In the context of the Internet of Things, many companies are doing IoT-related products. From the platform to the operating system, from the chip to the infrastructure, there are many incoming people. Today, we are counting four technology giants that are deploying the Internet of Things: Google, Microsoft, Huawei, China Mobile.
What exactly is the Internet of Things?
Before explaining what these companies have done, it is necessary to clarify what is the IoT system—the complete IoT system consists of three parts: mobile portal, cloud, and end.
Mobile portal: Mobile control terminals, such as mobile phones, tablets.
Cloud: It is the “information medium†cloud where data is further transmitted or processed.
End: that is, various IoT access terminals. To be precise, it does not mean a simple sensor. Because if the sensor can only collect data, it does not make sense. The end here refers to the access terminal that has the ability to access the cloud.
Let's take a simple example, such as the so-called intelligent air conditioner that can lower the indoor temperature before the owner returns home:
Through the Internet and specific protocols, the intelligent module (end) in the air conditioner can transmit the information detected by the temperature sensor to the cloud (cloud), and the mobile phone (mobile portal) acquires the information from the cloud and initiates the air conditioner to lower the temperature. Directives, so as to achieve the convenience of going to work directly into the air-conditioned room. In short, the “end†accesses the cloud through the Internet, the mobile portal and other “mobile portals†receive the “cloud†data and pass the “cloud†feedback information to the “end†to achieve remote control.
Giants have entered the Internet of Things
Based on this seemingly simple principle, major technology companies have invested a lot of energy and financial resources:
1. Google
In January 2014, Google acquired a three-year smart home start-up Nest for $3.2 billion; the latter acquired another smart home start-up Revolv in October of that year.
Subsequently, in order to "pave the way" for its smart home products at the bottom system level, Google released the Internet of Things underlying operating system Brillo and the dedicated programming language Weave at the just-concluded I/O conference. Among them, the former is a system based on Android but lower than Android, supports WiFi, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) and other protocols on Android, can run on devices with 32MB or 64MB memory.
2. Microsoft
At this year's Build conference, Microsoft launched the free Windows 10 IoT system, opened up the cloud platform Windows Azure and the embedded micro platform .NET Micro Framework, and announced the .NET framework development platform open source. Previously, the above three systems often required three different types of developers, which not only had higher development costs, but also was not easy to upgrade and maintain. Microsoft's move integrates three systems, enabling a programmer to complete three levels of project development at a time. Open source for the .NET framework development platform means that Visual Studio has begun to support the writing of Android and iOS programs. Visual Studio (development environment) and .NET (development language) have really begun to move toward cross-platform.
3. Huawei
Huawei is doing a "end" operating system called liteOS, which is an operating system that is 10KB in size and open source and can help small devices process information. At the same time, it is part of Huawei's "Agile Network 3.0" initiative, which attempts to create a lightweight IoT system that integrates software and hardware.
4. China Mobile
Unlike the top three systems, the largest mobile operator in China has made a “cloud†– the OneNET device cloud platform and the Internet of Things network. One of the OneNET device cloud platforms is a special cloud. Its function is to bring some smart home, smart car cloud into a larger cloud, that is, "cloud cloud." Currently, it also attracts a large number of enterprise customers.
Prospect geometry?
Google: First of all, talk about Google's Brillo. Although the system has not yet been officially launched, due to good technology and developer base, Google and its smart home device manufacturers can get a better competitive advantage - the closer the software is to the hardware, You can control the memory, security, etc. more deeply.
Li Bei, a CTO of the Wild Dog Company who is doing hardware cloud, said in an interview with the media that Brillo and Weave will solve the problem of standardization of the Internet of Things. "After years of development and accumulation, chips, embedded devices and sensors have gradually matured to fully meet the needs of the development of the Internet of Things, but why not develop? Lack of standardization."
Microsoft: For Microsoft, at the cloud level, its technology and overall layout are not behind, but in the mobile portal represented by mobile phones, it has caught up early in the evening. However, Microsoft is trying to recover from the open source of the .NET framework development platform, support Android and iOS development and unified development tools and development language, it will regain a favorable position in the Internet of Things competition at a small price.
Huawei: Huawei's problem is not so simple, because liteOS only supports Huawei HiSili CPU and some cooperative manufacturers' products, and cannot guarantee seamless support for other vendors' CPUs, and does not provide related adaptation technology support. Previously, the author had discussed the liteOS with two teams working on smart hardware cloud services in China. Their view is: for users, liteOS does have its value, but it does not solve the pain problem, so if there are some benefits, but the benefits are not that big. At the same time, it does not give a solution for cloud operations, so that it is more responsible for the role of an underlying operating system.
Mobile: China Mobile's OneNET cloud platform is even more promising. On the one hand, it can indeed build its own small “cloud†for its large “cloud†on the other hand; on the other hand, from the action of its partners, “the thunder and the rain are smallâ€, landing or There are problems.
Google, Microsoft, Huawei, China Mobile, we have counted the Internet of Things layout of four technology giants, their backgrounds are different, their strategies are different, and their prospects are different. But the same thing is that the Internet of Things, as the cornerstone of future Internet development such as smart homes, has its potential recognized, and various players in the industry have also launched their own solutions. However, whoever can go the furthest climbs the highest, and has to compete after a game.
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