Chapter 982 The Importance of Solutions

"Extreme Rescue" is for the Skynet system and for the future Muye Weishi, and the registration of Muye Weishi is also progressing in an orderly manner.

Li Mu began to figure out a few questions. First, after the establishment of Makino Vision, which video surveillance equipment manufacturer should we accept?

Secondly, after the acquisition of the production company, where should the future Makino Vision be placed? Is it in Yanjing, or in Hangzhou, or in a third city.

According to Lin Qingya's statistical report, more than 70% of Huaxia's current video camera equipment manufacturers, as well as upstream and downstream enterprises in the entire industry chain, are basically rooted in the Shenzhen market in the southern section. This is not beyond Li Mu's expectations. The Shenzhen market is almost the most powerful heart of the Huaxia electronic hardware market. It not only sends the blood of electronic hardware to the whole country, but most importantly, it also nourishes a large number of local hardware R&D and production enterprises.

In his last life, Li Mu had a certain understanding of DJI's success. Speaking of DJI's so much technology accumulation, especially in hardware, it is actually largely inseparable from Shenzhen, the city of electronics. Strong support, after all, Shenzhen's accumulation of electronic components, no city in the country can surpass it.

Not to mention so many related companies in Shenzhen, as well as import and export, smuggling, foreign garbage and other industries, just in Huaqiangbei, the hardware here is so rich that as long as you have the technical strength, you can almost save a set of phased arrays here empty-handed. Radar is coming.

Therefore, the unique hardware conditions of the Shenzhen market also make Li Mu's heart to do hardware quite yearn.

Thinking about the field of security monitoring, Li Mu felt that no matter how the industry develops, in the end, hardware production and sales should be the main focus, and technology and software support should be supplemented;

All the back-end technology, software support and advanced technological functions are basically carried by hardware, so it is very necessary to put the future Makino Vision in the Shenzhen market.

After several thoughts, Li Mu's idea was: directly select a company with relatively suitable strength and price in the monitoring equipment manufacturer in Shenzhen, buy it with money from Muye Weishi, and at the same time pull all Hikvision's team into the deep. Go to the city and prepare to build the headquarters of Makino Vision in Shenzhen.

At the same time, the development team under Fang Xudong will be responsible for the support of core software technology in Yanjing for the time being, and when it becomes a bit of a climate in the future, the development team responsible for Muye Weishi will be separated out and migrated to Shenzhen.

It is a long-term strategic plan for Li Mu to move the future Muye Weishi to Shenzhen, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away.

The Shenzhen market is at the forefront of reform, with relatively loose policies and the best hardware development soil in the country. Li Mu felt that as long as Muye Weishi could take root in the Shenzhen market, he would definitely invest a huge amount of money to establish a real company in the Shenzhen market. Large-scale hardware R&D centers, their first entry point is: a complete set of solutions for digital shooting.

Surveillance video is just a point of focus to get involved in the hardware industry. To do this well, you need strong hardware production capabilities, software R&D capabilities, and software and hardware compatibility and integration capabilities. What Li Mu wants is to start with surveillance video. The core technology of digital photography is ready for the future mobile phone camera era.

Although the mobile phone camera was born as early as 2000, its real popularity will not wait until 2003. The mobile phone camera has gone from 100,000 pixels to 300,000 pixels to 8 million pixels, or even more than 10 million pixels. For many years, the real overlord is Jobs' most classic work: the iPhone.

Apple's mobile phone has two advantages that its opponents cannot match in the entire smartphone market. One is the iOS system under the closed loop of Apple's ecosystem, and the other is the unique shooting and imaging level.

Since the era of iPhone 4, the camera effect of Apple's mobile phone has been the best among all smartphone manufacturers, and new products of all friends have been launched.

Always use Apple as the benchmark product, and the most contrasted is the camera effect.

However, no matter how friends compare, stack parameters, secretly change concepts, or make false propaganda, the user's eyes are sharp, and the pixels of the iPhone camera may be much worse than those of friends, but in terms of imaging effects, most users Still think Apple is the best.

Why did Apple's camera's 8-megapixel imaging effect kill almost all Android smartphones, and even those competing products equipped with 12-megapixel cameras? In fact, it's not Apple's camera hardware that is really good, but Apple's The whole image processing solution is awesome.

