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The logistics industry is the most important industry for the application of Internet of Things technology. With the deep integration of logistics and Internet of Things technology, it has promoted the development of logistics Internet and the application of smart logistics.
I. 2018 Internet of Things technology and its application analysis in the logistics industry
1. Overview of the development of the Internet of Things in 2018
In 2018, with the promotion of artificial intelligence technology, with the development of global intelligent manufacturing, the application of Internet of Things technology began to erupt, and the industrial Internet became a hot spot. Many global giants of the world began to fully deploy the Internet of Things. In April 2018, Microsoft announced that it will invest 5 billion US dollars to support IoT innovation in the next four years. It plans to improve the ease of use of the Internet of Things based on cloud and AI and data-driven Internet of Things in the era of intelligent intelligence. Fully promote the innovation of artificial intelligence, edge computing and the Internet of Things. In May 2018, Google released the Internet of Things operating system, allowing developers to build and maintain IoT devices on a large scale, helping developers easily move IoT devices from prototyping to commercialization and accelerate the popularity of IoT. In addition, the famous Apple company also joined the Internet of Things standards organization, Intel and ARM began to cooperate to promote IoT applications.
In China, the application of Internet of Things technology in 2018 has also made significant progress, and began a practical application. In this year, using Internet of Things technology, Haier opened the era of smart home full-customization, and promoted Haier’s intelligent home appliances based on the Internet of Things. The number of networked activations has increased rapidly, and the Internet of Things's ecological income has doubled. Ali announced in March 2018 that it will fully enter the Internet of Things and comprehensively promote the Internet of Things strategy based on "Alibaba Cloud", from smart city to smart manufacturing, from smart finance to smart agriculture, from smart home to smart logistics, Ali Internet of Things. The strategy began to land in various industries; in 2018, the number of connections of China Mobile Internet of Things is expected to increase by nearly 300 million, and by the end of 2017, China Mobile has only a total of 229 million IoT connections. In September 2018, Tencent announced a major strategic adjustment, actively transforming into the industrial Internet, and began to fully enter the main track of the Internet of Things. In 2018, Baidu's DuerOS smart device activation exceeded 200 million units, and this high-speed growth will continue until 2019.
With the entry of first-line giants and the development of 5G communication technology, it will promote the wider application of the Internet of Things, bring many innovations to the Internet of Things, and let us enter the good era of the Internet of Everything.
2. Application analysis of Internet of Things technology in logistics industry
The logistics industry is the most important industry for the application of Internet of Things technology. With the deep integration of logistics and Internet of Things technology, it has promoted the development of logistics Internet and the application of smart logistics.
According to relevant information, there have been many significant advances in the extensive application of the Internet of Things in the field of logistics in 2018. According to Xinhuanet, as of now, there are 6.17 million road operating vehicles, 35,600 postal and express vehicles, 3,230 inland navigation facilities, and 2,960 maritime navigation facilities using Beidou navigation. A large number of logistics and freight equipment use the Internet of Things technology such as Beidou to access the Internet, and the interconnection of information interconnection and facility interconnection with animal streams has promoted the in-depth development of China's smart logistics.
In terms of logistics robots for networked operations, 2018 is a year of comprehensive development. This year, the sales volume of logistics robots for intelligent sensing and networking operations is expected to increase by at least 20,000 units, an increase of more than 50%. Intelligent robots use IoT technology to realize intelligent positioning and navigation, realize communication between robots, robots and other devices, realize intelligent visual perception and environment perception, and promote the comprehensive development of sensors, chips, communications and other technologies.
In 2018, the UAS Internet of Things in China's logistics field developed rapidly. The UAV distribution network based on UAV network distribution has already tried normal distribution in Shaanxi, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Qinghai, Hainan and Guangdong. Due to the low development base, it is expected that the number of drones involved in freight and distribution in the logistics field will increase by at least 40% year-on-year, and about 10,000 vehicles will be involved in freight and distribution.
From the perspective of enterprises, in February 2018, Jingdong was awarded the license of the Northwest Regional Administration of Civil Aviation, and became the pilot pilot of multi-modal transport of UAV air logistics in Shaanxi Province. It was also the first in China to carry out UAV logistics distribution on a provincial scale. The national pilot enterprise; in March, the Jingdong unmanned distribution station began operation, which can realize the whole process of unmanned distribution transfer; in June, the Jinghong large-scale original cargo drone was completed in Shaanxi.
In March 2018, SF obtained the UAV Air Operations (Pilot) license from the East China Regional Administration of China Civil Aviation. The SF Logistics UAV began commercial operation in the designated authorized airspace.
