Cross-era products that can detonate the industry in the future may be born in the IoT era

Unsurprisingly, Millet's latest round of valuations amounted to $45 billion trillion. Mobile phone sales Drive the high value of millet, but the story of millet far more than mobile phones, Millet's story in the current no contribution to the main revenue of the other two major business: boxes and routers.

Lei repeatedly stressed that the future millet main focus on only three things: mobile phone (+ flat), box (+ TV) and routers (+ cloud). Of the three things in the two and a half, are all happening in the living room.

Since January 2014, when Google acquired Nest, the IoT era is coming.

IoT, the abbreviation for the internet of things, can be thought of as a physical hardware network that can be monitored and controlled by the user via computer equipment, and the word "Internet of Things", once popular a few years ago, is the same thing. IoT's core has the bright spot: 1, the Networking object, 2, may be controlled by the computer equipment, these equipments includes the smartphone, the tablet computer, the PC and so on.

Unlike a few years ago at the conceptual stage, IoT began to have the possibility of landing since 2014, and IoT will also be a new era behind PCs and Smartphones, and in the next year or two, it is likely that the Macintosh would be born to PCs, The iphone is a trans-era product of the exploding industry in the IoT field of smartphones. Before this product is born, we might as well look at the potential opportunities of IoT.

IoT is far more widely used than PCs and smartphones, except in the area of mass consumption (households), business companies and governments (cities) as IoT applications. Home IoT equipment will be accompanied by consumer media daily life and work, in addition to mobile phones and television, there are smart watches, washing machines, refrigerators, lights, air purifiers and almost all household objects; enterprise equipment including equipment maintenance, monitoring, including medical equipment and so on, the government sector includes public transport, hydropower systems, Parking management and so on.

According to Busineess insider FDI, the IoT market will reach $1.7 trillion trillion after five years, including IoT hardware, software and peripheral products and value-added services. The hardware market may only be 50 billion dollars, but the software and services-related market will be as high as $550 billion, meaning the software's potential is 10 times times that of hardware. Traditional manufacturing must learn the Internet, but the bigger possibility is that internet companies are more likely to devour traditional manufacturing.

Several key factors drive users (including mass consumers, business companies, and governments) to embrace IoT:

1, users have greater autonomy. Users have more control over their home appliances, for example, when working in the office, you can use mobile phone remote control home sweeping robot to wipe the floor, if the future has "cleanliness" sensor, you can also command the robot to dirty parts two times, of course, you can open the washing machine at the same time washing clothes by the way automatically drying, In advance from Sohu video download good night to see the United States play in the router, when after work, in the home before, you can open the air-conditioning in advance to set a good home temperature. When you get home, just rest, relax and entertain. Users have more choice and control over their families.

2. Save cost. Short-term purchases and use of IoT schemes may be expensive, but in the long run they can be more cost efficient. For example, the Barcelona government, which manages water resources through IoT, can save 58 million of dollars a year and increase revenue by 5 million.

3. Reduce energy consumption. According to Goldman Sachs, using IoT solutions can save 40% of energy consumption for households.

4. Medical and health applications. IoT large scale applications will greatly reduce the cost of hardware. If the medical institution gives the patient with the sensor, can monitor the patient's physiology condition in time, can greatly improve the operation efficiency of the medical system and reduce the waste.

January 2014, Google spent 3.2 billion of billions of dollars to buy a smart home company Nest,nest only two products: smart thermostat and smoke alarm. By December 2014, Nest products can already be controlled by Google Now: talking to Google know, you can adjust indoor temperature by nest. And the investment of intelligent TV and intelligent router by each technology company has let many consumers start to control their living room by mobile phone. This is just the beginning. In the next five years, we will gradually control everything in our own home.

"Business Weekly/Chinese version"

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)