"High logistics costs, high personnel costs, and great difficulty in serving customers are new difficulties that our enterprises have encountered in the impact of the epidemic." While the COVID-19 has brought pressure to some industries, it has also brought new opportunities for enterprises to explore new businesses and new scenarios. The reporter visited multiple enterprises and learned that some enterprises have implemented prevention and control measures while overcoming the impact of the epidemic, focusing on projects, vigorously promoting, and innovating to accumulate momentum for the development of enterprises.
According to statistical data from Nanjing, the added value of information transmission, software, and information technology services in the city increased by 9.7% year-on-year in the first quarter, accounting for 10.8% of the city's GDP, an increase of 1.6 percentage points compared to the entire year of 2021.
Kinetic Energy: Creating a Development Path with Epidemic Prevention Products
The "Epidemic Prevention Sentinel" solves the problem of "rapid identity verification" when entering communities, hospitals, campuses, and parks. The "Epidemic Prevention Sentinel" launched by Minivision Technology achieves integrated functions such as facial recognition, temperature detection, health code verification, ID card verification, and dynamic itinerary review, reducing management costs and improving verification efficiency; The epidemic prevention reporting platform and the intelligent epidemic prevention command and dispatch platform can provide scientific and effective data support for various units to make decisions on epidemic prevention and control management. Once launched, this series of products will be widely used in transportation hubs (high-speed railways, airports, stations, etc.), highways, hospitals, schools, parks, scenic spots, and other scenarios.
Minivision Technology is a representative enterprise in the artificial intelligence industry in Jiangsu Province. Its revenue increased by about 30% in the first quarter over the same period, and it is expected to increase even more in the second quarter. Although project delivery has slowed down or been delayed due to the impact of the epidemic, Xiaoshi Technology has quickly made resource allocation, tilting its resources towards digital epidemic prevention in the medium to long term, focusing on researching and developing innovative epidemic prevention products, opening up new sales channels with epidemic prevention products, and accumulating a batch of high-quality customer resources and industry directions.
At present, Minivision Technology has established health codes in 16 provinces and cities including Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai, and Zhejiang, serving 11 administrative cities such as Nanjing and Suzhou in Jiangsu. The products cover 14 application scenarios, and the core technologies such as digital sentry, algorithm warehouse, and facial recognition with masks cover 3500 entrances and exits. The daily service personnel verified by the command and dispatch platforms of various cities and departments in charge exceed 30 million. The epidemic prevention products deployed in places such as Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing Second Hospital, and Suzhou Railway Station have firmly established a comprehensive line of scientific and technological epidemic prevention, and have received unanimous praise from users.
It is understood that the development of Minivision Technology has also received strong support from the government, and the delivery of financial, tax, and financial policies for resuming work and production has given more impetus to the development of enterprises.
This article is excerpted from "Purple Mountain News"
Nanjing Daily/Zijinshan News Reporter Chen Weiming
