You still haven't figured out the difference between the Industrial Internet and the Industrial Internet?

From "Consumer Internet" to "Industrial Internet"

The Internet was born in the United States in 1969. At that time, its name was not called Internet, but ARPANET, which was just a small-scale inter-school private network.

Later, in the 1980s, with the maturity of TCP/IP technology, the Internet gradually developed into a global network, and was called the Internet.

At the end of the 20th century, the Internet ushered in explosive growth, changing the way of life of countless people, and creating many Internet giants, such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and China's BAT.

At that time, the Internet was not as powerful as it is now because of the limitations of computer software, hardware and communication technology. To access the Internet, people can only send emails, look at web pages, browse forums, play some online games that now seem extremely crude, and watch some low-resolution entertainment videos.

After entering the 21st century, some Internet companies with a keen sense of smell found that the role of the Internet should not be limited to life and consumption, it should also be used for production and creation.

In other words, the Internet should not be used only for "playing", but also for "improving productivity". Therefore, these Internet companies put forward the terms "Industrial Internet" and "Internet +".

From the perspective of Internet companies, the "traditional Internet" that everyone used at that time should be called the consumer Internet to be precise.

The consumer internet revolves closely around consumers. Its main function is to help people obtain a better consumption experience in terms of clothing, food, housing, transportation, social entertainment, etc.

After 2007, the early mobile Internet, which emerged with the rise of smartphones, is actually basically a consumer Internet. Online games, video chasing dramas, e-commerce shopping, and mobile payments all belong to household consumption scenarios.

The industrial Internet, on the other hand, serves enterprises for the purpose of “reducing costs and increasing efficiency”.

The early application of the Industrial Internet is very simple, that is, Internet companies use the Internet (build websites, do e-commerce, and engage in SEO optimization) to help B-end (enterprise) users open sales channels and increase sales.

Later, the Industrial Internet began to slowly penetrate into all aspects of business operations, such as supply chain management, production management, channel management, finance, and personnel.

Today, through ICT (information and communication) technology, industrial enterprises are empowered to realize the integration of information, resources, and funds, reduce ineffective costs, and improve the operational efficiency of the industry. This is the real industrial Internet.

The difference between "Industrial Internet" and "Internet +"

It is worth mentioning that although "industrial Internet" and "Internet +" are often confused, there is still a difference between the two if you look at the words carefully.

"Internet +" can be understood as "Internet + all walks of life". What it emphasizes is connection, which is to play the role of optimization and integration of the Internet in the allocation of social resources. For example, "Internet + education" is based on the information exchange ability brought by Internet connection, weakening the information gap, and allowing education enterprise services to quickly reach users.

"Industrial Internet" is different. In addition to emphasizing the connection role of the Internet, it also emphasizes the deep integration of Internet technology and specific industries - the Internet penetrates into the marrow of enterprises, improves management, processes, systems and processes, and enhances industrial efficiency.

In short, "Industrial Internet" is higher, and "Internet +" is slightly lower.

The Rise of the "Internet of Things"

At the beginning of the 21st century, while the industrial Internet was slowly developing, another emerging thing also began to rise, that is, the Internet of Things.

The earliest model of the Internet of Things, the sensor network, was born on the battlefield of the Vietnam War in the 1960s. At that time, Laomei placed a large number of sensors on the Ho Chi Minh Trail to monitor the delivery of materials by the North Vietnamese army.

In the 1980s, David Nichols and others of Carnegie Mellon University in the United States invented a remote monitoring automatic Coke machine, which is considered to be the world's first Internet of Things device. But in fact, the concept of the Internet of Things (Internet of Things) was formally proposed in 1999 (Professor Kevin Ashton from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

The emergence of the Internet of Things has opened the door to a new world for mankind. It has been found that in addition to the need for connection between people, there is also a need for connection between people and things, and between things. This interconnection of all things can create greater value.

How should we understand the Internet of Things?

The Internet of Things in a narrow sense refers to the Internet of Things technologies, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, and Cat.1, NB-IoT, etc., which are becoming popular now.

The Internet of Things in a broad sense refers to the Internet of Things scenarios and industries. Using the Internet of Things technology, strengthen the collection of data, control the terminal, form a data flow, and serve the application of the industry.

Usually, when we refer to the Internet of Things, it is more technical. After the emergence of the concept of the Internet of Things, from the perspective of connecting objects, the Internet is divided into the Internet of People and the Internet of Things.

Note that although the Industrial Internet uses more IoT technologies, the Industrial Internet ≠ IoT. In the same way, the consumer Internet ≠ the Internet of People.

"Industrial Internet" vs "Industrial Internet"

On November 26, 2012, General Electric Company (GE) of the United States released the white paper "Industrial Internet: Breaking the Boundary of Intelligence and Machines", which first proposed the concept of Industrial Internet.

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At the time, GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt said:

“The Internet has changed the way we use information and communicate, and today, the Internet can do more. By connecting intelligent machines and eventually humans to machines, combined with software and big data analysis, we can break through the boundaries of physics and materials science. Limit, change the way the world works."

It can be seen from this that the Industrial Internet is a further extension of the Internet concept. The connection objects, users, and usage scenarios of the Industrial Internet are completely different from those of the Consumer Internet.

In GM's white paper, the Industrial Internet is called the Industrial Internet.

Industry, as we all know, means "industry, industry, industry, manufacturing". Industrial, usually as an adjective, means "industrial, industrial, used for industry, industrially developed". According to Webster's Dictionary, industrial also has a noun meaning, mainly referring to industrial production or service.

General Motors, as we all know, is an industrial manufacturing company. Therefore, when it was named, it must have been thinking of industry.

But we should also know that the conceptual scope of industry is obviously much larger than that of industry.

According to the National Economic Industry Classification (GB/T 4754-2017) promulgated by our country, industries are divided into three categories. To put it simply, the primary industry is agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and the secondary industry is mining, manufacturing, energy, and construction. The tertiary industry refers to other industries other than the primary industry and the secondary industry.

The tertiary industry has a very wide range, including: service industry, wholesale and retail industry, transportation, warehousing and postal industry, accommodation and catering industry, information transmission, software and information technology service industry, financial industry, real estate industry, leasing and business Service industry, education and health, culture and entertainment, etc.

Industry is one of the components of the secondary industry, and its share in the national economy has dropped to one third (32% in 2019). The digital transformation we are talking about now definitely does not refer to the industry alone, but the entire industry.

Therefore, in principle, the industrial Internet in many news reports and articles that you see on the Internet should be called "industrial Internet". There may be two reasons why it is called "Industrial Internet". One is that the word "Industrial Internet" has been "occupied" by some Internet companies in advance, and the other is the name of our national competent authority, called "Ministry of Industry and Information Technology". ...

I personally think that the name of the industrial Internet has some influence on the popularization of the industrial (industrial) Internet. Many ordinary people see and hear about the Industrial Internet, and instinctively think that it is a matter of enterprises in the industrial field and has nothing to do with them. In fact, the industrial (industrial) Internet is closely related to each of us. Every industry must take the road of informatization, digitization, networking, and intelligence, and must pay attention to digital transformation.

The industry is bigger than the industry, and the industry Internet can be approximately equal to the industry Internet

All in all, if you see the word Industrial Internet, your first reaction should be: Is it the Industrial Internet in the narrow sense? Or the generalized industrial Internet?

If it is only related to industrial manufacturing, it is in the narrow sense. If it includes not only industrial manufacturing, but also the landing applications of the primary and tertiary industries, it is broad.

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This article is from WeChat public account: Fresh Jujube Classroom (ID: xzclasscom), author: Xiaozaojun