In the era of Internet of Things, faced with pB-level data, it will be difficult for enterprises to complete infrastructure construction by themselves. The massive amount of data generated by the Internet of Things will not only drive fundamental changes in existing data centers, but also drive the adoption of new big data strategies by relevant enterprises.
The value of the Internet of Things is data: the faster companies can start analyzing data, the more business value they can discover. Big data service providers aim to eliminate the risk and complexity of data collection and management by increasing the investment, so that enterprises can focus on data analysis of the Internet of things.
I. Definition of the Internet of Things
The Internetof Things (IoT) is a network that enables all ordinary objects that can perform independent functions to connect with each other through information carriers such as the Internet and traditional telecommunications networks. The Internet of Things is typically wireless, and since each person is surrounded by 1,000 to 5,000 devices, it can be 500 to 1,000 trillion objects.
On the Internet of Things, anyone can use electronic tags to connect real objects to the Internet, where they can be tracked.
Through the Internet of Things, central computers can be used for centralized management and control of machines, equipment and personnel, as well as remote control of family equipment and cars, search for locations and prevent items from being stolen, similar to automatic control systems. At the same time, by collecting these trivial data, big data can finally be gathered. These include redesigning roads to reduce car accidents, urban renewal, disaster prediction and crime prevention, epidemic control, and other major social changes that connect things to things.
The Internet of Things digitizes the real world and has a wide range of applications. The Internet of Things brings dispersed information closer and integrates digital information of things and things. The application fields of the Internet of Things mainly include the following aspects: transportation and logistics field, health and medical field, intelligent environment (home, office, factory) field, personal and social field, etc., which has a very broad market and application prospect.
Ii. Industrial scale of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things integrates intelligent perception, recognition technology, network communication and ubiquitous computing, and is considered to be the next boom in the development of the world’s information industry after computers, the Internet and smart phones. IDC expects the global Internet of Things market to grow from $700 billion in 2015 to $1.7 trillion in 2020, a compound growth rate of nearly 20%.
With the continuous development and improvement of infrastructure, the application of Internet of Things in security, logistics, transportation and other industries is expected to continue to permeate and popularize, and the combination of data analysis to continuously improve the degree of intelligence, the market space is huge.
According to the market Demand and Investment Forecast Analysis Report on The Application of The Internet of Things Industry in China by Qianzhan Industry Research Institute, the scale of the domestic Internet of Things market is expanding, the industrial system is improving day by day, and government-driven projects are developing rapidly. The scale of China’s Internet of Things industry reached 750 billion yuan in 2015, up 29.3% year on year. The overall size of the Internet of Things in China is expected to exceed 1.8 trillion yuan by 2020.
3. Number of connected iot devices
According to JuniperResearch, there were 13.4 billion connected devices in 2015 and the number is expected to reach 38.5 billion by 2020. In the next decade, there will be an estimated 25 billion internet-connected devices, more than the number of PCS, phones and tablets combined. That’s a lot of connectivity.
The Internet of Things is a vast web of “things”. The relationship is between people, between things and people, and between things. Therefore, one of the biggest factors affecting the Internet of things is data: the amount of data, the management and use of data.
With the improvement of industry standards, continuous technological progress and national policy support, China’s iot industry will continue to enjoy a good momentum of development, providing new impetus for sustained and stable economic growth. The expansion of the mobile Internet to the Internet of everything will create greater market space and industrial opportunities than the Internet in China.
Iv. Application scenarios of big data in the Internet of Things
In the concept of the Internet of Things, any device that switches to the network will be connected to each other, and they will all be connected to each other. This includes mobile phones, coffee makers, washing machines, headphones, lamps and wearable devices, and many other items fall into this category.
1. Industrial sector
The industrial sector is currently the field with the largest number of iot projects because it includes the richest range of things that can be connected, such as printing equipment, workshop machinery, mines and factories. Industrial Iot applications are focused on oil and gas and factory environments.
