Alibaba Cloud President Hu Xiaoming stated at the scene that Alibaba Cloud IoT is positioned as a builder of IoT infrastructure and plans to connect 10 billion devices in the next five years. In response to the new challenges brought by the Internet of Things, Alibaba Cloud will adopt a strategy in 2018. Put the 'edge computing' in this emerging field of technology and create the world's first 'ubiquitous cloud'.
Bet on IoT
The first half of the Internet is the digitization of human activities, such as e-commerce, social networking, and culture and entertainment, which gave birth to today's booming Internet market. Behind it is the global 4 billion Internet users. The second half of the Internet is the digitization of the entire physical world. Cars, forests, rivers, factories... Abstract to the digital world, connected to the Internet, material exchanges, people interaction, this will be a new productivity revolution. 'Hu Xiaoming said.
IoT, AI and cloud computing are considered by Ali to be the 'troika' driving productivity revolutions. IoT is like a neural network, connecting data and digitizing things; AI makes connections smart and has brains; intelligence is behind computing power, like Like the heart to provide a steady stream of power.
Hu Xiaoming pointed out that Alibaba Cloud’s core value in the field of Internet of Things is to solve the problem of the 'troika': to provide an open and convenient IoT connection platform; to provide powerful AI capabilities; to implement cloud, edge, and side-by-side collaborative computing.
Specifically, Alibaba Cloud supports 95% of communication protocols such as 2/3/4G, LoRa, NB-IoT, and eMTC. Developers can quickly access Alibaba Cloud IoT management platform to reduce access barriers.
In terms of AI, Alibaba Cloud provided IoT developers with video recognition, natural language understanding, voiceprint recognition, and face recognition capabilities. Based on the large-scale operating system developed independently, Alibaba Cloud's AI technology has been applied to the factory floor. Pig farmhouse and other production and living scenes.
As China's largest cloud computing service provider, in terms of computing, Alibaba Cloud can provide computing services and AI capabilities across multiple dimensions of cloud, edge, and end, including the Internet of Things operating system, AliOS Things, IoT edge computing products, and general Internet of Things. The platform realizes the real-time decision-making and self-cooperation of things and pushes the Internet of Things to the Wi-Fi.
An on-site smart bus solution provider told the 21st Century Business Herald reporter that the joining of giants can bring some new technologies to the industry and raise the level of the industry. In the scene of cooperation with the giants, you can learn the technology of the giants and upgrade their own solutions. Application in other scenes.
He said that in addition to cooperation with Ali, he also cooperated with Tencent in the construction of smart city.
At present, although the Internet of Things market has just started, the size of the Internet of Things platform has emerged endlessly. For example, Gizwits Cloud, China Mobile OneNET Internet of Things Open Platform, Baidu 'Tiangong' Intelligent Internet of Things Platform, Tencent QQ IoT Smart Hardware Open Platform and so on.
An investor who pays attention to the Internet of Things told reporters that the current Internet of Things market is still in the nurturing stage, and the support of giants can bring high-frequency traffic to developers. In the future, there is not much room for developers to choose and they must embrace ecology. , Still want to stand in line.
According to Kui Wei, general manager of Alibaba Cloud IoT Division, Alibaba Cloud's biggest advantage in its expansion into IoT is to be able to open up the overall capabilities of the Internet of Things from connection to computation to AI. Second, Alibaba has enough extensive scenes to temper these capabilities and technologies. Some simple platforms are different. Moreover, Alibaba has strong R&D strength. Finally, Alibaba's development ecosystem can gather more partners.
Play on four tracks
Shenzhen, where the hardware manufacturers got together, showed a high interest in Ali's IoT layout. On the first day of the Yunqi conference, forums and off-site were packed with Alibaba's upstream and downstream manufacturers.
At the scene, we can see cases of Ali and partners in smart cities, smart cars, smart homes, smart retail, industrial Internet of Things, and many other areas. We can also see that the module manufacturers, developers and other people are on the scene to seek opportunities. According to reports, there are 150 categories, 4,000 models, and 50 million devices connected to the Internet of Things platform jointly built by Alibaba Cloud and its partners. An on-site connector manufacturer told the reporter that the Ali platform can bring ecological resources. Expand the scope of choice for partners.
Ali is also constantly expanding his team of partners, can see the United States at the scene, despise technology and many other well-known manufacturers. On that day, NXP, the largest automotive semiconductor supplier, also announced with Ali that the two sides will be in the smart network car. Deploys a full range of technical and commercial cooperation to accelerate the installation and deployment of the AliOS automotive operating system and NXP's infotainment platforms and complete solutions in automotive manufacturers. By 2020, it will implement an automotive information system equipped with the AliOS operating system and the NXP platform. Achieve millions.
In fact, as early as 2014, Alibaba Cloud began to launch the research and development of the Internet of Things. In summary, its current layout can be called '1 cloud, 2 ends, 3 types of partners, 4 major areas' - the so-called '1 flower Cloud' refers to Alibaba Cloud IoT enablement platform, '2 end' refers to device end, edge end, respectively deploys AliOS Things IoT operating system and IoT edge computing product Link Edge, '3 types of partners' including development Developers, chip/module developers, partners, '4 major areas' refers to cities, automobiles, life, manufacturing four core areas of the Internet of Things.
The aforementioned investor commented that Ali's four track selections are very good, and the previous period is also continuing to carry out practical capacity accumulation. For example, the zebra network established by the automobile cooperation with SAIC is very grounded, connected to the charging pile, and the parking lot. Many daily scenes, etc.; Life, Tmall Elves have entered many families, the future will play a greater role in the connection; Manufacturing, industrial Internet of things is very much attention, prospects are broad; City, the smart city has brought life Many practical changes. In terms of subway scenes, NFC itself is more friendly than two-dimensional codes, but NFC has not been developed, and Alipay's rapid promotion has enabled QR code payments to be realized quickly.