What are the general directions of Microsoft Labs in 2022?

In May 2019, the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Lab (referred to as "Microsoft Lab") officially landed in Zhangjiang, Pudong, as an innovation project at the Microsoft headquarters. In the past two and a half years, Microsoft Labs has played a bridge role, verified Microsoft's cutting-edge technologies, provided technical empowerment based on Microsoft's Azure AI and IoT product portfolio for hundreds of enterprises across the country, and accelerated the promotion of enterprise solutions through ecological docking. to the market.

Over the past year, this technical team with a professional background in artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and cloud technology has not only helped startups accelerate business incubation, co-created application scenarios and solutions with leading technology companies, but also cooperated with many Fortune 500 companies. Together we drive digital transformation. Looking forward to 2022, what key areas and cutting-edge technologies will Microsoft Labs, as an open innovation center for large enterprises in Pudong, focus on?

2022, enabling partners to achieve medium and small enterprises intermediation

At the end of last year, the Microsoft-Sony Partner Empowerment Program was officially launched in the Microsoft Lab. Based on Microsoft's Azure AI and IoT technologies, as well as Sony's intelligent image sensor technology, it will work with innovative companies to create solutions in the fields of computer vision and video analysis. As an important part of the plan, the Maker Digital Marathon has discovered promising innovative companies in retail, industry, finance, construction and other fields. The competition will hold the finals and the PoC results display in the second quarter of this year, in order to become an innovative leader in the development of large and medium-sized enterprises.

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"We are honored to participate in the Microsoft-Sony Partner Empowerment Program, which perfectly integrates Microsoft and Sony's powerful software and hardware solutions into Hanshow's industry solutions to provide customers with higher value-added products and services. In the future, we will also I look forward to working with Microsoft and Sony to explore more possibilities and empower the industry with technology to help the sustainable development of the industry."

As a global certified partner of Microsoft and the first batch of partners to join the Microsoft-Sony Partner Empowerment Program, Hanshow Technology, Microsoft and Sony jointly build an artificial intelligence solution for smart marketing in retail scenarios, using SONY's latest AI image sensor IMX500 and Microsoft Azure AI and IoT technology platforms, combined with Hanshow's artificial intelligence algorithms and smart marketing business logic, provide retail customers with AI solutions for consumer attributes and passenger flow in front of various marketing screens, behavior analysis and marketing interaction. This solution effectively circumvents user privacy issues. With the support of Hanshow and Microsoft AI technologies, it provides accurate, efficient, real-time marketing intelligence interaction and analysis functions, which greatly improves the accuracy and precision of marketing activities for retail customers. effectiveness.

2022, based on

Since its establishment, "AI + innovative drugs" has become one of the key directions of Microsoft Labs technology empowerment. Under the general trend of digitalization in the pharmaceutical industry, advanced AI R&D technology has become an essential tool for smart pharmaceutical companies. From 2022 to 2023, the Microsoft Labs Partner Empowerment Program will focus on the theme of biomedicine, join hands with domestic and foreign biomedical giants, integrate the Zhangjiang innovation ecosystem, and gather technical experts. It is expected to radiate nearly 100 innovative companies within the empowerment cycle. The laboratory will also use Microsoft's global business capabilities and ecological resources to help local pharmaceutical companies "go overseas" smoothly.

case direct hit - Medicine Rubik's Cube

"The cooperation with Microsoft Labs has expanded our depth of medical data mining. With the help of the AI capabilities of Microsoft cloud services and the landing strength of laboratory prototype verification, coupled with its own cutting-edge NLP technical capabilities, Medical Cube is confident in the field of medical data. Explore a sea of stars."

Medicine Cube is a one-stop big data service platform for the pharmaceutical industry, providing professional data, media information and consulting services for pharmaceutical companies and investment institutions, and is committed to data empowering pharmaceutical innovation and helping customers become more successful. Medicine Rubik's Cube collects, standardizes, cleans, and transforms massive amounts of global medicine-related data in real time, and integrates them in series. At the same time, combined with artificial intelligence technologies such as natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, it gradually builds a system ranging from data monitoring, data mining to data The applied agile big data system currently builds a rich product matrix around the entire life cycle of drugs, including NextPharma global new drug monitoring database, PharmaGo one-stop drug data warehouse, DeepMed medical evidence-based database, NextPat pharmaceutical patent monitoring system, InvestGo capital perspective systems, PharmaBI market insight tools, etc.