In May 2018, China Post EMS amphibious drone was successfully tested in Jingmen, Hubei. On May 29, hungry, it was announced that it was allowed to open the first batch of UAVs in China. The drones were officially put into commercial operation. There are 17 UAV routes with a coverage area of ​​58 square kilometers, which can be 100. A number of takeaway merchants provide services. and many more.
In 2018, the technology and products of IoT information perception and collection in the field of logistics were fully popularized. Handheld terminals in the fields of warehouse inventory, logistics sorting, express delivery and receiving have been widely used. In the field of express delivery, handheld devices are emerging in the direction of convergence and miniaturization of mobile phones. It is estimated that the production and sales of handheld terminal products in the logistics field will increase by more than 30% in 2018.
In 2018, the driverless trucks began to test on the road, and the “unmanned delivery trucks†began to operate in a specific area such as the campus, and began to conduct distribution tests in busy urban areas. At present, there are already more than 20 cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Wuhan, Xi'an, etc. to deploy and operate the application of the distribution robot project.
The fully automated warehousing system is the integrated application field of the Internet of Things technology. In 2018, Jingdong Logistics continued to promote the construction of unmanned warehouses, and several unmanned warehouses began to be put into operation and test; the pace of construction of the Ali nobile unmanned warehouse and flexible automated storage system was accelerated.
In the traditional manufacturing logistics field, the unmanned fully automated logistics system is the earliest. Due to the simple product category, product packaging standards, unmanned warehousing is huge in the fields of medicine, tobacco, FMCG, and communication.
In the traditional port area, the smart unmanned port in 2018 is also one of the areas of rapid development. The unmanned port terminal is empty and busy, and the huge containers are steadily grabbed, panned and laid down, and unmanned vehicles are transported back and forth. Such scenes have become a reality in Qingdao, Xiamen and Shanghai. At present, among the core technologies of “bridges, track cranes, automatic guided vehicles, intelligent control systems†and “unmanned portsâ€, “Made in China†has already occupied a place and will provide solid support for the larger era of intelligence.
In addition, in the steel industry, the high temperature and overweight of the steel coil warehouse is a harsh environment that is not suitable for personnel operations, and it is necessary to develop unmanned warehouse technology. At present, Baosteel and other enterprises have also built a smart unmanned warehouse steel coil library, which realizes the real huge operation of the huge warehouse.
In short, in 2018, driven by the application of Internet of Things technology, artificial intelligence technology has begun in the frontier areas of intelligent terminals, unmanned driving, unmanned storage, unmanned distribution, drones, unmanned forklifts, and unmanned ports. With deep exploration and preliminary application, leading companies have started from the same starting line with international first-class enterprises and are fully promoting the development of smart logistics.
Second, the 2018 logistics industry IoT technology innovation and change trend
1. AI+IOT has become a new trend in the development of smart logistics
Smart logistics consists of three major systems, one is the intelligent logistics thinking system, the second is the intelligent logistics transmission system, and the third is the intelligent logistics execution system. The execution system of smart logistics is mainly the application of various types of automation equipment, and the most critical core technology for the development of smart logistics should be the intelligent logistics thinking system and information transmission system. The Internet of Things is the core technology of the intelligent logistics transmission system. In the application of logistics in the Internet of Things in 2018, the Internet of Things technology has established a connection and integration with the logistics brain, which has promoted the integration and development of artificial intelligence AI technology and IOT technology. The development of smart logistics in 2018 is redefining logistics.
In 2018, the integration of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things has become a hot topic of discussion in many logistics industry conferences. The integration of Skynet of logistics Internet and the land of physical goods, with the technical support of AI+IOT, people, equipment, facilities and goods in the logistics system Major changes have taken place in space and time. Data flow and logistics have undergone major changes under the AIOT drive, forming a new intelligent infrastructure support for the economy and society. The information network + logistics network reconstructed on the basis of AIOT technology has become a new Economic and social infrastructure, data and AI-driven logistics bring high efficiency to operations, which will completely deconstruct our original logistics industry.
From the enterprise level, in 2018, the rookie logistics released the Internet of Things strategy, promoted the development of AI+IoT integration, and established an intelligent service system based on the global perspective. The rookie logistics believes that the optimization of the logistics service chain needs to be predictable, programmable, configurable, and feedbackable, and the operation closed loop can maximize the service efficiency of the real logistics and reduce the operating cost. Artificial intelligence technology will be based on the long link of logistics service, complex mode and high uncertainty, and establish an intelligent service system based on global perspective for offline planning and online dynamic adjustment. In the offline planning process, a supply-demand matching service network based on a global perspective should be established. The network design has dynamic adjustment capability to resist uncertain demand. The online service link utilizes big data modeling capabilities to estimate each flow package in the network. State and timeliness, so that you can better grasp the state of the network flow, so that every decision can be prevented.
