What Elink does

Elink Technology (NEEQ: 833066), founded in 2003 and headquartered in Qingdao, China, is an AIoT-based intelligent building integration and data services provider operating across two intertwined business lines: smart parks (industrial parks, headquarters, hotels, schools, hospitals, tourism venues) and smart communities (party-led grid governance, smart streets, security communities, old neighborhood renovation). The company runs a "platform plus modules" architecture anchored on two proprietary cloud platforms — Elink Cloud (亿联云), an IoT operating system for data ingestion, storage, big data and AI processing across multi-protocol devices with cloud-edge integration, and Party-led Cloud (党建引领云), a blockchain-based grassroots governance platform recognized as a 2020-2021 national big data industry demonstration project. Around these two engines, Elink layers a modular suite including IOC Smart Operations Center, IBMS Intelligent Building Management System, EIMS Equipment Information Management System, and BESS Building Economy Data Service System, plus vertical solutions for hospitality, education, healthcare, tourism, and headquarters buildings.

Revenue is generated through a mix of project-based system integration, contracted engineering services, software platform licensing with recurring O&M, and consulting, priced on a per-project basis with no publicly disclosed standard rates. The company sells predominantly through direct enterprise field sales targeting government entities, industrial park developers, property managers, hotel groups, and state-owned enterprises, with geographic coverage spanning 18 provinces and 43 cities (per one source) and up to 70 cities (per another). Elink claims 3,300+ served communities/parks, 500 million square meters of coverage, 1,000+ integrated projects, 3,000+ grassroots party organizations supported, 171 software copyrights, and 77 patents. The firm operates as a subsidiary of the broader Yilian Group (亿联集团) and is led by Chairman Hua Qingbo (who has steered the party-led governance business since 2015) and General Manager Mu Wei.

Name

Elink

Legal name

青岛亿联信息科技股份有限公司

Website

https://elinkit.com.cn

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Elink Technology is a Qingdao-based AIoT platform provider delivering smart park and smart community solutions — including intelligent building management, IoT operations centers, and party-led grassroots governance platforms — to governments, industrial parks, hotels, schools, and hospitals across China.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Building IoT and Smart Park Software Platforms

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Software Publishers (5132), Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (92512)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Auto Controls For Regulating Residential & Comml Environments (3822)

akta.pro primary industry

Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Programs (Digital Planning, Civic Tech for Cities) (BPAIANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Waste Management & Smart Sanitation (Facilities) (HSAPAPAM), AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), Physical Security, Access Control & Visitor Management (HSAPAPAD)

Keywords

• Building IoT platforms
• Smart community governance
• Industrial park solutions
• Building management software
• Digital twin systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Qingdao Shi

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. 智慧园区系统集成服务: 提供智慧园区的智能化系统集成服务，包括咨询规划、设计、集成、开发以及运营服务。采用项目制收费模式，为产业园区、总部大厦等提供完整的智慧化解决方案。
2. 智慧社区解决方案: 面向政府主导的智慧社区建设，提供党建引领基层治理数字化平台建设服务。采用项目制收费，包含软件开发、系统集成和运维服务。
3. 软件平台授权与运维: 基于亿联云和党建引领云平台提供软件平台授权及持续运维服务，采用订阅或年度服务费模式。
4. 智能化建设工程服务: 提供建筑物联网智能化建设工程服务，包括智慧酒店、智慧校园、智慧医疗等垂直场景的智能化建设，采用工程承包模式。

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Elink provides AIoT-based digital solutions for smart parks and smart communities through its proprietary Elink Cloud IoT operating system and Party-led Cloud governance platform. The company delivers end-to-end services from consulting, planning, and design through integration, development, and operations across industrial parks, headquarters buildings, smart hotels, smart campuses, smart tourism, and grassroots community governance deployments for government and commercial customers in China.

