Who will be the Internet of Things "giant"? 2017 World Internet of Things Expo closed

【51CTO.com original article】 On September 13, 2017, the four-day 2017 World Internet of Things Expo was successfully concluded in Wuxi, a beautiful city on the shore of Taihu Lake. This World Internet of Things Conference is the second expo after last year, and the exhibition scale has been further expanded. The conference covers a number of contents including theme summits, summit forums, achievement releases, talent exchanges, etc. The participating companies and guests are authoritative in the industry, and the total number of visitors attracted over four days is about 170,000.

During the conference, government leaders, business leaders, experts and scholars, and industry elite representatives from all over the world gathered in Wuxi to fully exchange ideas, share successful experiences, discuss great visions, and discuss development plans around the era trends of the development of the Internet of Things. Finally, they reached a clear consensus: a new era of global Internet of Things is accelerating, and a new round of global technological revolution is urging us to keep moving forward.

2017 World Internet of Things Expo concluded successfully

The era of the global Internet of Things is ushering in a new wave of global information development, bringing about major changes in the way the global economic and social system operates. A huge network of "people, machines, and things" is being woven around the world, which will greatly reshape the way, efficiency, and quality of people's work, life, and learning, and promote the civilized development of human society. At the same time, the development of the Internet of Things will surely deeply promote the integration of cross-industries and give birth to new giant companies.

Who will be the future IoT giant? The "New Technology and New Product Achievement Selection" of the IoT Expo attracted Fortune 500 companies and communication giants represented by ARM, AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, as well as leaders in various industries such as Mobike, Little Swan, Suning, and AutoNavi, as well as many innovative and entrepreneurial companies. The collected projects involved multiple fields such as smart cities, smart agriculture, and smart homes, covering a variety of new products and technologies such as smart terminals, smart hardware, smart applications, IoT development platforms, and IoT communications.

After the preliminary review and re-review, a total of 72 projects entered the final review stage, led by Academician Wu Hequan, the leader of the final review expert group, to complete the final selection of gold and silver awards, and decided on 12 gold awards, 24 silver awards, and 36 winning projects. The award-winning new IoT technologies and products cover multiple fields such as industry, agriculture, transportation, and smart cities, focusing on people's livelihood directions such as atmosphere, environment, and food traceability. While creating huge economic benefits, each project has effectively demonstrated the high level of development of IoT technology today.

In addition to the award-winning companies, this expo also featured more than 3,000 IoT products, and many black technologies received widespread attention. China Mobile and Ericsson displayed the world's first drone that passed the 5G technology test, Microsoft's Holo Lens holographic glasses, Shenyang Machine Tool Group's i5 intelligent CNC machine tools, Wuxi Qingke Intelligent Technology Company's "robot celebrity" Xiao Mi robot, Alibaba's VR shopping, Inspur Group's Tissot K1 high-end fault-tolerant computer and other ubiquitous IoT technologies and products, presenting a rich technological feast for the audience.

More than a thousand companies from all over the country and abroad participated in the exhibition. The projects included all aspects of the application of IoT technology, from the underlying design of IoT technology to the development of various sensors, and then to the application of IoT technology in smart factories, smart agriculture, smart cities, etc., which fully reflects the vigorous development of IoT technology in recent years. The exhibition site has set up a new product release session for exhibitors, including 8 new product and technology release activities by Tencent, Guoyan AsiaInfo, Wuxi AsiaInfo, Xiaomi Intelligence, HPE, Intel, Sorostron, and Guodong Group. These releases provide a platform for market promotion for exhibitors, increase the enthusiasm of exhibitors, and also show the charm of new IoT technologies.

In addition, during this IoT Expo, a number of reports were released, including the "Blue Book on Innovative Applications of the Integration of Blockchain and Internet of Things in China", the Intelligent Manufacturing Capability Maturity Model (Trial), the Industrial Internet of Things White Paper, and the "Building Jiangsu into a Strategic Highland for the Development of the Global Internet of Things" research report, providing direction and path for the development of the Internet of Things industry.

At the closing press conference on the 13th, Huang Qin, member of the Standing Committee of Wuxi Municipal Committee and Executive Vice Mayor, said: "This IoT Expo focuses on industrial development and actively builds a 'face-to-face' exchange platform for policies, talents, projects, technologies and capital for the implementation of the IoT industry, promoting industrial cooperation and accelerating project implementation. As a national IoT construction demonstration base, Wuxi will give full play to its leading role and undertake the most important task. We will work with all sectors of society to look forward to the arrival of the 2018 World IoT Conference!"

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