The Internet of Things is not as popular as it still lacks killer applications

Abstract: The Internet of Things is a booming new market, and some data predict that by 2020, the global Internet of Things market will reach 1.7 trillion US dollars. At the 2017MWC held in Shanghai recently, the Internet of Things has also become the most popular topic. More than 40 exhibitors have demonstrated the application of the Internet of Things in various fields such as smart home, smart city, and smart manufacturing.

The Internet of Things is a booming new market, and some data predict that by 2020, the global Internet of Things market will reach 1.7 trillion US dollars. At the 2017MWC held in Shanghai recently, the Internet of Things has also become the most popular topic. More than 40 exhibitors have demonstrated the application of the Internet of Things in various fields such as smart home, smart city, and smart manufacturing.

It has been 12 years since 2005, and the momentum may not be as great as before, but no one has ever looked down on the development of this technology. The users of the Internet of Things are not only the general public. Many Internet of Things are built for industrial applications, such as machines in factories and distribution vehicles in the logistics industry. For the general public, the benefits of such construction are: Indirectly, even the IoT systems that will be used around you, such as electricity meters and home appliances at home, do not have a direct demand awareness, so their demand characteristics are implicit.

From the current technological development and the market strategy of system manufacturers, the main application areas of the Internet of Things include five categories: home automation, remote health care, industrial control, commercial applications, and environmental monitoring. These five application modes can correspond to home , industry, commerce, and natural environment, among which, the objects of telehealth care usually refer to chronic patients and the elderly at home, so its application field can be classified in the home environment.

Home environment:
　　The application of IoT in home automation is mainly for the pursuit of comfort, energy saving and safety, including smart meters, automatic control of home appliances, situational control, etc., which are all common home IoT application modes; Home equipment such as dimmers, control panels, thermometers, etc., allow users to remotely control them through the network, such as: timing on/off lighting devices, or automatically adjusting air-conditioning equipment based on sensor results, which can take into account home comfort and safety. .
　　The Internet of Things, a remote health care application, can ensure the safety of chronic patients and the elderly at home. Because sensors have sensing and data processing functions, with the help of various physiological sensors, blood oxygen concentration, heartbeat, and blood pressure of patients can be detected and recorded. Other physiological information can be used as a reference for doctors to see medicines in the future, or environmental sensors can be used to detect whether the elderly at home are in danger (such as fainting, lost) in advance, so as to deal with it as soon as possible and reduce the cost of follow-up treatment.
　　Industrial environment The purpose of
　　industrial field application of IoT is to monitor the operation status of machine equipment or production line, report special conditions in real time, improve work efficiency and yield, or monitor work sites, such as air quality, power box temperature, etc., to ensure that staff life safety.
　　Business environment:
　　The purpose of applying IoT in business environment is quite similar to that of home environment, all of which are to pursue comfort, energy saving and safety. In addition, in traditional agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry industries, the wireless sensing network constructed by IoT can automatically monitor the environment Change, and integrate automatic control equipment for fine-tuning, so that crops or animals can grow in the best environment. For example, when the sensor detects that the water temperature of the fish farm is too low, it will activate the heating device through the controller to prevent the cultured fish in the pond from freezing. die.
　　Natural environment:
Natural environment monitoring is the most widely used field of IoT. At present, relevant institutions have used the Internet of Things to monitor the pollution of oceans, forests and other environments. In addition, sensors are used to detect bridge safety and avoid the risk of bridge breakage. It is a very popular application mode at present. If we further look at the mountainous geographical environment, the most suitable application of the Internet of Things is the earth-rock flow warning. Disaster losses are minimized to avoid the recurrence of the tragic village extermination.

Observing the application of the above-mentioned Internet of Things technology, the development of most fields has yet to mature. The current view of the industry is to find the killer application first, establish a demonstration role, and then gradually copy its model to other fields, but which field should be selected? As a killer application? The industry's opinions are inconsistent. Home automation, building automation, remote control, energy-saving related applications, etc. are all possible killer applications. Among them, the development of home automation is the most promising, but from the perspective of use, family Automation-related IoT products must be positioned in consumer commodities. The keys to the success of consumer commodities are low prices and standardization of commodities. These two are exactly the bottlenecks that the IoT needs to break through. Home automation is the least likely to be the killer app.

Relevant personnel from Shenzhen Beihang Institute of Internet of Things (www.buaaiot.org) said that smart life is an inevitable development trend in the future.