Carrier force NB-IoT create new Internet of Things Blue Ocean
In recent years, the voice and traffic revenue of the three major operators have gradually peaked. Looking for the next blue ocean has become a common issue for the entire telecom industry. It is against this background that the Internet of Things has placed great hopes on the industry. Operators have accelerated the construction of the Internet of Things, hoping to seize the outlet and win business opportunities.
In the recently held "2017 IoT Industry Summit" in Shanghai, the three major operators of China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom have all said they are actively laying out the next-generation Internet of Things. Zhu Ming, vice president of China Telecom Internet of Things Company said that China Telecom has laid out the next generation of Internet of things in advance, providing connection management services for the world. In the future, China Telecom will focus on three aspects in the business operation of the Internet of Things, namely cultivating a smart city, laying a vertical industry and boosting personal consumption.
"NB-IoT has entered the first year of commercial scale in 2017." Ye Lingwei, deputy general manager of China Mobile Internet of Things Company, said that by the end of 2017, China Mobile will continuously cover NB-IoT in 346 cities and provide networking services to the industry. By 2020, China Mobile will total more than 1.75 billion connections. In order to promote the development of the industry, China Mobile will provide one billion yuan NB-IoT module special subsidies. China Unicom is also actively promoting its Internet of Things strategy. Not long ago, Lu Yimin, general manager of China Unicom, said that China Unicom has now implemented NB-IoT connection service in 300 cities. To promote the development of the Internet of Things industry, China Unicom also set up 10 billion industry funds to promote it.
According to Li Wei, deputy director of the Department of Science and Technology Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology introduced the domestic Internet of Things industry after nearly 10 years of development, the current industrial system gradually formed, and now includes chips, components, equipment, software, system integration, operation and application of the Internet of Things Industry is rich. Relevant authorities may soon be released on the Internet of Things industry product catalog. Now, Harvatek domestic Internet of Things industry has basically exceeded 930 billion yuan in scale, and the development of the Internet of Things in the Bohai Rim, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the Midwest from a regional perspective is relatively concentrated.
2018 Internet of Things terminal will flourish
With various terminals and applications coming onto the market one after another, technologies such as 5G, cloud computing and big data are driving IoT applications including smart manufacturing, car networking and industrial internet. Insiders pointed out that the current domestic demand for Internet of Things is also fully upgraded, the original just to solve some simple application problems, and now began to address the industrial restructuring and upgrading, the overall traffic travel, smart home, health protection and other issues.
Operators are considered as one of the main drivers for the development of IoT applications. Currently, China Telecom has provided diversified solutions in areas such as smart water, smart parking, smart fire, intelligent manufacturing, smart elevators, intelligent air conditioners and smart car locks, providing a wealth of practical cases for commercial use of NB-IoT technology. "China Telecom has more than 20 IoT applications and more than 100 partners." Zhu Ming said that the Internet of Things is the personal consumption most closely related to life. In the future, China Telecom will focus on the development of shared economy, financial payment, personal wear and Smart home and other areas of development.
In the future, China Mobile will cultivate eight vertical areas of smart meters, smart appliances, smart buildings, smart cities, security monitoring, transportation and logistics, energy conservation and environmental protection, and the Industrial IoT. According to Ye Lingwei, in order to expand the industry application, China Mobile will jointly sponsor China Mobile Internet of Things Alliance with a number of partners to promote "open sharing and win-win cooperation" as the direction to promote the wide application of IoT products and build the new ecosystem of Internet of Things.
"The Internet of Things has become one of the major industry strategies in the world and China has become the most active market for the development of the Internet of Things, and the government is promoting the industry by promoting the development of a narrowband Internet of Things for operators." Yu Yifang, CTO of ZTE, said that from 2017 to 2018 Year is the product development and layout period is expected from the second quarter of 2018, the terminal and application shipments will be relatively large-scale up. It is estimated that by the end of 2018, narrowband Internet of Things terminals and applications will usher in large-scale shipments.
Experts believe that the Internet of Things is accelerating into a new phase of "cross-border integration, integrated innovation and large-scale development." In 2018, the networks of the three major carriers will fully support NB-IoT. In the near future, there will be a variety of narrowband Internet of Things products to be released in the industry. In 2018, narrowband Internet of Things terminals will show a flourishing picture.
Industry is facing fragmentation problems urgent need to increase open collaboration
Internet of things has been developed in the country for many years, but before the outside world has been tepid. In response, ZTE Corporation Makin, general manager of the product platform of the Internet of Things platform, said that whether the Internet of Things business development or operation and maintenance are difficult, it is difficult to continue to scale, if an Internet of Things business re-input, Heavy asset model development and operation and maintenance, the first year to get investment can achieve business development, but later may not have more funds to support long-term operation and maintenance, many IoT business is dead during this period. The future of the industry can take the platform cooperation mode, the vertical industry developers and professional networking platform, so IoT business innovation, investment, operation and maintenance of the threshold will be lower.
Internet of Things industry ecological cooperation platform is becoming a hot spot in the current layout of all walks of life. Recently, ZTE released a new generation of Internet of Things platform ThingxCloud in Shanghai. Its major feature is to eliminate the previous independent and separately deployed construction mode of IoT applications, reduce the difficulty of development, save operating costs and help partners to focus on Development of user applications.
In China, apart from ZTE, other telecom operators, network equipment vendors, terminal manufacturers, cloud computing vendors, etc. are all competing to launch their own different IoT platforms. CITIC Construction Research Institute believes that the current platform for many things, all the industry chain are involved, but the parties focus is not the same. Among them, the solution platform has a huge market space, but the competition is fiercer. At present, there is a fragmentation situation. Manufacturers that have the comprehensive R & D capability of both hardware and software are expected to have comparative advantages.
Experts point out that the development of the Internet of things is facing the phenomenon of fragmented technologies and applications, and how to enhance the scale effect of the Internet of Things is a huge challenge. Therefore, the industry needs to unite all forces in the future. With an open mindset, it will create an open interface that connects all things and uses smart platforms and application software to facilitate the use of vast numbers of users. In this way, the cooperative innovation will jointly explore a win-win new blue ocean in the Internet of Things market.
