Smart IoT platform supports the new era of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is no longer a synonym for black technology like "castles in the air". The gradual maturity of big data and cloud computing has provided a solid foundation and a strong driving force for the development and application of artificial intelligence.

The intelligent Internet of Things platform supports the new era of artificial intelligence

In the digital age, information technology is developing rapidly in a more intelligent direction. While a large number of domestic entrepreneurs are still chasing the entrepreneurial trend under the wave of the Internet, as a model benchmark for global technology orientation, a new generation of industrial clusters represented by artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley is rising. We seem to be able to foresee that the era of artificial intelligence is about to come.

Artificial intelligence is no longer a synonym for black technology like "castles in the air". The gradual maturity of big data and cloud computing has provided a solid foundation and a strong driving force for the development and application of artificial intelligence. If big data is the foundation of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is the engine of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things is the "eyes, ears, nose and tongue" of artificial intelligence, providing interfaces and means for perceiving and controlling the physical world, responsible for collecting data, simple analysis, transmitting data, interaction, control, etc.

The concept of artificial intelligence has a long history, but its development experience is quite tortuous. In 1956, when the concept of artificial intelligence was first proposed, everyone was very enthusiastic about it. However, even though many top scientists gathered in this field, artificial intelligence has never made a major breakthrough. The lack of a large-scale data learning foundation and perfect computing power is the main reason that hinders its progress. Until this year, Google's AIphaGO defeated Lee Sedol, which marked that the core of artificial intelligence - deep learning ability has developed to a certain level. Behind this, thanks to the rapid development of big data and cloud computing, artificial intelligence is bursting with new vitality.

Looking back at the development of the entire information age, the development of artificial intelligence has gone through the PC era, the Internet era, the mobile Internet era, and now it has entered the Internet of Things era. According to relevant reports, in the next 10 years, the global Internet of Things output value will reach 8 trillion US dollars. By 2020, the number of Internet of Things devices used worldwide will exceed 20 billion. The Internet of Things is on the eve of a large-scale explosive growth.

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things has driven the prosperity of the Internet of Things business. Among the domestic Internet giants, Baidu Open Cloud's Tiangong Internet of Things platform has been deeply involved in the Internet of Things industry, focusing on industrial manufacturing, energy, retail O2O, Internet of Vehicles, logistics and other industries. With continuous technological innovation, it has accumulated profound internal strength in data collection, transmission, and processing, and has served as a sensitive "eyes, ears, nose and tongue" for Baidu's artificial intelligence.

In the Internet of Things application system, object access is the first link in device signal perception. Tiangong Object Access is the first public cloud Internet of Things service in China that supports the native MQTT protocol, supports tens of millions of devices concurrently, and can quickly access massive data. In the process of data transmission and interaction, the time series database breaks through the bottleneck of traditional architecture in performance and capacity. Even massive unstructured data can be quickly uploaded to the cloud, accelerating the docking of big data products and services, and realizing efficient data analysis and insight into data value.

It is not just the Internet of Things that serves artificial intelligence unilaterally. When facing actual industry applications, the deep integration of technology has enabled the two to achieve a complementary symbiotic relationship. According to the "2015 China Big Data Development Survey Report", the scale of China's big data market reached 11.59 billion yuan in 2015, with a growth rate of 38%. It is expected to maintain a high growth rate of about 40% from 2016 to 2018. China's big data industry will usher in a golden period of growth, and the use of artificial intelligence can enable the deep integration of IoT big data with various industries, generating unprecedented social and commercial value.

For example, in the pan-industrial field, the market scale of equipment maintenance is huge. According to data, the market scale of the elevator industry alone is 42.1 billion. The traditional equipment maintenance method is mainly based on regular inspections and regular maintenance, which is not only inefficient, but also a huge cost burden for enterprises. Baidu Open Cloud Tiangong Intelligent IoT Platform collects and stores massive amounts of equipment data in real time, and uses machine learning and deep learning artificial intelligence to analyze and model data to achieve the purpose of predicting equipment failures. In the cooperation case of large wind turbines, the accuracy of fault prediction has increased to 90%. This is the wonderful chemical reaction produced by the addition of artificial intelligence to the application of the Internet of Things.

With the continuous implementation and continuation of Baidu Cloud's "cloud computing + big data + artificial intelligence" three-in-one strategy, we can imagine that in the future, under the support of Baidu's artificial intelligence strategy, Tiangong Intelligent Internet of Things Platform will drive the Internet of Things industry to achieve greater development.