IoT: A magical IoT lifestyle

In the 1990s, a group of programmers from Carnegie Mellon University went to the vending machine downstairs to buy Coke, but they often encountered the situation that the Coke was out of stock or not very cold. These lazy guys had an idea and wrote a program to monitor the status of the Coke: whether it was in stock, whether it was cold enough, and connected the vending machine to the Internet. This vending machine is probably one of the forefathers of the Internet of Things.

Maybe your home appliances are not smart enough at present; maybe your information data cannot be fully collected; maybe you think that the era of the Internet of Things will not come until 2049; but in fact, you have already become a member of the Internet of Things and have benefited from it for a long time.

Have you ever shopped online? When you place an order, the product is shipped out of the warehouse and has a radio frequency tag through RFID technology. These tags are uploaded to the Internet and appear in front of you as logistics information after being read by the application. In recent years, with the addition of GPS, you can clearly see where the goods have gone with the truck, which delivery boy will personally deliver it to your house, and the merchant also knows when to receive your payment. From a technical perspective, the Internet of Things is to connect all items to the Internet through information sensing devices such as radio frequency to achieve intelligent identification and management. Therefore, your consumption this time is a successful operation in the Internet of Things.

Have you ever taken a Didi? Those Didi cars that you call all day long are also an example of the Internet of Things. The moment you post a message, your mobile phone becomes a sensor embedded in the Didi network. After 1,000 calculations in the data center, your message will be pushed to the current suitable driver. He knows your destination very well, and you also know his whereabouts. You don't worry that he will stand you up, and he is not afraid that you will not pay the fare. In the end, you smile at each other, and someone else's car starts the journey in the Internet of Things channel for your special "goods".

Because the Internet of Things is not new, we have the opportunity to renovate it again. At this stage, many IoT consumer products are still at the stage of sensing, recording, and uploading. In addition to simple data and graphical display, there is no intelligent service, let alone letting more smart devices serve you, which means that the play is not deep enough, not refined enough, and not good enough! The Internet of Things Chain can apply blockchain technology to open up many deadlocks in the Internet of Things, making intelligent services more relaxed, more thoughtful, more extensive, and more intimate in the future.

Let's take Didi as an example. Didi's daily peak orders exceed 20 million orders, and the daily data processing reaches 2000TB, which is equivalent to 2 million movies. The calculation and processing of these massive data depend entirely on centralized institutions to operate, execute and distribute. Didi's commission on each order is not only used for corporate profits, but the cost consumed in data processing is also spectacular. If, once an extremely serious bug appears in the data, the scene will be like this: you have paid the money, but the car cannot pick you up! They run the order as if nothing happened, and you can only bear it silently! Because no one can testify for you that you called this car! And in the whole process, the company is also an innocent victim. You can't blame Didi, you can only comfort the company that is also in a state of confusion with real money.

The way things are played in the IoT chain is different. For example, IoT chain formulates a smart contract for the taxi-hailing system. You call a taxi in this contract and a specific transaction occurs. Then the various computing units scattered in the system will package the travel transaction into blocks and build a network through a unified algorithm. People on each node will prove that you have paid and should enjoy the travel service brought to you by a certain brother this time. And all kinds of smart devices connected to the system will be turned on for you: if you want to listen to rock music, the speakers will play "Swing Together"; if you want to buy flowers for the goddess quickly, the navigation will search for the fastest route for you. If the driver smokes a cigarette that makes you uncomfortable on the way, his "bad behavior" will be recorded by you and widely publicized. And you, after getting off the car, just leave in style.

If the production of this series of complex behaviors is handed over to traditional central institutions, the cost will definitely not be enough to cover the cost. In the design of the Internet of Things Chain, because there are hundreds of millions of computing units, these costs will be dispersed and minimized. Of course, the development direction of the Internet of Things Chain is by no means limited to the existing automotive field. It will extend to many scenes of life due to the popularity of smart devices. Let everything be connected for you. For example, before getting off the car, the girl in the flower shop has prepared the red roses you want according to your data. When you walk towards the goddess with flowers in your hands, you find that your goddess is also wearing your favorite red for you. Then, you meet and open a bottle of red wine that has been temperature-controlled for you in the smart refrigerator for a while. In a romantic environment, with the service of various smart devices, you will spend a wonderful night. By the way, the lights in your house are provided by the solar energy stored by Lao Wang next door through the Internet of Things Chain.

The grand ideal of the Internet of Things is to establish a vision of reshaping the world. With the help of blockchain technology, this vision will gradually unfold after breaking through the shackles of security and centralization. In the near future, the above story will really appear in your scene. It is precisely because of the perfect integration of the Internet of Things and blockchain by the Internet of Things Chain that we will eventually give you a magical and intelligent lifestyle.

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