[Shanghai, China, April 1] The 2026 Chinese and Foreign Hotel Brand Innovation Forum was held during the 2026 Shanghai International Hotel Exhibition. The event focused on core topics such as digital transformation of the hotel industry and upgrade of smart residence scenarios. Bringing together top hotel brands at home and abroad, senior industry experts and eco-partners to explore new development paths. Bo Yang, vice director of NIDA's Industry Development Dept, attended the conference. He joined hands with Huawei, Junlai International, Anpu, Hanzhong, and held the launch ceremony of Junlai International's "Reassurance Hotel" solution and the "Reassurance Hotel" solution acceleration, marking the acceleration of the implementation of the smart and secure residence ecosystem.Peace of Mind Hotel is the main innovation direction of the Wireless Smart Awareness Joint Working Group jointly established by NIDA and WAA in the hotel industry. This industry alliance aims to combine industry forces in various countries and regions to enhance the innovation and wide application of WLAN Smart Awareness technologies in related scenarios. Huawei is committed to building an open and win-win ecosystem based on AI as the core driving force and IoT awareness capabilities brought by IEEE 802.11be. This ecosystem is first compatible with IoT plug-in cards or built-in IoT modules in the IEEE802.11ac/ax phase, and adds CSI (Channel State Information, channel state information) and millimeter wave radar technologies, enabling traditional WLANs focusing on connectivity to overlay powerful AI IoT sensing applications.Bo Yang expressed the theme of "WLAN smart sensing capabilities enable the hotel industry to accelerate all-domain digital intelligence". He proposed to build a converged network construction model of "perceived + IoT + security" based on APs, breaking the situation of multi-network coexistence in traditional hotel networks. Leveraging all-scenario leading Wi-Fi 7 products, CSI synaesthesia technology, RCU container sinking solution, and exclusive Smart Eye anti-scandal technology, hotels can help reduce costs, improve efficiency, and operate safely, and build a solid foundation for digital intelligence technologies.Since the concept of "Reassurance Hotel" was first proposed in Sanya last year, it has become a consensus and transformation direction in the industry. The concept of "Reassurance Hotel" is defined from two dimensions of guest and wine management and six levels of system to reshape the new digital culture and travel ecosystem of hotels. For guests, Peace of Mind is divided into three levels: Level 1 provides the ultimate Wi-Fi experience and standard Wi-Fi 7 premium network. Level 2 focuses on personal privacy protection to ensure that there is no candid camera in guest rooms. Level-3 focuses on providing a data security smart space for business negotiation and confidential office. For the wine management, the first level achieves green energy saving; Level-2 achieves intelligent O&M, fast delivery, and non-stop upgrade. Level 3 uses smart IoT and CSI synaesthesia technologies to build future-oriented smart hotels. Its system not only clearly defines the technology implementation path, but also provides a clear value anchor for differentiated hotel competition.At the conference, Junlai International released the "Reassurance Hotel" solution, which is another example of the implementation of Reassurance Hotel in the industry. Junlai International introduced the WLAN intelligent sensing solution, practiced the "Reassurance Hotel" standard, built the guest room anti-scanny shooting system, and upgraded the intelligent and secure operation, becoming the industry benchmark. As more and more customers, standards organizations, and ecosystem partners join the Anxin Hotel ecosystem, Huawei will continue to open up its technical capabilities, work with industry chain partners to improve standards, and expand scenarios. Drive more hotel brands to upgrade to secure and intelligent "hotels with peace of mind".The exhibitors at this Shanghai International Hotel Expo covered most of the mainstream hotel customer control solution vendors in China, among which BitSmart and John Zhong exhibited the complete solutions and application cases of "Reassuring Hotel", which were favored by hotel owners, tavern group customers, and upstream and downstream partners. Sufficiently, the concept of "easy hotel" with wireless intelligence as the core technology will become the industry leader!NIDA will work closely with industry, university, and research organizations, standards organizations, and industry organizations at home and abroad to build a complete and efficient wireless intelligent sensing ecosystem.

