GOOGLE Chairman Eric Schmidt’s voice about “The Internet is about to disappear†is not cold. Recently, Zhao Xianming, Chairman of ZTE Corporation, delivered a speech at the World Mobile Congress Shanghai Exhibition “IOT Linking Everything, Joint Valueâ€, called IoT The IOT has diverse application scenarios and broad prospects. In addition to playing an important role in the fourth industrial revolution, it will also have a far-reaching impact on the service industry, thus changing and enriching people's daily lives. At present, the Internet of Things has shown remarkable progress in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, smart city (municipality), smart transportation, and smart home.
5G technology will help the Internet of Things to break through the key bottlenecks of large-scale applications. With the 5G commercialization in 2020, the Internet of Things will not be far away. It is predicted that the scale of the global Internet of Everything will reach 50 billion connections in 2020. Among them, China will have more than 10 billion connections. Just as Asia will be the first region to apply 5G networks, the future development of the Internet of Things in Asia will also be eye-catching.
Liu Cixin's holographic information window, which is hidden or suspended in the future world, described in "Three-body", omnipresent positioning and search, even the daily clothing is also implanted with sensors, and the gleaming future life picture everywhere, will become in the Internet of Things era. reality.
At the beginning of this year, China has included the Internet of Things in the “13th Five-Year Planâ€, and Chinese companies have also shown great ambitions. Li Huiwei, vice president of China Mobile, said in a speech recently that "the Internet of Things will become an important driving force for the development of mobile communications in the next five years."
ZTE is installing sensors for street lights, trash cans, manhole covers, cars, homes, and even water sources. In 2015, ZTE proposed the strategy of the Internet of Everything M-ICT and provided the IoT overall solution for the Internet of Things. At present, ZTE has complete solutions and applications in the fields of industrial internet, car networking, smart home and smart city, and smart meter reading. In the field of Internet of Vehicles, ZTE cooperates with AT&T and domestic and foreign first-class TSP service providers to provide users with on-board OBD and on-board MiFi products. In the field of industrial Internet, ZTE develops intelligent meter reading (water, electricity and gas meters). Collective copying, intelligent rail transit, and intelligent oil and gas pipeline monitoring have also been widely deployed at home and abroad.
Let's take a closer look and see some interesting IoT applications from ZTE. At this Shanghai exhibition, ZTE and China Mobile jointly demonstrated a municipal Internet of Things application – smart manhole cover. Through comprehensive monitoring of the state of the manhole cover, the program can realize timely warning and reduce traffic accidents and safety hazards when the manhole cover is opened and displaced.
There are also "street lights" that are commonplace around us, and they are becoming "smart nodes." ZTE's streetlights integrate wireless base stations, electronic advertising, electric vehicle charging piles, and smart city data collection nodes (such as traffic and public safety data) to turn street lights into a smart node, dramatically reducing urban streetlights through intelligent management. Energy consumption and management costs, and can carry out some value-added services such as advertising and car charging.
At present, ZTE has deployed more than 20,000 such smart street lights in more than 20 countries around the world, with a mileage of more than 400 kilometers. For example, ZTE has built the Paris City Smart City project “City Light†in France. The core of the project is to deploy sensors on street lamps to achieve centralized management of street lamps, energy saving, emission reduction, and operation and maintenance optimization. Digital municipal new experience. The program plans to cover 350,000+ lighting points, 1800+ intersections, and is expected to save more than 30%. In the future, WIFI, smart parking and other functions can be integrated on the system.
These smart street lights, smart manhole covers, and smart roadside parking, smart trash cans and other solutions are all part of ZTE’s “smart city†field, which can help the government realize intelligent management of the city. Currently, ZTE smart city It has been implemented in 140 cities in 40 countries around the world.
In the smart home field, ZTE released the smart home control device ZTE SmartHome in July last year. The smart home solution based on the smart home solution has been widely used. Recently, ZTE teamed up with Wuhu Group. More than 300 sets of villas will be combined to integrate high-tech smart homes with houses to realize user home network coverage, home care, smart home unified management platform, unified user terminal, and flexible expansion of third-party services to open new-style smart homes. life.
