Editor's note: Zhicheng Cloud COO Li Baolei – successively served as general manager of Haier Group Beijing, Tianjin and other branches, sales manager, director of flat-panel television, general manager of information products domestic market, marketing director of North China Region, Japan and Japan Network technology company general manager and other duties. Experience first-hand the Haier Group's creation of brand names, diversification, internationalization, and globalization. He has extensive practical experience in product manufacturing, supply chain, channel management, online and offline marketing in the home appliance industry.
The era of interconnectedness is coming. What is the Internet of Things?
The evolution of communication technology is pushing us from an era of people-to-people connections to an era of everything connected with people and things, things and things. Massive connections will not only revolutionize the production and lifestyle of human society, but will also bring new opportunities for development to smart homes and even all walks of life.
CRN recently reported that research institute IDC believes that the business opportunities of the Internet of Things will soon break out. They interviewed and adjusted 4,500 companies in 25 countries, of which 31% said that they have started to promote the development of Internet of Things programs, and the number of those who plan to promote Internet of Things in the next 12 months is 43%.
With the rise of IoT startups, many industries have changed, and consumers are increasingly welcome to enter their own home networked devices. Zhicheng Cloud COO Li Baolei expressed: “If a product can only be upgraded with a small increase in cost, it will not only have a better user experience but also increase product competitiveness. Why not?â€
Li Baolei worked in the Haier Group for 18 years and has participated in everything from manufacturing to distribution and marketing. Also claimed to be a "old salesman." From Haier to Zhongke Zhicheng, it is two distinct choices for Li Baolei. The resources and contacts accumulated over 18 years have made him feel that he has fully adapted to the environment of the home appliance industry. Before he went to China Science, he had other choices, including a large number of platform-based Internet companies and cutting-edge Internet companies in the industry. These companies all offered very favorable treatment, but he did not hesitate to join the Division. Wisdom City. Li Baolei told Lei Feng Network (search "Lei Feng Net" public concern) that there are three reasons for choosing Zhongke:
“First, I think that technology companies can get more resources in Beijing and their families are in Beijing. Joining Zhike Zhicheng is very much in keeping with my personal development choices, and it no longer needs to separate with family members. Second, China Academy of Sciences Zhicheng has a background in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I am optimistic about their strengths in R&D, talent, and funding. The third and most important point is that I believe in the development prospects of the Internet of Things and smart industries.
In the future concept of the Internet of Things, many companies are rushing to make predictions. Cisco envisions that the global Internet of Things will reach $8 trillion in output value in the next 10 years; Gartner predicts that by 2020, the number of IoT devices used worldwide will exceed 20 billion units, and the Internet of Things is on the eve of large-scale explosive growth.
So if you look at the domestic IoT private cloud market, the provider with the largest share of the market is the Zhicheng cloud.
Zhi Cheng Yun is a hardware-led company. In addition to providing technical support for software development and maintenance of home appliance products of cooperative enterprises, it also provides a variety of smart module hardware, including Wi-Fi security modules and ZigBee modules. And so on, we have provided IoT cloud access and data services for Galanz, Gome, Vantage, and Wanjiale.
Regarding the future of the Internet of Things, Li Baolei shared some of his ideas with Lei Feng:
Standard Unified Process
In the home or personal product market, intelligence is a common trend. At present, smart homes are single-item smart and difficult to interconnect.
From another point of view, at present, China's smart home is still in its infancy. Most companies' intelligent products or smart systems are their own systems. The industry has not yet formed a completely unified standard. The future development must have a Standard uniform process.
In addition, our customers, such as home manufacturers, are in urgent need of intelligent solutions and technologies.
The future trend is very clear, and the market prospects and imagination are also great. However, due to the above barriers, it will take some time to realize the true Internet of Things.
Application entity
The enterprise is the largest application entity of the Internet of Things solution. It can reduce the operating costs of enterprises and enhance the production efficiency of enterprises. The most important thing is to be able to develop new products for enterprises and open up new markets to bring new ideas and technologies. Therefore, Zhicheng Cloud is now mainly engaged in the development of large-scale enterprise customers in the domestic market. For cloud services, the main service targets are large-scale industry-leading enterprises and platform-based circulation enterprises.
We can see that our strategic partners in Zhicheng Cloud include not only home appliance manufacturers such as Galanz and Macromedia, but also stores such as Gome, and platforms such as Jingdong and Ali. Providing cloud access and data services for these companies is our core business. After in-depth cooperation with these companies, we will be able to innovate more industry solutions, which will bring great improvements to our own business capabilities and technology.
solution
Zhicheng Cloud will cooperate in the areas of IoT solutions, IoT platform, intelligent terminal services, and Super APP to jointly provide our customers with more convenient, faster, more efficient and safe intelligent solutions.
At the same time, in order to meet the globalization needs of manufacturers' partners, Zhicheng Cloud has cooperated with Amazon AWS to fully deploy large-scale deployment of overseas servers. Currently, it has opened IoT cloud services in the United States, Europe, Russia, Southeast Asia and South America. business. Through cooperation with AWS, Zhicheng Cloud has upgraded the cloud architecture, greatly reducing the cost of access, and providing high-performance, cost-effective services to customers wishing to explore overseas markets.
Ten years of Internet of Things
The past decade has been a critical decade for the Internet of Things smart industry. Many traditional industries will gradually evolve into the ranks of Internet intelligent manufacturing based on market demand and user experience.
Now the popular home appliances and smart home industries have entered, and there will be follow-up such as electricians, lighting, buildings, environmental protection, health, security, street lights, municipalities, etc., all of which can access the Internet through the cloud. In the future, the demand for the IoT cloud service market will increase. With the increase in the number of users, the diversification of market demands, and the personalization of user experience, the Internet of Things market will gradually develop in depth.
This decade is the decade of smart popularization. In the ten years of the Internet of Things, many intelligent products will gradually appear around people. The Internet of Things technology will gradually become popular, and a “world where everything is interconnected and omnipresent†will become a global society. From gradually into reality.