How the Internet of Things has changed from "idol" to "strength"

The technologies that have brought about tremendous changes in the history of human society are mostly those things that melt into life and disappear into intangible things such as papermaking, printing, and electricity networks. The ultimate significance of the development of the Internet of Things is also the same.

In the “Internet of Everything” era, various types of creative ideas have emerged. After the concepts are broken, how can we promote the market application and let ICT technology truly integrate people and benefit lives? This is a long-standing problem that has plagued the industry. In order to realize the gradual transformation of the “Internet of Things” to the “Strength” of the Internet of Things, I think that at least four changes must be made.

First, the market application of the Internet of Things is an economic issue. It is not a matter of government functions. The role of government needs to be changed.

Compared to the “grassroots” of the Internet, the Internet of Things was born with a “golden key” of the government. Government guidance or direct participation is the guarantee for the achievement of the development phase of the Internet of Things. This is particularly true in China. It can be said that the development of China’s Internet of Things has come to an end and the role of the government is indispensable.

The Internet of Things has a wide range of applications. Many industries have great cross-cutting applications. Because these applications belong to different departments, it is necessary to strengthen the interaction in various fields in the process of industrialization in order to develop IoT applications. At this time, if there are government departments, many problems of communication and coordination will be easily solved. For this reason, many companies have chosen projects that the government coordinates and guides and participates in.

Then, how do we view the role of the government and market in the development of the Internet of Things? I believe that at this stage, as the Internet of Things is at the initial stage of application of concepts, arguments, and experiments, under the specific form of supervision, “government-driven” is a model for the development of many industries in China. The Internet of Things, hardware, infrastructure, etc. The cross-border integration industry also needs to rely on the government's “tangible hand” to promote it in the early development stage.

Taking the profit model as an example, the Internet of Things is a new emerging business for most companies, so there is no ready-made profit model to follow. The early development of the Internet of Things requires a large amount of capital investment to cultivate the market. This is relatively risky for many small and medium-sized companies. Some venture capitalists who focus on short-term profitability do not want to intervene in it. The initial capital chain issues of enterprises restrict the application of Internet of Things. Market operability. Because of this, at present, many small and medium-sized enterprises choose projects funded by the government in order to avoid risks. First, they have financial protection, and second, they can reduce the uncertainty of business development.

The current development situation of Internet of Things enterprises is very different from that of Internet companies. At the beginning of the development of Internet companies, basically relying on the “invisible hand” of the market to promote, for the Internet of Things companies, under the influence of various factors, the government’s “tangible hand” has become the main promoter of its development.

With the gradual maturity of various technologies and policies and the establishment of the platform ecosystem, the market-oriented application, popularization and development of the Internet of Things will ultimately depend on the market as an “invisible hand.” The Internet of Things is to develop, and the government is only visible. The hand “needs to withdraw from intervention at a proper time and let the “invisible hand” fully play its role, so as to truly increase the participation of various companies in the development of the Internet of Things. In the next 5 to 10 years, with the addition of service providers and personalized services, it will open up the personal and home application market.

Secondly, the continuous improvement of the development model of "common platform + multiple applications" is the key to the development and application of the Internet of Things.

In recent years, there has been a new vocabulary on the Internet of Things (IoT) application exhibition – the Internet of Things platform. The platform is similar to the Internet platforms of giants such as Google. It is a model of “common platform for more than ten applications”. One of the manifestations of the development of the Internet of Things, this will undoubtedly promote the rapid development of the industry. At present, the development of the Internet of Things in China is mainly led by the government, and it is carried out by promoting the construction of demonstration projects for the Internet of Things. This approach is important in the early stages of development. However, this guidance and demonstration is not a key form of development for entering the stage of marketization and development.

The Internet of Things can be extended to different areas, mainly because its development is characterized by decentralization and minority distribution. Different applications can be extended for different industries and even different scenarios. The requirements of these applications are also different. Therefore, the product form, system application, and perception service of the Internet of Things should be diversified, but this diversification needs to overcome the narrow application of the problem.

