Internet of Things technology enables all devices to be interconnected and intelligent, changing the industrial landscape. According to statistics, about 5.5 million new devices join the Internet of Things every day, and the Internet of Things market size is expected to exceed 10

Internet of Things technology makes all devices interconnected and have wisdom, changing the industrial pattern. As an engine to promote the development of the world economy, it has attracted many countries to make plans and seize the initiative in future development. According to statistics, about 5.5 million new devices join the Internet of Things every day, and the Internet of Things market size is expected to exceed 100 billion US dollars in 2018. Today, the entire industrial chain of the Internet of Things - from chips, sensors, network operations to platform services, software development and smart devices, is dominated by players from all walks of life, including traditional physical industry giants and Internet companies, jointly setting off a wave of in the development of Internet of Things industry .

Advantech Technology , founded in 1983, is a world-leading IoT leader, focusing on the three major markets of industrial IoT, embedded IoT and services. In recent years, Advantech has taken the "driver of the smart earth" as its corporate mission, and has proposed IoT software and hardware solutions with edge intelligence and WISE-PaaS industrial IoT cloud platform as the core, creating an IoT industry value chain and promoting the intelligent process of the industry. From November 1 to 2, 2018, Advantech held the first Internet of Things Co-creation Summit in Suzhou. Taking this opportunity, the reporter of this magazine interviewed Luo Huancheng, General Manager of Advantech Technology (China), and Cai Qinan, General Manager of Advantech Technology (China), and was fortunate to listen to the wonderful stories of Advantech and its partners Lianjing Xiangsheng to create an IoT industry ecosystem.

WISE-PaaS 3.0 releases

With the support of Industry 4.0 and " Made in China 2025", the development momentum of industrial cloud platform at home and abroad is changing with each passing day. The "court" of the industrial cloud platform is constantly attracting new entrants who are eager to try. A series of industrial cloud products have been launched one after another. How to improve the competitiveness of its own platform and the right to speak in the industry is crucial to enterprises. To meet the challenge, many companies have invested in equipment networking and data collection, but they are still in the exploration stage of how data generates value. Advantech seized the opportunity and actively deployed the WISE-PaaS industrial Internet of Things cloud platform. Luo Huancheng introduced: "Adva has introduced its strong hardware equipment and WISE-PaaS industrial IoT cloud platform into the IoT industry environment, and continues to promote the construction of the IoT ecosystem. Advación ultimately creates value for the upstream and downstream of the IoT industry chain."

Advación Technology (China) General Manager Luo Huancheng

Since its launch in 2014, WISE-PaaS has gone through more than four years of development. Now it has achieved integrated connections from bottom to top to cover perception components, edge computing, communications, PaaS platforms, industry SRP, cloud service operations, forming a complete IoT supply chain. Deeply experiencing the needs and development of the industrial market, and combining the development of the industrial IoT cloud platform, Advantech aims at industrial enterprise customers and improves the construction of the WISE-PaaS platform, so that customers can further quickly purchase and integrate IoT software/cloud solutions online to achieve the purpose of simplifying and flexible deployment of cloud services. Luo Huancheng revealed: "At this summit, Advantech released WISE-PaaS 3.0, using industrial data to drive intelligent innovation and drive the industry to create digital transformation." It is understood that this WISE-PaaS 3.0 has released four new functional modules, namely the WISE-PaaS/SaaS Composer process visualization cloud configuration tool, the WISE-PaaS/AFS (AI Framework Service) artificial intelligence model training and deployment service framework, the WISE-PaaS/APM (AssetPerformance Management) device networking remote operation and maintenance service framework, and the microservices development framework.

