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Ivy 8910DM chip underlying solution, both hard and soft to solve the block chain Internet of things convergence problem

The cloud is uploaded at the same time, and the first Cat.1 Internet of things chip + block chain underlying convergence solution is landed.

/ Wang Jiwei / tr. by Phil Newell

In 2009, with Satoshi Nakamoto's "peer-to-peer electronic advanced system theory" into practice, Bitcoin appeared. When block 0 is connected to block 1 to form a chain, the block chain is officially born.

Since then, the global mining model has been opened, and the price of bitcoin has soared. The price of Bitcoin rose to $19870.6 at one point on December 17, 2017, and has been falling and rising ever since. Now it has reached a high of $10000.

After the popularity of Bitcoin, the coin circle flourished. Those tokens for the purpose of cutting leeks only care about how to make the plate and harvest, not the blockchain technology at the bottom of the electronic currency. Because even if you say it, the leeks don't understand and don't care. People who speculate in coins want to embark on Li Xiaolai's road of "wealth and freedom" every day.

However, in addition to a variety of "leek harvest success" created a round of turn makers to get rich stories, blockchain technology has taken root, sprouted and grown in more industries. It was only after the currency bosses went abroad that people found that the coin was gone, but the block chain was on fire. In particular, blockchain applications are affecting more industries after the government included them in the report.

Blockchain is a distributed shared ledger and database, which has the characteristics of decentralization, untamperability, leaving traces throughout the process, traceability, collective maintenance, transparency and so on. Based on these characteristics, blockchain can be used in many fields, such as finance, Internet of things, insurance, digital copyright and so on.

Especially in the field of the Internet of things, the Internet of things and the block chain are known as "a match made in heaven". Integrating the blockchain technology into the Internet of things, with the help of the "Internet of everything attributes" of the Internet of things, the application of the blockchain can be everywhere, and the operation of the Internet of things can achieve higher efficiency, faster speed and more secure security.

The vision is full, but the reality is bony. It is true that blockchain and the Internet of things are gradually integrated, but there are many problems. For example, security, blockchain applications are currently mostly deployed in the cloud, but if the data on local devices has not been linked, and there is a risk of modification or intrusion of data, can it still be trusted by smart contracts? For example, when the complexity of the application block chain and the proportion of resource investment is too high, even the best block chain will be rejected by enterprises.

On the one hand, it is urgent to solve the security and efficiency of the Internet of things through the blockchain, on the other hand, it encounters a variety of difficulties and uncertainties in practical applications. How to solve the contradiction between such strong expectation and helpless reality?

Under this background, on May 27th, Ziguang Zhanrui, together with Motors Technology, Guanghetong and Universal Block chain, did a milestone: it launched the world's first Cat.1 Internet of things chip + block chain bottom fusion solution, which deeply integrated the chip and block chain, and solved the problem of Internet of things and block chain fusion application from the underlying data source.

Seeing here, companies in urgent need of blockchain solutions may ask: what kind of solution is this? Don't worry, listen to Wang Jiwei's channel to analyze it for you in detail.

Starting from the solution, based on the CAT.1 underlying integration solution

The solution goes like this. Guanghetong built the Cat.1 block chain module L610 based on ivy 8910DM, the Internet of things chip platform, and the BoAT (Blockchain of AI Things) block chain application framework of Motors Technology. The universal block chain provides the open source platform system of the alliance block chain. finally, the downstream merchants encapsulate the chip module and system in the equipment terminal to realize the equipment networking and data access to the block chain at the same time.

In this solution, several vendors take advantage of their respective functions.

Ziguang Zhanrui builds an underlying secure and trusted environment through the ivy 8910DM Internet of things chip platform, while connecting the blockchain application platform to the physical world, completing secure data acquisition and communication functions.

Through the independently developed block chain application framework BoAT, which is carried on the cellular Internet of things platform, Motors Technology fully supports the trusted data winding of all kinds of Internet of things devices.

Based on the Ivy 8910DM chip platform and Motors Technology's BoAT block chain application framework, Guanghe launched the world's first Cat.1 block chain module L610, which has rich interfaces, supports multi-protocols and application services, and is suitable for many fields.

Universal blockchain uses its experience and resource advantages in blockchain technology research and development and application landing, through the blockchain platform PlatONE, to help enterprises achieve cross-organizational data sharing without disclosure of privacy, as well as data financialization and capitalization, to assist the traditional Internet of things to transform into the Internet of things.

