Recently,BinhuDistrict of Wuxi City firmly seized the opportunity of the construction of Taihu Bay Science and Technology Innovation Belt, gave full play to its advantages, integrated resources, and made great efforts to promote the construction of Taihu Bay Science and Technology Innovation Belt leading area.

Wuxi Ninecosmos Science And Technology Co., Ltd., located in Lihu - Kechuang Bay, one of the four areas of Taihu Bay Scientific and Technological Innovation Zone, adheres to independent innovation and focuses on atmospheric and Marine forecasting and commercial meteorological services. It is the leading company in China that integrates supercomputing, numerical simulation and artificial intelligence. It is a technology provider of meteorological solutions for commercial meteorology, intelligent environmental protection, transportation and shipping, disaster prevention and reduction, smart city, finance and insurance and other industries.

With the capability of meteorological model self-development, coupling, assimilation and optimization, Ninecosmos Technology can provide accurate weather and climate forecast covering short, medium and long term, and use artificial intelligence technology to improve the accuracy of weather forecast, and supercomputing technology to ensure the efficiency and stability of weather forecast.

At present, based on the nine-party intelligent weather forecast platform, it has independently developed and launched a number of forecast products, covering air quality, ocean, port, meteorological navigation, ENSO, typhoon, storm surge and other fields, involving intelligent meteorology, atmospheric environmental protection, ocean shipping, smart energy, finance and insurance, disaster prevention and reduction, smart city and other industries.

Earlier, Zhou Zheng, founder and CEO of Ninecosmos Science And Technology, won the "2020 Advanced Individual in Science and Technology Innovation" award at the 2021 Binhu Innovation Conference hosted by Binhu District.

     Recently, as one of the benchmarks for the rapid development of high-tech enterprises in Binhu District, Ninecosmos Technology was honored as the new Binhu Newspaper!

The following is the original text:

Focus on "smart Weather" to Seize the Development of "new Track"

Nine Party technology to accelerate the pace of innovation and exploration

□ Reporter Oh Tingjun

Provide short - and medium-term accurate weather forecast before the ship leaves port; In the course of ship sailing, according to the weather, surge and other conditions, real-time tracking, in case of adverse conditions, timely suggest to change the course...... For large ships operating at sea at the rate of ten thousand yuan per hour, the "ocean-going shipping meteorological navigation system" independently developed by Wuxi Ninecosmos Science And Technology Co., Ltd. is not only a high-quality maritime "pilot", but also breaks foreign technological and market monopolies in the field of meteorological navigation.

With the "east wind" of Taihu Bay Science and Technology Innovation Belt leading the construction of the district, the spillover effect of Binhu "institution economy" is gradually showing. Ninecosmos Technology, which is rooted in Tsinghua University and Wuxi National Supercomputing Center, aims at the field of "smart weather" and actively preoccupies the "new track" of development, so as to activate the "internal power" of high-quality development with the "source water" of scientific and technological innovation.

Less than 3 years after its establishment, its operating income has exceeded 20 million yuan. It has undertaken more than 10 national scientific research projects and 18 patents and software works. Nine-party technology, which has achieved explosive growth from scratch, has become one of the benchmarks for the rapid development of high-tech enterprises in our district with a dark horse attitude.

Being "born" in an institution with strong scientific and technological strength also makes this high-tech enterprise, which is specialized in earth system model computing, possess strong "innovation gene" since its establishment. "Our team was born from the operation team of Sunway Taihulight supercomputer. We have 19 PHDS, 18 masters, 10 from Tsinghua University, and an average age of 31." In the opinion of Zhou Zheng, the president of the company, the reason why the company can "stand out" in a short time is not only supported by "internal driving force" such as high-quality talent team and strong technical support, but also closely related to grasping the "window period" of commercial meteorological development. Since 2015, China's meteorological market has been gradually opened up and private capital is encouraged to "enter". It is estimated that the scale of meteorological service market will reach 300 billion yuan by 2025.

The technical and capital intensive nature of commercial weather service determines its high threshold. "There are not many players here, the 'track' is relatively empty, but there is also more uncertainty and challenge, because doing research and commercial landing is completely different." Mr. Zhou said. Seeing the opportunity, Ninecosmos tried to race against the "time". Immediately after its establishment, the "Cloud Platform for numerical simulation of air quality" was developed. The platform has the function of simulation deduction/emergency deduction, which can accurately forecast the air quality in the next 7 days, and also realize the source of pollutant emission tracing. "We hope the weather information service will help the government make decisions and help the government accurately control the smog." "He said.

With the support of supercomputer "Superbrain", the artificial intelligence model, system model engine and super computing cloud platform independently developed by Nine Party breaks the performance bottleneck of existing mainstream platforms and realizes more accurate, efficient and stable calculation and prediction of large-scale complex models. It can provide professional meteorological data, software products, industry customized solutions and technical services for customers in the fields of meteorology, Marine, national defense, transportation, insurance, smart city and so on. At present, Nine Party has launched intelligent grid forecasting system, air quality numerical simulation cloud platform, ocean shipping meteorological navigation system, high performance computing technology software and other products, which are widely used in various fields. At present, we have undertaken more than 10 national research projects, more than 30 horizontal research and development projects, and won more than 50 million yuan of research funds, and 18 patents and soft publications. In 2020, the operating revenue will exceed 20 million yuan and the total profit will exceed 7 million yuan.

"Maritime Amap" -- ocean shipping weather navigation system is another "blockbuster product" independently developed by Nine Party after more than a year. The system organically combines meteorology, oceanography, ship dynamics and computer technology to conduct coupling simulation of ocean and atmosphere and forecast future environmental information. At the same time, it integrates ship and hydrodynamics to make intelligent decision emergency plans for different types of ships encountering different levels of wind and waves. Finally, computer technology is used to optimize the action algorithm and recommend the optimal route. "We hope to use accurate forecasting to provide the most solid rear support for ocean-going navigation." He said that the system had been successfully online a year ago, in a shipping group's ship on the internal test, with good results.

Accuracy is the most important index to reflect the quality of weather forecasting products. In this respect, Ninecosmos has achieved "good" results: in the aspect of air pollution monitoring, the accuracy is nearly 90%, leading the industry; In terms of El Nino, it can be predicted six months in advance, leading the world. The air quality prediction system is accurate to within 200 meters.

Since its establishment, with its own strong research and development strength, Ninecosmos Science And Technology has continued to deeply cultivate Marine aquaculture, disaster prevention and reduction, finance and insurance, new energy and other scenes, and its academic research and achievements have been unanimously affirmed and praised by the industry. It won the first prize of 2020 "5G" Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Competition, the 2019 South Jiangsu Global Maker of the Year Innovation Award, and the 2019 China Smart Ocean High-end Forum. With the capital's expectation on the Blue Ocean market of commercial weather service, Jiufang has performed well in "attracting gold" and has completed the Pre-A round of financing of 22 million yuan. "In 2021, we have set the goal of 'doubling' the turnover, profit and personnel team. At present, nearly 8 million yuan of orders are on the way." According to Zhou, the company's biggest task now is to attract more high-end talents and bring its products to market as soon as possible. At the same time, it will control its monitoring network to better support business expansion.

"In recent years, with the deepening of industry-university-research cooperation, the ecology of the meteorological industry has been continuously optimized." Zhou Zheng is confident about its future development. "As a young company, Ninecosmos is the 'back wave' in the weather industry. We hope more young people will join our team."

Ninecosmos Technology insists on doing well the numerical prediction of atmosphere and ocean with supercomputing and artificial intelligence as the core, and develops the industry with intelligent meteorology.