In 2009, Wuxi established the National Sensor Network Innovation Demonstration Zone, and in 2019, the World Internet of Things Expo became Wuxi's beautiful business card. With the cost of IoT hardware decreasing during the past 10 years, the threshold of the industry has been lowered, accompanied by factors such as the continuous improvement of infrastructure, rapid development of communication technology, and significant improvement in network capacity, the number of IoT connections has grown rapidly, and the scale of the global IoT industry has expanded rapidly, and the IoT industry has exploded in full force after experiencing a concept-driven, demonstration-application-led process.
5G Networks for IoT
IoT provides an important platform for the convergence and innovation of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, etc., and is becoming the next high point of industrial competition after the Internet. And 5G, edge computing, artificial intelligence, big data and other accelerated iteration and evolution, and push the Internet of Things ushered in the window of scale development and a new round of ecological layout of the opportunity period.
"80% of future 5G applications will be IoT. At present, China's 5G commercial pace accelerated, more than a million narrowband IoT base stations commercialized, the number of connections reached 150 million, and has built the world's largest narrowband IoT network." Wang Zhijun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the 2019 World Internet of Things Wuxi Summit.
The arrival of 5G has greatly facilitated the development of IoT technology. With 5G as the origin, the IoT world will be greatly enriched with its further commercialization. Relying on the characteristics of large bandwidth, low latency, high reliability of 5G networks and the number of millions of connections per square kilometer, it can effectively support the instant massive connectivity of intelligent devices such as the Internet of vehicles, intelligent manufacturing, remote medical care, and so on, which is an important node for the next step in the development of the Internet of Things.
New applications are emerging everywhere
IoT has a wide range of uses, both in terms of helping the industry develop and in terms of its relevance to daily life, and the IoT Expo 2019 showcases many hot applications. China Telecom's "5G+8K" ultra-high-definition video broadcasting, China Mobile's "5G+intelligent manufacturing" simulation factory, and China Unicom's 5G telemedicine emergency response system attracted a large number of viewers to stop and experience. "WIoT-PARK" (Internet of Things Park) immersive interactive experience exhibition area debut, bringing VR to see Wuxi, 5G live, VR bungee jumping, Rosen smart supermarkets, 5G future restaurant, health checkup centers and other experiential exhibitions.
5G+ Telematics
Telematics connects cars to cars, cars to pedestrians, cars to infrastructure, cars to the cloud, and cars to traffic command centers, and informs drivers more accurately and timely about real-time traffic conditions in the areas around their destinations, effectively improving travel efficiency.
At the entrance of Hall B of the Expo Center, there are many watching the war lined up to experience the connected car bus. 20 minutes of driving, the experience of the road congestion sign warning, sidewalk deceleration, pedestrian blind spot detection, intersection collision prediction and other auxiliary driving functions. In addition, the 5G driverless experience area of the automatic distribution logistics vehicle, automatic cleaning car and 5G remote driving also attracted crowds of people stopped to watch.
5G+ Medicine
China Mobile's 5G remote medical system and 5G emergency vehicle model allowed attendees to more intuitively feel the changes in "seeing" and "treating". The 5G telemedicine system and 5G emergency vehicle model displayed by China Mobile allowed participants to more intuitively feel the changes in "seeing" and "treating". Remote real-time dynamic electrocardiography system, chest pain center emergency management system, handheld ultrasound and other Internet of Things medical equipment filled the booth. Through the hospital back office, monitoring and treatment equipment, user APP, doctors can break the geographical limitations, real-time access to the patient's electrocardiogram, blood pressure, blood oxygen, pulse and other information, timely diagnosis and treatment programs. In May of this year, Jiangsu Mobile and Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital signed a 5G intelligent medical strategic cooperation agreement, 5G emergency vehicle is one of the focuses of cooperation. 5G emergency vehicle will be able to the patient's signs, condition assessment images and other information to milliseconds speed transmission to the hospital, synchronized interaction with high-definition audio and video, can effectively shorten the response time of the hospital emergency response time for the patient to fight for a greater chance of life.
5G+ Industrial
In ZTE's exhibition area, its 5G+ Industrial Park solution utilizes a pan-5G network covering the park to realize ubiquitous connectivity for production equipment, meters, cameras, drones, robots, and more in the park and unify their management through the IoT platform. At the same time, the work order system provides real-time control of abnormal situations in the park, realizing the visualization and comprehensive control of the industrial park.
