Director Zhang took the information and looked carefully. After reading all the content, his eyes lit up.

Procure a one-month satellite "air-space integrated" fire prevention system solution?

I have to say that such a commercial cooperation plan does look good.

You should know that since the establishment of the Phoenix Satellite Department, the most important thing the senior management of the department is to consider is the commercial operation of satellites.

Any industry and any enterprise that wants to truly flourish must be inseparable from commercial operations. Only when commercial operations can we see profits will there be a continuous flow of capital inflow.

Even if it is as strong as Phoenix Group, after launching three "viewing satellites" to ensure the update of the Phoenix Map APP, it did not continue to launch more satellites. The biggest reason is that it cannot find a commercial model.

Nowadays, the commercial satellite operation of enterprises around the world generally focuses on selling satellite data and providing satellite leasing.

For example, common ones are selling satellite map data, marine data, or regional data collection based on customer needs, etc.

Not to mention the distance, Damao and Ermao fought each other, although Damao destroyed all Ermao's communication base station and communication facilities after the fight started.

But Ermao, who had reacted, quickly obtained thousands of "Starlink" communication equipment terminals provided by SpaecX, and soon restored Ermao's basic communication smoothness.

This is the business model of communication satellites.

In addition to communication satellite positioning, commercial remote sensing satellites in Europe and the United States also play a huge role.

Taking advantage of the advantages of high-definition remote sensing satellites, several commercial satellite companies mobilized dozens of high-definition satellites to target the border between Damao and Ermao, and sold top-secret picture information such as Damao's key military deployment to Ermao.

This is also the commercial operation of remote sensing commercial satellites.

certainly.

A small number of commercial remote sensing satellites in China can also do such things, but why is it difficult for domestic commercial satellites to develop globally?

First, although the technical level of domestic commercial satellites is quite good in terms of various indicators, it is still lacking in comparison with commercial satellites in some European and American countries.

Domestic commercial satellites developed very late, and it was only gradually improved after 2017.

I still remember that during the earthquake that year, all communication networks in the earthquake areas were completely paralyzed, and the earthquake areas could not get any contact with the outside world.

In order to resume communications in time, we had to spend a lot of money to ask Ami's Iridium satellite phone.

In addition to communication satellites, because there were no high-resolution satellites in China at that time, it was impossible to obtain the first-time high-resolution satellite pictures of earthquake-stricken areas to understand the disaster situation.

Finally, I had to spend money and seek help from the international community, and finally got satellite pictures of the disaster area a day after the earthquake!

In addition to the late start and the gap between technology and Europe and the United States, another important reason is that commercial satellites are a heavy asset industry.

If you want to grab customers to take orders, at least you need to have satellites first.

but……

Aerospace is a money-burning industry. The cost of launching a satellite is often tens of millions or hundreds of millions of yuan, and the threshold is particularly high. It is impossible to play without some capital strength.

Not to mention once you participate in international competition, you will face a group of large commercial satellite companies that have been established for decades and have many commercial satellites in their hands.

It is conceivable how difficult it is for ordinary small companies to compete with them!

For example, SpaceX founded by Mask, everyone now thinks SpaceX is too awesome, but in fact few people know that in 2008, SpaceX Rockets faced bankruptcy after the third rocket launch failed.

Mask, who was already a super rich man, had already emptied all his assets at this time. In a desperate situation, he even mortgaged all his villa and sports car, and finally made up the fourth rocket launch.

Fortunately, SpaceX's fourth rocket launch was successful, which made Mask find NASA with the news of the successful rocket launch, and finally came alive.

It can be seen that aerospace is really not something that ordinary people can afford.

Therefore, the procurement plan proposed by Shancheng this time is very interesting.

Although it is also considered data collection, such outsourcing and customized services are indeed a different approach.

Gao Ming, who was standing beside him, looked at Director Zhang and said with a smile:

"It's not to be hiding the two of you. In fact, our city's meteorological department also has a similar satellite remote sensing monitoring platform, but."

"The two are also very clear that our city definitely does not have so much funding to set up a satellite department to launch a few satellites for monitoring. This is too expensive."

"The city's meteorological department is connected to the National Meteorological Center and is the monitoring data provided by the above meteorological center."

Speaking of this, Gao Ming paused for a moment and changed the subject.

"However, according to my understanding, not only our mountain cities, but most cities across the country are also connected to provide monitoring data by meteorological centers. However, with more cities and more monitoring places, the efficiency will naturally be reduced."

