Why the Internet of Things is so slow

The biggest problem with the internet of Things is fragmentation.

How do you understand fragmentation?

For example, a mobile phone cannot send text messages to Unicom's mobile phone.

Now still in the early stage of the development of the Internet of things, all manufacturers want to occupy the highest point of the industry, that is, platform level. So many enterprises are developing their own set of systems, and often the system is not open to the outside world, so their own system only their own hardware can be used, which has greatly restricted the development of hardware, on the other hand also hindered the entry of Third-party developers.

Imagine how iOS and Android would be without third-party developers. Most importantly, this greatly increases the threshold of entry for ordinary consumers. Because the resources of a single manufacturer are limited, you have to use several systems at the same time when you want a complete internet of things experience. Your Skyworth Smart TV has a separate app on your phone, Philips's smart light bulb has a separate app on the phone, Haier's smart microwave oven has a separate app, and Gree's smart fridge has a separate app.

Soon, your phone will be completely occupied by the myriad of apps. When you want to turn off the lights, you have to stare into the ocean of icons to find the app. At first you may think this is cool, and so the fresh strength of the past, you will feel that this is very bitter, but also directly to press the switch user experience good.

This is one of the most basic examples. But the use of the Internet of things is far less than that, which is the charm of the internet of things. But the lack of closed platforms and standards has greatly hampered the large-scale application of the internet of things.

Let me give you an example to explain

You have a smart home system, which contains a lot of sensors, such as temperature sensors, humidity sensors, light sensors, distance sensors and so on. Various ubiquitous sensors can breed many applications.

For example, it will automatically help you open the welcome light at the moment you come near the door, and you don't have to grope for the keyhole in the dark. When you open the door of the moment, the living room lights up to greet you home. Before you go home, the system has already checked your schedule in advance and predicted your home time according to your location, and then, depending on the current temperature in the room, you can open the air-conditioner in advance, and when you get home, your home is just the temperature you said you liked.

What a warm and cozy scene. If you think that's all you're wrong. If I were an application developer, I would think, I want to make the most of these sensors to do something else, such as using these temperature sensors to detect fires, using distance sensors to detect theft. But the premise is that I can call the data on these sensors, too, a way I can understand. This requires an open platform and a unified data structure.

Maybe some of the people here are already dizzy. It doesn't matter, a sentence to sum up is the sensor data is simply reused, the consequence is that each application needs to redeploy a set of sensors, even if the same sensor has not been deployed in your home several times.

The future development direction of the Internet of Things is a set of uniform standards. This work is currently under way, and the European Organization for Standardization, ETSI, has released its second edition standard. Then, now seven different local standardization organizations, including China, have formed a global working group ONEM2M. But this work is still progressing slowly, mainly because too many stakeholders are involved.

Unified standards will lead to mutual invocation of the open platform and unified hardware, which will attract a large number of creative third-party developers, once the killer creator, the user's willingness to use is strong. This is the moment when the internet of things broke out.