Policy first: the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to speed up the application of Internet of Things

Internet of things development, policy first. Wen Kui, Director of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently stated that at present China's Internet of Things is still at its infancy. To promote the development of the Internet of Things industry, China will adopt four major measures to support telecom operators in launching IoT technology innovation and applications. This will promote the application of the Internet of Things from the abstract concept to the practical application as soon as possible, so that the fruits of information development will really benefit people's livelihood.

In these four major measures, without exception, landing in the Internet of Things applications: First, to break through the key core technology of the Internet of things, to achieve technological innovation. At the same time, R&D and promotion of applied technologies have broken through application innovation. Second, formulate China's Internet of Things development plan and make overall arrangements. Focus on the development of Internet of Things related terminals and equipment and software and information services. Third, promote the demonstration of typical Internet of Things applications and drive development. Fourth, strengthen the international and domestic standards of the Internet of Things to ensure development.

Analysts said that the next few years will be a period of rapid development of China's Internet of Things. This year's government work report put forward to "accelerate the application of research and development of the Internet of Things." This government work report attaches great importance to the Internet of Things and is believed to have a positive impact on industrial development. The development and application of the Internet of Things is expected to embark on the fast lane. According to Zhong Zhihua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the application of the Internet of Things will cover intelligent transportation, smart grids, smart logistics, smart homes, smart medical care, and fine agriculture and animal husbandry.

In fact, in some areas, the Internet of Things technology has gradually moved out of the laboratory and become part of people’s lives. At present, 90% of the more than 4,400 taxis in the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu Province have already installed the “Intelligent Dispatch Management System for Rented Vehicles”. By providing free parking for taxis by locating citizens and empty taxis, the service has been improved. Taxi loading rate has reduced fuel consumption.

As the deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wu Hejun, said, China's Internet of Things industry is entering the “application start-up” phase of “hundred flowers”. Beijing will launch pilot applications of IoT technologies in such areas as medical and health, environmental monitoring and agricultural monitoring this year; Heilongjiang Province will determine pilot applications for smart agriculture, digital oil fields, smart grids, and smart environmental protection; Hainan Provincial Government will apply the Internet of Things to Hainan International "Travel Island" strategy combined to focus on the implementation of a number of information applications ...

Although the Internet of Things has a wide range of applications, it cannot be done overnight. It is critical to identify the entry point. Lei Zhenzhou, chief engineer of the Institute of Telecommunication Research of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology believes that China must be deployed according to needs. For example, the United States has chosen "Smart Grid" as an entry point; Japan has chosen "Intelligent Traffic" to cut in. According to industry figures, applications such as smart grids and mobile payment will be popularized first, and will become the first commercial application of the Internet of Things.

Telecom operators have been continuously innovating and stepping up the application of IoT. For example, China Telecom has developed the first IPV6-based IoT application in China – the comprehensive monitoring system for crop greenhouses, and the Hunan Agricultural Science and Technology Section. The hospital's subordinate cultivar fruit tea breeding and reproduction center has been practically applied. As we all know, with the gradual depletion of global IPv4 addresses, IPv6 technology will increasingly attract the attention of the industry and play a leading role in the future development of the Internet of Things.

If Internet of Things applications are to achieve full-scale universal development, they must first be demand-oriented. Li Anmin, dean of the China Academy of Shanghai's Shanghai Research Institute, said that the development of the Internet of Things must focus on demand. From the current situation, first of all, we must focus on key industries and key applications; Second, we must focus on the key applications of the Internet of Things family. In addition, apart from government support and technological innovation, business model innovation is equally important for the development of IoT applications.

Although the development of the Internet of Things still faces bottlenecks, the application of Internet of Things is gradually approaching. Clothes will “tell” the washing machine’s requirements for color and water temperature; the briefcase will remind the owner of what was forgotten; the car will alert drivers of operational errors, and the picture of the “Internet of Things” depicted in the International Telecommunication Union report will soon become a reality.