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Smart city building becoming hotspot for IOT sector
Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-02-03 14:52

By Zhuang Guangping


In the past year, global economic turmoil, debt crisis in Europe and America, and the violent earthquake in Japan have caused enormous impact on the real economy as well as the virtual economy. Countries are laying their hopes on strategic new industries to bring their economies out of recession, and all hopes are pinned on the Internet of Things (IOT), an industry that embodies numerous high technologies and can dramatically improve the conventional operation patterns of society and economy. 

 


In the 2012 national industry and information technology work meeting, Miao Wei, minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), stressed that key efforts should be made in eight aspects in 2012, including giving priority to the cultivation of strategic emerging industries such as IOT in the development of the information technology industry in the new year.


On December 7 last year, the MIIT published the 12th Five-year Development Plan of the Internet of Things. "This year is the kick-off year of the Plan, and will have a significant influence on the development of the industry". In the view of Liu Haitao, president of Wuxi IOT Industry Research Institute, the Plan clarifies the development pattern of IOT in China, and is conducive to the overall planning of IOT projects across the country, thus solving the problems of separation and scattered resources, enabling the IOT industry to truly become a backbone industry. "In the foreseeable future, IOT will enter the stage of major system and major platform". 


Presently, a basically complete IOT industry system has been formed in China. IOT applications, including intelligent medicine, intelligent agriculture, intelligent logistics, and intelligent power grid, have become quite complete industrial systems. The next prominent theme for the development of the IOT industry will be standardization and integration of all industrial applications.


Digital city is an endeavor and practice of the "major system and major platform" of IOT. "Intelligent medicine and logistics can all be included in the overall layout of the construction of a digital city. Digital city has become a hotspot of IOT construction", said Li Jiancheng, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and a national mapping expert. IOT technologies have been applied to the construction of Smart City, and plenty of experience has been accumulated.


In 2011, the total volume of the IOT industry in Wuxi exceeded RMB60 billion Yuan, and 12 main IOT demonstration projects in such fields as industry and agriculture have taken shape. In Shanghai, the construction of 10 main IOT demonstration projects have been started and are scheduled for completion in this year, covering such industrial and civil application fields as intelligent power grid, environment monitoring, smart security, and buildings energy-saving management.  


"Smart City is an inevitable product when urban informatization in China advances to a certain level. It is of great significance to the development of the fledging IOT industry", said Li Jiancheng, who points out that IOT is now being treated as one of the priorities in the development of emerging industries in 28 provincial cities, and many first-tier and second-tier cities are constructing or planning to construct IOT industrial parks. It can be forecasted that IOT will be the key point of informatization in local areas and throughout the country this year, and the policy supports will be increased continuously.


According to the planning of the MIIT, China will achieve the first step of the goal of constructing the IOT industrial system by 2015: establishing a basically complete IOT industrial chain, cultivating and developing 10 industrial cluster areas, over 100 major enterprises, and a group of "specialized, experienced, unique and innovative" medium- to small-sized enterprises, and constructing a number of public service platforms that have an extensive range of coverage and powerful support capacity.  


Intense preparation is being made for the formulation of IOT standards. On December 29, 2011, the China Standardization Working Group on Sensor Networks (WGSN) published the exposure draft of the first 6 standards of sensor networks. "This is the first application standard of the IOT industry in China. It is a milestone", said person from MIIT.


The 12th Five-year Plan and the formulation of standards show that Chinas IOT industry is on the path of standardization and upgrade. Although Chinas IOT industry still lags significantly behind that in developed countries, we believe that we may be able to catch up or even surpass international leading standard if we can make full use of the advantages of policies in guiding and integrating the industry.

 

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