Richfit and Huawei Sign Advanced Alliance Cooperation Agreement
[Shenzhen, China, October 19, 2015] Richfit Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Richfit for short) and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. today signed an “Advanced Alliance Cooperation Agreement” at the Huawei Developers Congress (HDC) 2015 held in Shenzhen, China. The agreement signifies that the two companies have taken their cooperation in the Chinese market and global market of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), as wells as global energy and government markets to the next level, marking a new beginning of joint solution development, innovation, and collaboration.
Li Yangming (L) and Swift Liu (R) are signing the Advanced Alliance Cooperation Agreement
As one of China’s top application system vendors in the energy realm, Richfit operates a full line of businesses and applications in a variety of leading-edge fields such as data management systems, oil data center construction and services, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system consulting and implementation, digital oilfields, and industrial automation in the energy sector. Richfit boasts excellent comprehensive technical strength and extensive project implementation experience. Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, is committed to carrying out continuous customer-centric innovation and adhering to its development strategy of being open, cooperative, and integrated. In particular, Huawei Switch & Enterprise Communications Product Line has built end-to-end solutions in the fields of networking, security, video surveillance, and Unified Communications (UC).
The cooperation between Richfit and Huawei will be based on Richfit’s most complete monitoring instruments and meters, IT system management and control platforms, and mature industry applications, as well as its industry-leading Internet of Things (IoT), communications, video surveillance, and UC technologies. All these will reduce the operating expense (OPEX) of oil and gas production, transportation, and sales, improve production efficiency, and enhance production security. In addition, the cooperation covers deep technical integration, technical support, and global sales and marketing events, aiming at fulfilling a strong collaboration, a combination of each other’s advantages, and a win-win partnership in a wide range of areas.
Richfit and Huawei will provide the following solutions:
Digital Pipeline Solution: This solution integrates pipeline Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), video surveillance, converged communications, and the IoT technologies, ensuring 24/7 non-stop production and office services. It also displays the production and operating status in real time, reduces losses during oil and gas transportation, improves management efficiency, and guarantees oil and gas transportation security and reliability. The solution makes full use of Richfit’s advantages in production application management, and Huawei’s experience in video surveillance and converged communications, implementing association among Richfit’s production and management platform and Huawei’s video surveillance platform and converged communications platform.
Joint Digital Oilfield Solution: This solution provides complete instruments and meters, as well as various reliable data acquisition terminals and IoT gateways. It also uses a variety of network backhaul technologies, building a strong IoT network for oil and gas fields and supporting data acquisition and production control in real time. Huawei’s network management platform seamlessly connects to Richfit’s SCADA platform, achieving highly efficient operations and maintenance (O&M) and management.
Comprehensive Oil and Gas Campus Solution: Oriented towards comprehensive oil and gas production and living campuses, this solution applies the agile network, video surveillance, and UC technologies to the oil and gas industry, ensuring secure production and convenient office services in a campus. The agile network centrally transmits production and office services. The intelligent security protection platform integrates multiple security protection functions, implementing multi-dimensional association and alarming. The Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) platform supports a seamless, collaborative office model that covers conference rooms, desktops, and mobile scenarios, guaranteeing quality customer experiences.
All-in-One Gas Station Solution: This solution combines the comprehensive service management system, video surveillance system, and agile branch network. Additionally, this solution adopts multiple advanced technologies such as automated detection, intelligent video analysis, and agile branch management, achieving one-stop, efficient management and control and all-around station security protection. Moreover, the solution supports a highly efficient transformation of operational models.
Internet of Vehicles (IoV) Solution: Richfit teams up with Huawei in developing an IoV solution that is applicable to vehicles in special industries, such as oil tank trucks and school buses. In the joint IoV solution, the all-in-one vehicle-mounted gateway transmits a variety of services, and obtains information about vehicles, passengers, and assets in real time. By leveraging a Big Data analytics platform and an end-to-end security protection mechanism, the solution implements unified vehicle dispatch and security control, substantially improving vehicle dispatch efficiency and guaranteeing both personal safety and assets safety.
“By singing this agreement with Huawei, we will strengthen our strategic mutual trust and deepen our technical cooperation with Huawei,” said Li Yangming, General Manager, Richfit. “We will continue to partner with Huawei to provide visible, intelligent, integrated, and end-to-end solutions for global oil and gas enterprise customers, aiming to fulfill win-win development.” “The cooperation between Huawei and Richfit shows that Huawei always adheres to its customer-centric strategy of being integrated,” said Swift Liu, President, Switch & Enterprise Communications Product Line, Huawei, at the signing ceremony. “We believe that, through such win-win cooperation, we will together provide customers with solutions that can accommodate customers’ actual needs and address real-world problems.”
