The winners of 2025 World Communication Awards (WCA), a prestigious authority in the global communication industry, have been officially unveiled in recent days. AsiaInfo Technologies, in collaboration with China International Broadcasting Network, has been chosen from numerous participating enterprises after fierce international competition, and honored with the "Enterprise Service of the Year" award for their "700MHz Smart Wind Farm Private 5G Network Solution" in the wind power industry.
Figure: "Enterprise 5G Service of the Year" Award (2025 WCA) for AsiaInfo Technologies
The World Communication Awards (WCA), hosted by an internationally renowned industry institution Total Telecom, aims to recognize those enterprises with technological innovations, excellent services and outstanding contributions in the global communication sector. Alongside AsiaInfo Technologies, other enterprises recognized with awards include Ericsson (5G Access Innovation Award), Telefonica (Satellite Communications Award), etc. This award not only signifies international authoritative recognition for AsiaInfo Technologies due to its deepened cultivation of private 5G-A network solutions in vertical industries, but also demonstrates its leading capabilities in the field of energy-specific digital intelligence.
Figure: Winners of 2025 WCA World Communication Awards
01 Targeting the Pain Points: Resolving the "Communication Isolated Island" Problem for Remote Mountain Wind Farms
The award-winning solution is specifically designed to address the practical challenges faced by a wind farm in terms of the scenarios. The wind farm, characterized by its vast coverage area and complex terrain, faces persistent challenges including weak public network signals, numerous signal blind areas, and poor communication at the working site. Additionally, adverse weather conditions can easily trigger safety incidents, while traditional operation and maintenance modes suffer from pain points such as high costs, scarce expert resources and delayed emergency responses, making it difficult to support the wind farm's urgent need for intelligent management transformation.
02 Technological Innovation: Three Core Breakthroughs Revolutionizing Communication Experience in the Wind Power Industry
As the core solution provider for the Project, AsiaInfo Technologies has achieved key technological breakthroughs tailored to the characteristics of the wind power industry based on its independently developed private 5G network product system. Through an innovative architecture that integrates "hardware-algorithm-architecture" into a whole, it has redefined the 5G connectivity standards for the energy industry:
Hardware Customization to Conquer Extreme Environments: Facing the harsh conditions inside the wind turbine compartment such as high temperature, vibration and severely limited space, AsiaInfo Technologies has successfully developed the 700MHz integrated high-power base station. The base station effectively resolves the installation challenge by mounting a dedicated antenna on the anemometer bracket atop the compartment. Leveraging the coverage advantage of 700MHz frequency band, the base station has achieved wide-area, stable coverage over complex mountainous terrain, completely eliminating communication blind areas on the site.
AI Algorithm Empowerment to Tackle Blade Interference: To address the dynamic channel variations induced by the high-speed rotation of wind turbine blades, the solution incorporates an AI-driven interference elimination algorithm. The algorithm can perceive the channel environment in real-time, dynamically optimize the base station's MCS (Modulation and Coding Strategies) processing flow, significantly reduce the data packet loss rate and call drop rate, effectively suppress frequent switching, and ensure stable and reliable network performance in complex electromagnetic environments.
MOCN Architecture Innovation to Balance Security and Openness: The solution adopts an advanced MOCN (Multi-Operator Core Network) architecture, enabling 5G base station to achieve simultaneous access to both private and public core networks. This design effectively meets the stringent requirements for high security and low latency in industrial control services through the private network, while supporting flexible access needs for the smart power station via the public network, thus achieving an effective balance between security isolation and service accessibility.
Figure: Private 5G Network Architecture of Wind Farm
03 Business Value: Reshaping the Wind Power Operation and Maintenance Modes to Achieve Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement
The WCA judging panel highly commended the solution for its excellent performance in commercial implementation. Compared to the traditional standalone private network construction mode, AsiaInfo Technologies' 700MHz wind farm-specific private network solution has achieved dual breakthroughs in "cost reduction" and "efficiency improvement" through technological innovation and deep scenario adaptation:
Reduction in Both Construction and Operating Costs: The solution fully utilizes shared wind power infrastructure to construct the private 5G network, significantly reducing construction difficulty and cutting construction costs by 75%. Meanwhile, the deep integration of 5G technology and wind power operation/maintenance service has shortened the task time by 10% to 15%, significantly enhancing operational/maintenance efficiency and lowering comprehensive operating costs.
Enhanced Power Generation Efficiency: The implementation of precise operation/maintenance through digital intelligence means has effectively reduced the frequency of unplanned shutdown for wind turbines. Calculations indicate that preventing a single prolonged shutdown can recover tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of clean electricity. Annually, this accumulation can bring about hundreds of thousands of yuan in operational-specific added value for a single wind farm, demonstrating considerable potential for commercial returns. The successful deployment of private 5G networks in wind farms is attributed to the close collaboration among industry customers, product solution providers and operators. It also signifies the increasing maturity of private 5G network construction standards and the integrated operational/maintenance applications of "Network-Data-Intelligence" in the wind power industry.
04 Future Vision: Continuously Cultivating Industrial Digital Intelligence, and Empowering Green Energy
Winning the "Enterprise Service of the Year" award at the WCA represents another authoritative recognition from an international authoritative institution for AsiaInfo Technologies' deep commitment to industrial digital intelligence and its dedicated focus on serving vertical industries. Based on this new starting point, AsiaInfo Technologies will continue to root itself on the front lines of various industries, focus on the actual business pain points of enterprises, promote the deep integration of technology and service, and provide more precise and reliable solutions. AsiaInfo Technologies not only addresses "connectivity" challenges for enterprises but is also committed to leveraging its core product systems, such as private 5G networks, to achieve full-chain empowerment from connectivity and data to intelligence, thereby helping enterprises build digital intelligence operation capabilities in an open, efficient and secure manner. In the future, AsiaInfo Technologies will stay true to its original aspiration of "being the most business-understanding and trusted long-term partner for customers", and continue to collaborate with partners across all sectors to jointly advance the digital intelligence transformation and high-quality development of industries, thereby providing sustained momentum for the digital intelligence future of all industries.
