Technology and business model of industrial Internet

Over the past 20 years, the Internet has dramatically changed the consumption and entertainment life of almost every Internet user in the world, but the potential of the Internet is much more than the power of the steam engine, electricity, petrochemicals, which can change the face of human society's production and life. With the development of breakthrough technologies in mobile broadband, cloud computing, large data and intelligent terminals, the enormous potential of the Internet to change and reshape all industries is becoming a reality. Today we see the micro-letter, easy to use cars, beaver Home and other O2O applications, are the Internet to change the traditional industry, the leading example, behind them is the cloud computing, large data, mobile Internet and intelligent terminals. The convergence of these four technical forces, significantly reduce the cost of computing, so that everyone can obtain information anytime, anywhere, a large number of real-time data is created and can be analyzed, relatively closed, static, with a fixed organizational structure of the enterprise organization is open, dynamic, at any time on demand through the Internet flexible combination of virtual enterprise cluster replaced, Many of the previously concentrated calculations within the enterprise have begun to shift to social computing (Social Computing), disruptive technologies and business models will be needed, and the era of industrial Internet is coming.

Technical requirements of the Industrial Internet

Industrial Internet is different from the consumer Internet key technology needs mainly from two aspects:

On the one hand, the Internet should be able to host a large number of unstructured data collection, transmission, storage and processing. Today, the diversity of data and volume is unprecedented, the internet of things, wearable computing and the development of social networks, people, machines produce a lot of data need and can be recorded. The industry internet is bringing in a larger and more diverse range of data sources and volumes than the consumer internet age. Overall, the following types of data are included:

▪ The process data produced by the traditional information system;

▪ The internet of things, the environmental data generated by sensors;

▪ social networks, human-generated social behavior data;

▪ Digital manufacturing generated physical entity data.

People and people, production, services and all aspects of society, will be connected through the Internet, around data and information. The calculation will be mainly from the internal computing to the ubiquitous social computing, which is difficult to support the traditional distributed computing architecture.

In two respects, the critical application of enterprise-level for real-time, accuracy and reliability requires that the Internet must be able to provide a reliable, hierarchical service and service assurance, that is, a safe and credible ability, in short, the Internet to be able to provide quality assurance services (QoS) and service level agreements (SLAs), Can become the infrastructure of key social applications. In other words, the industry Internet is the Internet plus QoS and SLAs.

In a word, in the face of the future of a large number of data sources and key applications, industrial Internet technology structure, from the point of view, methods of change.

Technical framework of Industrial Internet

The generalization of cloud technology allows us to see the foundation of Industrial Internet technology architecture being formed. However, in order to change and reshape the magnificent future of all industries, the technology architecture of industrial Internet must have a greater concept and a breakthrough in understanding. In fact, the model of hardware from the Turing Computing Model (hardware) to software (software) is not enough to describe the future of the Internet. We believe that the future architecture model should be: Cloudware (Cloud) →dataware (several pieces) →infoware (letter) →peopleware (people), the following figure:

The Dataware can complete the collection, storage and processing of massive data, infoware provide high reliability, grade service and service guarantee.

The current enterprise is through the software and hardware ERP system to integrate the resources within the enterprise, the future architecture in the industry on the Internet new enterprises will rely more on cloud, digital, letter, human components of enterprise business and service Support System (EBSS,CRM+BOSS+BI) to carry out the integration of social resources, To enable enterprises to have the same IQ as human beings, can provide a credibility guarantee of key services. Such a new technical framework can solve data-driven (driven) economy and enterprise activities, and promote industrial upgrading in the industrial internet age.

Industrial Internet business model

The change of business model brought by consumer Internet is mainly to optimize the time and efficiency that consumers find the product or service entrance. Industrial Internet age is different, social computing will connect people, products, services and information, everyone may be consumers, but also producers. For example, our parking space, time and ability, even when we do not use the mobile phone computing power can be shared through this mode.

The industry internet has real-time triggering ability, also can stimulate the user to produce the demand and guide the user to define, seek and obtain the service voluntarily, the internet transforms from "eyeball economy" to "efficiency economy". Products and services from the definition, discovery, use, evaluation and dissemination are more convenient, real-time and rapid transformation capabilities of the industrial Internet architecture enterprises need to have the core competencies. At the same time, through the establishment of various dimensions of the standards, the various types of products and services to standardize the presentation, so as to achieve the standardization of various types of products and services and personalized contradictions.

The ability to really build such systems and business models is complex. Need to be based on data assets, the need for a sophisticated data market and data asset liquidity, but also to provide new, for service providers, consumers and exchange platform for a complete credit evaluation system. Social computing will require a more complex credit system to solve the problem of credit and credibility of the funds.

Over the past 20 years, the Internet has changed the lives of almost every consumer in the world, and in the next 20, the Internet will have the power to change and shape all industries, banks, hospitals, education, transportation and so on, and these key areas are to be Internet. Today, many traditional industries, such as finance, real estate, home appliances, and even operators to the Internet.

New technologies worth paying attention to

Several new technologies need to be paid attention to in the process of moving to the industry Internet. such as natural language Processing technology (NPL). NPL is dedicated to achieving a more natural interaction between machines and people and the environment, such as Apple Siri and Google Now's speech recognition technology. There is also deep learning (Deep leaning) technology, which is a large data-driven technology innovation for artificial intelligence by learning how to interpret data, such as images, sounds, and texts, by allowing machines to mimic the mechanisms of the human brain.

The innovation of enterprise organization

In the era of industrial Internet, not only the business models of various industries have been impacted very much, but also the organizational structure of enterprises will change radically. Enterprise internal unit will move toward miniaturization and specialization, miniaturization Extreme is the individual, specialization is extreme is every industry to achieve the ultimate. Large enterprise organizations with clear boundaries and functional capabilities will be transformed into virtual organizations that rely on the internet for a large number of small professional enterprises to be split and reconstructed at any time according to industry links. Today, the synergy of internal production links will rise to the synergy between enterprises. The industrial Internet provides production tools, lowers the threshold of product and service provision, promotes specialization and small micro-development of producers, and promotes individual entrepreneurship, thereby breaking the original value chain goal.

We cannot operate an innovative industrial Internet enterprise with a traditional architecture, and flexible organizations (like clouds, which decide to expand and shrink according to business), and virtual organizations (cross-sectoral, cross-business cooperation) will emerge as innovative forms. It needs better management ability, stronger sense of responsibility, need incentive mechanism and management system innovation. Our industrial age, the accumulation of talent, thinking ideas will be impacted, the individual's ability and value will be better displayed.

Is the industry internet a technology or a tool? In the long run, the internet is more of a force that will shape society, shape a new civilization, and shape a new future that we may still find difficult to imagine.

Today, we see China's environmental protection, overproduction and other problems, the traditional petroleum raw materials as the core of the industrial industry is almost impossible to solve. But technological innovation, especially the creation of cloud computing, large data, intelligent terminals and ubiquitous networks, is expected to be a new impetus to China's economy, to address structural adjustment and industrial distribution, and to inject unprecedented power into China's modernisation.

(Responsible editor: Lvguang)