The advent of the Internet of Things era has changed the lives of everyone. The maturity and development of Internet of Things technology, the continuous updating of intelligent hardware in various fields, has given more people the ability to interact with objects, objects and objects, so that all industries will produce disruptive innovation.
Of course, the rapid development of these intelligent hardware is inseparable from the Internet of Things startups that provide intelligent hardware self-development (PaaS) and cloud services (SaaS) products for the development of the Internet of Things, such as the wit cloud. The integration of upstream and downstream resources in the industry chain and the accumulation of many years in the field of Internet of Things have greatly promoted the acceleration of intelligent hardware formation and interconnection.
In August 2014, Wit Cloud received a multi-million round of Series A financing from Jingwei China. On August 31, 2015, Jizhiyun announced the completion of a 200-yuan B-round financing, jointly invested by Jiu Ren Capital and Jingwei China. It is reported that the 200-yuan B-round financing is extremely rare in the domestic Internet of Things (IoT) cloud service industry, so how does it become a very small number?
The China Hardware Innovation Competition (Shenzhen Station) jointly held by Huaqiang Jufeng and the Nebula Intelligent Hardware Accelerator, we met Xing Yan, Vice President of Wisdom Cloud. Perhaps we can get the answers to the above questions from interviews with her.
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The wit cloud is indeed deep in the Internet of Things and has accumulated for many years.
The three founders are all from IT. The CTO focuses on cloud, big data, and system development. He was the first to contact big data. The general manager of Wisdom Cloud also had earlier contact with the medical Internet of Things and was responsible for the networking of medical facilities. Wong Yun, founder and CEO of Wisdom Cloud, has served as a technology executive at Analyst InternaTIon, Mimeo and other companies. He is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully completed a traditional Internet printing service in the United States. He is also working with two American friends. Become the largest online print service company in the United States, called Mimeo. "Simple understanding is equivalent to the O2O landing of the IoT smart hardware." Xing Yan said.
“Guangzhou Jiesheng Information Technology Co., Ltd.†was officially renamed as “Guangzhou Jizhiyun Internet of Things Technology Co., Ltd.†on March 14, 2016. In 2005, Huang Zhuo established Jiesheng Technology in Guangzhou, mainly engaged in software outsourcing services. In the following five years, the company has delivered more than 100 apps and games on iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry platforms. The turnaround appeared in 2009, Jiesheng Technology received Apple's invitation to get Apple's CerTIfied MFi certification, providing App solutions for MFi products. The first iPhone remote control toy car that landed in Apple's official store has software part developed by Jiesheng Technology.
With the qualification of application development for hardware devices connected to Apple devices, it has continuously provided more than 1,000 mobile applications to well-known hardware manufacturers around the world, and participated in the development of relevant international standards and international technology. In 2009, Become the largest software service provider for hardware services in Apple Asia Pacific.
At that time, many Chinese companies received this soft and hard interactive research invitation from Apple, but in addition to supporting Apple, most companies did not mention it to strategic level analysis. Huang Zhuo and Jie Sheng Technology CTO Liu Wei judged that the combination of software and hardware will become the trend of the times, decisively take this opportunity to transform, the company's main business turned to the cloud service platform combining software and hardware, which is now the wit cloud platform.
Wit cloud self-development platform
Xing Yan told us: "No matter whether it is software development or hardware development, there are common needs. As long as the commonality is extracted, you can quickly help users to develop products. For example, networking, data collection, analysis; can be targeted at regionalization, age, Remote upgrade of gender; third-party service interface, such as WeChat interface; remote control. The four basic services of the wit cloud self-development platform - M2M access service, statistical analysis service, OTA upgrade service, hardware socialization service.
Wit cloud self-development platform four basic services
WitCloud's self-development platform provides IoT developers with cloud-based, relatively standard cloud development tools and collaboration modules to help them quickly connect devices, remotely manage management, data storage analysis, third-party data integration, hardware socialization, etc. The function avoids the repeated development process again and again; the wit cloud innovatively packaged the whole process of development-test-approval-online-deployment to create an application system of App+hardware+cloud service, and also supports the application environment of hybrid cloud. Improve the basic services of intelligent hardware to help developers truly achieve agile development.
Xing Yan said, "On the self-developed platform of WitCloud, a hardware product from the submission of ideas to the development of intelligent product prototypes with networking capabilities, on average, only takes 11 days." That is, an ordinary toothbrush, Through the platform of the wit cloud, developers can quickly turn it into a smart toothbrush that can create a customized tooth cleaning solution and provide remote upgrade, data tracking and analysis functions after 11 days.