A complete set of image processing solutions includes the hardware level of the camera, as well as the special optimization for the camera hardware, the specially developed image processing chip and the supporting software, and finally with its own light and shadow adjustment scheme to finally take shape.

So many software and hardware technologies are integrated, gradually optimized, and improved each other, and finally a set of excellent image processing solutions can be formed. In the entire camera solution of the iPhone, except for the camera hardware itself, it has no unique advantages. Apple has its own unique solutions for the core elements of

Everyone uses the exact same Sony camera, but the light and shadow effects shot by Apple’s mobile phones are more than one grade better than their opponents. This is the unique advantage of the iPhone in camera, and why other manufacturers advertise their image quality no matter how much, but The effect is never as good as the root cause of Apple.

Li Mu feels that now is not only a good opportunity to get involved in security surveillance video, but also a good opportunity to accumulate relevant excellent solutions in advance. If you can have your own image processing solution, then this solution can not only be used for security purposes Monitoring, you can also do fine-tuning to adapt to more fields.

If you have an excellent image processing solution first, then under the framework of this solution, if you focus on enhancing the impact capture in motion, you will soon be able to do GoPro;

In the same way, under this frontal frame, if you miniaturize the hardware, or directly wait for Sony and other hardware suppliers to come up with excellent mobile phone camera hardware, this solution will only need a little optimization, and you can immediately come up with a set of mobile phones. When it comes to the camera image solution, maybe when the era of smartphones comes, I will be the first to come up with a set of mobile phone image processing solutions that are even better than Apple's.

The development of solutions is very similar to the development of a successful model, such as the Volkswagen Golf. The Golf is a success. On this basis, if it is flattened a little bit, it is a Scirocco, and if it is elongated a little bit, it is a Sagitar, and if it is a little longer, it is a Passat. The name is Magotan, minus one rear seat is CC, a little longer is a Phaeton, a little higher is a Tiguan, a little higher is a Touareg, and when it is raised, it is a Touran. ...

Although it sounds like a joke and can't stand serious scrutiny, the truth is the same, so the core concept of Li Mu's hardware in the future is: come up with a complete set of solutions first!

After making up his mind, Li Mu immediately contacted Zhong Xinhua of Hikvision. Li Mu didn't tell him that he wanted to move the entire Hikvision team to Shenzhen. He just asked him that Hikvision was buying cameras. Do you have any comments and suggestions on the issue of equipment manufacturers?

After all, I want to buy a partner for Hikvision. In the future, camera equipment manufacturers will also cooperate with Hikvision, so Hikvision has the right to choose a partner.

Zhong Xinhua said to Li Mu: "We have screened some related domestic enterprises, among which, we mainly recommend Muye Weishi to acquire Shenzhen Guang'an Monitoring Technology Co., Ltd. This enterprise has relatively strong advantages in the production of surveillance cameras, and has A certain amount of technology accumulation is very suitable for the current overall planning of Muye Weishi."

Li Mu suddenly remembered Lin Qingya's investigation report. In her report, the Shenzhen-listed company named Guang'an Monitoring also gave a relatively high evaluation.

Guang'an Surveillance has accumulated years of experience in hardware production. Several surveillance cameras under their umbrella are now favored products in the domestic financial sector, and their performance is also relatively good.

Zhong Xinhua said: "Mr. Li, this company is now the most sought after by security monitoring and installation companies. Many security monitoring and installation companies use Guang'an's hardware when building a monitoring system for their customers. Guang'an's hardware is not only cost-effective, but also The quality is also very good, and the stability is very good.”

Li Mu asked him, "How do the security monitoring installation companies you mentioned generally build a complete monitoring system for their customers?"

Zhong Xinhua said: "In general, they purchase cameras, processing boards and hard disk video recorders. They are like builders, they build a system with the most cost-effective, and then install and debug it for customers. Basically, they don't have their own software. Support, in the final analysis, is a supplier of sales, installation, and after-sales."

With that said, Zhong Xinhua added: "These small companies actually account for the majority of the security monitoring market. In order to make a profit, they usually do something tricky in the hardware. The most common ones are the use of pirated boards and cards of very poor quality. Hard disk video recorder, there is no problem when the customer first uses it, but the difference can be seen in ten days and a half months. A good solution generally won't crash for a month, but the solution provided by this kind of machine manufacturer, Problems arise frequently.”

Li Mu said with a smile: "In this way, we quickly come up with a mature solution, which is of great significance to the entire security monitoring industry market!"