People talk about the Internet of Things (IOT) has been in the past few years, but there is more than one billion interconnect devices, as well as the concept of communicating with us, and more is still imagined rather than facts. However, the huge potential of the Internet of Things cannot be denied. In 2017, it can be seen that the industry has taken an important step in order to achieve this, and it is possible to make a foundation for 2018. The following is the top ten key technologies that promote the development of animals in 2017.
LTE Category M1
At present, most of the Internet of Things implements only the LAN (LAN) to provide a connection, but in order to give full play to its potential, the Internet of Things requires an appropriate WAN (WAN) technology. With WAN, the Internet of Things devices will no longer rely on the user's mobile phone, while work outside the building and the cell. Honeycomb technology LTE Category M1 is a major competitor that provides WAN services, which can provide nationwide or even global connections for low-power networked devices. In 2017, he not only has the launch of the LTE Category M1 chipset and the modem, but also the growth of the corresponding honeycomb business itself.
Figure 1 The radio frequency chipset and modem of the LTE Category M1 Honeycomb network have begun to sell in the market. (Source: u-blox)
Bluetooth network network (Bluetooth Mesh)
Although honeycomb technology provides a wide area network alternative to the Internet of Things, the LAN also has innovation. In order to provide a low-power alternative to the Internet of Things for the Internet of Things, Bluetooth develops network technology. The Bluetooth mesh network exceeds the consumer application, will further promote the development of beacons, robots, industrial automation, energy management, smart city applications, and other industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and advanced manufacturing solutions. The specification itself is launched in 2017, but the chip and software that realizes it will immediately come out.
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MultiProtocol Wireless
The addition of the Bluetooth mesh network expands the selection of the building automated wireless connection, which will only make the designer to complicate the dilemma of which wireless technology in its device design; but another choice: one selected one Agreement. In 2017, hardware and software for multi-protocol wireless connection have become ready-made options, which expands the opportunity to contact the Internet of Things design.
Security related as
The first generation networking equipment that enters the application site even makes the most stubborn suspicion to understand one thing: the Internet of Things equipment needs to ensure its own network security. "Security By Obscurity" supporters and supporters who believe that security costs are too high, showing these ideas. Although security is neither a new concept, it is not a new technique, but the new weather in 2017 is that the entire industry has solved this problem in investing in huge strength. The new alliance formation, hardware related measures, refer to implementation and guidelines, and semiconductor companies have begun to standardize security functions in all handles of the Internet of Things. Recently, ARM implements a security framework in its architecture so that future ARM microcontrollers can also solve security issues.
Fog Computing
As the Internet of Things enters industrial applications, the attention of scalability is also available. It is expected that each node of industrial equipment produces a lot of data, making wireless networks overload, and industrial control does not allow jobs to have a significant delay. In order to solve these two problems, the concept of fog operations appears. The concept of fog operation is not sent to the cloud to the cloud for processing and response, but holds the processing and control loop locally. When the Internet device itself is unable to provide the required processing, the resources in the local area network will be assisted, they are not in the cloud, nor on the edge node (Edge Node), their "fog" around the Internet of Things equipment In. To facilitate the development and adoption of this method, the new industrial organization of Open Fog Consortium has been established and a reference architecture that will help guide interactive operating systems.
Internet of Things Platform
Anyone who tries to develop Internet products will realize that they need to provide users more than just products. Internet of Things systems require channels and cloud support, which typically requires network or smartphone applications. Cloud support requires not only data from the Internet of Things devices, processing data, and provides the results to the user, which also requires authentication and security, and device configuration. To do this, you need a wide range of expertise, very few developing teams can be implemented. In 2017, the solution to this problem is the rise of the Internet of Things platform.
Figure 2 The Internet of Things platform begins with the development board, but there are many software behind it. (Source: arias)
Internet of Things System Single Chip (SOC)
The rise of the platform is parallel, and the SOC optimization design optimized for the Internet of Things is attractive to the 2017. These components typically include a fully wireless connection for application processors, and on-chip integration, which allows developers to simply add sensors and user interfaces to build hardware parts they are designed, and then focus on the application software.
Li-Fi
As more and more devices are connected, the bandwidth of the Wi-Fi network becomes more crowded. In order to supplement network capabilities, developers are moving to Internet lighting to provide alternative ways. Smart lamps have become a popular IoT device, why don't you transmit some network traffic through modular light? This is the li-fi tried to do it. The technology has been developed for a while and has reached nearly 10GHz download speed, and now the first commercial device has begun to come out.
Figure 3 Since the lamp is always connected, it can turn it into the optical channel of the LAN data. (Source: purelifi)
Sensors related to health
Sensor technology continues to expand in 2017, and the sensor related to health is also strong. Some of them are multi-function components, such as Lianfa Technology (MTK), can monitor cardiac activity and blood chemical six-in-one biosensor. There is also progress in terms of ultra-low power sensing capabilities, many of these new sensors work in the near infrared range, and can reveal information that humans can not see.
Voice Activation
Although the speech start is not a new thing, in this year, the voice start is huge as the Internet user interface. Early Market Leaders - Amazon Alexa Voice Services (AVS), using the company's ECHO product line, further promoted voice start technology.
In the past year, we have seen the industry to provide developers with AVS and other voice services to develop manufacturing a variety of products. MEMS microphones, audio processors, and microcontroller suppliers also introduced development kits and other products, simplifying the process of integrating speech starting. Even the raspberry pi of the players who lovers and cardiots are popular, because of the release of an Alexa's audio module. Therefore, it is expected that there will be a lot of sound control networking equipment to enter the market in 2018. I hope that the world will become too noisy in this year.
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