Intelligent hardware Innovation in the era of industrial Internet

The past 20 years of the "Consumer Internet" era, and the next 20 years, will come to the "Industrial Internet" era, the internet will change every industry, organization and even the whole society. The Cross-border integration represented by industry Internet has become a general trend, from the earliest retailing to today's financial, medical, wearable, online education, online travel and life services, and the traditional hardware sector will be changed. In the past two years, smart glasses, smart watches and other wearable smart hardware equipment springing up, the smart hardware industry pattern from the beginning to the development, has formed a huge wave. The integration of industrial Internet and intelligent hardware, more brewing business model subversion and lifestyle changes, resulting in intelligent manufacturing, intelligent services, and other new forms of business.

Smart hardware Industry

Traditional hardware production is based on large-scale production of pure hardware industry, now the industrial shape has undergone great changes. Based on the Internet, cloud computing and other advanced information technology, the rapid development of industrial Internet, the hardware industry quickly moved to a new era-intelligent hardware. The advent of the Internet, so that the modern society gradually show the characteristics of the network, many of our products are able to directly access the Internet, smart phones can, information appliances can, can automatically drive the car can also. Clearly, the hardware industry has accelerated into the "Interconnection + wisdom" as the characteristics of the "smart hardware" era.

Smart hardware has the following characteristics. First of all, more and more software replaces the hardware function, can control the hardware through the software; Secondly, unlike previous hardware sales, the demand for hardware-related service requirements or commodity solutions is increasing rapidly; third, the hardware manufacturing cycle, from product design to production, It takes less time to get to market. The hardware industry is developing in the direction of soft manufacturing, constantly using software to define the function and performance of products, to improve the importance of software-led innovation, the real value of hardware products from hardware to software.

The development of intelligent hardware technology makes the traditional manufacturing equipment and all kinds of home appliances and medical equipment have the ability of collecting, analyzing and executing information, and forming intelligent equipment and intelligent products. On this basis, with the network interconnection, mobile computing, cloud computing and other Internet technology to further integrate, the single intelligence extended to network intelligence, it further expands the capacity and scope of intelligent products, resulting in a new business model, and traditional industries, the formation of intelligent manufacturing, intelligent services and many other innovations.

The application of intelligent hardware to the government, enterprises, people work, life of all aspects, resulting in a huge market scale. The number of new networked hardware in 2014 was nearly 2 billion, which is expected to increase to 8 billion by 2020. By 2020, the total value of these smart hardware would have been greater than 1 trillion dollars. Huge market size, attracting a number of giant companies to join in. Google unveiled the glasses, Apple launched a mobile phone, a watch, Amazon launched a series of products such as mobile phones, tablets, set-top boxes, Facebook and HTC, HTC, and Tencent launched the micro-letter headset, QQ Audio, small Q robot, Ali launched the Aliyun mobile phone, day cat box, Baidu push Baidu mobile phone, Baidu shadow stick, plump hand ring, Qihoo 360 push portable WiFi, routers, family guards, child guards, guard against loss and so on.

Second, intelligent manufacturing

2008 the occurrence of the financial crisis and the excessive expansion of the virtual economy related to the relationship, so in the process of seeking a crisis solution, Europe, America and Japan and other developed countries, Governments and related professionals have put forward to pay attention to the development of the real economy, which revitalization of the manufacturing industry is an important link. Intelligent manufacturing is the developing direction of manufacturing industry, and it is also an important pillar of developing strategic industries in China. The United States, Britain and other developed countries, "re-industrialization", the development of High-tech manufacturing industry, Germany and Japan to maintain the advantages of manufacturing equipment and monopoly position; South Korea is also striving to be among the world's manufacturing powers. Countries have introduced a number of policies and plans to promote the development of intelligent manufacturing.

