On July 25, at the 2023 Kaos Digital Ecology Conference, the “Annual Trend of China’s Industrial Internet Technology Development (2023) White Paper” was released, giving the analysis of ten industrial Internet industry trends.

2023 is the closing year of the Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Action Plan (2021-2023). After the rapid growth in recent years, the scale of China’s industrial Internet industry has exceeded one trillion yuan, and the industrial Internet technology system and key technologies have become an important support for the upgrading of infrastructure elements and integrated innovation, driving the all-round transformation and reconstruction of production and operation, business forms and organizational management methods.

In order to promote the development of China’s industrial economy to accelerate the transformation to a more intelligent, better quality and more sustainable direction, Kaos Wisdom Research Institute jointly analyzes and organizes experts and scholars to discuss and summarize the technical development direction in the hot fields of industrial Internet, based on the comprehensive consideration of factors such as influence, technical feasibility and social value. Finally, ten scientific and technological trends representing 2023 are sorted out, including edge computing, industrial mechanism models, industrial big data, digital industrial operating systems and other fields.

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Trend 1: Edge computing

Cloud-side collaborative management and scheduling capabilities accelerate the delivery of digital applications to production environments

In 2023, the cloud architecture becomes more complex, and innovations such as distributed cloud, cloud-edge collaboration, edge autonomy, and edge-side collaboration continue to iterate. The breakthrough of cloud edge collaborative management and scheduling capabilities will help industrial enterprises effectively control the complexity of cloud architecture, and then make full use of the advanced nature of cloud architecture, and promote the rapid expansion of the application scope and effect on the edge side, mainly showing the following trends:

The first is the effective management of the surging marginal resources. The ratio of equipment, computing power, data and other resources on the edge side will rapidly increase. Taking data as an example, for security and efficiency considerations, more than 50% of data in the future digital industry will be generated at the edge, and there will be a large number of application services deployed at the edge, which requires enterprises to manage and make good use of these resources. The second is to enable enterprises to achieve cloud side resource collaborative scheduling. With the maturity of the cloud edge integrated operating system, enterprises will tend to manage and schedule cloud edge resources through a unified platform system. In industrial scenarios, the industrial operating system and the industrial brain will become a unified platform for collaborative scheduling, and the edge computing machine will also become a new carrier for digital application deployment.