Advantech Technology (China) Industrial Internet of Things Business Group Cai Qinan

Cai Qinan told reporters that Advantech's move has enriched the functional modules of WISE-PaaS 3.0 to actively respond to the surging innovative business formats and diversified needs in the market. "The release of WISE-PaaS 3.0 means that in terms of product technology, Advantech has the ability to provide comprehensive solutions. As we all know, in the era of the Internet of Things, enterprises are seeking to transform . Advantech plays the role of data collection, networking, and cloud data processing and application in the edge, forming an OT and IT integration solution, completing data collection, management, and analysis, showing the last mile of data driving, and empowering enterprises with data."

uses the Internet of Things to create a SRP solution to create a SRP solution

The market is changing rapidly, emphasizing that enterprises use "short, frequency and fast" to deal with the influx of new technologies. If they want to take the initiative in the transformation, enterprises need to have a keen insight into the market development trend to ensure a leading position in the market. Standing at the forefront of the development of IoT technology, Advantech has carried many years of rich practical experience in data collection, networking, and data processing and application on the edge, and with the concept of open architecture and integration, it accelerates the implementation of the Internet of Things industry.

To firmly grasp the development trend of the Internet of Things, Advantech proposed three stages of the development of the Internet of Things industry: the first stage is the development of data perception and data transmission layer; the second stage is the development of cloud platforms for application service development. As the foundation and environment of cloud service development, the cloud platform is the core of IoT applications and will create huge value; the third stage is the development of IoT cloud services for vertical fields, with extremely broad application prospects. Luo Huancheng believes: "Advantech has achieved very considerable results in the first stage. In the next step, it will focus on promoting the second and third stages of the development of the Internet of Things and cooperate in depth with industry partners. ”

It is worth mentioning that in the process of promoting the development of the Internet of Things, Advantech has gradually explored an innovative business model - "co-creation", and worked with partners to help the ecological development of the Internet of Things industry chain. This model also brings tangible value to Advantech and its partners. Advantech provides a mature hardware and complete WISE-PaaS industrial IoT cloud platform, integrating partners' expertise and professional advantages, forming a software and hardware system combination product SRP (Solution Ready Package) that can be standardized and replicated, becoming a driving force for the development of the Internet of Things.

Advantech's co-creation model is mainly divided into two categories: one is the second stage SRP Co-Creation provides solutions that integrate software and hardware into one, satisfying industry applications, and provides professional cloud service companies in the vertical industry chain, thereby integrating solutions for different vertical industries and ultimately serving end customers in different industries. SRP can help enterprises quickly deploy, reduce the time to enter the market and build systems, and effectively improve the efficiency of enterprises. During this summit, Advantech also displayed 34 sets of SRP solutions created with partners.

Another category is the third phase DFSI (Domain-FocusedSolution) Integrator) co-creation, Advantech selects potential enterprises focusing on vertical industries to invest, and DFSI integrates multiple sets of SRP in its respective regions according to industry application needs to achieve rapid and large-scale implementation of IoT technologies and solutions. It is revealed that Advantech's DFSI joint venture co-creation has been launched simultaneously around the world. "Since 2018, Advantech has launched co-creation cooperation in various fields, cultivated DFSI, which has been deeply rooted in the industry, and successfully reached 7 DFSI projects. For example, the recent cooperation with Chuanyuan (China) Machinery to establish a water treatment system integrator and a joint venture with Taiwan Yongjin Machinery to establish a CNC equipment remote operation service provider are all cases where Advantech works with partners to lead the digital transformation of the industry and achieve win-win cooperation through the co-creation model. "Cai Qinan said this.

Innovation is endless, and exploration is endless. This Internet of Things event has become the key to Advantech and its partners' transformation into the next stage of the Internet of Things industry. "The next three years will become a critical period for rapid growth of the Internet of Things. Advantech will continue to vigorously promote the application of the WISE-PaaS industrial Internet of Things cloud platform, create more professional and rich SRP solutions, meet the diverse needs of customers, bring a practical experience of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and ultimately empowering the global industrial Internet of Things industry with a co-creation model. "Luo Huancheng concluded.

Excerpted from "Automation Expo" December 2018 issue

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