If you look closely at tech companies over the past 25 years, change has been happening.
Every three to seven years, companies must reinvent them. Companies that missed a technological shift may recover if they catch up.
Those that missed two tech transitions are likely to have disappeared.
If you’re interested, take a look at the list of s&p 500 companies from 50 years ago. As of 2017, only 19% of them still exist, if the statistics are correct.
When we looked at online “Buddha” after 90 “middle-aged” topic laughed, in fact we didn’t see it revealed the real reason behind is: after 90 people living in a world of “fast”, too many problems in the study work life before his previous generations even generation are not met, they lost so big, so some people think that: As for the constant response to all changes is the “correct solution”.
And if we expand this even further, we are destined to be part of a generation that will undergo revolutionary change, regardless of our real age. It was Marchei. Maciej Kranz, executive director of the Internet of Things, has called the “Internet of Things generation”, the generation that is undergoing 鈥 渟 ertification 鈥? In every area of business.
What is Internet of Things?
A relatively cumbersome explanation is this:
The Internet of Things is an extension of the Internet. The terminal of the Internet is the computer (PC, server), and all the programs we run are data processing and transmission in the computer and network, without involving any other terminal. In the future, everything will be connected.
The Internet of Things is a network that enables Internet-connected objects to collect and exchange data using embedded sensors. Cars, kitchen appliances, and even heart monitors can all be connected via the Internet of Things. As iot develops in the coming years, more electronic devices will join the iot camp.
In the Internet of Things Era, the Internet of Things has a simpler definition: “Everything is connected through a distributed cloud based on Internet protocol.” Marchee Kranz is a global Internet of Things expert and vice president of Cisco’s Strategic Innovation Group.
Generally speaking, the essence of the Internet of Things is still the Internet, but the terminal is no longer a computer (PC, server), but an embedded computer system and its accompanying sensors.
In that sense, the Internet of Things is a big concept. If only from the disciplinary decomposition, it involves communication, signal processing, computer vision, automation control, circuit system, information fusion, wireless self-organizing network, MEMS sensor design and so on.
It can be said that this is the inevitable result of the development of computer science and technology. Computers that serve human beings take on various forms, such as wearable devices, environmental monitoring devices, virtual reality devices and so on. As long as there is hardware or products connected to the Internet and data interaction occurs, it is called the Internet of Things.
In fact, the concept of big data was first proposed because of the rise of the Internet of Things. After sensors are connected to the network, the amount of data that can be mined is greatly increased. The data on the network includes not only data from users like social networks, but also data from the physical world.
Why is the Internet of Things growing so slowly?
As Marchei notes in his book, the Internet of Things is actually not a new invention. It has existed in different forms and for more than a decade.
Its essence is the rise of sensor network, ad-hoc network and wireless multi-hop network (WIRELESS Sensor Network, ad-Hoc network, wireless Multi-Hop Network) in academia in the last century.
The application of RFID in intelligent logistics is only the most basic application scenario, and the current research is far more complex than this. However, limited by the bottleneck of application scenarios and technical implementation, the development of the Internet of Things can not explode like the Internet.
First of all, the applications of the Internet of Things at the present stage are basically “icing on the cake”, and the demand is not so strong, such as wearable devices and smart home, which is the fundamental reason why many smart hardware is popular but not popular.
Just because of this reason, there will not be continuous investment like Didi Taxi in business, which in turn inhibits the commercial development of this technology.
Second, there are still many technological breakthroughs in the Internet of Things. The biggest technical bottlenecks may lie in the performance of MEMS sensors and the design and implementation of wireless sensor networks.
Again, be still can’t find breakthrough in application at present. At present, intelligent hardware, uav and industrial Internet of Things are more active. But it’s not up to the application needs of human beings and the Internet. It’s not there yet.
Ultimately, the limiting factor of iot application is energy, and the expansion of IOT application scenarios has been waiting for breakthroughs in battery technology. So, for now, the Internet of Things will first make breakthroughs in areas that require less energy, such as smart hardware and industrial devices.
In conclusion, the direction of the Internet of Things undoubtedly has broad prospects for development, but the current basic research and related technologies are still underdeveloped, so it seems to be slow or even stagnant, academic and business communities are waiting for a disruptive application to make the Internet of Things “dead”.