There is also a more imaginative "ZTE NB-IoT water quality monitoring platform", which can install water quality analysis sensors, rainfall, water level sensors, etc. in all rivers and lakes, through search engines, image analysis engines, position analysis engines, cross-media The analysis engine accurately and timely completes data processing and analysis, and quickly sends out pollution alarms and other information.
It is predicted that the Internet of Things market will exceed $1.7 trillion by 2020. How will the Internet of Things play a role in the fourth industrial revolution, how will it affect our work and life? How will ZTE combine the upstream and downstream industry chain partners to explore the value of each “BIT�
The following is the full text of Zhao Xianming, Chairman of ZTE Corporation:
Welcome speech: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome everyone! The theme of my speech today is "IOT connects all things, joint value". Through this speech, I would like to share with ZTE's colleagues about the fourth industrial revolution and the development of IOT industry. The way, business and network deployment recommendations work together to promote the healthy development of the IOT industry.
First, let's review. Human society has entered the industrial society and experienced three industrial revolutions. The first industrial revolution was widely used for steam power represented by steam engines. This era is also known as the steam era. The main feature of the second industrial revolution was the widespread use of electrical energy. This era was also called the electrical age. The third industrial revolution was the large-scale use and popularization of computers. This era is also known as the information age.
Looking back at these three human industrial revolutions, it can be summarized into several characteristics.
The first feature is Enable, which empowers human beings through the revolution (both physical and mental), thereby greatly improving human productivity and productivity. The tool revolutions in human history have been milestones in development, causing a leap in human social form. For example, bronze/iron tools have enabled humans to enter agricultural societies, and the use of tools such as steam power/electricity and computers in modern times has enabled humans to enter industrial society and improve dramatically.
The second feature is the connection. The three industrial revolutions are accompanied by large-scale connections of human society, such as the rapid traffic/logistics network formed by trains and ships in the steam era. After entering the electrical era, they formed aviation and aerospace networks. As well as wired and wireless communication networks, after entering the information age, a globalized Internet has been formed, and 7 billion people around the world are more closely linked.
The third feature is Collaborate. The huge impact of the connection is to achieve large-scale collaboration of human beings. This large-scale collaboration on a global scale has brought about an amazing increase in human productivity and the ability to conquer nature. For example, the Apollo program in the United States and the manned space program in China are made up of millions of precision parts and parts, and require tens of thousands of people to work together.
The concept of the fourth industrial revolution has recently emerged quietly, such as the concept of Industry 4.0. But for the fourth industrial revolution, there is currently no standard definition in the world, so we can analyze it with the elements of the previous three revolutions. We believe that the same as the previous three revolutions, the fourth industrial revolution is accompanied by three elements of enabling, connecting and cooperating. First of all, the enabled objects include not only people, but also objects. This object includes not only machines, but also animals, so that everything has perception and some wisdom. Secondly, the connected objects are further extended to the object, and the network must have access and service capabilities, including different scenarios, service levels, QOS, cost, and security. Third, in the past, based on the synergy between human-human and human-machine brought by the Internet, the synergy between objects and objects will be further realized. Perhaps this synergy will be filled with huge imagination space and bring human industrial civilization to a new height. AlphaGO has already won the top man of humanity in the human-machine war, so how many amazing values ​​will be generated by dozens of hundreds of AlphaGO collaborations?
Look now. This kind of intelligence, connection and collaboration in the broad sense is the current Internet of Everything (IOT), but we believe that IOT is not only the fourth industrial revolution, but also the basic business of human society, such as agriculture and service industries. Produce far-reaching impact and rapid progress. This has revolutionized the production and lifestyle of the entire human society.
Let's take a look at the IOT's scenarios and applications in various industries. The first is industry. The hot topic in the industry today is Industry 4.0 proposed by Germany. Industry 4.0 refers to the use of the Cyber-Physical System to digitize and intelligentize supply, manufacturing, and sales information in production, thereby enabling rapid, efficient, and personalized product production and delivery. It consists of three major themes: 1. Smart Factory, focusing on intelligent production systems and networked distributed production facilities. 2. Intelligent production, involving production logistics management, human-computer interaction and the application of 3D technology in industrial production processes. 3. Intelligent logistics, through the Internet, Internet of Things, logistics network, integrated logistics resources, give full play to the existing logistics resource supply efficiency, and quickly match demand. Since human agriculture has basically achieved industrial production, it can be considered that agricultural research objects and key areas are similar to industrial fields.
