"The father of the Internet of things" Kevin Ashton today science and technology innovation conference at Harvard University, said: "China will lead the development of Internet technology in this century, self-driving technology is an important factor of Internet to realize the leap. The realization of the self-driving technology will be the first in China."

Understanding of the Internet of things, Ashton has his own explanation: "I don't need to issue instructions, the computer will know what to do. Such as mobile phone built-in motion sensor can I record my motion. Other sensors to measure the surrounding environment. The Internet of things era there will be more such technology."

Kevin Ashton in 1999 created the term "Internet of things", established the Massachusetts institute of technology and participate in the automatic identification Center (Auto - ID Center), led by three successful technology start-ups, including his creation, and in 2010 sold to belkin Zensi company. He said: "the Internet of things from the development process has been more than half of the 20th century, profoundly affected the people's life."

China is the leading Internet of things

"In the 90 s, the Internet is still very new, many people are still very confused, don't know how prospects, when the phone is not data, only phone, no wireless network, to know the development of the Internet of things is based on the development of wireless networks." Ashton told reporters that "the Internet has now to layout to anywhere, and bandwidth is very wide, at the same time, the development of sensor technology and intelligent mobile phone also led the Internet of things technology leap." He said, as a decline in the cost of the popularity of smartphones and sensors, greatly reduce the Internet of things technology research and development costs, and makes the research and development results can be used in other areas soon. "It's in the '90 s had not been anticipated, even I didn't think of myself, so this kind of change is amazing." Ashton said.

He particularly stressed that China is a leading Internet of things. "Technology related products China has overtaken America as the world's largest export country. China puts forward the concept of Internet of things in the five years ago, I went to China's recent frequency is more and more. I think China is that I wish to occupy the leadership of the Internet of things." Ashton told reporters, "I feel very interesting is, we in the United States to talk about Google, Facebook, but have a look, these are all in the last century, the chance of Internet of things will be born in China in the future. For example, tencent will lead China's social media to the world, these are very remarkable achievement. So we have reason to believe that in this century, China's technology will be able to dominate the world."

He also predicted that China will lead the popularity of self-driving technology in this century. "Made in China in the hardware, and other fields has been one of the leading enterprises in the world, self-driving technology have also been in a leading level, China already has the independent research and development of unmanned buses. In automobile manufacturing, etc, all have advantage." Ashton thinks that one important reason is that the development of Chinese urbanization, has spawned a huge demand, many projects only in China do to make up. "Such as the Shanghai bus system as early as in 2000, has been using RFID contact card of bus, is a good example. In wisdom city in China, logistics, personal wearable devices, and other fields is also the outbreak in the future." When it comes to China, Ashton showed a very cordial feeling. He was in the center of the automatic identification of fudan university's research with Chinese professors related technologies of iot.

In Ashton's view, self-driving technology will be the future development of the Internet of things "one of the most important areas. "Self-driving technology is a very important aspect, think of the 80 s, the first time I go to Beijing, the streets are bicycle, has now turned into a car, traffic is very bad, but it also provides the necessary conditions for the development of unmanned, future unmanned technology will take the lead in China take the lead in a breakthrough." He said.

Don't believe in artificial intelligence

Ashton said, however, his understanding of the Internet of things has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. "Internet of things is the sensor to connect to the Internet, I don't believe in artificial intelligence in 500 years will have any practical help to human. Now there may be some software can analyze the data, but we still don't know whether the machine should be how to simulate the human intelligence, it existed only in science fiction."

Interactive entertainment business, IBM's chief technology officer George Dolbier put forward different views. He told the first financial journalist, said: "the IBM global network of support for the future of the machine learning and Watson laboratory, aim is to let the human have been doing things better. Now IBM use machine learning to grope for people's habit patterns, can be used to help humans make decisions. We also consider using visual position now. Machine learning is used to help human judgment, enhance security, the most effective means of positioning dangerous."

GE healthcare global chief technology officer TIm Kottak, said: "in the medical industry, the development of the Internet of things has taken an important step for industry change, GE medical use data to better service for patients, allow customers to generate more profit." However, he also proposed that the Internet of things era to the challenges of a enterprise from the challenge of the technology itself, not just more data from system and management.

Harvard University science and technology innovation conference held once a year, this year's theme is the Internet of things and wisdom. From retail, manufacturing, health care, logistics and other fields of executives for the digital new challenge technical solutions. Zebra technologies (Zebra Technology) CEO Anders Gustafsson as rotating CEO of the meeting, he told the first financial journalist, said: "the Technology needed by various industry base is the same, like positioning Technology, in the retail industry is to track goods, and in the medical industry is to track the hospital of right place and the patient's right to take drugs. Technology companies want to be able to communicate with different industry leader, according to the actual needs of enterprises for their custom Technology solutions."

For artificial intelligence, Gustafsson said: "the Zebra's goal is through the visualization and data analysis to enterprise assets become more intelligent, to improve labor efficiency, reduce labor costs. This also conforms to the conference put forward the concept of 'wisdom enterprise."