The high-speed service area can only rest? Then you are too behind the times.

What do you think of the high-speed service area? Gas stations, toilets, chain restaurants ... besides these? Would you be a little surprised if you were told that there are capsule hotels, online celebrity restaurants, unmanned convenience stores and even duty-free shopping malls in the service area?

These functions are no longer hypothetical, and will soon become a reality in the West Lake service area of the south line of Hangzhou Ring Expressway.

At present, the West Lake service area is being rebuilt. After the transformation, it will become a smart service area integrating accommodation, leisure, entertainment and catering. In addition to the basic functions of the service area, it will also have many "characteristic" functions mentioned above, completely breaking the public's cognition of the traditional service area.

Coincidentally, on the expressway from Shenyang to Dalian, there is a place called "China No.1 Service Area", which is the first high-speed service area in China-Jingquan.

Every time I drive by here, I will go in and spend some money to buy gifts for my elders. You may ask, what can you buy in the high-speed service area is nothing more than beer, drinks and mineral water. Hehe, if you think so, then you are OUT. If you don't believe me, look at the picture below-

Yes, this is a duty-free shop (bonded area) in the service area, or one that specializes in foreign goods. Tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea are all available. Do you think this "first" is worthy of the name? Do you also have the impulse to rush into buy buy?

Buying a car is nothing new now, but the car service corresponding to the growth of cars, especially in expressway, has not improved much.

Just like every holiday, the high-speed service area is crowded, shoulder to shoulder, and even there is a long queue to go to the toilet. It is common to wait for an hour or two to refuel, which deeply exposes the problem of inadequate management of high-speed service areas. "With the intelligent analysis platform provided by Inspur Cloud Sea InCloud Rail, we can provide drivers with guidance on the road ahead according to the real-time situation of high-speed traffic. At present, we are also in contact with the map of Gaode. In the future, we may introduce service area management functions, such as telling drivers how many free parking spaces there are in the next service area and whether it is congested. "

This was said by Lu Qirong, Chief Technology Officer of Zhejiang expressway Information Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. His company is a technology company specializing in expressway electromechanical system integration, rail transit electromechanical business undertaking, smart traffic software and hardware research and development, and big data development and operation. In the words of Lu Qirong, it is "a one-stop service provider for smart transportation". The field of intelligent transportation and intelligent service mentioned just now is one of the key businesses of Zhejiang expressway Information Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. this year.

Lu Qirong, Chief Technology Officer of Zhejiang expressway Information Engineering Technology Co., Ltd.

What Lu Qirong hopes to build is a brand-new, intelligent and commercialized service area, which he calls "Service Area 3.0". As we mentioned at the beginning of the article, the initial service area can only meet the simple needs of people and belongs to the service area 1.0 stage; With the development of commercialization, the canteen in the service area has become a small supermarket, and chain catering companies such as KFC and Starbucks have also been added, which is the 2.0 stage of the service area.

In Lu Qirong's definition, Future Service Area 3.0 is a service area integrating leisure, entertainment and consumption, with four characteristics of "warmth, intelligence, green and safety". From the warm feeling of the driver entering the service area, intelligent parking and consumption reminder, green travel, energy saving and emission reduction to the final safe rest, the owner can truly feel the convenience of travel, eliminate travel fatigue and ensure driving safety.

Such an intelligent service area is naturally inseparable from the support of computing power and big data. As the direct person in charge of the project, Yu Cheng, the product director of Gaoxin Business Department of Zhejiang expressway Information Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., said that as early as the beginning of the planning, a high standard was set for the digital construction of the service area, and it is planned to realize the construction of the smart service area through the combination of software and hardware. On the one hand, it can reduce the difficulty and time of early system deployment, on the other hand, it can optimize the later system operation and maintenance to ensure stability and reliability.

Yu Cheng, Product Director of Gaoxin Business Department of Zhejiang expressway Information Engineering Technology Co., Ltd.

To this end, after carefully evaluating the needs of existing centralized systems and future smart services, Yu Cheng chose Inspur InCloud Rail hyper-converged solution as the bearer. However, due to the consideration of system post-testing, the time left for Inspur is only a short week. You know, the number of service areas operated by users is 100, which is a great challenge for Inspur.

Jun Hu, General Manager of Zhejiang Inspur Group

The actual thing is far from simple as described. In addition to ensuring the deployment time, Inspur is also responsible for the integrated design and management of the system, which is equivalent to providing customers with a "turnkey" project. "Considering the urgent requirements of customers, we chose a hyper-converged integration platform and adapted to the third-party big data platform in advance to realize the rapid deployment of intelligent terminal information collection, cloud platform bearing applications, big data analysis in the cloud, digitalization and intelligence, and promote the business to go online as soon as possible to meet the needs of future system expansion." Jun Hu, general manager of Zhejiang Inspur Group, introduced.

In addition to the requirements of software and hardware system deployment, after the business goes online, users prefer to use intelligent data analysis to implement differentiated deployment for 100 service areas and finally realize unified management. Inspur hyper-converged solution helps users make local decisions quickly, and at the same time realizes cloud-side collaborative integrated operation and maintenance. Edge nodes provide rich network interfaces to support a wide range of terminal access. Cloud provides resource scheduling management strategies, including equipment management, resource management and network connection management.

With the help of the intelligent analysis platform provided by Inspur, through the comparative analysis of vehicle data collected by video and business data, the operators in the service area can know the proportion of buses, trucks and other vehicles entering the service area, and make targeted commodity adjustments according to customer groups. Combined with the pilot area, the smart service area can increase revenue by 5-8% and increase user consumption by 5- 10%. At the same time, operators can know the electricity, water and gas consumption of merchants in the service area, and through comprehensive monitoring and dynamic analysis, energy consumption can be reduced by 10- 15%.

Of course, Lu Qirong's ambition goes far beyond this. In his vision, Smart Service Area 3.0 is more like a small business district, which includes not only the rest area, dining area and vehicle service area of the traditional service area, but also the innovative shopping area and leisure area.

When you fly on the expressway, the roadside signs and the Gaode map on your mobile phone will report the road conditions in real time, as well as the traffic volume in the service area. When you drive into the service area, there will be signs for intelligent guidance, telling drivers where parking is more convenient and where there are rest areas and dining areas; A wide variety of chain cafes, fast food restaurants and small shopping malls can meet your needs of buying gifts for yourself or your relatives and friends; When you are ready to take a break in the service area, you can choose a capsule hotel or a single lounge in the service area to completely get rid of the fatigue of the journey.

This is what the future smart service area will look like, and it is also the goal that Zhejiang expressway Information Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. has been striving for. With the help of Inspur hyper-converged platform and intelligent solutions, perhaps in the near future, we can enjoy a shopping and entertainment experience similar to CBD in Zhejiang and even the whole country, and truly realize "playing while driving".

"Maybe we can open a branch in the service area," Jun Hu added.