【Barcelona, Spain, March 3】 During MWC 2026 (Mobile World Congress 2026), Yiou, Deng , Secretary-General of NIDA, attended the WLAN Global Industry Forum 2026 and participated in the inauguration ceremony of the WLAN Intelligent Sensing Industry Ecosystem Organization.Attendees at the ceremony included:Ping Zhang , Chairman of WAA; Adolfo Borrero, Chairman of the Smart City Committee of AMETIC;Tayeb Ben Meriem, Vice President of the IPv6 Forum; Shaoqi Zhao , President of Campus Network Domain, Huawei Data Communication Product Line; Shavkat Sabirov, President of the Internet Association of Kazakhstan; Xiasheng Zhang , CEO of Shenzhen Huazhao Technology Co., Ltd; Zhenhua Wei, Director of the Europe, Africa and CIS Market of Bit Intelligent.The event officially marks that the WLAN Intelligent Sensing Industry Ecosystem Organization has entered a substantial development stage.Above: Inauguration ceremony of the WLAN Intelligent Sensing Industry Ecosystem Organization at MWC 2026.Jointly initiated by WAA and NIDA, the ecosystem organization aims to unite industrial forces from various countries and regions, and strengthen the innovation and wide application of WLAN intelligent sensing technologies in relevant scenarios. Committed to taking AI as the core driving force, it will build an open and win-win ecosystem based on the IoT sensing capabilities brought by IEEE 802.11be.The ecosystem is first compatible with IoT cards or built-in IoT module solutions from the IEEE 802.11ac/ax era, and adds CSI (Channel State Information) and millimeter-wave radar technologies, empowering traditional connection-focused WLAN with powerful AI IoT sensing applications.The core of CSI sensing lies in using the propagation characteristics of wireless signals and analyzing channel state information to obtain information such as object movement and position changes in the environment. This technology benefits from several factors:First, Wi-Fi communication systems are continuously evolving toward higher frequency bands, larger antenna arrays and miniaturization, making them increasingly consistent with wireless sensing systems in hardware architecture, channel characteristics and signal processing, providing a hardware foundation for sensing technology.Second, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence and signal processing algorithms, the accuracy and efficiency of extracting useful information from CSI data have been significantly improved.Third, scenarios such as intelligent energy saving, intelligent transportation and intelligent security are growing in demand for real-time sensing and communication, presenting obvious cost advantages over traditional sensing technologies such as radar and cameras.Millimeter-wave radar technology is also entering a stage of rapid development in large-scale applications in healthcare, elderly care and other scenarios. The integration of WLAN and millimeter-wave radar technology has become the optimal solution.To unleash the technical advantages of the new IoT sensing capabilities, adaptation with terminals and applications in industry scenarios such as office energy saving, medical and elderly care, asset management and smart hotels is required. Therefore, an ecological cooperation organization is essential to achieve end-to-end ecological collaboration, gradually improve interface standards and compliance specifications between WLAN, southbound terminals and northbound application platforms, and promote the deployment standards for various scenarios.WAA and NIDA will work closely together, unite relevant global organizations and industrial chain resources, and strive to build a complete and efficient WLAN IoT sensing ecosystem.

[Nanjing, January 09, 2026] The CENI-NIDA Joint Innovation Center jointly established by Jiangsu Future Network Innovation Research Institute and the Global Fixed Network Innovation Alliance (NIDA) was officially inaugurated. Based on the industry consensus on the future network, the two parties are committed to standard development, pilot implementation, and industry promotion activities for "joint computing", "joint data", "joint intelligence", and "joint air".Tan Hang, executive vice president of Jiangsu Future Network Innovation Research Institute, and Deng Yiou, secretary general of the Global Fixed Network Innovation Alliance, opened the innovation center. The establishment of the center marks a new stage of strategic cooperation between the two sides on innovation demonstration.Secretary-General Deng Yiou reviewed important milestones in cooperation between the two sides since 2023 and thanked the Institute for its long-term support. The two sides will continue to deepen cooperation in exploring network evolution, innovation collaboration, scenario-based innovation demonstration of new quality Internet, application of industry standards, and industrialization implementation. Focusing on network AI, "east counting and west computing", and space-space integration, we will cooperate and innovate. We will make full use of the standards and international advantages of CENI's national big science devices and the Global Fixed Network Innovation Alliance, and contribute to the innovation and leadership of China's fixed network industry.

