Internet of things in Giants ' eyes: from concept to landing

Smart wear equipment, unmanned technology, an app that can monitor and improve sleep quality, networked bottles that can detect the nutritional intake of young children, golf detectors that can analyze the difference between swing movements and pros, smart costumes, Internet smoke detectors ... All this means that in the 2015 CES (Consumer Electronics Show), the Internet of things has begun to fall from the concept to the ground and into our lives.

"The new personal computing experience, the rise of smart interconnected devices, and the revolution in wearable equipment are redefining the relationship between consumers and technology." "The Intel CEO Division has said at CES.

At the CES exhibition in 2015, "first financial daily" reporters at the scene, whether the chip giants or manufacturers have begun to lead the competition to the entire ecological chain, I believe that at the end of CES, an internet of things will be the battle of the ecological chain in the major technology manufacturers in the formal opening.

The primary stage of the Internet of Things

At CES in 2015, the technology giants from the chip field began to approach the internet of things from "imagination" to "landing".

The day before the launch, Samsung Ceobookeunyoon The importance of building an eco-chain in its keynote address. He highlighted the importance of sensors throughout the eco-chain and released two new internet sensors: a sensor that can detect more than 20 odors and a sensor that can measure 3D of distance. This suggests that Samsung will invest more in the sensor sector in the future and launch more revolutionary products.

In the CES keynote address, Intel released a new chip for the development of the Internet wearable device. The development of IoT and wearable equipment means that 2015 will be "the beginning of the next wave of consumer technology," says Ke. Intelligent robot will be the core element of future Internet of things, change human life.

Qualcomm President Dreck Abeles More emphasis on existing results: the current Qualcomm to more than 30 countries in the world launched 15 networking equipment, involving digital glasses, children's tracker, smart watches and other products. Qualcomm will be the future through the smart phone as a fulcrum to expand car networking, medical, wearable equipment and other fields. Dreck Abeles that although the potential of Internet of things is great, it is still in its infancy.

More manufacturers are directly to the "treasure" on the car network.

"We also have our own layout on smart home and smart watch wearable devices, and the car networking will be the next priority," he said. Xiaiqingjiang, general manager of MediaTek, told the first financial daily at CES that last year, MediaTek made the Auto electronics division independent and set up a subsidiary in mainland China to specialize in automotive IC market. At present, the company's staff size has reached hundreds of people, mainly research and development of car audio and video navigation chip.

Boton that while Ethernet has been used as an IT network technology, applications in networked vehicles are growing fast. At this CES, Bo has released the next generation of automotive Ethernet chips optimized for Low-power car applications. In short, this will enable the application of on-board Ethernet from the information entertainment system further extended to the remote processing, instrumentation group, car audio host and the central console module.

In addition, such as LG, Panasonic, the United States operators at&t and other companies announced their respective cooperation plans, Panasonic for the development of the new version of the Sync 3 system services, At&t said it has signed with Samsung, Samsung will become the interconnection vehicle Development laboratory.

Smart hardware together: Wearable, unmanned aircraft leader

It should be said that the internet of things is a more complex ecosystem than the mobile web. Unlike the current mobile phone, which is the center of all personal devices, the terminal devices of the IoT will become extraordinarily diverse, possibly reaching millions of: the ability to engage in intelligent conversations between objects will be standard for any product in the future.

At the CES booth in 2015, the first financial daily reporter saw that even a bicycle or a button could become a data recorder in the Internet of things, such as the latest connectedcycle at CES, the smart bike pedal built with GPS modules and motion sensors, Users can track their location through mobile phone applications, while also gaining speed, walking distance, elevation and other movement data.

Johncurran, managing director of Accenture's communications, media and technology business, believes that more traditional consumer products will add things to networking, such as clinical medicine, home security and automation, and even consumer drones, as traditional manufacturers and technology companies increasingly agree on consumer demand.

Last year's concept of hot-wearing smart wear equipment to some extent has begun to act as a "private doctor" role. basis, such as Fitbit, Misfit, and Intel, can be used to provide targeted advice to users through wearable data, helping them improve their physical and health and safety issues. At the same time, the "personal privacy and cyber security" zone has been developed this year at CES, as a result of major security incidents last year raised the awareness of ordinary people about protecting their data.

Another "red" thing networking equipment is unmanned aircraft.

Qualcomm Institute launched a flying robot "Snapdragoncargo" at CES. The integrated flight controller of the robot is equipped with the Gaotong Dragon processor, which can achieve flight and rotation, and its interior is a multifunctional computing platform.

Intel's chief executive Division has shown a product called Nixie to the outside world. This wearable four-rotor drone looks cool, the world's first wearable drone, the Nixie folded into a wrist strap that was worn on the wrist and then turned into a four-rotor drone, flying in a large cage in the field, taking photos or video, which is called "an self-portraits that can be flown".

The reporter noted that half of the 14 unmanned aircraft manufacturers were made in China, and the unmanned Aerial vehicle series from Shenzhen's Xinjiang was a hot pursuit at CES in 2014, which accounted for about 70% per cent of the global civilian small drone market.

The standard is difficult to unify

At the Qualcomm's pavilion at CES, staff opened a refrigerator door, and half the time, the LED lighting developed by the US start-up company LiFx Laboratory flashed a red light, while a smart watch produced by South Korea's LG Electronics was alerted. The staff explained that through Qualcomm Technology, products produced by different enterprises could communicate smoothly.

This looks good, but the internet industry is still struggling because different vendors are peddling their own Internet standards as hard as they can, publicizing the advantages of the standards they lead.

In the above scenario, Qualcomm and LIFX have launched the AllJoyn intelligent lighting platform, enabling home lighting systems to connect directly to the home WiFi network for intelligent control. AllJoyn is a technical specification for networking equipment developed by Qualcomm-LED Technology Standards Alliance AllSeen. According to Qualcomm President Dreck Abeli, the alliance is huge and more than 100 companies have signed up to join.

In addition, Intel has formed an open interconnect alliance with companies such as GE, while Google is pushing for standards set by companies such as Nestlabs, which Apple wants to make its HomeKit standard acceptable to the market. Samsung Electronics says it will invest in external companies to develop products and services that are compatible with SmartThings standards.

At present, the so-called IoT industry standards are developed by various alliances, such as the Allseenalliance Technology Alliance, the IEEE P2413 project, the Industrial Internet Alliance (IIC), The Open Interconnection Alliance (OIC), and the Threadgroup Alliance. What makes investors puzzled is that over the past year there have been a number of institutional and trade associations that have been tempted in the field of IoT, and that many of the conflicts and repetitions of certification standards have been between business members within the same alliance. Before the unification of the standards of the Internet of things, it is difficult for investors to see the big winners in the field of IoT.

In contrast, the more difficult question is how to guarantee the information security problem under the Internet of things.

"By connecting all the devices to the network, ensuring the security of the information becomes a major problem." Network security is no longer a tall concept, but is closely related to every consumer. "Accenture Johncurran that the Internet has been applied to medical devices, and if devices such as pacemakers are hacked, it will directly affect human life."

But the reporters did not see the vendors sitting down to discuss this thorny issue at CES.

Perhaps as ARM founder and Ctomikemuller said: "The Internet provides a simple beauty: You can find and control your light bulb in the same web browser without having to know or care whether you are using WiFi or 3G." "The Internet of things also needs this kind of simplicity, not just the brilliant performance of the manufacturers on their stage."