"So, this time our mountain fire in Shancheng City is not without satellite surveillance. In fact, when the satellite was discovered, either the fire had already risen or our firemen had discovered it in advance."

Hu Lai nodded with a smile. He heard Zhou Damin talk about this situation during the meeting before.

In fact, there is a surveillance and early warning for satellite forest fire prevention in China, but just like the issue Mayor Gao Ming said.

Originally, the national meteorological centers have limited satellites and cannot be used specifically to detect forest fires. After all, there are weather forecasts, ocean conditions and other people's livelihood tasks that need to be detected.

and.

As a national meteorological center, it is responsible for forest monitoring in most domestic cities. It is impossible to cover everything under such a large monitoring area. It is already very good to be able to monitor once every 12 hours.

The reason for this is that in addition to the insufficient number of satellites that cannot be covered for a short time, ordinary remote sensing satellites also need to carry out data back-passing and image analysis from the ground.

In this way, efficiency and timeliness are greatly reduced.

And what about Phoenix's "viewing satellite"?

It is directly done on the star to make preprocessing and intelligent judgment.

It is no exaggeration to say that Phoenix AI intelligent "viewing satellite" is easily beaten compared to the previous ordinary satellites.

High precision, AI intelligence, high recognition rate.

Just kidding, do you understand the value of AI smart satellites?

This is also the biggest advantage of "viewing satellite" and a reflection of Phoenix chip's strong capabilities.

Seeing Hu Lai nodding frequently, Gao Ming continued:

"The city has summarized a lot of experience after learning the lessons from this wildfire."

"We simply calculated this wildfire. At the beginning, the economic losses reached more than 500 million yuan. There are still many century-old trees. The precious tree species were also burned out in this wildfire."

"So I learned from my mistakes. In the months when wildfires are prone to occur every year, you Phoenix Group will buy data and a full set of service plans."

"We are very relieved to have comprehensive monitoring by your commercial company!"

After saying this, Hu Lai and Director Zhang looked at each other.

In their eyes, both of them seemed to see the business opportunities of this service.

Mountain cities can purchase this service, so can other cities!

You should know that Yan Country has a vast territory, and the mountains and forests around many places and cities are indeed very likely to cause forest fires.

For example, Yunnan Province, GS Province, Liangshan Prefecture, where several firefighters were sacrificed due to forest fires in the past two years!

Not to mention that all cities across the country purchase this service, even if only a part of the cities purchase this service, the accumulation of small amounts may become a business model and make a profit.

and.

Even if you have to face losses during early operation, as long as there are more cities to purchase, the unit price can naturally be reduced. After the unit price is reduced, more cities are willing to accept such services!

This is the scale effect!

Thinking of this, Hu Lai didn't delay much, and decided on the matter after a few words.

"Mayor Gao, we agree with the plan proposed by the city and thank the city for providing us with such an order."

"Of course, from a technical point of view, we have no problem providing a satellite 'aerospace integrated' early warning system, but I also need to consult our satellite department for details."

"We'll come down to negotiate the details later!"

"good!"

After a lot of fun, the city came to deliver the plaque in person and ended perfectly.

After Gao Ming and his party left, Hu Lai hurriedly rushed to meet with the main core backbone of the satellite department.

When Hu Lai explained the procurement services provided by the city at the meeting, both Zhou Damin, the head of the satellite department, and the engineers in the technical department were very excited.

but.

When Hu said that he could be promoted in other cities and provinces in the future, Zhou Damin suddenly frowned.

"Boss, from the perspective of satellite technology, there is no problem in our continuous monitoring and shooting of six or seven places, and even more than a dozen surveillance areas."

"However, once there are too many monitoring areas, the AI's intelligent recognition of fire sources may not reach the ideal speed, and may even have problems."

Um?

Seeing Hu Lai's expression on his face, Zhou Damin explained:

"Simply put, our streamlined version of the 'Viewing Satellite' has reduced its shooting width, so it only takes more than 3 minutes for satellite imaging and intelligent recognition."

"But this is like a computer. Although it can process one or two pictures at the same time, the computing speed of the chip will inevitably decrease and will be stuttered."

"If the pictures of dozens of areas are waiting to be imaged and identified, it may take more than half an hour or even an hour to identify the last area."

"I identified it as a fire in an hour, so what else is it?"

With such a simple explanation, Hu Lai immediately understood.

To put it bluntly, this is a problem with chip computing capabilities.
To be continued...