Category: IoT

Alibaba’s Ambition in IoT

Finally IoT !  Just a couple of days ago, the Chinese big company Alibaba Group, announced the strategy to join the market of IoT.  They announced their ambition to make it their 5th racetrack among their previous 4 that are e-business, financial, logistics and cloud computing.

Alibaba IoT in 5 years

what will they do?

They explained they will do it by following strategy 1 + 2 + 3 + 4, as:

‘1’ platform:  one Ali-Cloud based cloud platform

‘2’ ends: AliOs Things for devices (edge) + edge computing microservices (backend)

‘3’ kinds of partners: developers + chip/module vendors + industry partners

and ‘4’ fields: smart city + smart life + smart manufacturing + smart automobile.

Simple to remember as well as that sum is 10 meaning great.

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Recently I presented a topic on an overview of digital video security. I would like to put the slides here as well in hopes that it will benefit those who want a brief introduction of the domain.