Iflytek, a new security giant emerging from the water.

When Iflytek is mentioned, the first impression is speech recognition.

In fact, on the other side of the coin, Iflytek has made remarkable achievements in the smart security market based on face recognition.

according to the semi-annual report of Iflytek in 218, its operating income during the operating period was 3.21 billion yuan, and the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 13 million yuan.

meanwhile, its wholly-owned subsidiary, iFLYTEK Zhiyuan, has an operating income of 1.8 billion yuan, an operating profit of 1.2 billion yuan and a net profit of 83.484 million yuan.

in other words, iFLYTEK Zhiyuan's net profit has accounted for half of Iflytek's net profit, up to 64.2%.

Leifeng. com understands that as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Iflytek, iFLYTEK Zhiyuan's main business includes information engineering (big data city social management cloud platform) and audio and video monitoring (sales of digital monitoring equipment such as embedded hard disk video recorders).

and this is highly consistent with the business done by traditional security companies such as Haikang and Dahua.

Open iFLYTEK Zhiyuan official website, click on the column of products and solutions, and AI scenes such as video and security, traffic super brain are impressively listed.

As for the video and security section, iFLYTEK Zhiyuan also provides various products and solutions, including Sky Eye, Sky Eye Portrait System, Structured System and Video Intelligent Application Integrated Platform.

It is reported that these products and solutions have landed in Hefei Smart Police Cloud, the newly-built road of the traffic police detachment of Bozhou Public Security Bureau, Mengcheng video data platform and intelligent transportation, Guoyang video data platform and intelligent transportation and other projects.

in terms of specific system functions, its capabilities are similar to those of mainstream players in the market.

Taking Hefei Smart Police Cloud as an example, iFLYTEK Zhiyuan also combines face recognition, video structuring technology and police big data to solve the real-time analysis problem of massive video data.

Among them, iFLYTEK Zhiyuan thinks that their differentiated advantages can be reflected in three points: 1. Voice scheduling; 2. The city's diversified and intelligent traffic information service system; 3. Comprehensive application mode of urban off-site law enforcement system.

According to statistics from Zhang Xinfang, general manager of Jiadu Technology Market Business Department, in 218, iFLYTEK Zhiyuan won 11 major projects with a contract value of 55 million RMB, most of which were in Anhui Province, including:

From this, it is certain that Iflytek will vigorously promote security.

Iflytek is undoubtedly the leading enterprise in the intelligent voice market. However, at present, the voice technology of the whole industry is constrained by many factors:

Zhang Yong, an academician of China Academy of Sciences, once pointed out that the ability of machines must be stronger than that of human beings in dealing with problems with these three constraints. But if one of the conditions is missing, there will be many unknowns. NLP is an open and unspecific subject with uncertain and incomplete knowledge and information.

Voice interaction is essentially active interaction between human and machine, so user experience is one of the most important factors. The user experience is more reflected in whether the machine can give accurate feedback after the user sends out the interactive signal.

Up to now, there are still many problems in the feedback results of users in the case of far field, loud noise and complicated voice instruction text.

Although there are many problems in speech recognition in general scenes, it still does not affect the speech recognition enterprises represented by Iflytek, and they will launch specific solutions according to specific scenes to improve the recognition rate and robustness.

Hu Yu, president of Iflytek, once mentioned in an interview with Lei Feng. com that the scenes selected by speech recognition have a certain priority. He judged that the application of voice interaction in TV, set-top box and refrigerator products would be popularized first, then mobile phones, robots and finally VR.

at this stage, Iflytek has introduced many kinds of more suitable voice schemes to match the software and hardware products for different scenes/products.

At the same time, in addition to voice surgery, iFLYTEK is also focusing on computer vision technology. Last year, Li Shipeng, a well-known computer vision expert, was recruited as the co-president of AI Research Institute.

At present, Iflytek divides its main businesses into eight parts, which are divided by the amount of business in the latest financial statements, including education, smart cities, political and legal business, open platforms and consumers, automobiles, intelligent business and others.

As the second smart city in Iflytek, computer vision technology is promising, and the security blueprint is also clear.

In addition, Iflytek has successively invested in companies such as Shangtang Technology to further improve its computer vision ecology.

iFLYTEK's security competitiveness is undoubtedly becoming stronger and stronger with the increasing computer vision capability.

but it faces not only traditional security companies and AI companies such as Haikang and Dahua, but also the fast-growing Internet giants.

in 218, Baidu officially launched a security monitoring related solution, which uses face recognition technology to accurately identify faces in static portrait databases and dynamic video streams, and integrates face tracking and capture and real-time control. Tencent Youtu Lab also launched the security product "Eye of the Sky".

in addition, the operation of Alibaba's urban brain directly pushes this giant company into the fields of transportation and pan-security.

Many people in the industry told Lei Feng. com that at this stage, the Internet giants did not perform well in the bidding process of AI security projects.

However, in the era of To B, Internet companies are paying more and more attention to tiny opportunities and businesses that used to be considered insignificant.

Kevin Kelly said in his book Out of Control that the Internet industry is characterized by the fact that giant enterprises often ignore marginal businesses in order to ensure high profit margins and their own strategic conservatism.

With the gradual depletion of consumer-grade Internet dividends, Internet giants began to sink to the To B side, vigorously entered marginal businesses that they had never set foot in before, and invested a lot of manpower and financial resources.

Wang Xiaoyu, chief scientist of Yuntian Lifei, once talked about a point at the China Artificial Intelligence Security Summit hosted by Leifeng. com: Internet giants are probably the biggest invisible rivals of security companies.

the business models of haikang and Dahua are very clear, and industry players are very clear about which dimensions to compete with them.

The terrible thing about the Internet giant is that it is an ecosystem. It can not make money in certain fields, but it can derive other profit models after occupying this field.

36 eliminated most anti-virus software companies with the free mode. After that, its main profit mode was to drain to search through 36 anti-virus software, thus making use of advertising to make profits.

In the security industry, for example, Internet companies can even help customers set up cameras and servers to collect data for free.

in the past, the AI application of internet companies was to model online data.

With the intellectualization and networking integration of video surveillance system, the whole industry has a demand for offline video and other data modeling, realizing urban brainization. The advantages of modeling large-scale data are reflected in Internet companies.

just as Iflytek's voice business has been impacted by Internet giants, the future security business may have to face BAT.

the frontal battlefield between pan-security businesses will change from the struggle between security companies and AI companies to the situation in which security companies, Internet technology and communication companies, cloud services companies and AI companies stand in the balance.

how will iFLYTEK Security, with its annual revenue of several hundred million, be laid out in the future? We will wait and see.

and what will the entire AI security market look like in the future?

On March 23rd, 219, Lei Feng. com will cut into this topic and hold the second China Artificial Intelligence Security Summit.

The theme of this conference is "Urban Brain and Edge Computing", which brings together traditional security enterprises represented by Hikvision and Dahua, urban brain leaders represented by Ali, Huawei, Microsoft and JD.COM, and the emerging power of artificial intelligence represented by AI Unicorn, and points out the development direction of AI+ security for industry elites.

Some guests being invited to this conference: (Nearly ten guests have confirmed their attendance)

Organizer: Lei Feng. com&; AI Gold Digging

Conference scale: 1, people

Venue: Sheraton Hangzhou Binjiang Yintai Hotel

To purchase 4% discount tickets for the second conference, click /gair/sd219.