Top Ten Trends of the Internet of Things in 2018: IoT Platform Products Begin to Focus
Forrester Research predicts that IoT will dominate the future core value of users, and IoT's infrastructure will move to the edge or proprietary IoT platform, and as more and more developers flood in, it will have a positive impact on the IoT platform. . Finally, security remains an important issue in this area. At the same time, don't just focus on the development of IoT ontology technology, but also on the policy environment, business model, technology integration and other aspects required for IoT development.
See trends in three directions
Figure 1 Top Ten Forecasting Categories of the Internet of Things
The top ten trends of the Internet of Things in 2018 can be analyzed from three perspectives: platform, technology forward and policy environment.
The main conclusions are as follows:The platform is changing: IoT's IaaS business ecosystem has been formed, the public cloud platform will transform to the IoT business, and the IoT platform will be more focused on business processes and operational optimization;
Technology striker breakthrough: IoT edge computing applications will increase rapidly, edge computing will trigger IoT's “edge revolutionâ€, and IoT applications based on voice services and blockchain technology will increase dramatically;
Policy environmental impact: IoT security issues still exist, the data commercialization policy will accelerate the promotion of IoT technology, and the IoT business model still has a large imagination.
The platform is changing1 Participants in the industry IoT platform will withdraw from the IaaS business
In the past 12 months, all major industry IoTs have been dedicated to providing services tailored to their industry or specific business through large-scale cloud platform providers (AWS, IBM, Microsoft, etc.). As these large-scale cloud platforms extend their business scope, this expansion will further strengthen their capabilities to withstand the harsh environment of future competition, and this trend will accelerate.
In the industrial field, such as Siemens' industrial IoT platform MindSphere has entered the third edition, which is based on AWS; while other automation giants such as Schneider, Rockwell, Johnson Controls and other IoT applications are based on Microsoft's Azure platform.
Figure 2 Microsoft Azure Physical Network Solution
2 IoT developers will implement device integration through public cloud platform services
With the popularity of IoT technology, IoT application developers are increasingly demanding low cost of ownership, rapid prototyping, global integration and ease of system integration, and low maintenance costs, all of which will accelerate the transformation of public cloud platforms into IoT platforms.
In the industry, the boundaries between IoT and the cloud platform are becoming more and more blurred, which is the best evidence of this trend. More and more conventional cloud service providers are actively expanding their own business and accelerating this transformation process.
Figure 3 Tencent IoT Cloud Platform
3 Many IoT platform products will start to focus
IoT's product designers need to focus on process design and specific operational scenarios, and the ability to remotely manage, monitor, and operate equipment needs to be considered early in product design. What many business operators need is business process software, which integrates their various business asset data into more cohesive business processes, allowing them to focus on running their business instead of manually managing large amounts of process data. Based on this demand, there will be more and more industry choices to meet their IoT platform.
In the industrial field, in the early stage, everyone focused on the maintenance of the equipment side, while ignoring the optimization of the entire industry chain, such as the supply chain, production links and sales processes. Future industrial IoT applications will focus more on the optimization of the actual business process.
Technical striker breakthrough4 Edge computing will drive IoT deployment
To date, IoT has pioneered many new business process applications that are deployed primarily in the enterprise's local data center or public cloud. The key case of edge computing will drive the deployment of IoT solutions.
In 2018, due to the process optimization effect brought by IoT technology, companies that have deployed IoT business processes will have a great change. Their essential requirement is to conduct local data analysis and also transmit these enabled device data to The cloud. The reason for this demand is that a large number of edge devices can be analyzed locally using the data they generate, while using the cloud to configure, deploy, and manage these edge-calculated compressed data for optimal utilization.
Due to the essential characteristics of cloud transmission, the edge calculation of IoT object is a key technology that IoT application can not ignore. How to integrate the cloud computing of IoT cloud with the edge calculation of IoT object is an problem that cannot be avoided by every IoT application. See the next trend for specific analysis.
