– becoming more centralized. In the future, we predict there will be five major clouds in the world. Huawei will work with its partners to build one of the five clouds.”
Internet of Things- Ken Hu In north western China, telcos are helping dairy farmers connect more than one million cows with Narrow Band Internet of Things( NB-IoT) technology and special collars. They’ ve made this into a very successful business for both farmers and telcos.
NB-IoT networks deliver great improvements in battery life, coverage, and cost. This allows cows to move farther, graze longer, and live healthier lives. More importantly, the collars can collect biometric information from the cows. With this data, farmers can better manage movement patterns and grazing habits. They can also manage the milk production cycle in a more accurate way, and greatly enhance productivity across the whole cycle. As a result, this solution helps farmers to generate an additional US $ 420 per cow, per year – that’ s a 50 % increase in profit.
Future networks have to be able to support diverse applications. That means two things; they have to be software-defined, and they have to provide stronger network performance. We need greater capacity, lower latency, and more connections. As we prepare for Industrial IoT, we’ ll see a sharp rise in demand for machine vision. In smart factories, cameras will be the eyes of machines. They will generate a huge amount of data, about 10 GB per second per camera. Imagine a factory with 1,000 cameras.
Future networks will also need to provide lower and more reliable latency. For example, smart grids need constant 20-millisecond latency. That means no spikes, no dips. We need to start adding this muscle now, so our networks are ready for a huge range of applications in the future.
Future networks should also be data-driven. GE creates digital twins for their engines. When one of their engines is running in the physical world, another virtual engine is running in the digital world. We should do the same with our networks. We should build our own digital twins. There will be two sides to future networks: the physical network and the digital network.
Mobile reshapes the world. But, mobile won ' t change the world by itself. The responsibility is on us.
The Digital Economy Invents New Jobs Gong Xiaopei, 21, looks a lot like a flight attendant, with a black suit, orange tie and a smile sweet enough to clearly communicate that she is eager to help. But instead of flying, she spends most of her time meeting arriving passengers at Beijing Capital International Airport in her role as a " pickup worker " a new job that has arisen along with the demand for mobile ride-hailing.
" Our job is to help car-hailers find the rides they have booked as soon as they get off planes. Most of them are first-time visitors to Beijing," said Gong, one of over 170 people who have landed this type of job. Their services are heavily used by DidiChuxing, China ' s largest ride-hailing platform.
As China steps up efforts to restructure its economy, the country ' s burgeoning digital sector is creating new jobs for millions of people like Gong.
Besides " pickup workers ", other new titles include " cyber anchors " who rake in as much as 1,000 yuan( US $ 145) a day by live streaming advice on subjects such as playing electronic games, map information collectors who drive around China to collect road data and purchasing agents who help Chinese buy products in foreign countries.
Persistent Pursuit of Reinvention and Innovation- BOAO If you look at the world’ s most valuable technology companies, you’ ll notice something interesting. Not a single one invented the category of products they’ ve come to define. The vast majority of their enormous profits come from markets they did not create.
Whether it’ s Apple in smartphones, Google( GOOGL, + 0.24 %) in search, Microsoft( MSFT, + 0.49 %) in operating systems, Facebook( FB, + 0.71 %) in social networks or Amazon( AMZN, + 0.24 %) in ecommerce, when these companies launched, nobody could have predicted their eventual path to domination.
What does that tell us? For one thing, you don’ t have to be first to be number one. But you probably already knew that. Far more important is that every one of these companies’ founders chose a ridiculously improbable path that flew in the face of conventional wisdom.
“ Trust your instincts even when everyone else says you’ re crazy,” is advice that’ s easy to give and
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