Industrial blockchain still needs artificial intelligence and other technologies

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Despite the hype around the concept, the technology and application of industrial blockchain are still in their infancy, and there is still a long way to go before they are really implemented. “In fact, the industrial manufacturing industry is still relatively traditional, the level of informatization is lower than that of finance and other fields, and the logic and business scenarios of blockchain transformation are still worse.” Therefore, industrial manufacturing has not yet been included in the blockchain rigid demand scenario.” Wu Tong told reporters, “But the industrial blockchain technology itself is very meaningful, industrial manufacturing is the foundation of the construction of the digital economy, the proportion of output value in GDP is also very high, is an inevitable development trend.”

Throughout the development of the Internet, there have been decades of accumulation, and the rise of the industrial Internet is less than a decade. It can be seen that industry is a relatively slow link that has been transformed by information technology and intelligence. In Wu Tong’s view, industrial blockchain is also the same truth, the era of industrial blockchain has not really arrived, technology accumulation, application scenario mode is still relatively scarce, but it should be planned early.

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Wu Tong said that blockchain technology alone for the transformation of the industrial manufacturing field is actually weak. On the one hand, industrial blockchain needs a relatively long-term development process to effectively empower the industry and promote the development of the real economy. On the other hand, technology and infrastructure have yet to mature, and how to interact with other information technologies also needs to be considered.

What “chemistry” can be created by the combination of blockchain and other technologies? Wu Tong gave a vivid example that in the field of industrial manufacturing, artificial intelligence plays the role of productivity, blockchain plays the role of regulating production relations, and big data is the means of production. As a means of production, the data information obtained by big data technology acts on artificial intelligence through the incentive mode and distribution principle of blockchain, so that artificial intelligence touches these data, and then plays a comprehensive driving role. This is not solved by a single blockchain technology, because it is difficult to integrate the physical world under the chain and the digital world on the chain, and other technologies are needed to open up.

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Industrial blockchain should not be rushed

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In recent years, the number of research institutions related to industrial blockchain technology has increased, and the exploration of technology and application is actively carried out, especially led by Internet giants, and the development of industrial blockchain technology and application fields has begun to increase. In November 2018, Alibaba Cloud launched the SupET industrial Internet platform, which aims to provide manufacturing quality traceability and supply chain management services through blockchain. In August 2019, H3C Technology Co., Ltd. proposed OMTrace, an optical module traceability chain specifically established for optical module anti-counterfeiting, combined with anti-counterfeiting label technology, proposed a block chain solution for optical module traceability and anti-counterfeiting, and established immutable shared data information and whole-process transaction records.

Yan Binfeng, director of the Technical Committee of China Unicom Research Institute, pointed out in an interview with the reporter of China Electronics News that although many enterprises have begun to pay attention to and carry out the application of industrial blockchain, the pace of exploration is still in the concept stage, mature products and platforms are relatively few, the application level is relatively low, and it is difficult to achieve landing at this stage.

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The competitive layout of the industry means that the industry behind the “profitable”. There are still many untapped opportunities in the industrial manufacturing industry, and there is huge space for imagination, but it has given many enterprises and institutions the opportunity to “blindly forge ahead”. Wu Tong told reporters that in the early days of the industry, do not rush, to avoid the emergence of the concept of empty shells. Last year, blockchain concept stocks ushered in explosive growth in the capital market, but due to too much water caused criticism, after verification, it was found that many blockchain listed companies are actually empty shells of concepts.

Yan Binfeng said that the high-quality development of industrial blockchain, one is to increase the basic theoretical research of technology, strengthen the development of international and industry standards, and train blockchain technical personnel. The second is to strengthen technology and application research and development, improve the industrial blockchain support technology system, and carry out pilots in specific application fields. The third is to standardize the service of the real economy, cultivate industry leaders, leading enterprises and industrial ecology. Fourth, the government needs to play an overall coordination role, develop and promote the application of blockchain technology, especially the development policy in the industrial field, and guide the healthy development of the industry through the establishment of special funds and the introduction of policies.