Xia Yuanjie

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A THREE-DAY pop-up Huawei Cloud Fruit Store located at Nantou Ancient Town in Nanshan District opened Saturday, promoting an AI-powered cloud-based project for growing strawberries, which was jointly developed by Huawei Cloud and Pagoda, a fresh fruit retail chain.

In the store, visitors can not only taste fresh strawberries for free, but also test the sweetness of a strawberry and smell the aromas of various fruits in a science lab area.

Also, a documentary titled “Fruits on the Cloud” displayed in the store illustrates the application of technology in each section of the life cycle of a strawberry, from farming, to transportation and to selling.

The idea of the offline fruit store originated from the online documentary, according to a source of Huawei Cloud. They hope more residents will learn the value of the cloud and AI technology through fruit, a kind of food everyone is familiar with.

Huawei Cloud has cooperated with Pagoda to provide consumers with high-quality fruits. “Huawei Cloud and Pagoda try to connect the upstream and downstream chains of the fruit industry through the application of cloud computing and AI to promote the standardization of the fruit industry,” Zou Chun, Huawei Cloud CMO, told Shenzhen Daily yesterday.

In terms of farming, a variety of devices of the Internet of Things such as small weather stations, soil sensors and cameras are installed in the strawberry greenhouses of Pagoda to manage temperatures and moisture.

Additionally, ModelArts, an AI-based platform developed by Huawei Cloud, is used by cultivators to identify diseases and seek solutions.

When it comes to harvesting and selling, each pack of strawberries has a number, and their inspection data are uploaded to the cloud. The big data can help forecast precisely the fruit demand of Pagoda stores.

The AI-powered cloud-based project for fruit farming has saved labor, improved the quality of the fruit, and increased cultivators’ income, Zou said.