2. Medical field
At present, the application of Internet of Things technology in the medical industry includes intelligent personnel management, intelligent medical process, intelligent supply chain management, intelligent medical waste management and intelligent health management.
The most typical application is wearable devices, which help users achieve personalized self-health management devices have become a new favorite of many health-conscious people.
3. Intelligent transportation and Internet of vehicles
At present, the application of the Internet of Things in intelligent transportation has seen the embryonic form, and will have a strong development potential in the next few years. Iot applications in intelligent transportation include real-time monitoring systems, automated toll collection systems, smart parking systems and real-time vehicle tracking systems that can automatically detect and report on the health of roads and Bridges, and help the transportation industry reduce energy consumption, pollution and congestion.
Modern vehicles are gradually becoming an important part of the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things technology can capture relevant information of vehicles, drivers, passengers and the surrounding environment through sensing devices, creating unprecedented humanized driving experience.
4. Smart home
The Internet of things solves the problem of networking devices in smart homes. Many domestic manufacturers in different fields have started to set foot in the smart home industry, including Internet technology manufacturers, traditional home appliance manufacturers and Internet giants.
Smart hardware such as smart TV and smart speaker can also be used as the control center and hub of smart home. “ARTIFICIAL intelligence + Internet of Things” will set off a frenzy of lifestyle change.
5. Smart logistics
Smart logistics is the Internet of things technology, such as bar code, radio frequency identification technology, sensor, global positioning system, which is widely used in logistics transportation, warehouse, distribution, packaging, loading and unloading. The rise of intelligent logistics cannot be separated from the catalyst of the explosion of e-commerce, but also from the support of Internet of Things technology.
In the past, overstocking of logistics warehouses and pressure of trunk lines were the top problems, especially in the Double 11 and Double 12 shopping festivals. Before the Double 11 in 2016, many smart logistics technologies were included in the countermeasures of major logistics enterprises.
The above are only part of the application scenarios of the Internet of Things. In fact, the Internet of Things has been combined with many traditional industries to form a new business form and new mode of “Internet of Things plus”.
Development trend and current situation of the Internet of Things
1. Smart water bottle
The development of The Internet of Things industry in China is led by application, and there is a progressive trend of market segmentation from public management and service market, to enterprise and industry application market, and then to individual and family market.
At present, the Internet of Things industry in China is still in the early stage of concept introduction and the gradual formation of the industrial chain, without mature technical standards and perfect technical system, and the overall industry is in the brewing stage.
Previously, RFID market has been looking forward to breakthroughs in logistics, retail and other fields, but due to the long industrial chain involved, industrial organization is too complex, transaction costs are too high, the limited industrial scale cost is difficult to reduce and other problems, the overall market growth is relatively slow.
After the concept of the Internet of Things is put forward, it will be necessary for the public management and service fields with urgent needs to start the market of animal Internet with government application demonstration projects.
Furthermore, with the continuous maturity of public management and service market application solutions, the agglomeration of enterprises, and the continuous integration and improvement of technology, a relatively complete Internet of things industry chain will be gradually formed, which will drive the application market of various industries and large enterprises.
After the application of various industries gradually mature, drive the improvement of various services, process improvement, the personal application market will develop accordingly.
2 standard system gradually mature
Iot standard system is a gradual process of development and maturity. The concept of the Internet of Things covers so many technologies, so many industries, and so many fields that it is almost impossible to try to develop a uniform set of universal standards.
The standards of the Iot industry will be a broad standard system that will develop and mature with the gradual development of the market.
In the development process of the Internet of Things industry, the advanced nature of a single technology does not guarantee the vitality and vitality of the standard. The openness of the standard and the size of the market it faces are the key and core issues for its sustainability.
With the gradual expansion of Internet of Things applications and the maturity of the market, which application occupies a larger market share, the related standards derived from the application will be more likely to become widely accepted as a fact standard.
