Highlights 2025: Smarter IoT with Edge AI to Reduce the TCO for Customers

In the past decades, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has seen rapid development and accelerated application in various fields such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare, and public welfare. This has effectively propelled the intelligent, green, and integrated development of industries and injected strong new momentum into economic growth. However, during the actual application process, numerous challenges remain:

• Product Fragmentation: There are issues of product fragmentation and insufficient intelligence in systems.
• Engineering Implementation: High engineering costs and a focus on construction over management are common pitfalls.
• Value Realization: High information security risks and difficulties in fully realizing value are persistent challenges.
• Ecosystem Building: Loose cooperation within the ecosystem and negative competition within the industry are prevalent.

Challenges of the traditional IoT solutions

Since inventing DTU (the smart phone of the IoT industry) in 2002 and pioneering the M2M (Machine-to-Machine) industry, Hongdian has been deeply immersed in the IoT sector for 28 years, propelling industry growth through continuous technological innovation. Armed with a profound understanding of the industry's pain points, Hongdian has introduced the concept of the next-gen AIoT system.

The new system is centered around the core interests of end-users. By integrating the idea of

• Software-defined technology
• Edge AI (Artificial Intelligence)
• Ecosystem Collaboration

it offers a comprehensive solution to address user challenges in product fragmentation, engineering costs, value realization, and ecosystem cooperation. It enhances user experience through increased solution value, reduced engineering efforts, and maintenance-free operations, while significantly lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

The next-gen AIoT system significantly enhances the intelligence of product systems through the application of software-defined technology and artificial intelligence. IoT devices are no longer just simple data collection and communication tools. By improving the technological content and performance of products, enhancing software definition, and enabling remote configuration and maintenance, the system achieves manageable and secure network transmission, distributed collaborative operation with AI, and centralized deployment with remote maintenance. Although there might be a slight increase in device costs, the additional costs such as for engineering, maintenance, upgrade, and security purpose, etc. are greatly reduced. Compared to traditional systems, the TCO is significantly lowered.

Enhance system value and reduce the total cost of ownership

In January 2025, DeepSeek made a remarkable debut, Hongdian AI team quickly catch up and deploy the DeepSeek R1 distillation model and successfully runs a several rounds of test on our Edge AI products. This year is poised to be a milestone for AIoT applications and innovations across various industries. Hongdian, staying at the forefront of technological progress and industrial innovation, is ready to usher in the era of AIoT devices with its next-gen AIoT system. Let's wait and see how this groundbreaking technology will reshape the future.