Product overview

Elink (青岛亿联信息科技股份有限公司) operates as a platform-plus-modules architecture providing AIoT-based digital solutions for smart parks and smart communities. The core platform consists of 亿联云 (Elink Cloud) IoT operating system and 党建引领云 (Party-led Cloud) governance platform, which serve as the technical foundation ('two engines') for all solutions. The product portfolio spans four core product modules for smart parks (IOC Intelligent Operations Center, EIMS Equipment Management, IBMS Building Management, BESS Building Economy Data) and four solution areas for smart communities (social governance, smart streets, security communities, old community renovation). Industry-specific solutions cover smart industrial parks, headquarters buildings, smart tourism, smart hotels, and smart campuses. The company has expanded from building intelligent systems (since 2003) to human-centered smartification, now serving 18 provinces and 43 cities with 1000+ park projects and 3000+ community party organization implementations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• 亿联云: 基于物联网、大数据和人工智能技术的智慧建筑物联网操作系统，智慧化场景应用基础支撑平台
• 党建引领云
• e联社区
• 党群e事通
• e党群
• IOC智能运营中心平台
• EIMS设备信息管理系统
• IBMS智能建筑管理系统
• BESS楼宇经济数据服务系统

Products and services

• Elink Cloud (亿联云) AIoT Platform IoT operating system for intelligent buildings based on IoT, big data, and AI technologies, providing data acquisition, storage, processing, and analytics capabilities with multi-protocol, multi-network device connectivity and cloud-edge integrated edge computing. Serves as the foundational platform for smart park and smart community applications.
• Party-led Cloud (党建引领云) Blockchain-based governance platform with patented multi-department collaboration system for grassroots party-building, organizational management, propaganda and education, and party-mass services across community, rural, enterprise, and school settings.
• Smart Industrial Park Solution (智慧产业园区解决方案) Digital twin-based smart industrial park solution integrating AI, IoT, and big data analytics, providing comprehensive management of park buildings and facilities from macro to micro levels through visualized management for industrial parks and headquarters buildings.
• Headquarters Building Solution (总部大厦解决方案) Smart building and office solution for enterprise headquarters, covering intelligent construction, smart office, smart operations, and technology services to build top-down intelligent management systems for enterprise headquarters campuses and office buildings.
• Smart Tourism Solution (智慧旅游解决方案) Comprehensive smart tourism solution including scenic area network planning, data integration services, scenic area intelligent construction, commercial system integration, tourist service systems, and full-network marketing platform construction.
• Smart Hotel Solution (智慧酒店解决方案) Smart hotel solution integrating big data, AI, and IoT technologies covering the full process from customer attraction, booking, check-in, access, service, to check-out, with intelligent operation and maintenance management platform. Developed in partnership with multiple international top-tier hotel management groups.
• Smart Campus Solution (智慧校园解决方案) Smart campus solution centered on faculty and students using IoT, AI, and big data technologies, providing intelligent construction solutions for primary schools, high schools, and universities to improve safety, security, and comprehensive management capabilities.
• Party-led Grid Governance Digital Solution (社会治理-党建引领网格化治理数字化方案) Digital platform integrating party grid with comprehensive grid management, implementing the 'mass whistle, department response' mechanism with assessment systems for party-building, governance, and services across multiple regions in China.
• IOC Smart Operations Center Platform (IOC智能运营中心平台) Intelligent operations center integrating big data and system convergence using edge gateway, AIoT, and BIM 3D visualization to connect data resources across park systems, providing situation monitoring, emergency command, display reporting, process management, and decision support.
• EIMS Equipment Information Management System (EIMS设备信息管理系统) Full lifecycle equipment management system for building intelligent systems, managing equipment procurement, entry, usage, maintenance, repair, inventory, and disposal with mobile services, intelligent dispatch, AIoT integration, and data-driven operations.
• IBMS Intelligent Building Management System (IBMS智能建筑管理系统) Intelligent building management system integrating building subsystems through AI, IoT, edge computing, and cloud technologies, providing centralized monitoring, control, linkage management, and scenario-based services for comprehensive building management.
• BESS Building Economy Data Service System (BESS楼宇经济数据服务系统) Building economy data service system using IoT data collection for government authorities, constructing dynamic enterprise profiles, providing real-time building economy monitoring and risk early warning for industrial optimization and policy decision-making.
• Party Mass Affairs Tong (党群e事通) Grassroots governance platform enabling party organizations to engage citizens in community governance, implementing the 'mass whistle, department responds' mechanism with quantified assessment of party-building, governance, and service effectiveness.
• e Party Group (e党群) Enterprise party building digital platform using AI and big data to integrate party affairs with business operations, promoting party-business integration for state-owned enterprises with party-building and business collaboration.
• e-Lian Community (e联社区) Platform Community digital platform enabling data element integration for grassroots service delivery, using big data comparison and intelligent push to transform service delivery from 'people find policy' to 'policy finds people' model based on people and housing data.
• Smart Commercial Street Operations Command System (智慧商街运营指挥系统) Digital operations platform for commercial streets integrating tourist services, merchant empowerment, digital operations, and smart governance. Built on people, location, events, objects, sentiment, and organization data elements with standards for street-area management.

