Staff members of Chinese company OPPO display VOOC technology to visistors at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 23, 2016. The Mobile World Congress (MWC), the most important mobile communication event in the world, opened its doors in Barcelona Monday. (Photo: Xinhua/Lino De Vallier)
Eye-catching gadgets and ground-breaking conceptions by Chinese firms have attracted plenty of attention at the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC).
Chinese telecommunications company Huawei on Wednesday presented its "Safe City" range of products and measures aimed at developing "multi-dimensional, intelligent security systems in cities."
Safe City solutions were showcased as a combination of the Internet of Things, video and big data working together to help visualize problems and collaborate responses.
A Huawei spokesman said the products and measures would "allow governments to prevent crisis, manage emergencies and reduce crime rates."
Working with Hexagon, a world leader in Safe City software, Huawei has developed a solution to allow the visualization of an accident scene and unify responses based on a geographical information system which also allows different official departments to communicate through video, audio and information. The company has already begun to implement some of its Safe City solutions, with 100 cities in 30 countries using Huawei solutions to protect over 400 million people, according to the company.
Tuesday saw Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE won the Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough Award and the Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology Award for its Pre5G Massive MIMO technology.
Pre5G Massive MIMO technology aims to improve the efficiency of the inalambric spectrum and network capacity.
In a commercial network, the average single-carrier peak rate of Pre5G Massive MIMO exceeds 400 Mbps and increases spectral efficiency by four to six times as compared with that of existing 4G networks.
Pre5G Massive MIMO uses beamforming technology to expand from 2D to 3D coverage, while adapting to different environments, such as high-rise buildings, hotspot macro coverage, stadium coverage, and last-mile scenarios in order to dramatically improve overall network quality.
Waiman Lam, from ZTE's Marketing Department, told Xinhua on Monday that the company was optimistic of winning one of the awards, as it had done in 2015.
Last year saw ZTE won the prize for Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics Device for its ZTE Smart Projector.
The 2016 MWC has seen ZTE present its ZTE Blade V7 and ZTE Blade V7 lite smartphones and an intelligent portable projector, the Spro Plus.
Chinese smartphone maker LeEco announced in Barcelona on Monday the sale of its first smartphone powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset -- Le Max Pro, a month after the device was first unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016 in Las Vegas.
The new generation mobile phone runs on the Android 6.0 Marshmallow system topped with LeEco's eUI.
"As the new generation of LeEco's superphone, it sets three worldwide industry benchmarks - the first Android smartphone with Snapdragon 820 chipset, ultrasonic Sense ID fingerprint scanner, and 802.11ad connectivity," a company statement said.
The MWC is the most influential gathering in the world mobile industry. It brought together 2,100 exhibitors and around 94,000 visitors to this year's event between Feb. 22 and 25.
