CHINASOFT INT'L (00354) has announced a significant milestone, successfully winning the bid for the Guangdong Province Industrial Robot and Smart Home Application Empowerment Center - the Home Furnishing OpenHarmony AI Innovation Center project, with a contract value of approximately RMB 35.5 million. This project marks a pivotal strategic move in response to the national "AI + Manufacturing" special action implementation plan, reinforcing the company's commitment to deepening the integration of artificial intelligence with the manufacturing sector.
This win is a landmark advancement under the group's "One Body, Two Wings" strategy. By leveraging the proven experience from its Xi'an OpenHarmony Technology Adaptation and Product Development Center, which has established a complete model of "technology adaptation, testing certification, scenario implementation, and industry aggregation," the company is now replicating this expertise in Foshan. This expansion is a critical step for the group to penetrate the local home furnishing industry cluster and accelerate its foray into edge intelligence and spatial intelligence business domains.
The Xi'an center has honed a full suite of engineering capabilities in hardware adaptation, industry-specific intelligent agents, and edge-cloud-device synergy. It has successfully completed OpenHarmony adaptation and XTS compatibility certification for a large number of terminal devices in urban B-end governance scenarios, cultivating a mature methodology for ecosystem development through collaborative government, enterprise, research, and application efforts. The Foshan project represents a strategic extension of these validated technical foundations, adaptation certification systems, and ecosystem organization models from the B-end city IoT sector to consumer-focused manufacturing and smart home applications. This move enables the transfer of B-end industry capabilities to C-end consumer hardware scenarios, creating the group's pioneering model for a "dual-directional B-end and C-end linkage" within the OpenHarmony ecosystem.
The project is centered on advancing the intelligence upgrade of Foshan's home furnishing products and involves the construction of three core platform pillars to build a comprehensive AI technology and service framework for empowering smart products. The first is a big data platform designed to consolidate the AI data foundation. This platform will aggregate, govern, and share massive volumes of product data, user behavior data, and manufacturing data from Foshan's home furnishing industry. It aims to provide high-quality data support for AI model training, industry intelligent agent development, and product intelligence upgrades, thereby solidifying the data bedrock for AI innovation in the home furnishing sector.
The second pillar is an all-domain intelligent interconnection platform, which establishes an edge-cloud-device collaborative AI architecture. Built on the OpenHarmony operating system, this platform will cover device, edge, and cloud layers, ensuring seamless interconnectivity and coordinated control of home furnishing products. It will host core AI capabilities, including the lightweight deployment of intelligent hardware models, the orchestration of industry intelligent agents, and the operational framework for the intelligent agent harness layer, creating a complete technology stack for edge-cloud-device synergy from perception to decision-making and execution.
The third is a digital and intelligent empowerment platform designed to deliver AI-driven product intelligence solutions. This platform addresses the upgrade needs of Foshan's home furnishing companies by offering one-stop services for AI software and hardware development, technology adaptation, and intelligent product R&D. Leveraging the foundational capabilities of the big data and intelligent interconnection platforms, it will empower businesses to accelerate the intelligent transformation of their products, promoting the large-scale implementation and commercial application of AI across the home furnishing industry.
Foshan's home furnishing industry cluster, with a market size exceeding one trillion yuan, encompasses furniture, home appliances, ceramics, lighting, and hardware, making it one of the world's largest and most complete industry supply chains. This provides a vast ecosystem of application scenarios and a solid industrial base for integrating AI with manufacturing. The project serves as a provincial empowerment center, allowing the group to deeply embed itself in the intelligence upgrade journey of this trillion-dollar industry, evolving from a technical service provider to a platform operator driving industry enablement.
Technically, the project adopts an edge-cloud-device collaborative architecture, focusing on smart hardware models, industry intelligent agents, and the intelligent agent harness runtime framework. This aligns with current mainstream technology trends moving from cloud-centric AI to edge-side applications and from single models to collaborative agent ecosystems. Winning this bid signifies that the group's AI capabilities have extended from enterprise-level software scenarios to IoT and spatial intelligence applications. It further consolidates the group's integrated technical loop of "compute power, models, and intelligent agents," laying a critical foundation for entering the global smart home industry arena.
Looking ahead, the group plans to leverage this project as a springboard to deepen AI integration in home furnishing manufacturing, expanding into smart hardware model development, industry intelligent agent deployment, and integrated edge-cloud-device solutions. The empowerment platform will be used to productize and standardize the validated intelligent capabilities from the Foshan home furnishing sector, with the goal of replicating them across other manufacturing clusters nationally and the global home market.
With the national advancement of the "AI + Manufacturing" strategy and the growing demand for intelligent upgrades in China's home furnishing terminal products, the group believes that edge and spatial intelligence businesses will become a major growth engine for its long-term AI strategy. The establishment of this project aligns with the group's overall strategic development plans and is in the best interests of all shareholders.
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