[Shenzhen, December 10, 2025] " Road to Industry AN L4 Forum " hosted by the Global Fixed Network Innovation Alliance (NIDA) was successfully held in Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Science Park. Focusing on the core challenges and development paths of network automation and intelligence in the AI era, the forum brought together experts from standards organizations, research institutes, leading enterprises, and authoritative evaluation organizations to discuss the complete ecosystem construction of self-intelligent networks (Autonomous Networking, AN )) from technical standards, industry practices, and quality certification. It marks a key step for the industry AN network to move towards L4 high-level self-intelligence.AI Drives Network Transformation, and Industry AN Upgrades Are NecessaryDeng Yiou, Secretary-General of the Global Fixed Network Innovation Alliance (NIDA), pointed out in his opening speech that as AI and Agent technologies penetrate all industries, the application layer is accelerating automation iteration, while the network is increasingly becoming "the bulkiest and slowest link". Especially in the industry network, its automation level has lagging behind the application system seriously, may in the intelligent tide from "driver" to "stumbling block". He sheds light on the current predicament through a vivid example: A senior network expert of a top bank cannot retire because the network-wide change depends on his manual review, highlighting the urgency of network automation transformation. Secretary-General Deng stressed that migrating the accumulative AN technologies, experience, and architecture of carriers to industry networks and systematically improving their automation capabilities are the original intention and mission of this forum.International Vision and Standard Leadership: Drawing an AN roadmapDirk Kutscher, Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and Chairman of the IRTF, was invited to share the cutting-edge insights of Autonomous Networking for AI Networks. He elaborated on the four key pillars of AI networks, providing a clear international roadmap for AN technology evolution.Ma Junfeng, deputy chief engineer of the Institute of Technology and Standards of China Academy of Information and Communications and chairman of NIDA's self-intelligence network working group, introduced in detail the latest progress of self-intelligence network standardization in China. He said that the NIDA self-intelligence network working group has brought together more than 30 industry chain partners and has carried out scenario sorting, graded assessment, and standard development in key industries such as finance, education, and healthcare. He shared the layout of the China Communications Standardization Association (CCSA) in building the "general + professional" self-intelligent network standard system, and the latest research on key technologies such as intelligent agents and large network models. Ma Junfeng pointed out that in the future, the differentiated positioning of NIDA, TMF, ETSI ENI, and other international standards organizations should be clarified, and a clear L3 to L4 evolution path should be defined by focusing on high-value industry scenarios.Industry readiness and large-scale commercial use: L4 Year OpeningWang Hui, President of Huawei Data Communication NCE, announced in his speech that 2025 has become the first year of commercial use of AN L4. According to his analysis, key AI technologies, such as large model capabilities, reinforcement learning technologies, and inter-agent communication (A2A) protocols, are ready, laying the foundation for the AN system to implement a closed-loop from intent understanding to precise execution. New challenges such as access management of massive AI agents, internal security threats, and traffic mode changes brought by the explosion of intelligent hardware constitute the core driving force for AN L4 development.Wang Hui disclosed that more than 30 operators around the world have participated in TM Forum-related projects. It is expected that more than 100 operators will launch AN pilot commercial use next year. In the enterprise market, the finance and education industries will become the focus of the large-scale commercial use of AN next year. The financial industry is facing a tenfold increase in the data center scale, and has an urgent need for "zero interruption" self-driving capabilities. The education industry, however, needs to cope with the complex O&M challenges of multi-campus and high-concurrency access. He predicted that the market space of AN software without hardware has reached tens of billions of RMB. If hardware upgrade is included, the market will be hundreds of billions of dollars.Quality building and assessment enablement: Building a healthy industry ecosystemThe high-quality development of the industry is inseparable from the rigorous quality certification and evaluation system. Wang Yabin, senior engineer of China Quality Certification Center (CQC), provided a methodology for NIDA to build AN industry certification system from the perspective of national conformity assessment system. He detailed the standardized certification process based on the ISO/CASCO toolbox and suggested that NIDA could refer to the establishment of a hierarchical certification evaluation system covering management practices, general requirements, and technical documents.Liang Shi, senior manager of Dekai Quality Certification (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Guangzhou