The Chongqing Strategic Alliance for Technological Innovation of Industrial Internet plays an important role though it has only been in existence for a short time.
This involves taking the lead in formulating the international and national standards related to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), building an IIoT experience center to enable enterprises to stay current on relevant advanced technologies and directions, and undertaking major technological innovation tasks in the field of Industrial Internet.
Building an IIoT experience center ensures the major technological innovation tasks can be undertaken in the field of Industrial Internet.
Founded last June, the Alliance has 115 members. The Alliance has positioned itself to focus on developing the Industrial Internet at the national macro-strategy level from its inception.
Data show that the Alliance has participated in developing eight international standards and 29 national standards, including ten led by it.
This April, the Alliance led the development of the international standard "Internet of Things (IoT) — Interoperability for IoT systems — Part 2: Transport interoperability", which was officially released. It defines the interoperability requirements between different IoT networks and among internal networks of IoT and regulates the interoperability architecture, protocol models for network connectivity, network interface, and service interface between IoT systems.
"It's vital to develop unified standard systems between the country, the industry, and enterprises in terms of the field of IIoT," said Wei Min, Deputy Secretary-General of the Alliance, as well as a professor of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
According to him, the international standard has been rated as "China's top 10 Standards of Greatest Concern" and listed as a reference for White Paper on Industry 4.0 of Germany. As a basic international standard for IoT technology and its development, it will play a key role in supporting and boosting the IoT industry's technological innovation and application development.
In Beibei District, the Industrial Internet Innovation and Experience Center, covering 3,000 square meters and an investment of more than 100 million yuan (about USD 15.29 million), is about to open.
Established by the Alliance, the Center is positioned as a first-class one of its kind by targeting application industries including auto manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and electronics manufacturing. It also strives to build itself a first-class training base.
"The Center aims at enabling enterprises to stay current on the directions and technologies on Industrial Internet," said Wang Ping, Secretary-General of the Alliance and Dean of the College of Automation and Industrial Internet. Wang introduced that the Center will gather many cutting-edge Industrial Internet technologies and display simulated industrial scenarios.
After the immersive training, the Alliance members will apply those technologies to various production areas, thereby creating enterprise benefits.
"The Industrial Internet technological innovation will be applied to many areas such as electricity, steel, and iron, mining, and aerospace, which makes cross-domain network solutions in industrial production possible," said Wang.
He said that the Alliance would continue its focus on relevant frontier domains to provide technical identification, product test, and scheme evaluation and facilitate the wide application of Industrial Internet among industrial areas.