"Speed Rescue" is for the Skynet system and for the future of Makino Vision, and the registration work of Makino Vision is also progressing in an orderly manner.
Li Mu began to think about several questions. First of all: After Makino Nuctech was established, which video surveillance equipment manufacturer should be recruited
Secondly, after the acquisition of manufacturing companies, where should Makino Prestige be placed in the future? Whether to place it in Yanjing, Hangzhou, or a third city.
Lin Qingya's statistical report shows that currently more than 70% of China's video recording equipment manufacturers, as well as upstream and downstream companies in the entire industry chain, are basically rooted in the Shenzhen City in the southern section. This did not exceed Li Mu's expectations. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is almost the most powerful heart of China's electronic hardware market. It not only delivers the blood of electronic hardware to the country, but most importantly, it also nourishes a large number of local hardware R&D and production companies.
In his previous life, Li Mu had a certain understanding of DJI’s success. Speaking of DJI’s technological accumulation, especially in terms of hardware, it is actually largely inseparable from the support given by the electronic city of Shenzhen. Strong support, after all, Shenzhen City’s accumulation in electronic components is unmatched by any city in the country.
Not to mention the many related companies in Shenzhen, as well as industries such as import and export, smuggling, and foreign garbage, Huaqiangbei alone has such rich hardware that as long as you have technical strength, you can almost build a phased array here with nothing. Radar coming.
Therefore, the unique conditions that Shenzhen City has in terms of hardware also make Li Mu yearn for hardware.
Thinking carefully about the field of security monitoring, Li Mu feels that no matter how this industry develops, it will ultimately be dominated by hardware production and sales, supplemented by technology and software support;
All back-end technologies, software support and advanced technological functions are basically carried by hardware, so it seems that it is particularly necessary to place the future Makino Vision in Shenzhen.
After thinking about it for a while, Li Mu’s idea was to directly select a company with relatively suitable strength and price among the surveillance equipment manufacturers in Shenzhen City, buy it with investment from Makino Vision, and at the same time bring all Hikvision’s teams to Shenzhen. to build the headquarters of Makino Nuctech in Shenzhen City.
At the same time, the development team under Fang Xudong is temporarily responsible for the support of core software technology in Yanjing. When the situation becomes more mature in the future, the development team responsible for Makino Vision will be separated separately and moved to Shenzhen.
Moving the future Makino Prestige to Shenzhen City, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away, is a long-term strategic plan for Li Mu.
Shenzhen City is at the forefront of reform, has relatively loose policies, and has the best hardware development soil in the country. Li Mu feels that as long as Makino Vision can take root in Shenzhen City, he will definitely invest huge amounts of money to establish a real hardware development company in Shenzhen City. A large hardware R&D center, when the time comes, its first entry point will be: a complete set of solutions for digital photography.
Surveillance video is only a focus of getting involved in the hardware industry. To do this well, you need strong hardware production capabilities, software research and development capabilities, and software and hardware compatibility and integration capabilities. What Li Mu wants is to start with surveillance video research. The core technology of digital photography is preparing for the future era of mobile phone photography.
Although mobile phone cameras were born as early as 2000, their real popularity had to wait until after 2003. Mobile phone cameras have gone from 100,000 pixels to 300,000 pixels to 8 million pixels and even over 10 million pixels. This journey has taken a total of ten years. For many years, among them, the real overlord is Steve Jobs’ most classic work: iPhone.
Apple mobile phones have two advantages that rivals cannot match in the entire smartphone market. One is the iOS system within the entire Apple ecological closed loop, and the other is the unique shooting and imaging level.
Since the era of iPhone 4, the camera performance of Apple mobile phones has been unparalleled among all smartphone manufacturers. All new products launched by rival manufacturers always use Apple as the benchmark product, and the most common one is the camera for taking pictures. Effect.
However, no matter how competitors compare, how they pile up parameters, how they secretly change concepts and make false propaganda, users’ eyes are sharp. The pixels of Apple’s mobile phone camera may be much worse than those of competitors, but when it comes to imaging effects, most users I still think Apple is the best.
