Internet of Things is an Inevitable Choice for Social and Economic Development

The Internet of Things is another wave of information industry following computers, the Internet, and mobile communication networks. It is a brand-new technology field. In 1999, the MIT Auto-ID Center first defined the Internet of Things as a network that connected all items to the Internet via information-sensing devices such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and barcodes, and realized intelligent identification and management functions. Essentially equal to the combined application of RFID technology and the Internet.

In 2005, the International Telecommunication Union formally proposed the content of the Internet of Things: through RFID, sensors, global positioning systems, laser scanners and other information-sensing devices, the “object” has automatic identification and intellisense capabilities to realize the physical world. The connection of the virtual digital world; the seamless integration of the information network through the "thing" of the intelligent interface, information exchange and communication, so as to achieve intelligent identification, positioning, tracking, monitoring and management; eventually reach any time, any Sites, interconnections between any object, ubiquitous networks and ubiquitous calculations. Therefore, the Internet of Things has three important features: comprehensive perception, reliable transmission, and intelligent processing.

The Internet of Things is widely used in more than a dozen fields such as electric power, security and security, intelligent transportation, intelligent construction, and medical care. The scale far exceeds the current Internet, and its investment is 10 times that of the Internet, and its effectiveness is 30 times that of the Internet. In January 2009, IBM Corporation of the United States put forward the concept of “Smart Earth” based on the Internet of Things. President Obama even upgraded the “Internet of Things” to a national development strategy; the EU’s organization EPoSS analysis predicted that the future development of the Internet of Things will experience four Phase: By 2010, RFID is widely used in the logistics, retail, and pharmaceutical sectors. Objects will be interconnected between 2010 and 2015. Objects will enter semi-intelligence from 2015 to 2020, and objects will become fully intelligent after 2020; Japan, South Korea, and Singapore in Asia Other countries have also formulated their own strategies for the development of the Internet of Things; fifteen ministries and commissions such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Development and Reform Commission have also issued several major RFID technology and applications, and a new generation of broadband wireless mobile communication networks, from 2005 to 2010. Local governments and colleges and universities’ scientific research institutes are also making active moves and the Internet of Things has developed rapidly in China.

Since 2004, Guangdong Province has conducted research and development of a series of projects through the guidance and funding of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Provincial Science and Technology Department, and the Economic and Information Technology Commission, and has achieved corresponding results, laying the foundation for the establishment of the Internet of Things. Today, the Internet of Things is widely used in Guangdong Province in international container transportation, customs electronic locks, Hong Kong food inspection and quarantine, intelligent transportation, etc. charging systems, logistics and warehousing. Guangdong Province is also continuously selecting technology breakthroughs and industry entry points to continue to accelerate the development of the Internet of Things.

The Internet of Things is an inevitable choice for social and economic development, an inevitable product of socialized and intelligent production development, and an organic combination of modern information network technology and traditional commodity markets. The Internet of Things can promote the development of social productivity, promote the formation of new industrial chains, and change the social lifestyle. With the transformation of social production methods and lifestyles, people’s ideas and thinking modes will also undergo profound changes.