Another important application scenario of IOT is the service industry. In general, IOT is currently focusing on the following areas in the development of service industry: The first is the wisdom of municipalities, such as the smartness of infrastructure such as water, electricity and gas in cities. Management; the second is smart transportation, through the deployment of IOT to achieve the intelligentization of urban traffic management (such as traffic flow control, road condition analysis, emergency response, automatic driving and vehicle networking and parking space management); the third is intelligent logistics, through the introduction of IOT Realizing the management and control of warehousing, transportation, distribution and other aspects greatly improve the efficiency of logistics. The fourth is smart home, home applications mainly include home security (including door locks, cameras, motion detection, and real-time applications for fire, smoke, floods, intrusion alarms, etc.), in addition to home entertainment (including intelligence) TV, intelligent streaming media services, etc., there is also family environmental control (temperature, humidity, air quality control). At present, IOT applications in these service industries are hotspots, and the development trend is good.
From the above analysis, it can be seen that the IOT application scenario is very extensive, almost related to our various formats and closely related to our work and life. From the perspective of the industry chain, building a complete IOT industry chain and achieving large-scale commercialization of IOT requires six elements: network, equipment, service provision, software/application, terminal and chip. These six elements are indispensable for IOT deployment in various scenarios. It should be said that IOT has some commercializations at present, but it is only a simple application scenario, a simple, island-like connection, and investment and profit models are still being explored. . How to cultivate the industrial ecological environment, build a business model, deploy IOT services and networks, and achieve terminal diversification requires the parties in the industry chain to advance together with openness and collaboration.
One of the core roles in promoting the development of the IOT industry is the integrator of the IOT industry. From a global perspective, the integrators include operators, governments, and some large enterprises (such as municipalities, water, e-commerce companies, etc.). The implementation of wide-area IOT connections mostly involves basic network connections, so operators are usually in an important position, but the global business operators' business strategy models are also different. There are three main selection modes. The first one is focused on providing basics. Network connectivity, the benefit of this model is that operators can focus on providing connectivity and bandwidth for a wider coverage. However, because it is limited to the underlying business offering, per-connection pricing, it is difficult to find a profitable business model because the traffic is too small. The second model is an aggregation service provider that adds a collaborative ecosystem and business analysis to the first model. The advantage of this model is that it improves the vertical integration of industry applications and provides a more complete solution, but Business sharing with customers is prone to business risks caused by unreasonable business model design. The third mode is an integrated service provider. This model further increases application development and system integration. The advantage is that it can provide integrated and complete solutions to customers, but there are also insufficient development capabilities, competition with other roles in the industry chain, and commercial division. There is a great commercial risk.
The above three models involve operators' market positioning, technology platform and solution development capabilities, vertical industry impact and integration capabilities, as well as brand influence and business risk control capabilities, which require operators to make comprehensive choices and judgments.
We know that the traditional telecommunications infrastructure is built on the human core, whether it is voice or data services. However, large-scale deployment of IOTs and breakthroughs in connectivity will face challenges, including: 1. IOT scenarios are flexible and diverse, and existing infrastructure networks face challenges in access methods, such as wireless access, how to allocate Valuable frequency resources give massive access to the Internet. 2. The surge in connectivity caused by IOT is an explosive growth. It will have impacts and changes on the existing core network. For example, how does the traditional HLR manage hundreds of billions of connections? 3. From the perspective of business control, the application of IoT is more Rich, more diverse needs for delay, bandwidth, and reliability, how to match this requirement at the core network level? 4. Security, massive IoT access and traditional networks are also facing security challenges. Even the pressure will be greater, personal information security only involves individuals, but the security of the Internet of Things may endanger the safety of the whole or society as a whole. Therefore, these key factors must be considered when planning the deployment of IOT. On the basis of the existing telecommunication network architecture, the incremental evolution method is adopted to gradually and gradually transition to a network supporting large-scale IoT access.
So how to build a flexible, secure, efficient and operational IoT network architecture? From the perspective of business and network deployment, large-scale IoT networks usually include sensing, access and network, platform and application. We believe that there should be the following basic requirements for each level.
