At the 2019 World Internet of Things Expo held recently, Satoshi Yokoyama, deputy director of the Beijing Representative Office of the Japan Science and Technology Agency, introduced Japan’s vision of a new industrial society 5.0.

2094-BM01-M Yokoyama proposed that the current information society we live in is 4.0, there is no dynamic sharing of knowledge and information between cyberspace and physical space, and cross-border collaboration is insufficient. The future society 5.0 is to combine cyberspace and physical space, by sensors to provide massive information in physical space, by artificial intelligence to analyze big data in cyberspace, and then feedback to the physical space, to achieve productivity improvement, manufacturing innovation and sustainable development.

It is worth noting that at the Central Economic Work Conference at the end of 2018, Internet technology industries such as 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, and the Internet of Things are no longer called “strategic emerging industries”, but are sinking into “new infrastructure construction”.

2094-BM01-M So what does this shift in future-less, reality-enhancing positioning mean for these industries? How can the massive data accumulated by the Internet serve the sustainable development of mankind?

The iot industry will enter the Red Sea

“In 2018, the revenue of the Internet of Things industry increased by 30% year-on-year, and the growth rate increased by about 4% year-on-year, and the pace of industry development accelerated.” Luo Song, deputy chief engineer of the Institute of Technology and Standards of China ICT Institute, introduced in the above conference report that during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s Internet of Things industry has achieved great development, and the cellular network connected equipment has reached 960 million units, accounting for about 64% of the global mobile Internet equipment, and has become the world’s largest Internet of Things market.

2094-BM01-M Luo Song said that in terms of connection, the Internet of Things that used to rely on the traditional Internet began to have its own private network, narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) will gradually become the most important network infrastructure, and the pattern of Internet of Things connection is developing from 4G to 4G+NB-IoT, which is expected to form a 4G+NB-IoT+5G situation in 2025.

During the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, the construction of Internet of Things standards was actively promoted, and 90 new standards were added, including 54 national standards, 17 row standards, and 19 landmarks.

Of course, the sinking of the Internet of Things positioning is not only reflected in the development achievements, but also means the intensification of competition.

Data show that in 2018, there were 412 financing events in the Internet of Things industry investment and financing market, which declined for two consecutive years since 2016, while the financing amount increased year by year, reaching 63.7 billion last year, with an average financing amount of 150 million. The number and amount of early rounds decreased, the overall round shifted back, and continued to focus, and the head effect was obvious. There are signs that the competitive landscape of the industry is rapidly maturing.

Iot platforms are starting to shuffle. Luo introduced that the platform giants both internal and external repair, both cross-level integration of multi-layer functions, to create a comprehensive Internet of Things platform, but also the integration of edge computing, AI, blockchain and other new technologies to enable, actively seek cooperation, open up the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and actively gather developers, the development of ecology.

2094-BM01-M The Internet of Things is no longer a stage for venture capitalists to compete for imagination, but gradually evolved into a battlefield for capital giants to wrestle.

The one who knows industry best is industry itself

What are the development goals of the future Internet of Things? As a cross-cutting field, should Internet enterprises or traditional industrial enterprises lead the development of the Internet of Things?

“The core purpose of intelligent manufacturing is manufacturing, and the key word is manufacturing rather than intelligence.” “The core is to improve quality, improve efficiency and reduce costs,” said Xu Yongjun, director of the Institute of 2094-BM01-M Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He explained that the means to achieve the above goal is to open up all links from the user to the manufacturing and then to the user through big data and artificial intelligence, forming a “high-speed closed loop from data to execution.”

The manufacturing closed loop described by Xu Yongjun is the whole process closed loop of the industrial field from the number domain, the knowledge domain to the control domain, which is enough to fully integrate the knowledge, experts and capabilities of different industries, different links and different fields, realize intelligent analysis on the industrial cloud, and the personalized needs of users can be directly embedded in the production loop to achieve accurate 2094-BM01-M matching and form a closed loop. And this closed loop has the ability to self-evolve, to adjust and feedback in time, and through artificial intelligence enabling, constantly accelerate the feedback process from the user to the factory.

Xu Yongjun believes that intelligent manufacturing is not a very unique technology, but more of the application of technology: enabling manufacturing through technology, enabling traditional industries.

In order to achieve such application scenarios, Xu Yongjun proposed that the existing hardware should be “faster, smarter and easier.”

First, in order to meet the needs of intelligent production lines, industrial computers on the production line need to be at least 1000 times the speed of the current traditional computer to form a manufacturing closed loop; Secondly, the intelligent production line needs to be compatible with all kinds of intelligent needs, automatically make dynamic adjustments according to the scene and user needs, and the industrial control system should be more intelligent. In addition, the business switch should be very easy, making the development process and scenario adaptation very simple.