3. Integrated platforms are coming
With the gradual maturity of industry applications, new general-purpose Internet of Things technology platforms will emerge. The innovation of the Internet of Things is the innovation of application integration. A single enterprise cannot completely complete a complete solution independently.
An application with mature technology, perfect service, diversified product types and friendly application interface will be the result of cooperation between equipment providers, technical solution providers, operators and service providers.
As the industry matures, a generic technology platform that supports different device interfaces, different interconnection protocols and can integrate multiple services will be the result of the mature development of the Internet of Things industry.
In the era of Internet of Things, mobile devices, embedded devices and Internet service platforms will become the mainstream. With the gradual maturity of industry applications, there will be large public platforms and generic technology platforms.
Terminal manufacturers, network operators, software manufacturers, system integrators and application service providers all need to find their own repositioning in the new round of competition.
4. Effective business model is gradually formed
Business model innovation in the field of the Internet of Things will be the result of the full integration of technology and human behavior patterns. The Internet of Things connects the actions of machines, people and society together. The emergence of new business models will be the result of the full integration of iot related technologies and human behavior patterns.
The application of the Internet of Things also starts from the small environment to the big environment. The original business model needs to be updated to adapt to large-scale, rapid and cross-domain applications.
What is more critical is to truly establish a win-win business model, which is the core driving force for the long-term and effective development of the Internet of Things.
For all to win, the Internet of Things must truly be a business driver, not an administrative compulsion.
Only by making all the links of the industrial chain involved in the construction of the Internet of Things benefit from it and obtain corresponding commercial returns, can the Internet of Things continue to develop rapidly.
Key technologies of big data in the Internet of Things
1. Sensor technology
This is also a key technology in computer applications. As you all know, the vast majority of computer processing so far has been digital signals. As long as computers have existed, sensors have been needed to convert analog signals into digital signals for computers to process.
2. RFID tags
It is also a sensor technology. RFID technology is a comprehensive technology integrating radio frequency technology and embedded technology. RFID has broad application prospects in automatic identification and goods logistics management.
3. Embedded system technology
Integrated computer software and hardware, sensor technology, integrated circuit technology, electronic application technology as one of the complex technology.
After decades of evolution, intelligent terminal products characterized by embedded system can be seen everywhere: small to people’s MP3, large to aerospace satellite system.
Embedded system is changing people’s life, promoting the development of industrial production and defense industry. If the Internet of Things is a simple analogy to the human body, the sensor is equivalent to the eyes, nose, skin and other senses, the network is the nervous system used to transmit information, embedded system is the human brain, after receiving information to classify processing.
Big data in the Internet of Things industry is composed of five layers: application layer, support layer, perception layer, platform layer and transmission layer.
The normal operation of the Internet of Things is to transmit information through big data to the cloud computing platform for processing, and then the artificial intelligence extracts the data stored on the cloud computing platform for activities.
Big data is a data set that is so large that the acquisition, management and analysis are far beyond the scope of traditional database software tools. It has four characteristics: massive data scale, fast data flow, diverse data types and low value density.
If we compare big data to an industry, the key to the profitability of this industry is to improve the “processing capacity” of data and realize the “value-added” of data through “processing”.
7. Future prospects of the Internet of Things
Breakthroughs have been made in the development of the Internet of Things from concept to technological research and pilot experiments. With the strong support of the state, enterprises, policies and capital, and the continuous strengthening and investment of policy, finance, RESEARCH and development institutions and personnel, the Internet of Things will continue to develop in accordance with the requirements of productivity reform.
The development of the Internet of Things will inevitably lead to complex business and requirements for system storage and computing power.
Big data technology can solve the massive data processing problems of the Internet of Things, and develop different data processing technologies for different application scenarios. With the development of the application of the Internet of Things, big data technology will penetrate into all walks of life and bring more unexpected splendor to people’s life and work.