An illustration of the relationship between industry 4.0 and the Internet of things, cloud computing and large data

The new concept of the Internet is emerging, in the cloud computing, the Internet of things, the big data hot, Industrial 4.0 in 2014 received more and more attention, in 2015, before becoming a new hot spot, we need to understand what this new concept is what the meaning of the relationship between it and other Internet concepts.

In April 2013, the German government officially launched the "Industrial 4.0" strategy at the Hannover Industrial Fair in April 2013, which aims to improve the competitiveness of German industry and seize the initiative in the new round of industrial revolution.

German academics and industry believe that the "Industrial 4.0" concept is the intelligent manufacturing-led fourth Industrial Revolution, or revolutionary production methods. The strategy aims to transform the manufacturing industry into an intelligent way by making full use of the combination of information and communication technology and cyberspace virtual systems-Information Physics Systems (cyber-physical system) [5].

Germany's industry 4.0 did not clearly point out what it has to do with the Internet, popular, that is, countless industries were hit by the internet wave, the internet began to transform the industrial manufacturing industry.

"The Internet will evolve in a way that is highly similar to the human brain, and it will have its own visual, auditory, tactile, motor-neuron systems, as well as its own memory, central nervous system and autonomic nervous system," says the Internet Evolution paper published in 2007. The internet is forming an internet brain "and draws the following chart of the internet future.

We used this picture in 2014 to analyze the relationship between IoT, cloud computing, big Data and the Internet:

1. The Internet of Things is the sensory nervous system of the brain, because it highlights the concept of sensor perception, and it also has the functions of network transmission, information storage and processing, and interface of industry application. It is also often shared with the Internet server, network lines and application interface, so that people and people (Human ti Human, creates), people and objects (Human to thing,h2t), objects (thing to thing,t2t) between the exchange becomes possible, will eventually make human society, The information space and the physical world (human machine objects) integrated

2. Cloud computing is the internet brain's central nervous system, in the Internet virtual brain architecture, the internet virtual brain of the central nervous system is the Internet's core hardware layer, core software layer and the Internet Information layer unified for the Internet, the virtual nervous system to provide support and services, from the definition, Cloud computing is consistent with the characteristics of the Internet's virtual brain's central nervous system. Ideally, the sensor and Internet users interact with cloud computing through network lines and computer terminals, providing data to cloud computing and receiving services from cloud computing.

3. Large data is the basis for the wisdom and awareness of the Internet, Internet Dream era is also the source of the arrival, with the Internet more mature brain, virtual reality technology began to enter a new era, and traditional virtual reality, this new period is no longer a virtual image and the superposition of the reality scene (AR), Nor is it to see the three-dimensional picture (VR) displayed by the giant screen. It starts with big data, artificial intelligence combined more closely, based on a large amount of data, so that artificial intelligence services to virtual reality technology, so that people get a sense of reality and interaction, so that the human brain to create the illusion that the vision, hearing, smell, movement and other neural senses and the Internet Dream System interaction, Creating a sense of Dream (real Dream) in a sober state can form the following picture:

From this picture we can also see that industrial 4.0 or industrial interconnection

Network is essentially the Internet movement of the embryonic nervous system, the Internet central nervous systems, which is the cloud computing software system control industrial enterprise production equipment, home appliances, office equipment, through the intelligent, 3D printing, wireless sensor technology to make mechanical equipment become the world of Internet brain tools. At the same time, these intelligent manufacturing and intelligent devices are also continuously to the Internet brain feedback large number of data for the Internet central nervous system decision to use.

Overall, the western enterprises and theorists constantly put forward the new concept of the Internet, but also relatively fragmented, but in essence, whether it is the internet of things, cloud computing, large data, mobile Internet or industrial 4.0 is still a part of the future development of the Web. They play a different role.

Because China is becoming more and more developed in the Internet, with the combination of China's advanced manufacturing industry, the development of the Internet sports nervous system, China is bound to be stronger than Germany or even chasing the United States. The current public opinion of the German industry 4.0 to shake off China, industrial 4.0 to replace Taobao and the Sky cat, is obviously the wind and horses do not phase things, full of speculation suspicion.

Supplementary materials:

Industrial Internet is similar to industrial 4.0, in June 2013, GE presented the Industrial internet Revolution (Industrial Internet Revolution), and Immelt said in his speech that an open, global network connects people, data and machines. The goal of the industrial Internet is to upgrade those critical industrial areas. Today there are millions of of machines in the world, from simple electric motorcycles to highly sophisticated MRI machines. There are tens of thousands of kinds of complex machinery clusters, from power plants to the transport of aircraft.