After shunning technology to acquire Ares robot, it found that the logistics scene is very valuable, and many AIOT technologies can be applied to the application scene of the logistics warehouse immediately. In 2018, Defiance Technology fully promoted the AI+IOT strategy, built the IOT operating system, and officially released the core product “Hetu†in January 2019. Based on the core gene of the algorithm, the digital and operational control capabilities are enhanced and the AioT operating system is fully upgraded. It is reported that in the next five years, more than one billion robots will be connected and empowered by technology. Whether we can achieve it or not, we need to wait and see.
2. Internet of Things technology promotes the transformation of the computing model of logistics and intelligence brains
The coordinated development of next-generation technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, and blockchain has promoted the gradual formation of a fully connected logistics Internet. The “Internet of Everything†has grown exponentially, generating logistics big data, promoting the development of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and stimulating the gradual maturity and evolution of the logistics brain. For example, the Ali system uses the logistics brain to enable online shopping big data to be collected, calculated, analyzed, optimized, and operated in the Internet, and then distributed to the entire physical logistics system through the Internet + Internet of Things, to realize the intelligent management and planning control of the real logistics system. To achieve the empowerment of big data to the modern logistics system.
The application of IoT technology in 2018 not only promoted the empowerment of big data for smart logistics, but also the logistics big data also promoted the transformation of the computing model of the logistics brain. In the field of logistics data, more and more logistics scenarios require real-time decision analysis; in the terminal distribution field, real-time matching and planning capacity are needed; this demand drives big data computing to develop towards real-time/offline computing convergence. Increased hardware performance and containerization technology will make real-time computing less expensive and easier to popularize in the industry. For the logistics industry, with the increase in the amount of data generated by IoT devices, real-time computing will be combined with edge computing and fog computing to play an increasingly important role in data-intensive monitoring scenarios such as IoT, driving logistics brain changes and upgrade.
3. IoT technology promotes new retail and new logistics innovation
2018 is an important year for the development of new retail and new logistics. The application of Internet of Things technology enables real-time integration of offline stores and online stores, making traditional stores a trading terminal, an experience scene, and a delivery for e-commerce online shopping systems. Node, a pre-stored warehouse for logistics. Customers can implement self-service experience, self-service pick-up, self-checkout or self-service ordering in the store.
In 2018, new retail innovations based on IoT technology, such as unattended stores, unmanned shelves, and unmanned counters in the new retail sector, will become more rational after a round of noisy bubbles, based on real IoT technology. The new retail of innovative applications will enter a stable development track.
The Internet of Things technology can realize the software-defined store warehousing system. With the help of various Internet of Things sensing technologies, the physical space of offline stores can be used to realize the cloud warehouse management of various physical stores across the country through software systems. All stores have joined the cloud warehouse network of the logistics system, thus revitalizing the physical space of each store in the country and realizing the sharing of stores and warehouses. In addition, you can also use big data and cloud computing technology to achieve data ordering, online transfer, logistics goods through the front cloth warehouse to the customer's last mile store "store warehouse", through the real-time logistics system for the last mile Instant delivery, so that the effectiveness of logistics and distribution reaches the accuracy of the minute.
4. IoT technology promotes the innovation and development of the truck aftermarket
Freight Internet has always been an important field of IoT applications. Using IoT technology to build a car networking system, it can realize transparent management of transportation, seamless links of vehicles, goods and people, realize optimal integration and optimal allocation of freight resources, and improve cargo loading rate. Reduce the return-to-load rate of goods, standardize the management of fixed-point flights, and achieve comprehensive network tracking and tracing. In these respects, due to the huge imagination space, it has become a hot spot for capital chasing in recent years, and it has accumulated a lot of bubbles. At the same time, due to fierce competition in the freight field, low freight rates and extremely narrow profit margins, it is difficult to find a profitable space for the freight IoT to integrate freight resources.
With the bursting of the freight IoT bubble in 2017, many innovative companies began to use the characteristics of the freight IoT link car, people and goods in 2018, turning the profit points of the business model to the post-market service, using the freight vehicles to link the freight vehicles. Pool, through the group purchase service of vehicle insurance, repair, maintenance, fueling, spare parts supply, earn the profit of the post-truck market service; through the huge cargo resources linked by the freight car network, the integration of logistics and capital flow innovation, logistics And supply chain financial innovation services, etc.