Quantifiable outcome

• 建筑总体造价降低20%，碳排放减少20%，运维成本降低50%，设备寿命提高30%，建筑空气质量提升80%，安全响应速度提升60%
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered 核心, 重要 and 一般.

• 清华大学互联网产业研究院核心Strategic or Co-development Partner · 28 June 2021亿联科技与清华大学互联网产业研究院开展国企党建与百城千县智库工程合作，围绕党建数字化产品e支部和百城千县智库工程项目进行深入合作，共同打造拳头产品，推动地方振兴和党建事业发展。
• 山东公用控股有限公司重要Strategic or Co-development Partner济宁市国资委带队山东公用控股有限公司一行到亿联科技考察交流，双方就智慧园区、智慧社区领域合作进行深入探讨，探索战略合作伙伴关系，推动济宁新城建试点建设。
• 济宁市国资委重要Strategic or Co-development Partner济宁市国资委组织相关企业到亿联科技考察交流，就新型智慧园区、党建引领社区治理等领域进行深入交流，达成多处合作意向。
• 青岛市城市经济学会一般Strategic or Co-development Partner青岛市城市经济学会组织专家到亿联科技调研数字社区建设，围绕数字社区满意度提升数智产品进行深入探讨，为政府决策和市办实事提供数据支撑。
• 青岛市市北区政协一般Strategic or Co-development Partner青岛市市北区区政协到亿联科技开展高新技术企业培育调研工作，了解公司发展历程、核心能力、产业布局等情况。
• 多家国际顶尖酒店管理集团重要Implementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner亿联科技已与多家国际顶尖酒店管理集团合作，打造具备高标准施工标准和工艺技术的酒店行业标杆项目，包括万豪、喜来登、艾美等品牌。
• 中国工程建设标准化协会核心Others亿联科技主编国家《绿色智慧产业园区评价标准》（T/CECS 774-2020），参与行业标准制定，确立行业话语权地位。

Scale indicators11 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Huawei (Smart City Business Unit): Huawei offers end-to-end smart city and smart park solutions through its Huawei Cloud and IoT platform, directly competing with Elink's AIoT building management and digital governance offerings for large-scale government and enterprise contracts across China.
• Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Smart City: Alibaba Cloud provides city brain, smart community, and IoT platform solutions that overlap with Elink's smart park and digital governance platform offerings, particularly for government and large enterprise customers in China.
• Tencent Cloud Smart Industry: Tencent Cloud competes in smart community, smart park, and digital governance markets with WeChat-based mini-program ecosystems that overlap with Elink's e-Lian Community platform and smart street operations systems.
• Ping An Smart City: Ping An Smart City provides comprehensive smart city, smart government, and community governance solutions across China, with stronger financial services backing than Elink but overlapping customer segments in local governments and grassroots governance.
• SoftBank (China) / iSoftStone (软通动力): iSoftStone is a large IT services and smart city/IoT solution provider in China that competes for smart park, smart community, and government digital transformation contracts alongside Elink.
• Taiji Computer (太极股份):
• Digital China (神州数码): Digital China is a major IT distribution and smart city solution provider in China competing for digital transformation and IoT platform contracts with government and enterprise customers.

Direct peers

• Terminus Technologies (特斯联): Terminus is a direct AIoT peer focused on smart buildings, smart parks, and smart city solutions in China, offering comparable IoT platform, edge AI, and building management system products that compete head-to-head with Elink's Elink Cloud and IBMS offerings.
• PCI-Suntek (佳都科技): PCI-Suntek provides AI-based smart city, smart transportation, and smart community solutions across China, with overlapping product offerings in community governance, face recognition, and urban IoT platforms that compete with Elink's solutions.

Emerging players

• Glodon (广联达): Glodon is a leading construction technology and BIM/digital twin platform provider in China whose smart construction and smart park offerings increasingly overlap with Elink's IBMS and smart industrial park solutions.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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