For the sensing layer, the gateway is required to have a lightweight operating system (OS), with open source features, convenient for third-party development, remote cloud debugging and development capabilities, remote debugging and version upgrade, flexible adaptation to various types IoT terminal.
For the access layer, due to the diverse deployment scenarios of the IoT terminal, it is required to support diverse access modes, including wired and wireless access modes, as well as short-range and wide-area access, such as Ethernet, WIFI, PON, Connection of various technologies such as power line, NB-IoT, LTE-M, Pre-5G MUSA and 5G.
For the network layer, due to the diversity of the Internet of Things and services, the access of massive terminals and dynamically changing traffic have different requirements for the network. For example, the Internet of Vehicles includes real-time traffic conditions and navigation, intelligent charging, and emergency. Alarms, in-vehicle entertainment, etc. These services have diverse requirements for bandwidth, delay, and reliability. This requires a core network based on virtualization technology and advanced technologies such as SDN/NFV and network slicing to meet different applications. The need for the scene to the network.
For the platform layer, in order to ensure the rapid development and implementation of the application is operational, manageable and profitable, the platform provides an open and rich standard API interface to meet the needs of rapid development of industrial applications. In addition, the platform requires an architecture based on big data and cloud computing, combined with upper-layer IoT applications, providing powerful data analysis and mining capabilities, improving productization and service of the entire industry chain, enabling scenario-based user and data operations, and meeting various Innovative applications of the Internet of Things, such as smart cities, smart manufacturing, smart healthcare, smart agriculture, smart home, etc., tap the value of each "BIT", achieve multi-win, and promote the industrialization of IOT.
Because IOT brings a variety of access scenarios and massive terminal access. I want to talk about end-to-end security, which is also a very important topic. How to end-to-end security of the IOT network, the key points to consider three points: The first is to build a trusted application environment. This involves the implementation of technologies such as situational awareness, security visualization management, anomaly detection, and massive encryption and decryption; the second is to build a trusted OS, which involves the operating system kernel security protocol (SNEP/uTELSA) and security algorithm (NTRU). achieve. The third point is to build a trusted chip technology, etc., in addition to the mainstream commercial development of MCU, ARM, X86, in the specific occasions also need to provide core security and trusted chip technology. Security is a very important factor, so ZTE started to consider the technical implementation and solution design in the above aspects from the deployment of IOT.
Next, I would like to talk about the relationship between the current hotspot LPWAN technology and cellular technology. These two technologies develop independently from different starting points. LPWAN (such as LORA) focuses on massive low-rate and low-traffic services, using unlicensed bands. , business and network new, easy to deploy. Cellular technologies, such as NB-IOT and the future 5G, are based on the existing carrier network evolution to achieve IoT access, which is easy to form a scale effect. The challenge is that the carrier's traffic management model needs to be matched and reconstructed, and needs and existing Business and network coexist. At present, LPWAN technology is suitable for real-time access in cost-sensitive small and medium-sized scenarios. Cellular technology is suitable for implementing IOT access with a certain traffic scale and QOS (such as large-scale enterprise customers or home scenarios). ). In the future, it may be possible for the two technologies to gradually merge and mix networks.
Case: Here I would like to share with you a ZTE innovation case, which is a smart street lamp management solution. We integrate wireless base stations, electronic advertisements, electric vehicle charging stations and smart city data collection nodes (such as traffic and Functions such as public safety data) turn street lights into a smart node. Through intelligent management, energy consumption and management costs of urban street lights can be greatly reduced, and some value-added services (such as advertising, car charging, etc.) can be carried out. At present, we have deployed more than 20,000 such smart street lights in more than 20 countries around the world, with a mileage of more than 400 kilometers.
In summary, IOT has diverse application scenarios and broad application prospects. In addition to playing an important role in the fourth industrial revolution, it will also have a profound impact on the service industry, thus changing and enriching people's daily lives. At present, significant progress has been made in smart manufacturing, smart cities (municipalities), smart transportation, smart homes, etc., and various IOT innovation applications will continue to emerge. However, we also face some huge challenges, such as vertical integration of industries, business model construction, application innovation, security, and non-uniform standards. We are on the eve of change, and we need to strengthen coordination among all parties in the industry chain to jointly promote the IOT industry. Healthy development.
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