In the 5G+ industrial machine vision solution, HD cameras collect HD video signals at the industrial site, transmit them to the edge side for machine vision analysis through 5G network, and carry out real-time control at the edge side in MEC. The machine vision solution has a large number of applications in the industrial field. For example, in the wheel quenching process, through the high-definition camera for wheel quenching video acquisition, the use of machine vision analysis of wheel color changes to determine whether the temperature meets the quenching quality requirements, to achieve the closed-loop control process of machine vision detection - finished product quality judgment - industrial equipment adjustment.
5G+ Education
By utilizing 5G+VR, China Unicom is able to provide a full set of solutions for networks, platforms, content and terminals. Combining the key technologies of the network layer, the distributed deployment and multi-scene access capabilities of the platform layer, the high-quality resources of all disciplines in the content layer, and the multi-terminal access in the terminal layer, China Unicom can create a highly developed, interactive, and immersive three-dimensional learning environment for learners, truly realizing the teaching requirements of the Ministry of Education advocating the full time domain, the full airspace, and the full audience.
***Planning for the development of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things has a significant support and radiation-driven role in the national strategies of network power, digital China, smart society, and the digital economy, and has become a powerful driving force for economic development. However, with the advent of the Internet of Everything era, security issues have also come to the fore.
The ubiquitous connectivity of the Internet of Things has broken the traditional network boundaries, and the application of new technologies such as 5G and Artificial Intelligence has exacerbated the security risks of the Internet of Things. Currently, the IoT device base is huge, but the security protection is generally fragile, the IoT has been attacked repeatedly, resulting in equipment control, user privacy leakage, data theft, and even cause the impact of the normal operation of the basic communication network and other serious consequences. Ensuring security has become a prerequisite for the healthy development of the IoT industry.
In the 2019 World Internet of Things Expo Information Security Summit Forum, a number of experts to discuss the 5G era of Internet of Things security practices and development. Experts pointed out that the current Internet of Things still needs to face 3 challenges. First of all, independent innovation, core technology, although there is a certain development, but the status quo has not been fundamentally changed by others, the road to overcome the difficulties is still a long way to go. Secondly, safety and control, foreign Internet of Things products, although leading technology, but the phenomenon of pre-positioned backdoor appears frequently, security precautions need to be unremitting. Finally, the security ecosystem, the domestic Internet of Things ecosystem is becoming more and more perfect, but some of the key elements are still held in the U.S. West, the need to cure the pain is still imminent.
China Information Security Evaluation Center, deputy director of the Committee of Experts, Huang Dianzhong said: "The Internet of Things carries the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and technology and the dream of a strong network, we need to realize the upgrading and transformation of the independent development, active security and the construction of ecosystems; to achieve the layout of the 'block' to the 'ecosystem' and the 'ecosystem' and the 'network'. We need to realize the upgrading and transformation of independent development, active security and ecosystem construction; realize the transformation from 'block layout' to 'ecosystem'; realize the transformation from 'restricted' to 'independent development'; realize the transformation from 'passive security' to 'active security'; and realize the transformation from 'passive security' to 'active security'. ' to 'active security' transformation."
How does the Internet of Things change the world? Wang Zhijun said, China is carrying out a new round of Internet of Things development layout, will focus on breakthroughs in core chips, intelligent sensors, intelligent transmission, intelligent information processing, operating systems and other key core technologies, fundamentally enhance the core competitiveness of the industry. In addition, application first, China will enhance the competitiveness of the industry through the scale of development, through the iconic application scenarios demonstration to promote industrial landing, as well as focus on supporting the automotive networking, industrial Internet and other areas to accelerate the deployment, strengthen the docking of production and demand, to achieve scale development.
As the builder of a new generation of information infrastructure, operators will shoulder a new mission and create new value in the era of intelligent connection of everything. Li Guohua, general manager of China Unicom, said that firstly, operators will widely deploy 5G infrastructure, build a wide-coverage, high-performance network, and realize the entire all-network; secondly, operators will be the enabler of vertical industries, and the cooperation with different vertical fields will be more in-depth, so as to provide inclusive services for enterprises and consumers; again, in order to achieve resource optimization and value reconstruction, operators will design and practice new business models In order to optimize resources and reconfigure value, operators will design and practice new business models, seek cooperation***, and become explorers of business models. Finally, "integration" will be the keynote of the era of Smart Connectivity, and operators will take on the role of eco-construction driver to build ecosystems together with industry parties to achieve*** enjoyable development.
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Written by Meng Yue
Edited by Wang Yurong