Gartner's top ten strategic technology trends for 2017 will lay the foundation for Intelligent Digital Mesh.
Gartner, an international research and advisory body, recently presented ten results of strategic technology trends that will affect most organizations in 2017. According to the agency's definition, strategic technology trends refer to trends that are in a state of breakthrough or rise, and that may lead to widespread disruptive impacts and more applications in the future; in addition, strategic technology trends also have rapid growth and volatility. High and will reach the tipping point characteristics in the next five years.
David Cearley, vice president and academician of Gartner, pointed out: "Gartner's top ten strategic technology trends for 2017 will lay the foundation for Intelligent Digital Mesh. The first three use "Wisdom is everywhere" (Intelligence The concept of Everywhere), through the continuous evolution of data science and technology and research methods, and the addition of advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence technology, enables systems based on smart hardware and smart software to learn and adapt to the environment. The three trends focus on the digital world itself and how it more closely integrates the physical and digital world. The last four trends focus on the platform and service network needed to build a smart digital grid."
1. Artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced machine learning (ML) are composed of a variety of technologies and technologies, such as deep learning, neural networks, and natural-Language Processing (NLP). These advanced technologies go beyond traditional algorithms based on rules, creating systems that understand, learn, predict, adapt to the environment, and even operate on their own, and are the reason why smart machines can be more "smart".
David Cearley said: "Applied AI and advanced machine learning have created a rise in a variety of smart practices, including physical devices such as robots, self-driving cars and consumer electronics, as well as applications and applications. Services such as Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) and Smart Advisors. These implementations will be a new type of smart applications and objects that can also be used to give a variety of grid devices and existing software and service solutions. Embedded wisdom."
2. Smart application
Smart applications such as virtual personal assistants have some of the features of a live assistant, making everyday work easier and more efficient, such as prioritizing emails and identifying important content and interactions. Other smart applications, such as Virtual Customer Assistants (VCAs), perform tasks in specific areas, such as sales and customer service. Therefore, these smart applications will have the potential to change the nature of the work and the structure of the workplace.
Cearley said: "In the next ten years, almost all applications, applications and services will combine some degree of artificial intelligence. In the long run, this will form a trend, and the future will continue to develop and expand artificial intelligence and machine learning. Application areas for applications and services."
3. Wisdom objects
Intelligent things mean that objects can not only perform tasks according to a fixed program model, but also use weak artificial intelligence and machine learning to make more advanced behaviors, while in a more natural way with the surrounding environment and humans. interactive. With the gradual popularization of smart objects such as drones, self-driving cars and smart home appliances, Gartner predicts that the mode of operation of smart objects will gradually shift from the current independent operation to the collaborative mode.
4. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have changed the way people interact with people and software systems. Cearley believes that "by 2021, consumer and commercial immersive content and applications will evolve rapidly, and virtual reality and augmented reality functions will be combined with digital grids to form a more seamless device system. Ability to manage the flow of information for users, making it an extremely personal and relevant application and service. By integrating a variety of different mobile and wearable devices with the Internet of Things and sensor-filled environment, It will allow immersive applications to go beyond the stand-alone single-player experience; rooms and spaces will interact with objects, and the links created by the grids will be displayed and operated alongside the immersive virtual world."
5. Digital avatar
The so-called Digital Twin refers to the dynamic software mode of a physical item or system, which uses the data collected by the sensor to detect status, respond to changes, improve operations and add value. Digital avatars combine post-data (Metadata, such as classification, composition, and structure), conditions or states (such as location and temperature), event data (such as time series), and analysis (such as algorithms and rules).
In the next three to five years, hundreds of millions of items will have a number of avatars. The company will use digital to actively carry out and plan equipment maintenance, design production processes, plant operations, predict equipment failures or improve operational efficiency, and assist product development. As a result, the digital avatar will eventually become an agent that combines technicians with traditional monitoring and control devices such as pressure gauges and pressure valves.
6. Blockchain and decentralized ledger
Blockchain is a distributed ledger that records transaction records of value exchanges (such as bitcoin or other currencies) and stores them in different blocks in a sequential manner. Each block is connected to the previous block in tandem, and is distributed and stored in a peer-to-peer network, while ensuring the reliability of the blockchain through encryption and authentication. .
The concept of blockchain and decentralized general ledger is gradually being accepted because it has the potential to revolutionize the way the industry operates in the future. Although the current popular applications are mainly centered on the financial services industry, there are still many other possible application areas including music dissemination, identity verification, property registration and supply chain. Cearley pointed out: "Decentralized ledgers have the potential to bring about radical change, but most of the current plans are still in the early stages of experimentation."
7. Conversational system
The current focus of conversational interface development remains on chat bots and devices with built-in microphones (eg, speakers, smart phones, tablets, PCs, cars). However, digital grids will include more and more devices that people use to access applications and information, or interact with others, communities, governments, and businesses.
This device network has surpassed traditional desktop computers and mobile devices, covering all endpoints that humans may use for interaction. As the appliance network continues to evolve, the connectivity model will increase, and the collaboration between devices will be closer, laying the groundwork for a new, uninterrupted, and ubiquitous digital experience.
8. Mesh application and service architecture
In the so-called Mesh Application and Service Architecture (MASA), mobile applications, web applications, desktop applications and Internet of Things applications will be linked to a vast back-office service network to create users. The "application" that is recognized. This architecture is responsible for packaging services and frees different levels of application development interfaces (APIs) from the constraints of organizational boundaries, balancing service flexibility and scalability, service composition, and service reuse.
The mesh application and service architecture enables users in the digital grid to get the best solution for different target endpoint devices (such as desktops, smartphones, cars) while ensuring that when switching between these different pipes Enjoy a continuous and uninterrupted experience.
9. Digital Technology Platform
The digital technology platform provides enterprises with the foundation stone and key puzzles for development and becoming a digital enterprise. Gartner has summarized the five key elements behind the development of new capabilities and new business models for digital companies: information systems, customer experience, information gathering and analysis, the Internet of Things, and the business ecosystem. Each of these companies will interact with these five digital technology platforms more or less, and these platforms provide the cornerstone for the development of digital companies and are a key element in the move to digital enterprises.
10. Adaptive Security Architecture
The Smart Digital Grid and the associated digital technology platform and application architecture together create an increasingly complex world of security. Cearley pointed out: "The existing security technology should be the security foundation of the Internet of Things platform, and the monitoring of users and individual behavior is a key element that needs to be added in the IoT environment. However, the Internet of Things is for many professions. For IT security personnel, it is a brand new field, and many new areas that are vulnerable to attack have emerged. Therefore, new corrective tools and procedures must be taken into consideration when constructing the IoT platform."
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