Yes, the Wisdom Cloud self-development platform provides developers with a complete set of services including hardware development, functional configuration, operation and maintenance, data integration, technology licensing, and value-added revenue. Therefore, on this platform, the intelligent hardware startup team no longer needs to form a large team, such as architecture, security, operation and maintenance, etc. The intelligent hardware team can easily use the cloud mechanism based on the algorithm mechanism and cloud service provided by the wit cloud platform. After 80% of the functions are completed, the product stability, security, and maintainability are guaranteed, and then concentrate on 20% of the difference. “The entrepreneurial team only needs to concentrate on product differentiation development and business model operation, which not only saves time but also reduces the cost of starting capital, and helps the entrepreneurial team to carry out risk control.†Xing Yan said.
Customized IoT solutions and comprehensive cloud services
Wit Cloud can not only help developers to develop smart new products, but also help traditional hardware manufacturers to quickly enter the era of intelligent hardware, and even provide customized IoT solutions and comprehensive IoT cloud services in the vertical industry.
In the field of Internet of Things development and cloud services, wit cloud has become a unicorn that giants and startups can hardly circumvent, except for Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft, TI, Marvell, Junzheng, Broadcom, Lexin, and Midea. The upstream and downstream giants such as AO Smith and Changhong have already reached a cooperation with the Wisdom Cloud. According to General Xing, the online activation of access devices has exceeded 4.5 million. When the number of enterprise devices reaches a certain amount, the wit cloud can help enterprises optimize business models and optimize product lines.
Wit Cloud's GDMS intelligent hardware device management system is a data-driven intelligent hardware operation system that can help enterprises easily upgrade existing management systems and seamlessly integrate smart devices. The GDMS system is a unique and innovative service of the Wisdom Cloud. It targets intelligent hardware vendors and integrates with the vendor's existing operational systems to help operational systems upgrades and generate executable service processes that enable vendors to easily connect to IoT data and services using existing systems.
Using the GDMS system of the Wisdom Cloud, enterprises can effectively manage the operational data of smart devices, reduce the risk of online products and after-sales maintenance, optimize workflow and service quality, reduce labor costs, enhance user experience, and form secondary consumption capabilities. For example, the air purifier, the traditional enterprise model is stopped after it is sold, but the GDMS operation portal of the wit cloud can support the merchants to install customer service on the existing system and increase the opening of secondary sales, so that the filter is easy. The use of consumable materials can be automatically communicated with the enterprise system and the information is synchronized, so that the merchant can initiate the after-sales service, form a secondary sale, provide more effective customer service and a more perfect user experience.
WitCloud is also the first to launch a SaaS platform for the vertical industry in China, launching customized IoT solutions for each vertical field, bringing disruptive changes to the industry. For example, the in-depth cooperation between Wit Cloud and Daimler Greater China Investment Co., Ltd. (Mercedes-Benz parent company), launched a new generation of Mercedes-Benz Smart smart car life program, with "smart fashion, fuel-efficient and environmental protection" The concept is to provide white-collars with online reservations, pick-ups downstairs, and one-stop timeshare rental services. Not only that, but it also supports hybrid cloud deployments that already support hundreds of private cloud deployments.
Wit cloud gives the Internet of Things more imagination
Xing Yan said that in terms of cloud services, "future wit cloud will provide more services in the cloud, that is, through the cloud to integrate various smart devices, the various closed loops of the cloud will be opened, and the future users only need to The APP is set up and can even be completely detached from the app. This is the big platform concept of the wit cloud."
In terms of development tools, “Tactus Cloud will provide enterprises with more black technologies in the future, such as core algorithms in the fields of speech recognition and VR technology, and provide more types of enterprises by cooperating with foreign and domestic research institutions. Modular tools such as the GoKit development kit that is currently available to developers free of charge."
As a software company that understands hardware, Wit Cloud itself has a valuation of more than hundreds of millions of dollars and has more than 220 employees, 80% of whom are technicians. The core members are the strongest teams from hardware and software and operators, including Ali, Tencent, Huawei, China Telecom, etc. Through deep machine learning technology, it can not only do data collection and visualization, but also make complex decisions, increase load and usage, and further optimize operations. Coupled with the founder's overseas entrepreneurial background and technology accumulation, wit cloud technology has always been the benchmark for Silicon Valley.
The wit cloud, which has always had a neutral and open mind, cooperates with the upstream and downstream of the industry, and digging deep into the vertical field to recommend different solutions for different products. Horizontally integrate chips, modules, and cloud services into the entire industry chain, bringing together industrial resources, providing customers with one-stop services, shortening the development cycle of customer products; vertically, starting to dig deep in various vertical fields, working together with partners, together Create industry standards.
Today, the Internet of Things can participate in every economic field and every sub-sector. Today, wit cloud is undoubtedly a huge business opportunity, which makes the IoT development path wider.
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