The Internet of Things refers to the real-time collection of any object or process that needs to be monitored, connected and interacted through information sensors, radio frequency identification technology, global positioning system, infrared sensors, laser scanners and other equipment and technologies, and the collection of various needed information such as sound, light, heat, electricity, machinery, chemistry, biology and location, and the ubiquitous connection between objects and people through various possible network access. Internet of Things is an information carrier based on Internet and traditional telecommunication network, which makes all ordinary physical objects that can be addressed independently form an internet.

The Internet of Things market is growing rapidly, and the number has doubled every year in the past three years, among which building the market with cloud platform has become the mainstream form. In the environment where the epidemic situation further promotes market concentration, the market share of the top 10 platform in the Internet of Things market is expected to exceed 60%.

The high concentration of Internet of Things is mainly due to the rich market resources and rapid growth of head platform enterprises. Strong platform, easy to attract big customers; Although the overall profitability of the platform market is not strong, basically most platforms are born out of large companies and have strong financial endurance.

At present, there are more than 600 Internet of Things platform companies in the world, which can be mainly divided into communication vendors, Internet vendors, IT vendors, industrial vendors, Internet of Things vendors and cutting-edge enterprises.

Communication vendors mainly include operators and communication equipment suppliers. Such as ctwing Internet of Things Market, China Unicom Internet of Things and China Mobile Internet of Things, the main features are the integration of telecommunications capabilities and interconnection capabilities to provide unified and standardized services for partners. Taking ctwing as an example, the Internet of Things is deeply integrated with new technologies such as 5G, AI, edge computing, blockchain and big data. The one-stop shopping platform of the Internet of Things based on CTWing5.0 of China Telecom has become a gathering place for the industrial ecology of the Internet of Things of China Telecom, providing partners with rich products and services in sub-sectors such as 5G, chip module, emergency fire fighting, security monitoring, tracking and positioning, smart energy, smart agriculture and smart pension.

Internet vendors mainly include Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and JD.COM, which have advantages in ecological construction and AI technology. For example, Alibaba Cloud provides access to basic products such as cloud tube edge and technical empowerment, cooperation and implementation of industry solutions, sales of software and hardware, marketing and promotion, demand docking and other rapid commercial realization channels.

IT vendors mainly include Inspur, IBM, China Service and other enterprises, and have a deep understanding of IT. For example, UFIDA uses technologies such as Internet of Things, AI and digital twinning to build a platform, and has products such as Jingzhi Internet of Things platform, Jingzhi cloud box, Jingzhi time series database Yongtimesdb+ stream computing engine, Jingzhi data Rubik's Cube and Jingzhi industrial brain.

Industrial manufacturers include Foxconn, Sany Group, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Xugong Group and other industrial enterprises, and the platform is mainly based on industrial vertical capabilities. For example, GE connects machines, data, people and other assets, and provides a wide range of industrial micro-services by using the leading technologies of distributed computing, big data analysis, asset data management and M2M communication, enabling enterprises to provide productivity.

The Internet of Things vendor platform is mainly rooted in the Internet of Things era, and it is a platform enterprise born for the Internet of Things, mainly including Chuangtong Da Lian, Lenovo understands communication, graffiti intelligence, artisan IOT, fluorite cloud and so on. For example, Lenovo adopts the architecture design of the Internet cloud platform, and relies on technologies such as the Internet of Things and machine vision recognition to access sensor devices to collect user data, establish a unified data center and device management center, and form a unified application service center, thus improving device status awareness.

Most cutting-edge enterprises are established by experienced experts in IT, OT and CT fields, often focusing on a certain field. For example, Han Yun Industrial Internet of Things platform meets the requirements of digitalization, networking and intelligence of manufacturing industry, and builds a service system based on massive data collection, aggregation and analysis to support ubiquitous connection, flexible supply and efficient allocation of manufacturing resources.