2015, the five major forces of the internet of things and the three pass

As early as 2003, the United States "Technology Review" on the Internet of things related to the sensor network technology as the future changes in people's lives of the top ten technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) is now very hot, in the IoT era, all items are expected to be connected through the information sensor equipment and the network to achieve intelligent identification and management.

Currently networked thermostat, hand ring, smart watch and so on while the new products in turn leaped to the headlines, but some of the more significant trends will affect the future shape of the internet of things.

Standard certification of IoT lags behind technology development

It looks as if the internet of things will be the same as the history of communication technology, but also a sample of normal standard setting lag. Usually formal standards should be conducive to technology formation, the establishment of standards of official certification bodies far from the pace of technological development, because the formal standards do not appear in time, the fact that the standard is the norm. In practice, such informal standards are often entrenched, and when industry organizations and standard certification bodies actually embark on guidelines, the so-called formal standards are no longer necessary.

There are, of course, exceptions, such as the SDN, NFC and MEC technologies that have been discussed quickly to reach consensus standards and have been tested for widespread application. There seems to be no such good luck in the internet of things. The large volume, widely distributed internet of things is still mainly in the experimental phase, and its commercial development is only a good vision.

Unlike previous open communications networks, it has never been linked to a variety of devices. Distribution and management networking is a huge challenge, not only because equipment, goods and applications must be able to work together at the same point and at the same level, and because even when manufacturers and suppliers are vastly different, networks and services are suited to their products.

Needless to say, there are a large number of manufacturers and suppliers hoping to get real money out of the hot smart devices and internet trends as soon as possible, and they can't wait for official institutions to establish formal standards (which many analysts expect to be in the middle of 2017) and are already taking action quickly. As a result, initial interest groups have been formed in the field of IoT, and their joint actions have contributed to some informal factual standards.

Last year, there were a number of not-so-official but influential Z-allies trying to establish normative standards in the field of IoT. But many of their work has been duplicated, causing some confusion in the industry, and the future turmoil may worsen. The following are important players who may be the technical standard for the Internet industry:

Five major alliances in IoT standard certification

1 AllSeen Alliance Technology Alliance

AllSeen Alliance Technology Alliance was born in December 2013, currently has more than 100 member enterprises, both Qualcomm, Cisco, TP, such as telecommunications equipment manufacturers, but also Haier, LG, Panasonic, Sharp and other consumer electronics manufacturers. AllSeen Alliance's founding member Qualcomm is most important because the association's Open-source software framework AllJoyn based on Qualcomm's code and technology platform. The goal of AllSeen Alliance is to enable collaboration between home business devices that configure different operating systems and communication network protocols. Last month Microsoft announced that Windows 10 fully supported AllJoyn technology and introduced a toolkit for AllJoyn.

2 IEEE Institute P2413 Project

The traditional authority of the Technical Standard IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) initiated the reorganization of the P2413 project in the IoT field. IEEE has a long history in the industry, respected, but many manufacturers do not appreciate, but think it is a mess, they think the organization in the face of the rapid development of the new wave of technology is too rigid, slow action. IEEE has set up a P2413 project to try to unified the technology standards of Internet of things and to solve the repeated waste of the industry in standard setting.

Last July, the IEEE P2413 project convened the first meeting of 23 suppliers and other interested parties, announcing that the institute had "hoped" to develop a set of clear written standards for Internet of things, which would be published sometime in 2016. With the development momentum of the Internet of Things, the booking schedule of IEEE is too long. By the time the IEEE standard solution is available, the fact that the manufacturer and the vendor has introduced is accepted by the industry by default. Currently, the group's suppliers and organizations include Cisco, Huawei, GE, Oracle, Qualcomm and ZigBee alliances.

3 Industrial Internet Federation (IIC)

The institution was formally established last March with the original members of At&t, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel. The alliance now has more than a few members, Huawei, Microsoft, Samsung and other well-known industry companies in it. IIC focuses on the construction and strategy of the Internet of things in each enterprise, and does not focus on the development of industry standards, but cooperates with the certification bodies in order to ensure the interconnection of the Internet of things in various commercial fields. IIC's aim is to allow many companies are developing IoT and machine-to-machine technology to achieve common cooperation and mutual influence. This involves the definition of basic standards requirements, reference structures and proof of concept.

4 Open Interconnection Federation (OIC)

Also established in July 14 is the "Open Interconnection Alliance" (OIC), which already has more than 50 members, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo and Samsung. OIC is organizing a series of open source standards. With the help of those standards, all kinds of networked devices will be able to find, isolate and confirm each other, communicate, interact, and complete data exchange. The alliance plans to release the first developer-oriented source code by the end of 15.

5 Thread Group Federation

Thread Alliance was also born last July, Google's smart home company Nest and Samsung and other 50 institutions are members of the Alliance, China's home appliance companies in the United States are among the group. Thread is an ip-based security network protocol used to connect smart products at home. The alliance was thus given an important first-priority advantage, with the agreement to support a current-listed chip and to assign a IPV6 address to all devices. Since thread defines networking only, this lays the groundwork for the future application of the products it supports to higher levels such as AllSeen and OIC. The Alliance will conduct product certification from the first half of this year.

