Home Automation—A Fast - Expanding Market

In recent years, a host of companies have tried to bridge the technology gap between home automation systems. This collective effort has led to the development of technologies that have triggered the beginning of device interoperability. A seamless ecosystem is being created that aims to improve comfort for dwellers, improve efficiency of homes, and, as an additional result, will create a massive market for home automation devices. Our research revealed that the home automation market has been growing at an enormous pace and additional integration of technologies would continue to stimulate demand even more, further diminishing costs and thereby reducing the exclusivity of the market by bringing them to the masses. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

The Internet of Things (IoT) in retail: Bridging supply and demand

A sales channel serves two primary functions: delivering information and products to customers. Omnichannel retailing allows for the decoupling of these two functions as consumers can learn about products through channels that differ from those used to purchase them. This separation requires a sophisticated inventory and supply chain operation, as well as integration of all customer touchpoints, in order to match fast-moving supply and demand. The Internet of Things (IoT) can play a fundamental role in channel integration because it allows companies to rebalance supply and demand. We classify IoT initiatives on an opportunity map, presenting a strategic framework that distinguishes initiatives by the value they create and by their major area of impact. We justify the adoption of IoT in terms of its enabling capabilities—those immediately realized by deploying IoT sensor data—but its true potential resides in its enhancing capabilities—unanticipated benefits following IoT adoption—at the intersection of supply and demand.     

Bringing dark data into the light: Illuminating existing IoT data lost within your organization

Companies are making substantial investments in placing sensors out in the field and within products and equipment. These Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies provide an unprecedented opportunity to harness data-driven insights to improve business performance. While the IoT is often framed as a next-generation technology, many businesses already are awash in these data because their existing operational technologies and other equipment generate substantial amounts of data. These data, along with the insights they generate, remain dark—out of sight and unused. Many managers are unaware of the existence and uses of such data. To shed light on the business opportunities afforded by exploiting dark data, this article provides managerial advice and demonstrative case studies in four strategic categories: improving returns on assets, reengaging customers, creating new products and business lines, and transforming business models.     

The Internet of Things: Are you ready for what’s coming?

Are you ready for what’s coming? As senior managers look to connect products, processes, and services to the growing field of the Internet of Things (IoT), this is an important preliminary question. Leveraging the IoT for firm benefit involves revisiting certain ideas that may have gone unquestioned for a long time. In this article, we begin by reviewing the complexity of the IoT, the complexities of an increasingly interconnected environment, and the increasing need to develop partnerships in order to create innovative solutions. We then offer practical insights from a case in which three actors with reciprocal specialties cooperated to create an IoT solution in the form of a connected appliance. While a shared spirit of optimism prevailed throughout the endeavor, reaching the finish line meant jumping a few hurdles along the way. Finally, we describe a number of fundamental issues related to business models, partnership strategy, data ownership, and technology diffusion that every enterprise should address before diving headfirst into the Internet of Things.     

LoRa调制技术及解调算法

LoRa是目前工业界大力推广的一种低功耗广域网技术（LPWAN）技术,但其中的核心调制技术专利由美国Semtech公司拥有,其技术细节没有被公开。基于此,针对LoRa的调制解调技术原理进行详细的数学描述,并给出了具体的调制解调算法。同时,对LoRa调制的性能进行了高斯白噪声信道及多径衰落信道下的仿真比较,仿真结果验证了LoRa调制技术在低速远距离通信场景中的优越性。     

现代物流面向物联网的供应链协同管理优化

物联网对供应链协同管理发展具有驱动作用,相关物联网技术在供应链领域早有应用,供应链协同管理高端发展的突破口必然以物联网为导向。本文探讨了在供应链管理领域中应用物联网技术存在的制约因素,并提出以物联网为导向优化供应链协同管理的发展战略。     

基于物联网操作系统平台构建智慧管网的思路研究

随着机器学习、图像识别等技术的发展,国家越来越重视人工智能技术在各领域的应用推广。在国家整体发展战略部署政策的引导以及支持下,智慧管网、智慧城市、智慧工业以及智能电网等概念逐渐被提出。文章首先对智慧管网的发展以及政策进行了梳理分析;然后对智慧管网方面的国内外发展现状进行了梳理,随后对物联网技术架构进行了分析;在此基础上,引入物联网操作系统平台的概念,提出一种基于物联网操作系统平台构建智慧管网的思路;最后对智慧管网建设进行了总结与展望。     

财税补助对物联网上市公司全要素生产率的影响

本文以2008－2013年我国 A 股市场27家物联网上市公司为研究对象,运用 DEA －Malmquist指数方法测算物联网上市公司全要素生产率的变化及效率变动源,实证分析政府财税补助对这些上市公司的效应。研究发现,政府财税补助对物联网上市公司全要素效率的改进存在负效应,但不显著,认为问题不在于政府的补贴支持,而是在于政府补贴制度的设计及管理。     

江西物联网产业发展路径探析

目前,各地正在积极部署物联网产业的发展,培育物联网产业的竞争力是部署规划的内容之一,钻石模型是分析产业竞争力的有力工具。本文从生产要素条件、需求条件、企业战略、结构和竞争,相关产业和支持产业的表现,以及机会和政府等几方面分析江西物联网的发展环境,提出政府加快制定江西物联网发展规划,加强知识创新和人才的培养与引进,采取错位发展的策略,加强相关、支持产业的发展,注重物联网应用需求的培养等政策对策。