Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the news of building the next generation of high-performance aerospace computing chips based on the RISC-V architecture was instantly out of the circle, and RISC-V was once again pushed into the spotlight. In fact, before heaven, RISC-V based on its own advantages of low power consumption, low cost, flexibility and scalability, safety and reliability has been landed in many fields. Not long ago, Yue Fang Technology, an active co-creator of RISC-V ecology and a leader in high-end industrial iot chip solutions, released the industry’s first RISC-V SoC chip NB2 for high-end industrial applications, and launched a number of landing application cases based on NB2 in the same period, covering smart logistics, smart city, data security and other fields. Arouse wide attention. This series of solutions to solve the independent and controllable problems of China’s high-end industrial applications is fully in line with the national development trend of dual carbon and new infrastructure. How does NB2 apply it and help solve the “industry sticking points”? At this conference, many partners of Yuefang Technology were elaborated and discussed.

For example, smart logistics is no longer equivalent to the traditional impression of the “express industry”, but is one of the key “infrastructure” related to national security. With the objective needs of industrial upgrading, the current logistics industry has entered the crossroads of major changes, and intelligent operation has become its next outlet. To enable digital operations and generate intelligent decisions, you need computing. “Especially with edge computing, only by completing intelligent decisions at the edge can we better meet the needs of logistics scenarios.” Wang Jinfan, founder of Liansheng Technology, an industry leader in intelligent operation of the new logistics industry, explained.

Figure 1. Wang Jinfan, founder of Liansheng Technology, introduces the smart logistics solution and the application of NB2 in it

In collaboration with Yuefang, Liansheng Technology has created a corresponding intelligent logistics solution based on RISC-V products, including the perception interaction layer, IoT platform and upper level decision system. In the perception

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interaction layer, BF products of Yuefang interact with production factors in reality through smart labels, smart cars, etc. The focus of the IoT platform layer is to let the edge side complete part of the decision, at this time, the chip needs to have strong computing power, not just simple data aggregation, NB series products can be perfectly competent. Compared with other architectures, RISC-V based chips have obvious advantages such as low power consumption, low cost, high flexibility, and high computing power, in addition, special emphasis should be placed on security: supply chain security and information security.

It is based on such a set of intelligent logistics solutions, Liansheng technology corresponding to the realization of a number of specific products, such as logistics robots, intelligent sorting cars, intelligent gateways and sensor networks. It is reported that these programs have been applied to actual operational scenarios and continue to play an effective role.

Of course, the landing of smart logistics is only the “tip of the iceberg” of new digital infrastructure. To promote high-quality economic development, digitization and low-carbon are a pair of closely coupled “development community”. In the context of the strategy of “building” and “reducing carbon”, the transformation of the energy system is particularly critical if the country wants to achieve the dual carbon goal.

At present, with the rise of clean energy to the “main role”, the energy structure of the grid has undergone great changes. However, due to the volatility and indirectness of clean energy, coupled with the increasing demand on the load side of the grid, how to form an interaction between the load side equipment and the grid has become a major challenge.

“We put forward the concept of virtual power plant, the use of information means, air conditioning, electric vehicles, energy storage system and so on together to participate in power regulation,” said Mr. Yao Guofeng, technical expert of Energy Internet Technology Research Institute of China Electric Power Research Institute, “based on Yue Fang NB2 edge intelligent gateway, truly achieve flexible interaction.”

For example, today, China’s stock of intelligent air conditioners is more than 100 million units, if they are gathered together, reasonable regulation, is expected to produce 120 million kilowatts of adjustable resources, the volume is equivalent to five Three Gorges hydropower station, to know that the peak load of Guangdong Province is 140 million kilowatts, which contributes greatly to the stable supply of national electricity.