Huawei Wins WSIS Prize 2022 Champion

Chinese tech giant Huawei has been named Champion at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2022 Forum's Prizes Ceremony in Geneva.

The award was presented to the conglomerate for its use of an intelligent net-zero carbon campus solution at the Yancheng Low-carbon & Smart Energy Industrial Park project. The selection for this award took five months and a total of 996 projects were considered.

Being the largest annual gathering of ICT globally, the WSIS intends to advance global sustainable development goals and is organized by the ITU in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and other UN organizations and WSIS action plan facilitators. 

The WSIS Prizes contest awards prizes for excellent sustainability projects spanning 18 categories such as information and communication infrastructure, E-government, E-environment, E-health, and E-agriculture. Huawei's intelligent net-zero carbon campus solution was nominated for this year's environment category.

The project at Yancheng Park was a collaboration between Huawei and the Yancheng Power Supply Company, a subsidiary of the State Grid Corporation of China. The project makes use of the triple-dimensional model for energy transformation, decarbonization, and digital transformation. 

Shedding light on the three scenarios of smart energy management, carbon management, and campus management will help this project deliver real-time monitoring of energy equipment, strong carbon emission management, intelligent and convenient access control management, and intelligent and coordinated micro-grid control.