To put it simply, this scheme enables Internet of things devices equipped with Ivy 8910DM chips to access block chains and invoke intelligent contracts, and the cloud and data eigenvalues are linked at the same time, thus realizing the trusted correspondence of "on-chain-on-cloud" data.

Of course, with this solution taking the lead in setting up the ivy 8910DM, the ivy 8910DM has also become the world's first Cat.1 bis Internet of things chip platform that supports blockchain technology.

Soft-hard integration to solve the problem of block chain + Internet of things convergence

This plan, for several cooperative manufacturers, is in the practice of Internet of things + block chain integration innovation. For downstream manufacturers, it is already a new experience of the Internet of things. The significance is that it makes it easier for Internet of things devices to apply chip-level underlying security zone chain technology, as long as it is equipped with Ivy 8910DM.

This scheme can make equipment manufacturers "once and for all", and the integration of software and hardware is the essence of it. After a large number of applications of the integration of the Internet of things and block chain, many manufacturers have long regarded the integration of software and hardware as the best solution.

The reason is that the current intersection of the Internet of things and block chain is mainly in the cloud. After the Internet of things devices collect data, the data is uploaded through software. If the underlying hardware architecture has not yet deployed trusted data winding, the source data still exists the risk of tampering.

At the same time, the unencrypted device traffic information of the Internet of things will be more likely to be obtained by attack. The 2020 Unit 42 IoT threat report shows that 98 per cent of IoT device traffic is currently unencrypted and 57 per cent of IoT devices are vulnerable to medium or high-intensity attacks.

Therefore, pure software uplink is not the best way to open the integrated block chain technology of the Internet of things.

In order to solve the above problems and really achieve a higher degree of full-process data winding, we need to deploy trusted data winding capability at the bottom of the terminal device hardware through "software-hardware integration" to connect the key link of the Internet of things + block chain, and realize the winding from the data source.

If the terminal equipment of the Internet of things can be trusted, the enterprise can effectively reduce the security risk together with the block chain consensus trust mechanism, and finally realize the commercial closed loop based on the block chain consensus trust mechanism.

Say a few more words here. For the integration of software and hardware solutions, Wang Jiwei Channel believes that the focus of "integration of software and hardware" is not on a variety of new software applications, but on hardware performance. Specific to the Internet of things, reflected in a more appropriate Internet of things communication chip. But which communication technology is more suitable for the soft-hard integration of the Internet of things and blockchain? After a series of studies, people in the industry believe that the advantages of Cat.1 are the most obvious, mainly as follows:

In terms of bandwidth, delay, mobility and voice, it can perfectly replace the traditional 2G; it can be carried on the existing LTE network without further investment by operators; single antenna design reduces the cost of terminal manufacturers; the price is lower, and the technology is mature and stable.

Therefore, after the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has made clear the 2G/3G withdrawal strategy, Cat.1 is the best choice for massive Internet of things connections. And to choose the Cat.1 chip, naturally it must be purple light display sharp. Ivy 8910DM, the world's first LTE Cat.1 bis chip platform, launched in November last year, has been implemented in many fields, providing mid-and downstream manufacturers with panoramic multi-connected Internet of things chips and corresponding technical solutions.

This is also the reason why several manufacturers, such as Moon Technology, have chosen Violet to show their sharpness in the integration scheme of the Internet of things and blockchain.

Block chain technology to transform the Internet of things into the Internet of things of value

Xianmiao, vice president of Ziguang Zhanrui Industrial Internet of things, believes that there are many problems in the current Internet of things, such as demand fragmentation, multi-agents and multi-standards, terminal security risks, information privacy risks, low operational efficiency brought about by centralized management, and so on. On the one hand, how to realize the commercial value of the massive data of the Internet of things is a difficult problem that all manufacturers continue to explore.

In terms of the application of blockchain, in fact, since Vitalik Buterin (V God) put forward the view that "Bitcoin should expand its monetary function and become a platform for the next generation of intelligent contracts and decentralized applications" and launched Ethernet Square in 2013, various industries have embarked on the road of exploring the application of blockchain technology in various industries. Among them, the exploration of the Internet of things industry is the most diligent.

For no other reason, blockchain data is difficult to tamper, traceable and traceable, which can transform the massive data obtained at low cost of the Internet of things into large-scale, high-efficiency and low-cost trusted data. At the same time, it can ensure the stability and security of the data. In particular, the distributed data recording and storage realized by the decentralized architecture can effectively reduce the pressure and risk of traditional centralized computing.