Intelligent Manufacturing is a collaborative innovation of intelligent equipment and the Internet. Intelligent equipment is a new type of intelligent control equipment assembled on traditional processing equipments, which makes the traditional manufacturing equipment possess various imitation human intelligence activities such as analysis, inference, judgment, conception and decision, and Internet technology extends the manufacturing process of single equipment to distributed manufacturing network environment in the past. The intelligent manufacturing system in the global manufacturing network environment based on the Internet is realized by overlaying the intelligence of the Network group on the basis of the monomer equipment intelligence. Intelligent manufacturing is perceived in the whole life cycle of manufacturing, analysis, reasoning, decision-making and control, to achieve dynamic response to product requirements, rapid development of new products and real-time optimization of production and supply chain networks, thus greatly expanding, extending and partially replacing human brain, manual labor in the manufacturing process to enhance production efficiency, Gradually realized a small batch, personalized production and other innovative manufacturing models.

Intelligent manufacturing will also provide important support for China's industrial restructuring, upgrading and development of strategic emerging industries. China is a manufacturing country, but in the past 30 years it has been a development model of personnel-intensive, resource-consuming and low value-added, which is still at the lower end of the global manufacturing chain, and has produced serious social problems such as environmental pollution. To develop China's intelligent manufacturing is to surpass the world level in key core technological innovation ability, product energy consumption, material and emission level, product precision efficiency and global service informatization, intelligence level, independent intellectual property rights and global famous brands, etc.

With the popularization of Internet technology, the key elements of market competition in manufacturing industry are embodied in "intelligence", including: Timely and accurate mastery of customer needs, integration and sharing of internal resources, optimization of resource allocation, rapid response, etc. and "intelligent equipment + Internet technology" can really let the manufacturing industry designers, producers and consumers to achieve seamless docking, access to customer demand, production workshop information, process data collection and analysis, rapid reorganization and dynamic coordination to quickly configure manufacturing resources, so as to achieve rapid response to market changes. Small batch order requirements, and even personalized manufacturing and services become possible, to meet the market diversity, personalized needs. Improve product quality at the same time, greatly shorten the product on the market time required to seize market share. Improve energy use efficiency, reduce emissions, and protect the environment. At the same time, it can share the cost of infrastructure construction and equipment investment, and reduce the risk of enterprise operation.

Iii. Intelligent Service

Modern service industry mainly includes modern logistics industry, science and Technology Service, financial insurance, information Service, business service. Over the years, services have been the fastest-growing industry in the developed economies, with an added value of more than 1/3 per cent of gross domestic product. For our country, the proportion of service industry in domestic GDP has been low for a long time, so it is of great significance to accelerate the development of the service industry: it can change the non virtuous circle that our country's economic growth depends mainly on industry-driven and quantity expansion, enhance our country's participation in the international division of Labor, To achieve sustainable development.

The human society has gone through the stage of agriculture, industrialization and informatization, and the modern service industry has developed into the "intelligent service" stage correspondingly. Intelligent services can not be separated from the Internet, to achieve an on-demand and active intelligence, that is, by capturing the user's original information and accumulating the data in the background, constructing the demand structure model, data mining and business intelligence analysis, in addition to analyzing the user's habits, preferences and other explicit needs, can also be further excavation and time, identity, Working life status associated with the implicit demand, the initiative to provide users with accurate, efficient service. Here needs not only the transmission and the feedback data, but also needs the system to carry on the multi-dimensional, the multi-level perception and the active, the thorough identification. In the low cost, personalized service to become a reality, but also to achieve energy conservation and environmental protection, and then reduce the cost of service operators to bring higher economic and social value, forming a virtuous circle.

The carrier of intelligent service is intelligent product and Internet technology, intelligent product collects data and performs operation, the Internet is responsible for building connection and transmitting data and intelligent processing. Around the intelligent services, building a smart home, car networking, drug networking and other applications, these applications cover the Government, enterprises, the common people of all aspects, together constitute a "City of Wisdom."

Smart Home

With the continuous progress of science and technology, the living environment of mankind is also improving constantly. In the solution of the basic material demand today, people began to pursue family life modernization, comfort, security, intelligent home emerged. The rise of intelligent hardware, for the development and application of intelligent Home System to add a booster, so that the function of intelligent home has made a leap.