The SSS project (data extraction and standardized storage) is jointly promoted by the medical cube and the Microsoft laboratory. In order to solve the problem of data extraction and storage related to the form, the medical cube team adopted the Microsoft Form Recognizer Web API interface under the suggestion of the laboratory engineer. The full text and tabular data of relevant data were extracted and tested. This interface mainly performs OCR recognition on PDF files, extracts full text and table data. After testing, the report accuracy rate tested by this interface has increased to more than 90%, which solved a large part of the workload of the PharmaGO data team and shortened a lot of time spent on the project.

▲Data chart after extraction and standardized storage

2022, Technology for

Last year, lab engineers built a pair of AI "eyes" with the help of Power Platform and Azure AI technology, hoping to help visually impaired people better see the world around them. Under Microsoft's "AI for Good" initiative, the laboratory will use technology to more effectively improve enterprise resource utilization, help energy conservation and emission reduction, and implement more environmentally friendly or caring solutions. continuous development.

Case Direct Shot - Wafer Systems
"We have practiced the core components of AIoT in the Microsoft laboratory around technical verification and integration requirements, and have benefited a lot. This move in has accelerated the integration of the two parties in the AIoT solution, and we look forward to bringing more projects to the laboratory in the future. "

As a gold partner of Microsoft and a leader in the field of smart office, Wafer Systems hopes to use Microsoft Cloud's IoT, digital twin and AI technologies to integrate with the existing traditional headquarters building application and management system to create a smart space management solution. During the settlement process, laboratory engineers, Microsoft IoT solution experts and Wafer technical team combed the existing system, designed and implemented the proof of concept of the integrated solution, and used Microsoft's open source tools to create Wafer's own digital twin of energy management The prototype of the system was discussed, and the energy consumption prediction for HVAC and electricity based on Microsoft machine learning technology was discussed to achieve energy saving and emission reduction solutions. With the full support of Microsoft experts and laboratory engineers, the implementation of Wafer's new generation of space management and equipment and facility management solutions for building parks has been accelerated. Through the integration of existing solutions and Microsoft AIoT services, nearly a Monthly technical research and follow-up more implementation costs.

Based on the settlement results, Wafer Systems successfully completed the integration verification of the new generation system, and recently launched a smart building digital twin solution based on Microsoft Azure IoT technology: Wisker AIOT Intelligent IoT Platform. The platform integrates building space management system and various intelligent hardware and terminals, collects and analyzes information such as personnel behavior, terminal equipment, and space status in the building, and provides space and equipment facility management, energy conservation and emission reduction, office services, monitoring and alarming, Building management and enterprise application scenarios such as emergency services, realize the intelligent collaboration of people, objects and space, and provide strong system support for the efficient use of space facilities, employee experience optimization and sustainable development of enterprises and headquarters buildings/parks.

2022, more cutting-edge technology to find the optimal solution for innovative solutions

Based on the advantages of Microsoft's full-stack technology portfolio, and on the basis of the existing AI and IoT technology portfolio, Microsoft Labs plans to introduce more Microsoft cutting-edge technologies, including mixed reality, training autonomous systems, autonomous system simulation, digital twin visualization and simulation, robotics , Robotic Process Automation, Automation, 5G, etc. In 2022, Microsoft Labs will further deepen the construction of the underlying platform, provide one-stop acceleration for innovative solutions, and help find optimal solutions.

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In the future, Microsoft Labs will fully mobilize all-round resources of its two laboratories located in the US headquarters and Munich, Germany, to give full play to its technological advantages in cutting-edge science and technology fields, and to promote the transfer and transformation of technological achievements. Microsoft Labs also hopes to jointly promote multi-dimensional cooperation between enterprises and between enterprises and Microsoft through multi-party linkages from a global perspective.