Inventory: nine core technologies of the industrial Internet
The topic of Industrial Internet was first proposed by GE in 2012. This topic and the industry 4.0 proposed by Germany in 2013 can be said to stir the nerves of many companies. But these new ideas are not unfounded. It is a powerful technology accumulation in the industrialized countries in the past few decades, and new strategies, new technology layouts and a new vision for the future. If we interpret these visions and strategies from the perspective of the Internet alone, I think it is not enough. In fact, the industrial Internet has strong technical support.
In the field of industrial Internet, we need to have a solid technical foundation in order to achieve sustained and steady development. The following picture shows the emerging and emerging technical elements in a structured way, giving everyone a systematic understanding of the technology and system foundations formed by the Industrial Internet.
In this structure, the most basic is the standard and system security system of the industrial Internet. Different from the mature commercial Internet and interpersonal Internet, the technical standards related to the industrial Internet are far from being formed. It can be said that the game and competition in different technology camps It is being launched intensely. Moreover, system security is a relatively weak link, which hinders the opening of the industrial Internet and the exchange of data with each other to a considerable extent. In the future, we can foresee that various industrialized countries, organizations and even enterprises, as well as scientific research institutions, will carry out a lot of work around the establishment of standards and the consensus and creation of system security.
These basic tasks are very important and strategic. Therefore, our Chinese entrepreneurial group should pay great attention to these basic tasks, abandon those that may be hypothetical, and hope to quickly bend over the road. Without these basic work, it is impossible to achieve industrial interconnection in the true sense.
There are also three very critical technology components on top of it, one called a supercomputing terminal that is everywhere. The so-called supercomputing terminal is brought about by sensors, powerful chips and the distributed powerful computing power generated by this. This is due to the popularity of chip technology and the expansion of IPV6's addressing capability.
The second type of component foundation, we call it a software-defined machine. The so-called software-defined machine is a new prospect that emerges after the integration of powerful, ubiquitous supercomputing terminals and the various devices of the industrial era we use. Future hardware is important, but software is more important. As a technical component, hardware gives different functions to software, software-defined hardware and defined machines, which will become the trend of the future.
The resulting data, patterns, methodologies, and artificial intelligence will be attributed to the automation of knowledge work, which involves a large number of new technologies.
Above these three technical components is a new type of industrial process. Future industrial processes will break through process or be the traditional definition of discretization. With the deep involvement of robots, fundamental changes will be made in the processes of industrial processes and industrial production. Industrial production will become the whole process of no stopping, because the robots are not fatigued, and the robots will carry out in-depth communication and automatic processing, so that the production efficiency breaks through the bottleneck of human intervention and reaches a new peak.
In the field of distributed production, 3D printing, as a representative of distributed production, will become a new star, and it will make individuals and organizations become one node in the middle of large-scale production, completely changing the way of mass production in the past, which will be redefined. Future industrial processes.
The top two technical elements in the picture will be the integration or integration of human consciousness or the virtual world created by human beings and the physical world. I believe that human consciousness will be integrated into the machine and interact deeply with each other. We can control the machine, and in turn the machine will be able to read our minds and interact with each other, making the fusion between the human world of consciousness and the physical world outside the body deeper, and even making the boundaries more blurred. The virtual world is a much larger world built by human beings outside the physical world. Its integrated utility and deep intelligence will be unmatched by the physical world in front of us. In the end, the physical world we know well, that is, the industrial world we are familiar with, will be fully integrated with the virtual world. This is the vision of the industrial Internet we can see.
These technical elements are very important and are forming the components and technical support for future industrial basic technologies. Below I will briefly analyze these nine aspects. Some are technical events and trends that are happening. And more of the new technologies, measures, and trends that are being considered by humans are worthy of our serious attention. In short, the industrial Internet is not just the Internet, it is a comprehensive application of more traditional technologies in the new era. Everyone who does business should pay attention to such a complex, integrated whole, the impact on us and new opportunities.
1, super computing terminal
Supercomputing terminals are new and intelligent devices, such as cars and wearable devices, such as underwear with chips. The surge of these products is becoming a new member of the physical world we are familiar with. The core of these products is a powerful chip. The traditional king of the chip, Intel Corporation, is realizing that he is no longer able to move in the age of mobile Internet. For example, the ARM chip structure, along with the company represented by Apple, is replacing the traditional king of Intel in the PC era.
The super smart terminal that is everywhere is breaking through the imagination space given by Moore's Law. Moore's Law once predicted that for almost two years, the computing power of the chip will double, and the price will be reduced by half. This was the illusion that Intel had raised in 1965. For nearly 50 years, this Moore's Law has not seen the end. Even if Moore's Law encounters a bottleneck at the nanometer level, new alternative technologies are emerging. Moreover, with the infinite expansion of the addressing capability of IPV6, we can expect that in the future, every intelligent terminal can have powerful computing power and addressing capability, so these two key technical elements of the Internet of Things era are already in place.
In addition to the chip technology competition, there is also a competition for interactive internet entry standards in this industry. There are some industry giants forming an industry alliance. For example, including Samsung, Nest and Google Inc. for the alliance. Nest was acquired by Google Inc. in 2014 for $3.2 billion. The company can provide an energy feedback system, so there are huge home users in the United States, and this provides a convenient way for Google to enter the home's energy management system. At the same time, Apple was in the market. In June 2014, Apple announced the Homekit framework.
The Homekit framework is integrated into Apple's iOS8 system and is supported by traditional industry giants such as Philips and Honeywell. Apple is hoping to enter the smart home space through Homekit. In the smart home field, there has been a lack of strong integrators in the past few decades. With the strong entry of companies like Apple and Google, this situation is being broken, including Haier, which is also the first to meet the IOS entry certification standard MFi. Chinese business.
Supercomputing terminals are everywhere, but in fact, it is also in the field of Internet of Things. Recently, some major things have happened, especially regarding the trend of technology and the emergence of standards. GE's industrial operating system, Predix, is being supported and joined by a large number of traditional US businesses. GE has positioned it as an industrial operating system, and everyone knows its ambitions and its impact on future industries. Including China's Huawei company also launched the LITEOS system, hoping to have a place in the field of Internet of Things, the layout of these top companies in this regard is to hope that the basic standards, as well as access to interactive protocols occupy a leading position.
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