Promote the development of the Internet of Things and make everything more "smart"

Recently, the annual NIDays was held in Shanghai International Convention Center. This year is the 17th session. Each conference will release the most cutting-edge innovations in the industry and interpret the development trend. NIDays has become the industry development in measurement and control and related fields. Wind vane." This year, NIDays2015 discussed the topic of the world's most popular Internet of Things (IoT) with the theme of “Joining NI and Creating the Age of the Internet of Things”. The reporters from China Measurement and Control Network had the honor to participate in this conference and interviewed. Mr. Jamie Smith, Global Marketing Director, NI Embedded Products.

Promoting the development of the Internet of Things to make equipment "smart"

In the interview, when talking about the Internet of Things, Mr. Jamie Smith told reporters that the Industrial Internet of Things is mainly to obtain data of terminal devices and upload them to the cloud through network communication, and then perform big data analysis in the background and provide us with analysis. Real-time information and business insights that guide our work.

At the same time, he believes that with the development of the industrial Internet of Things, the future intelligent systems will realize the interconnection of devices, and the intelligent terminal devices will break through the limited space and spread all over the world. For example, the intelligent "mower" is not just a harvester in the traditional sense. It can control everything, including "data acquisition, user interface, motion control", etc. by means of a ComPACtRIO-based solution. An open interface for remote monitoring of the machine through remote connections. When the harvester is operating in all corners of the world, it can be deployed and managed in a unified manner. This is an example of the future development trend of the Internet of Things.

However, the development and design of various intelligent systems in the increasingly intelligent IoT era will face increasingly complex challenges in terms of maintenance and upgrades. Because of this, many engineers are leveraging the powerful LabVIEW RIO architecture to develop and deploy these intelligent systems. At the same time, NI also released a new high-performance CompactDAQ controller, 14-slot USB3.0 CompactDAQ chassis, to help engineers develop smarter data records. The release of DIAdem2015 software provides users with a more convenient and efficient big data management solution.

Internet of Things era software will play a powerful role

When the reporter mentioned the arrival of the Internet of Things era, what opportunities and challenges will the measurement and control technology enterprises face? Mr. Jamie Smith said that there will be a large number of intelligent, networked and personalized products in the Internet of Things era. Any product or technology design and development needs to be verified or tested. At present, many semiconductor chip manufacturers are increasing their layout. . The measurement and control enterprise should look at it in a longer-term perspective and meet the development needs of customers for the future of “small size, low power consumption and diversification”. For the field of control, he pointed out that “real-time, reliability, and security” will become the focus of the future development of the Internet of Things. What's more important is that software will play a more and more important role in the future control field, through convenient software. To design a faster upgrade control system is a very important point for future engineers.

NI has always emphasized that software is the core. Since the introduction of LabVIEW, software has always been at the core of NI in terms of technical changes, company policies, and different priorities at each stage. Although the LabVIEW architecture has existed for many years, it is indeed embodied in a variety of new hardware designs. Just like NI's VST (Vector Signal Analysis Instrument), software requires hardware to carry, while giving the hardware a soul, while being very strong. Flexibility and expansion capabilities, from a future perspective, the platform is a better main point and the cornerstone of long-term development, then software will undoubtedly play a more important role.

Open ecosystem platform to help small business development

Although the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a hot spot for global attention, it is relatively late in China. At present, there are few large enterprises in the industry, and it is also mainly based on small-scale entrepreneurial enterprises. So what role will NI play in facing such a market environment in China? Mr. Jamie Smith told reporters that the NI platform is also very suitable for small businesses. The survey found that the average number of R&D in the embedded field using the NI platform is significantly different from the number of traditional C languages. For the small business platform, NI is a more suitable choice. It is committed to creating an open ecosystem platform, providing partners with available hardware and software, no need to develop from the ground floor, and can be used flexibly.

He also said that for some SMEs, everyone should focus on their own areas of understanding and expertise, and deepen the application of detailed scenes in various industries. If you can use the platform provided by NI in some areas, they can develop very fast, instead of focusing on the bottom layer. In this way, they can achieve their own expertise, and the advantages in the segmentation field can be well reflected.

Finally, when it comes to the hot "wearable devices", Mr. Jamie Smith said that in the traditional sense, most wearable devices are used by consumers to monitor various indicators of the human body. In fact, in the industrial field, there is also a great application prospect. In the “Future Factory” project, we put the wearable equipment on the ordinary consumer, but on the engineer or the worker, let it Auxiliary information can be provided throughout the production process to help the plant achieve standardization, process, and monitoring of production quality. In the future of the Internet of Things, we don't just see wearables. They are tools and make independent tools smarter. This will be a development trend and will provide a broad development opportunity for many entrepreneurial companies.

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