The stable and continuous development of the Internet of Things should consider the issues of commonness and personality coordination. Whether it can create a standard system ecosystem platform, form a unified application, management standards, and then through the opening of the port, the integration of different personality applications and hardware has become the key to the development of the Internet of Things. Whoever takes the system ecosystem platform to attack will seize the commanding height of the industrialization of the Internet of Things.

Once again, the popularization of the Internet of Things needs to solve the problem of “unified standards”.

The ancients often said that "no rules will not be a round," and the same is true for the development of the industry. Without a unified standard, the industry will “grass”, which not only brings trouble to the enterprise, but also brings great difficulties to consumers. So as soon as possible to introduce a set of industry standards, standardize the Internet of Things products and markets to become the common voice of the industry and the terminal.

The prospects for the application of the Internet of Things have unlimited attractiveness. However, facing the promotion and popularization, the threshold that must be crossed first is the unification of standards. Different categories and different uses of household electrical appliances need to integrate into a single network, which requires control of communication settings. It will inevitably require standards that can interface with each other and related communication protocol standards. The harmonization of these standards is critical for improving the speed of the promotion of the Internet of Things.

However, from the current point of view, domestic related standards for IoT home appliances are still in their infancy, lack of clear department guidance and regulations, and related interfaces and related equipment associated with the linkage are not uniform, so there may be potential for a variety of interface devices. This will cause confusion for the promotion of the follow-up. Taking the Internet of Things appliance as an example, the competition of high-definition video and audio formats a few years ago was a lesson. When Sony Blu-ray and Toshiba's XI) VIII competed for the market, there were several “some company’s ten departments” born in China. High-definition video format standards, the final result is a few years of war, when the blue light unified the world, no one could not get how many cakes, has become a farce.

Aside from the dispute over interests, a unified and relevant department will promote the gradual establishment of a unified industry standard, and strengthen the core technology research and development, informatization and other aspects. The unified standards of the home appliances companies in the United Nations, unified promotion, Internet of things There is hope that it will become a universal application from the concept.

Finally, breakthroughs in the bottleneck of technological innovation can truly promote the adoption of applications.

The core of the Internet of Things is the devices and devices of the sensor layer and the system network based on it. Compared with the Internet, the application of the Internet of Things is much more complicated. In the face of complex demand environments, there is still a certain gap between our chip, sensitive devices and other basic technologies, especially high-precision technologies, and the international advanced level. According to statistics, at present, there are about 6,000 kinds of sensor products in China and over 20,000 in foreign countries. Domestic imports of high-end sensors accounted for 80% of the total, and sensor chip imports reached 90%, among which high-tech products such as digitization, intelligence, and miniaturization are in serious shortage. The key to the future development of the Internet of Things lies in the areas of RFID, sensors, embedded software, and transmission data computing. However, domestic companies do not have a monopoly on technologies and enterprises in a certain area.

In addition, in the field of technological innovation, many of our country still belong to imitative innovation, lack of original innovation, especially in the core technology field urgently need to seek a breakthrough. Although blindly imitating the progress of domestic manufacturers into the character networking industry has been accelerated, but it also limits its future development and discourse power in the industry chain, while delaying the development of core technologies and the development of industry standards, and this technology direction Uncertainty also restricts the investment enthusiasm of companies to some extent. In this cycle, China's Internet of Things industry is extremely vulnerable to stagnation in the wait-and-see of the company. Therefore, in order to achieve universal access to ICT technology, it is necessary to have its own independent core technology. To achieve this, we first need to unify standards, and in combination with the characteristics of low-cost informatization in China, we must select resources, security, environmental protection, and urban management. Logistics, home furnishing and other industries are the cutting-edge points, focusing on the needs of the core technology research and technology integration R & D, demonstration of technology, and explore the development approach; In addition, we must pay more attention to energy saving, consumption reduction, green, low-carbon, low-cost, intelligent The trend of development.