Ali cares about sow production, Netease is full of "pig care", but JD.com is stronger
From the first netease to join the pig industry in 2009, to the 2018 JD.com, Alibaba successively entered into agriculture, and now Huawei announced the "smart pig", the Internet giants are all competing for the first pig expert in the science and technology industry. To get a glimpse, we combed through the patent layouts of several "Dachang" companies in pig-related fields and found that they have different priorities on pig farming.
1. Ali engineer who studied "post-natal care for sows"
According to the patent search and analysis system of the State Intellectual Property Office, Alibaba has applied for a total of 13 agriculture-related patents since 2018, mainly in the fields of pig and beekeeping.
Alibaba in May 2019, for example, the application of "target delivery monitoring method, device and system, and monitoring system and method" patent, content is by capturing images of the sow childbirth, again according to the rules of the default image recognition to determine the image obtained state of delivery, which can replace the artificial 24-hour delivery sows for monitoring, testing and update the delivery status with the target object.
2. Netease is good at building houses, full of "pig care"
Netease is the earliest Internet enterprise to enter the Bureau's pig industry. It operates through its subsidiary Zhejiang Weiyang Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Weiyang Technology").
In 2011, when netease set up its pig farm in ZhejiangneteaseBB1 said that Dingjia pigs would squat in the toilet, sleep in the apartment and take no medicine. According to Ding Lei, founder of netease, pig farming in China will move from the era of the thatched pit to the era of the flush toilet, and from the era of concentration camps to the era of apartments.
According to the patents applied by Zhejiang Weiyang Technology Co., Ltd., netease pig raising related patents do not involve AI and other cutting-edge technologies, but they are indeed full of "pig care". Among the patents he applied for were four for ventilation of pigpen sheds and disposal of animal waste, and one for "an apparatus for handling animal waste and a system for handling animal waste." In addition, the company has applied for patents such as "buildings that can maintain disinfection effect" and "odour treatment devices that avoid contaminating the nearby environment".
3. JD.com has the most patents, covering pig, cattle and aquaculture
In March 2018, JD Digital Technology Group (hereinafter referred to as "JD Digital Science") established digital agriculture and animal husbandry, and released the intelligent pig raising solution in August of the same year. Subsequently, the intelligent cattle and sheep business division, the intelligent aquatic products business division and the intelligent poultry business division were successively established.
Beijing find for jingdong's own brand of fresh, times of finance and economics, found that Beijing find fresh jingdong self-run flagship store category is rich, besides pork, also includes the old hen, pigeon, quail, duck, fish, crab, steak and so on, compared to netease flavour epicenter, jingdong cheaper pork, 400 g of jingdong mountain pig RMB 38.9, 400 grams of black pig plum meat is RMB 33.9.
Reflected to the patent, Jingdong agriculture related patents more, involving a wider range of fields.
4. Huawei specializes in machine vision intelligent pig raising ? Behind The Times?
AI pig farming is not new, but Huawei machine vision president Duan Aiguo believes that AI in the application of pig enterprises, compared with other industries is still in a very backward state, "there are large pig enterprises to take the initiative to find us, hoping to use technology to enable the pig industry".
Huawei's smart pig raising scheme is based on Huawei Haowang cloud service, which focuses on machine vision technology. Huawei cloud website shows that wisdom breeding solution (intelligent pigs, for example) is the use of machine vision, infrared temperature measurement technology, for each establish archives for the pigs, real-time monitor each pig health data, and realize the outbreak early warning through data analysis, productivity prediction and so on, finally realizes the digitalization, intelligent, the wisdom of the unmanned aquaculture industry.
In terms of patents, Huawei currently has no patent applications specifically for pigs. However, in the data processing category, it can be applied to the identification of pigs, and can be applied to the field of computer vision for artificial intelligence.
From: IPRDaily
Date: March 14, 2021