Branch, shared a successful test case of smart classrooms in Xi'an Jiaotong University based on NIDA standards. Based on his experience in developing tools and scripts in the IoT test field, Dekai transformed NIDA's College Campus Network Evaluation Indicators and Test Methods into an executable and reproducible automatic test scheme, providing a model for the implementation and application of the standard. Liang said Dekai will be committed to helping the NIDA standards and assessment system go global.Li Liping, technical director of Beijing Xinertai Technology Co., Ltd., demonstrated how to test a large model platform using tools such as traffic simulation, network impairment simulation, active/passive O&M monitoring, and AI from the perspective of a test solution provider. Provides full-stack test capabilities for R&D, verification, and O&M of self-intelligent networks, enabling industry innovation.A new chapter: Industry Chain Collaboration Promotes AN ImplementationAt the end of the forum, all the speakers took the stage together, symbolizing the joint efforts of all parties in the industry chain and officially opening a new chapter in the collaborative development of industry self-intelligent network standards and certification.The successful holding of this forum not only clearly outlines the technical path and business blueprint for the evolution of industry networks to L4 self-intelligence in the AI era, but also promotes in-depth dialogue and collaboration among standards organizations, equipment vendors, carriers, evaluation organizations, and vertical industry users. With the maturity of key technologies, the improvement of the standard system, and the deepening of ecosystem cooperation, the self-intelligent network is accelerating from vision to large-scale commercial use, and will become the core infrastructure that drives intelligent upgrade of thousands of industries.

[Sanya, China, November 26] China Hotel & Restaurant Brand Development Conference and China Hotel Industry Digital Development Forum were held. The forum was held with the theme of "Man-Machine Synergetic Intelligence Native - AI Innovation and Practice in the Hotel Industry" to deeply analyze the development trend of AI application in the accommodation industry. Comprehensively demonstrate the application achievements of current AI scenarios. The Global Fixed Network Innovation Forum (NIDA), a core driver of digital-intelligent transformation in the hotel industry, has been unveiled at the forum. Through the joint release of the high-quality 10GE hotel network construction blue book, the NIDA will build ICT infrastructure suitable for the hotel industry with the Star River AI peace of mind hotel solution as the core. Leading the digitalization of hotels, culture and travel.Partners who participated in the forum agreed that hotel digitalization has become the "new normal" in the industry and that ICT infrastructure is the core cornerstone of hotel digital transformation. Based on the in-depth insight into the hotel industry, he pointed out the industry vision of "building a solid digital foundation for hotels and building a smart growth engine", focused on three core requirements of "service digitalization, operation digitalization, and marketing digitalization", and deeply integrated technologies such as connectivity, computing, cloud, and AI into hotel scenarios. As the hotel campus network has entered the era of AirEngine Wi-Fi 7 coverage, wired and wireless dual 10GE access must meet network standards in the AI era. The CSI synaesthesia technology integrates the IoT intelligent control system to implement temperature adjustment in the hotel guest control system, saving 20% energy. The rogue camera detection function provides 24/7 surveillance and 100% mainstream camera identification, ensuring privacy and security of guests. This series of functions has been recognized by hotel chains, hotel regulators, hotel industry alliances and so on, and is expected to become an important new standard for hotel network construction, namely, "easy hotel".Subsequently, the Blue Book on High-Quality 10G AI-enabled Hotel Network Construction Technology, which was co-authored and released by NIDA, Huawei, and the Hotel Industry Association, not only covers high-quality network construction driven by AI. The innovative integration of key technologies, such as 10GE wireless, PEN Ethernet all-optical architecture, all-domain security, application experience assurance, energy saving, and intelligent O&M, provides the digital intelligence foundation of "simplified architecture + ultimate experience + all-domain security" for the digital transformation of hotels. At the same time, emphasis is placed on "Reassuring Hotel", as the hotel network construction standard important innovation!In the demonstration vehicle, the CSI-based electromagnetic sensing technology was demonstrated to implement illegal camera detection, achieving 24/7 monitoring and 100% mainstream camera identification, and building a secure line of defense for privacy and security of guests. Leaders and guests from various provinces and hotel chains attended the conference were very interested in seeing the demonstration in the demo truck. They directly asked about the deployment cost of the entire solution and the accuracy of camera detection. As a driver of campus network technologies and industries in China, NIDA has worked with Huawei and other partners to promote the implementation of the technology in the wireless intelligent sensing industry ecosystem.