like a computer. Although it can process one or two pictures at the same time, the calculation speed of the chip will inevitably decrease and it will freeze."

"If pictures of dozens of areas are waiting to be imaged and identified, it may take more than half an hour or even an hour for the final area to be identified."

"It was identified as a fire after an hour, so what's the point?"

With such a simple explanation, Hu Lai instantly understood.

To put it bluntly, this is a problem of the computing power of the chip.

It can be imagined that it takes a while to open a picture of tens of megabytes on the computer on weekdays, let alone satellite pictures with a width of tens of kilometers and a size of several gigabytes at every turn.

Coupled with the AI ​​intelligent recognition of a series of operations, it is obviously impossible for a Nantianmen chip to complete the recognition of dozens of pictures at the same time.

"That's really a problem."

After a while, Hu Lai looked at Zhou Damin.

"Is there a solution?"

"Uh... yes!"

"That is to form a 'space computing power network'!"

"Space computing power network?!"

Hu Lai let out a low cry in surprise, Space?Computing power network?
Zhou Damin's expression remained unchanged, he nodded and said:

"Our 'Viewing Series' satellite hardware has realized a full network, which means that more than a dozen satellites can communicate in space."

"If the software department can realize the 'on-star computing power network' function on more than a dozen stars through software programs, then a 'space computing power network' can be formed."

"To put it simply, our current 'viewing satellite' network has a revisit cycle of 45 minutes, which also means that after a single satellite is photographed, the chips of more than ten other satellites have no task to work."

"At this time, it is only necessary to transmit the pictures to be processed on the satellite performing the mission to several nearby satellites through inter-satellite communication, and the efficiency can be greatly improved by several satellites processing the pictures at the same time."

Hu Lai understood what he heard, and after thinking for a moment, he turned to look at Director Zhang.

"Old Zhang, you coordinate the software department of the group to do this."

"The project team that started the 'computing power network' asked them to participate."

"it is good!"

After giving this order, Zhou Damin continued to express the thoughts in his mind.

"Boss, apart from satellites, there is also fixed-wing drones."

"According to the purchase agreement, we provide integrated services, that is to say, we take care of everything from the early warning to the dispatch of drones to control the fire."

"In this way, we must purchase or produce drones independently, and fixed-wing drones must be equipped with dedicated operators."

"Correct!"

Hu Lai hummed, he was still very interested in fixed-wing drones.

He has always had the impression that UAVs are multi-rotor UAVs similar to DJI. It was not until this time that he saw several fixed-wing UAVs produced by the research institute that he became interested.

Fixed-wing UAVs are similar to small aircraft, with heavy load and long range. The only disadvantage is that they are not easy to control.

The multi-rotor drone has a simple structure and is easy to operate. The disadvantage is that the battery life is not good, rarely exceeding 90 minutes, and the control range is relatively short, generally not exceeding 15 kilometers.

"When it comes to fixed-wing drones, I do know a little bit."

Zhou Damin went on to say:

"Now the most powerful domestic company engaged in drones is 'China UAV' under the Aviation Industry Corporation, and their products are basically military products."

"I think the performance of the products of other private enterprises is not as good as the fixed-wing drones of our research institute, and it is not as good as our own production!"

"However, if we really want to independently mass-produce fixed-wing drones, this matter has to be reported to the higher authorities for approval."

"After all, this thing is a firefighting drone with fire-fighting equipment on it. If it is equipped with guided missiles, it will be a big killer."

Hu Lai laughed a few times when he heard Zhou Damin's teasing tone. After thinking for a while, he decided to ask the institute to take the lead in designing a fixed-wing drone suitable for forest firefighting.

After all, several Ermao experts in the research institute have supported it for so long, so it's time to show some finished products.

After clarifying all this, everyone discussed the last question.

That is, except for spring and summer when wildfires are high, satellites have monitoring tasks, what do satellites do at other times?
For example, after the wildfire, more than a dozen satellites are empty?

After discussing for more than half an hour, everyone still had no better idea and could only give up.

"That's it, let's do a good job of this 'air-sky integration' service first..."