Why did the 8-megapixel imaging effect of Apple’s camera kill almost all Android smartphones, and even those competing products equipped with 10-20 million pixel cameras? In fact, what is really awesome is not that Apple’s camera hardware is good, but Apple’s The entire image processing solution is awesome.
A complete set of image processing solutions includes the hardware level of the camera, as well as special optimization of the camera hardware, specially developed image processing chips and supporting software, and finally combined with its own light and shadow adjustment scheme to finally take shape.
The integration of so many software and hardware technologies, gradual optimization, and mutual improvement can finally form an excellent image processing solution. Among the iPhone's entire camera solutions, apart from the camera hardware itself, it does not have unique advantages. Apple has its own unique solutions for the core elements.
Everyone uses the same Sony camera, but the light and shadow effects captured by Apple phones are more than one level better than those of their competitors. This is the iPhone’s unique advantage in photography, and it’s also why no matter how other manufacturers flaunt their imaging quality, The fundamental reason why the results will never be as good as Apple's.
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 set of image processing solutions, this solution can not only be used for security Monitoring can also be fine-tuned to adapt to more fields.
If we first have a set of excellent image processing solutions, then within the framework of this solution, if we focus on enhancing the impact capture during motion, we will soon be able to do GoPro's work;
In the same way, under this framework, if the hardware is miniaturized, or if hardware suppliers such as Sony come up with excellent mobile phone camera hardware, this solution will be able to produce a mobile phone immediately with just a little optimization. As for camera imaging solutions, maybe when the smartphone era comes, I will be the first to come up with a set of mobile phone shooting image processing solutions that are even more powerful than Apple.
The development of solutions is very similar to the development of a successful car model, such as the Volkswagen Golf. The Golf is successful. On this basis, if it is flattened a little, it will be a Scirocco, if it is stretched a little, it will be a Sagitar, and if it is stretched a little further, it will be a Passat. The name is Magotan, minus one rear seat is CC, a little longer is Phaeton, a little raised is Tiguan, a little higher is Touareg, and the raised one is a Touran. …
Although it sounds like a joke and cannot stand up to serious scrutiny, the principles are the same. Therefore, Li Mu’s core philosophy in making hardware in the future is: come up with a complete set of solutions first!
With this in mind, Li Mu immediately contacted Zhong Xinhua from Hikvision. Li Mu did not tell him that he wanted to move the entire Hikvision team to Shenzhen. He just asked him whether Hikvision was acquiring cameras. Do you have any comments or suggestions on the issue of equipment manufacturers
After all, we 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 partners.
Zhong Xinhua told Li Mu: "We have screened some related domestic companies. Among them, we mainly recommend that Makino Nuctech acquire Shenzhen Guangan Surveillance Technology Co., Ltd. This company has relatively strong advantages in the production of surveillance cameras and has A certain amount of technology accumulation is very suitable for Makino Nuctech’s current overall plan.”
Li Mu suddenly remembered Lin Qingya's investigation report. In her report, this Shenzhen-based company named Guang'an Monitoring also gave a relatively high evaluation.
Guang'an Surveillance has accumulated many years of experience in hardware production. Several of their surveillance cameras are now popular products in the domestic financial sector, and their performance is also relatively good.
Zhong Xinhua said: "Mr. Li, this company is now the most popular among security monitoring and installation companies. Many security monitoring and installation companies will use Guang'an's hardware when building monitoring systems for 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 usually build a complete monitoring system for customers?"
Zhong Xinhua said: "Generally speaking, they just purchase cameras, processing boards and hard disk video recorders. They are like machine builders, building the most cost-effective system themselves, and then installing and debugging it for customers. Basically they do not have their own software. Support, in the final analysis, is a sales, installation and after-sales supplier.”
After saying that, Zhong Xinhua added: "These small businesses actually account for most of the security monitoring market. In order to make profits, they usually do some tricks in the hardware. The most common ones are to use pirated boards and very low-quality ones. There are no problems with hard disk video recorders when customers first use them, but the difference can be seen in ten days and a half. With a good solution, generally speaking, it will not crash within a month, but the solution provided by this kind of machine builder, Problems arise frequently.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "In this way, if we quickly come up with a mature solution, it will also be of great significance to the entire security monitoring industry market!"
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