On 23rd April, at the Release Conference of Dongfeng’s Brand Strategy 2018 “when the east wind comes”, Dongfeng Aeolus WindLink3.0 AI vehicle-mounted system was officially released, and meanwhile Dongfeng eπ Concept Style Coupe debuted at the conference, which revealed DFM’s blueprint of future technology and intelligent life under the intelligent connection trend, as well as its integrated layout and key breakthroughs in new energy field. The conceptual technology of WindLink3.0 and eπ Concept Style Coupe will be successively applied to the future product collections of Dongfeng Aeolus, starting from which Dongfeng Aeolus will present a more confident image and create a new mobile trip experience for consumers with the comprehensive force exerted by the industrial trends of intelligence, connectivity, electrification, lightness and sharing.

The BAIDU DeruOS-based AI Vehicle-mounted System: WindLink3.0

The rapid development of vehicle intelligence makes more and more consumers give priority to intelligent connected vehicles. Nevertheless, the current vehicle-mounted system on the market still cannot satisfy consumers’ demands in terms of precision of voice identification, smoothness of human-machine interaction experience and wide multi-scenario applications. In response to the tide of historical development, to satisfy users’ demand, Dongfeng Aeolus took the initiative to work with Baidu who initiated “ALL in AI” and PATEO, the pioneering enterprise in Telematics; they spent two years on blending, innovation and refining and finally pushed out the Baidu DuerOS-based AI vehicle-mounted system -- Dongfeng Aeolus WindLink3.0.

WindLink3.0 takes user experience as the core, highlighted with its super high-end hardware, ultra-simple UI experience, super-fast AI voice and extreme application ecology. Meanwhile, WindLink3.0 also brings about six industrially pioneering advantages, i.e., the first AI vehicle-mounted system that can realize self-learning, the first that has faster experience than smart phones, the first that can understand complicated human languages, the first with full-scenario ecology and that can grow, the first with OTA and the first that can realize full-featured application without downloading APP.

In terms of hardware configuration, WindLink3.0 is fixed with high-performance Quad-Core Processer IMX 6Q Plus, a super-powerful GPU, 4G memory and 32G storage space and is adopted with 1920*720P HD direct-bonding capacitive touchscreen, which has been the best hardware configuration for vehicles of the same level, as well as the important basis that WindLink3.0 can provide users with efficient interaction experience faster than that of smart phones. Besides, WindLink3.0 can also support the infinite OTA upgrades and iterations of software, so it never goes offline and can be updated before you know it.

Intelligent connected products cannot exist without a client end or APP, which is not fit for auto environment. WindLink3.0 takes de-application as its original point and builds each UI card into an interactive and simplified service ecology, interfaced with AI-end ecology; based on AI, it can take the initiative to push out the precise scenario service at appropriate scenario according to user’s route, road condition, vehicle condition, weather, user’s daily dietary habit, travel and shopping history, etc. Full-featured application can be realized without downloading APP to create extremely easy UI experience, thereby making the trip safer and more convenient.

In terms of voice interaction, different from the previous mode of server listening and processing by awakening, entering, getting result and selection, WindLink3.0 respond to user’s demand in seconds as it operates with one group of servers listening and the other group calculating and giving results. Established on AI algorithm with a super-large scale of neural networks, thousand-of-billion parameters and hundred-of-billion samples relying on DuerOS, WindLink3.0 possesses the AI learning ability like AlphaGo, so it is a high-speed servicing AI vehicle-mounted system and will get faster. Besides, the Baidu DuerOS-based WindLink3.0 is provided with various user-demand data like thousand-of-billion web pages, five-billion searches on a daily basis, one-billion user portraits, numerous Baidu maps, Baidu input, Baidu translation, Baidu zhidao, etc. WindLink3.0 is currently the only auto intelligent product that can truly understand complicated human languages with phonological competence.

WindLink3.0 system establishes a complete open ecology, deeply integrating DuerOS, Baidu Cloud, Baidu Map, Baidu Brain, Suning, Umetrip, Ctrip, Meituan, The Himalayan, ETCP, Kuwo Music and other apps. Possessing the complete features of an account system, an OS, a map service, a cloud service and an AI entrance, with the ability to embed Mapauto into the cloud platform, OS and AI service in depth, WindLink3.0 is able to form a closed loop with AI in the automobile field and account, OS, map, cloud and abundant ecology.

Automobiles equipped with AI vehicle-mounted system are able to interconnect with smart products like phones and IoT and such interconnection ability grows, for instance, today, tens of thousands of devices can interconnect with Dongfeng Aeolus WindLink3.0 and can realize remote control; tomorrow, hundreds of millions of devices may be able to interconnect with it; therefore, the WindLink3.0 jointly created by Dongfeng Aeolus, Baidu and PATEO is the first AI vehicle-mounted system that possesses full-scenario ecology and grows constantly.

Liu Hong, General Manager of Dongfeng Passenger Vehicle Company, introduced that, WindLink3.0 will be a standard configuration for Dongfeng Aeolus’ next brand-new product which is about to enter the market and in the next three years, it will be mounted on all Dongfeng Aeolus model collections. The debut of WindLink3.0 marks that Dongfeng Aeolus has stood at the frontier of the industry in the field of AI automobile, and it also signifies that Dongfeng Aeolus will generally open up its road to gradually advanced AI products.

Looking into the Future Trip Mode: Dongfeng eπ Concept Style Coupe

eπ is a new energy concept style coupe integrating various technologies independently developed by Dongfeng. With the ideas of “Quality, Intelligence and Joy”, eπ incarnates its pamper imagination to future life and attention to the psychology of users. e stands for electrical, as a new energy; π stands for Pi, which never ends and never settles into a permanent repeating pattern, representing the infinite possibilities of the future.

eπ is no longer a simple means of transportation, but an “intelligent” partner able to communicate with human. Its advanced intelligent system makes each intimate contact between human and machine from afar to the nearby lie in a joyful mode with different lighting effects or communication statuses. eπ provides users with a “connected” smart city, by which users can get access to the optimal route planning, remote doctor seeing, real-time interaction with family members and assisted real-time attention to hotpots along the road, etc. And by virtue of the real-time interconnection and positioning between vehicle and user, and the automatic greeting technology, user can realize a convenient and rapid immediate trip. The pure electricity-driven eπ can endure at least 500km when charged for 15 minutes via the “electrification” sharing platform; while the PHEV-driven eπ can endure 1,000km; hub motors at four wheels bring about better bearing space and hands-on fun; and, it can be accelerated to a hundred kilometers per hour in less than 4 seconds. Its low-decibel motor system provides peaceful experience. With a “sharing” platform solution, eπ is able to realize urban dynamic information sharing and individualized configuration sharing, thus fulfilling the idea of green and environmental travel.

As a phased achievement made by Dongfeng to make a perfect trip experience in the future, eπ Concept Style Coupe not only distinctly shows the profound technological reserves of Dongfeng under “the five” strategy, but also predicts the future development trend of Dongfeng Motor.

Dongfeng Aeolus has been forging ahead and constantly forging the brand’s core competitiveness, relying on the competitiveness and advantageous resources of Dongfeng system. The release of WindLink3.0 and the brand-new Concept Style Coupe will certainly open a new chapter in the development of Dongfeng Aeolus and further compact its brand intelligence attribute. It is predictable that, Dongfeng Aeolus will respond to the competition at the current auto market and the change of future industrial layout with a more positive and confident face.