Smart home through a variety of intelligent products will be home of a variety of equipment (such as audio and video equipment, lighting system, curtain control, air-conditioning control, security system, digital Theater system, AV server, Shadow cabinet system, network appliances, etc., to provide home appliances control, lighting control, telephone remote control, indoor and outdoor control, anti-theft alarm, Environmental monitoring, HVAC control, infrared forwarding and programmable timing control and other functions and means. Compared with ordinary home, intelligent home not only has the traditional living function, at the same time, with network communication, information appliances, equipment automation and other modern functions, can provide a system, structure, service, management as one of the efficient, comfortable, safe, convenient, environment-friendly living environment. To help the family and the outside to maintain the smooth flow of information, optimize people's lifestyles, help people effectively arrange time, enhance the safety of home life, and even save money for various energy costs.

Urbanization is the vast hinterland of China's economic development, the state will invest a lot of money to carry out "people's urbanization", urban consumption power will enter an outbreak period, in which smart home is an important piece. At present, the proportion of intelligent building in our country is about 10%-15%, while the more mature countries such as the United States and Japan, its intelligent building area accounted for about 60%-70% of the new building area, so the future growth of the industry space is huge, China's new urbanization Planning (2014-2020) explicitly put forward, Urbanization should be integrated with information, and Intellectualization will be the most important aspect of building and town development in the future.

Car Networking

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of automobiles, vehicles have become an important part of the city, traffic congestion, vehicle accidents, environmental pollution and other "urban diseases" have become a difficult problem in the urban development, which puts forward higher requirements for the healthy development of urbanization and the construction of a reasonable and harmonious urban system.

Car networking is the future development direction of automobile industry. Vehicle networking through a variety of intelligent hardware based on the technology of Internet and RFID radio frequency identification, digital management of vehicles, including real-time tracking, monitoring the operation of vehicles, traffic signals, cameras, congestion Road reports, weather information, and so on, so as to realize the car and road, car and car, The combination of vehicle and city Network, get the Intelligent transportation solution, can effectively alleviate the urban traffic congestion, improve efficiency, reduce accidents, reduce energy consumption, environmental pollution.

From the automobile this new mobile terminal to the car networking system composed of cars, gradually formed our country another important economic context. By the end of 2011, more than 500,000 new vehicles had been pre-installed in the Vehicle Information Service terminal. It is expected that by 2015, at least 40 million cars will be connected to the vehicle network. According to the average consumption of 1000 yuan per user per year, the car networking industry to 2015 market space around 40 billion, driving related output will be as high as 100 billion yuan, and China is expected to develop into the global vehicle information Service industry's largest market.

Iv. building an intelligent hardware industry chain

Relative to the software industry, intelligent hardware innovation threshold is high, lack of hardware optimization, prototyping, test verification, industrial design, such as public service platform, the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, high communication costs, regional enterprise interaction is not strong, leading enterprises limited, industrial links are more dispersed. At the same time, the intelligent hardware product innovation quantity is big, the type is many, the technology diversification, the standard is not unified, causes the product promotion aspect to encounter the question. So for reference to Internet thinking, the change of hardware manufacturing industry is mainly to build hardware ecological circle, through open hardware cloud service and open source hardware scheme, gradually perfect hardware ecological circle, produce more and better hardware + service intelligent Hardware products, first realize "connect person and Information", then upgrade to "Connect person and service", So that more people to use and consumption, and in turn to promote the cost of hardware production lower, more people can use hardware products.

The construction process of intelligent hardware industry chain is gradually carried out, the main idea is: the construction of intelligent hardware as the theme of "Platform + incubation + investment" business incubator, will cover the chip design, industrial design, software, Internet and large data, hardware, electricity, testing and certification industry chain links, joint create a customer community, public platform, Manufacturers, technical service providers, content service providers, channels, and so on, from the depth of cooperation, data sharing, marketing support, supply chain services, technical support, financial services and funds to provide all-round support to enterprises in the ecological circle, comprehensive construction testing certification, research and development cooperation, intellectual property and standards, large data services, The public technology and service platform, such as electric business promotion, promote the establishment of investment intelligence hardware Industry investment fund and create investment gold, make the internet and hardware advantage combine, transform into the intelligent hardware innovation advantage.

(Zhu Dabei/Beijing cloud Base)

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)