In addition, over the past year, many institutions and industry associations have been tempted in the field of IoT, such as the Communications Standardization Association ONEM2M, Analysys powering for Don (ISA), etc. It is likely that there will be some new alliances, corporate consortia and corporate-killing networks this year. There are a number of standard certification bodies in the IoT field, some of which are committed to complementing existing programme standards, and many are fighting in the clash of technical standards. It should be noted that the conflicts and repetitions of many certification standards are among business members within the same alliance, which undoubtedly disrupts the domestic market and the local market. Before the unification of IoT industry standards, it was hard for investors to see big winners in the field of IoT.

In addition to the industry standard certification mess, for the concern of the project investors in the field of things, large data, information security and predictive maintenance engineering is also an unprecedented influence into the field of things, become an urgent need to IoT industry to deal with the three pass.

Processing of huge amount of equipment data

Cisco expects the number of devices connected to the Internet to reach 25 billion this year, and its huge data processing will become increasingly important. David Carre, vice president of Gartner, issued a report on the 2015 strategic technology trends, said:

"How to optimize the selection of data from the Internet, social media and wearable devices, and then send the right information to the right people at an appropriate time, is a subject that all businesses and organizations need to tackle." The work of data analysis will be further deepened, and it is hidden and ubiquitous. ”

In short, just a large number of companies producing all kinds of smart devices are far from realizing the internet, and they must be able to manage and apply the vast amounts of data collected by networked devices.

Last year, for example, Intel, GE and Sialle (Sierra Wireless, an intelligent wireless solution provider) involved in the Internet of things have launched or expanded their respective IoT data connection platforms. GE has opened the Predix platform to several companies and will release software applications for large and medium sized companies this year. The company expects Predix to generate 5 billion of dollars in revenue over the next two years.

Not only do the big-business groups do the work, Siya's data platform Legato has also been online last year. The company is now small, but it is enough to influence the pattern of the IoT industry. "Legato platforms, OEM manufacturers, service providers and their customers are able to configure and manipulate networked device data and easily integrate them into the backend of intelligent Systems," the company said. If necessary, these configuration actions can be completed in real time. ”

A number of platforms have emerged last year to deal with massive amounts of data, and it is believed that the services of these platforms will become more widely accepted this year. As Carre in the report:

"Today, all apps are supposed to be an analytical app. ”

Networked devices, or will encounter massive hacker attacks

Last year, there were several network security incidents such as leakage of data, such as the discovery of widely used in the Internet Secure Sockets Layer (TLS) protocol, such as the serious flaw Heartbleed loopholes, such as the United States's largest home building materials retailer Home Depot, large office supplies company Staples (Staples), Apple's cloud-storage services, icloud and Sony, were attacked online.

It is not difficult to imagine how vulnerable the Internet of things is, in fact, the Internet of things may be among the most unsafe areas of the current. As Forbes says, 2014 is "a year of hacking", and the Internet of things will open the door to hackers in 2015. Malwarebytes Labs, an anti-malware developer, predicts in its annual outlook that "the mainstream media and the public will see for the first time that networked devices have been hacked by hackers (who have been attacked by devices that are not networked)".

Why should investors pay attention to these things? This is because companies that produce consumer-linked devices could become victims of cyber attacks. At that time, the internet of things has huge data, connecting important industrial equipment, so that all kinds of household equipment through the network connected as a whole. Once a serious data leakage incident, the company's product sales may be greatly affected, the share price may also fall.

Predictive Maintenance Engineering as industry catalyst

It is often easy to think of large data as the vast amount of information that needs to be filtered, but this data is not immediately available for analysis and utilization, and the need for networked, real-time collection and processing work to lay the groundwork for automated maintenance decisions.

International Data Corporation (IDC) said that this year the prediction of maintenance works will become the most important thing networking solution. In fact, it is also being used very well. In agriculture, a company called Temputech uses sensors and GE technology to monitor grain belts to prevent fires from overheating in the conveyor belts. If the sensor monitors problems with the conveyor belts and lifts that carry the grain, it will immediately notify the farmer of the warning before the problem begins to occur.

The ability to anticipate repairs is certainly not limited to such a small area. Last year, Intel tested its own development of predictive repair technology at its back-end manufacturing plant in Malaysia, and found that the technology could save 9 million of dollars for the company. Intel asserts that the decision process has been improved by avoiding unnecessary costs and that savings can be used to improve the efficiency of the equipment and reduce downtime. This year, Intel is putting the same technology on the market, which is good news for manufacturers. Investors can expect it to become an important catalyst for Internet technology innovation this year.

IDC said 2015 would be the key year for the entire information and telecommunications technology industry, said Frank Kings, senior VP and chief analyst at IDC, in the report: "The 2015 is the key year in ICT industry is conservative." In such a tumultuous and exciting year, investors in the IoT field are responding to the current trends in the Internet industry while anticipating technological innovation.

"This article synthesizes telecomtv.com author Martyn Warwick, fool.com author Chris Neiger's analysis report and the CES information, from the titanium media if, Zhao Zhong synthesis compiles, the exclusive initial titanium media"

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)