Figure 4 Sandvik IoT Solution
5 Developer's “Edge Revolutionâ€
Coase's "Transformation China" refers to the "edge revolution", which means that China's economic reforms are all rooted in the reform of the marginal people. In the development of IoT, the development of the calculation of the object edge will also lead to the innovation of the IoT platform.
More companies are pushing data processing and analytics to edge devices to reduce data collection costs and network latency. This will make users less and less able to accept an IoT platform that provides core services only on the network side.
Developers of edge devices will trigger the "edge revolution" of the IoT platform!
The IoT platform will support the edge computing of cloud-side and the core business of cloud-side analysis by adopting a consistent programming and analysis model, which will force most IoT platform providers to narrow their business scope or exit the market in the next three years.
6 IoT will rise to 5% based on blockchain technology
The new settlement system brought by the blockchain technology and the new interaction method brought by IoT technology will surely hit a stronger spark in the future. However, because IoT technology requires a more reliable, stable and further optimized blockchain solution that seamlessly integrates with existing technology architectures, at this stage, blockchain technology is not yet ready for large-scale deployment. But in 2018, forward-looking pilot projects are beginning to emerge, and the combination of blockchain technology and IoT products will further push the blockchain.
7 IoT's voice service rises
The complexity, breadth and quality of voice services for Fortune 500 companies will grow in 2018, and IoT-based voice service applications may double. Enterprises will increase their pilot efforts to introduce IoT-based voice services to consumers, but there will be some lag in financial services and other industries that require certification.
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8 IoT will become an attack center
With the application of IoT technology, the meaning of data in the network extends from the virtual world to the real world, and IoT will become a broader and more destructive network attack center.
While security awareness continues to grow, customer experience, cost and time-to-market requirements still take precedence over security requirements. This makes it very difficult to implement strong security controls. Worse, in the final application deployment, specific security features are discarded due to the data interaction needs of the application. These will make the IoT object's endpoint device and the cloud will suffer a larger attack when the hacker tries to destroy the system to extract sensitive data.
9 IoT commercialization with green light
New policy guidelines are expected to give a green light to the commercialization of IoT data. Data and analytics decision makers at 45% of US companies said they have commercialized their data, while only 35% of French companies and 38% of German companies do so. Recognizing this lag, the European Commission will issue a guiding policy that encourages the use of advanced technology data to stimulate the data economy.
There are few clear regulations in the country that stipulate specific commercial data usage categories, which will also affect the promotion of IoT applications. At the same time, due to the existence of gray areas, there may be some IoT applications that touch the commercial bottom line. These will prompt decision makers to further determine the boundaries of commercial use of data.
10 good investment direction, but need to tap the eye
Although IoT is still a good investment direction, it needs the market to explore opportunities. In the home and personal applications, as more and more smart audio (Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Tmall Elf, etc.) are connected to smart devices, this will open up new ways of playing in the IoT market, that is, adopting new ways. Engage with customers to create a more intimate brand experience. These applications will expand their mobile terminal strategy, including adding new interfaces to smart stereo or smart watches. However, although at the end of 2017, more than 12 million smart watches were added in the United States alone, Forrester still believes that wearables are still niche markets.
to sum upIn the future 2018, IoT development trend, due to the gradual stability of the IaaS market, the industry IoT will use the mature IaaS platform for development; at the same time, with the wider demand of IoT, the traditional public cloud is characterized by its high cost performance. It is favored by developers, and its business will gradually transform into IoT business; IoT's business is gradually inclined to process business to meet the needs of various industries.
At the technical level, the application of edge computing can bring tangible benefits to users, which will also promote the promotion of IoT. At the same time, with the increasing importance of edge computing technology, it will also push the IoT platform side requirements and object end to reach Consistency, thus eliminating some of the IoT platform. Blockchain technology will be combined with IoT to promote each other. Voice services based on Internet of Things technology will be promoted in large enterprises.
On the policy environment side, the security issue of IoT is still the risk of its development. The decision of policy makers plays a key role in the development of IoT. Despite the security and regulatory restrictions, IoT still has many business opportunities and needs everyone to continue. Tap the dive.
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