Note that Wang Jiwei uses the word "transformation" here. In fact, in the process of digital transformation, from business data to data business, the essence is to make a large amount of data valuable again by certain means.

What many blockchain organizations are doing now is to explore and study how to transform the Internet of things into the Internet of things of value. For example, Ziguang Zhanrui's partner, Universal Block chain, with V God as its chief scientist, is doing this for a new generation of alliance blockchain platform PlatONE, which features private computing.

However, how to achieve the transformation of value? It is very difficult to transform the Internet of things into the Internet of things in the past: the operation of the Internet of things is difficult, and the security of the Internet of things is difficult. Now, it can be achieved through Ziguang's Cat.1 Internet of things chip + block chain underlying fusion solution.

How can it be realized? Here is a simple application case.

Yunka Intelligence, which focuses on car networking and shared travel, has adopted the Cat.1+ block chain fusion scheme for the new shared travel platform hatched. Based on this scheme, Yunka intelligently launched a new industry solution of "decentralized OTA platform as the core". Car rental company vehicles equipped with terminal equipment T-Box, equipped with Guanghetong LTE Cat.1 module L610, to achieve low-cost cloud and winding. In the operational architecture, the middle layer uses the block chain with the distributed storage public chain as the core to replace the OTA platform.

Among them, Yunka intelligently undertakes the function of mobile travel service provider, and users realize the booking function of the vehicle and the execution of intelligent contract through Yunga intelligent travel platform. In the past, the profits of the intermediate platform were returned to vehicle suppliers and consumers to achieve the goal of increasing income for 85% of the participants.

In this way, the situations originally operated by centralized businesses, with opaque information, big data screening, and unfair value distribution are all replaced by the characteristics of blockchain technology, such as openness, transparency and untamperability, which reconstructs the performance and redistributes the value.

In theory, Yunka's intelligent shared travel solution can be replicated to any field where there is a middleman platform. To do this, you only need to install the LTE Cat.1 module L610 in the hardware equipment of the Internet of things to achieve synchronous cloud and winding.

Postscript: Internet of things + block chain enables new infrastructure, value Internet of things helps digitalization

In fact, the convergence scheme of Internet of things chip + blockchain to replace intermediate operators is only a common use in the future era of the Internet of everything. The value Internet of things empowered by blockchain plays a more important role in data capitalization.

Data assets refer to the data resources that are owned or controlled by enterprises and can bring economic benefits to enterprises. Data capitalization is to transform the operation, fixed assets, model and even operation of real enterprises into valuable data, and make it a data resource that can be "realized".

Data capitalization is shown in two forms: first, it can help existing products achieve revenue growth; second, the data itself can produce value. The first is common and can directly guide the operation of the enterprise to generate value. Second, it is used to describe corporate assets, which can be used for financial circulation, so as to strengthen cash flow and support strategic implementation.

Data capitalization means that enterprises can use data assets to finance or loan to solve all kinds of problems encountered in business operation. This is very important and necessary for enterprises that are struggling to survive after the epidemic.

Data capitalization is also important for the digital transformation of enterprises. For enterprises that do not have the money to transfer, they can capitalize their data first, then get the money through asset pledge, and then carry out digital transformation according to the plan. To achieve this is also relatively simple, as long as through the Ziguang Zhanrui Cat.1 Internet of things chip + block chain bottom fusion solution, we can achieve trusted data winding and take the first step of digital transformation.

From the perspective of digital transformation, in the past, when we explored digital transformation, we always discussed more about how to use process automation, cloud computing, big data and other technologies to assist enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Few people consider how to let enterprises first use part of the data to achieve value applications. Now, by means of capitalization and financialization of enterprise-related data, we can shift from the Internet of things to the Internet of things of value.

At the same time, in the process of this transfer, enterprises will inevitably be forced to upgrade and apply a variety of digital facilities, so as to improve the speed of digital transformation. If these solutions can be integrated into the new infrastructure, it will further improve the efficiency of the new infrastructure in promoting digital transformation, thus benefiting more enterprises.

Judging from the importance and demand of enterprises for data capitalization and financialization, the new infrastructure needs not only cloud computing, Internet of things, artificial intelligence and other technologies, but also block chain technology to improve the operational efficiency of the Internet of things, help enterprises to quickly achieve data capitalization, in order to achieve sound operation and accelerate digital transformation.

Therefore, such as Ziguang Zhanrui's Cat.1 Internet of things chip + block chain underlying fusion solution, should be vigorously promoted.

Wang Jiwei Channel, focusing on TMT and IOT, focusing on digital transformation and process automation. ]

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