The combination of Internet of Things technology and freight transportation is driving the innovation and transformation of post-market logistics in China's freight industry. In 2018, this innovation revolution entered a stage of comprehensive deepening and development.
Third, the development forecast of the application of Internet of Things technology in China's logistics industry in 2019
Entering 2019, with the development of Internet + logistics, intelligent manufacturing and e-commerce, with the application of Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data technology, blockchain, procurement, warehousing, sorting, distribution, transportation, etc. in the field of logistics The traditional supply chain of the link will be reshaped into a highly intelligent and service-oriented smart supply chain, which will promote the rapid development of logistics IoT applications.
We expect that in the field of manufacturing logistics in 2019, the automated warehouse of IoT technology will continue to maintain a rapid development trend, with a growth rate of around 28%, which is higher than the growth of the manufacturing industry itself; automatic transmission sorting system growth rate It is estimated to be around 30%; the growth rate of logistics handling robots is expected to be above 40%, and both continue to show rapid growth. The manufacturing logistics system will gradually be fully networked through the Internet of Things, realize intelligent and networked, and connect with smart factories to become part of the industrial Internet.
In the field of e-commerce logistics and distribution, it is expected that the smart terminals at the end of the distribution will maintain a rapid growth of about 15% from the container, and the handheld intelligent terminal system will maintain a rapid growth of around 15%. The large-scale e-commerce logistics distribution center will continue to be highly intelligent and network. With the development of the direction, the e-commerce intelligent picking system continues to maintain rapid growth; some e-commerce logistics centers will use logistics robots. In the field of logistics information system of integrated e-commerce platform, big data, cloud computing and Internet of Things integration, logistics Internet will become the nerve center to guide e-commerce logistics distribution, optimize national logistics resources, establish intelligent logistics backbone network, cloud storage system will get Great development.
In the field of trade and logistics, with the rapid development of new retail, the modern warehousing industry will be transformed and upgraded, and the Internet of Things technology will also be applied and promoted. It is expected that the intelligent logistics system required for new retail will develop rapidly, with transportation and palletization. The positioning and tracking of goods has grown rapidly. The use of Internet of Things technology has achieved more applications based on the delivery of whole pallets. The intelligent tonnage circulation sharing system has developed rapidly. It is expected that the comprehensive growth rate of commercial and logistics IoT applications will reach 20% or more in 2019. ;
In the field of intelligent tracing, Internet of Things technology products will continue to develop rapidly in 2019. Various sensing technologies and automatic identification technologies such as RFID, GPS, sensing technology, video technology, and bar code technology will be widely used. It is expected that the growth rate will reach 25 More than %; logistics technology and equipment will be fully developed in the direction of intelligence and visualization, and the development space in this field is extremely broad;
In the logistics industry IoT technology innovation, the following trends are expected in 2019:
1. In 2019, AI+IOT will enter a period of comprehensive innovation and development. The intelligent logistics operating system based on Internet of Things technology will be applied and promote comprehensive innovation and upgrading. Artificial intelligence technology will extend along the Internet of Things network to the entire chain of logistics services. Road, promote the intelligent innovation of the entire link, digital routing, intelligent scheduling, intelligent sub-sector, intelligent transfer, intelligent control and other aspects of technological innovation.
2. In 2019, it is expected that the Internet of Things and blockchain technologies will accelerate integration and begin to be applied to promote innovation in the areas of supply chain finance and origin traceability.
Third, the application of Internet of Things technology in the logistics industry in 2019 will also promote the further innovation and development of big data computing models. The calculation models such as fog calculation and edge computing will be applied in logistics scenarios, and big data computing will be more and more real-time/offline computing. The direction of integration is developing. As the amount of data generated by IoT devices grows, real-time computing combined with edge computing will play an increasingly important role in data-intensive monitoring scenarios such as IoT.
Fourth, the Internet of Things in the warehousing system will promote the upgrade of intelligent navigation technology and machine vision technology. Robot navigation technology based on comprehensive applications such as machine vision, network scheduling, laser sensing, and ground two-dimensional code is continuously integrated and innovative. Based on the underlying core technologies such as SLAM and VSLAM and related algorithms, the development of robotic autonomous positioning navigation system technology will be promoted. It is foreseeable in 2019 that machine vision technology will be more widely used in e-commerce logistics, and will play a more important role in warehousing automation and management intelligence.
V. 2019 Internet of Things technology + logistics automation will promote the flexible automation development of logistics unmanned warehouses. The flexible automation system and operation mode will continue to mature in the application, form relevant technical standards, and promote the era of large-scale replication of warehouse automation systems.
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