很少有技术的发展能真正达到改变认知世界的程度，而物联网就是这样的技术飞跃。
成功的企业，可以利用物联网实时深入分析互联设备、提高整个行业的效率、达得预测维护保养的能力，这些只是物联网带来好处的一小部分。
基于这个背景，IoT Nexus做了一份全行业的调查，覆盖数百家从事涉及物联网的企业，从庞大的跨国企业到中小企业，最后还有创业公司，从中发现哪些公司是整个行业中最强大的和最有创新力的。
下面我们就看看票选出来的前十家企业
Top 10
Samsung 三星
Samsung believe IoT technology will soon permeate our lives, enabling more connected in-home experiences and powering smart cities, protecting the
environment and enabling better health for everyone. The goal for Samsung is a ubiquitous and seamless user experience that enhances the quality of life without added complexity. Their IoT initiative is partnering with all sectors of the tech industry to develop
an open platform that will minimize fragmentation and enable faster adoption of IoT.
三星认为IoT技术将很快渗透到我们的生活中，会有更多的家庭体验连接，驱动智能城市的发展，保护环境，为我们提供更好的健康保护。三星的目标就是实现无处不在的、无缝的用户体验，提高生活质量同时又不增加复杂性。公司的创新团队会跟行业科技公司的部门展开合作，共同开发一个开放平台，最大限度地减少碎片，使更快地应用物联网。
Top 9
Apple 苹果
Apple they have made movements into the market with their HomeKit technology.
The HomeKit software will rely on a common network protocol that uses secure pairing to recognize a person’s iPhone. The iPhone can then trigger front doors, garage doors and a whole host of other home functions.
Using Siri, Apple’s virtual personal assistant on the iPhone, users of HomeKit apps will also be able to use voice commands to signal that it’s time for bed and that the doors should be locked and the lights dimmed.
Apple aren’t making the IoT products themselves, as of yet, but rather using iOS and the HomeKit platform to control products that have signed up to the HomeKit Development Program.
苹果公司已经借助Homekit进入物联网市场。Homekit软件依赖共同的网络协议，通过安全配识别用户个人的iPhone手机，iPhone手机可以触发大门，车库门以及其他家庭功能。
使用Siri，苹果的iPhone虚拟个人语音助手，Homekit的用户也可以使用语音命令来发出指令，该睡觉了，门要锁好，灯光变暗。
苹果自身不制造物联网产品，至少目前是这样的，它借助iOS系统和Homekit平台控制那些homekit授权许可的开发产品
Top 8
Bosch 博世
Bosch believes that in the near future, more and more devices and systems will be capable of sending and receiving data automatically via the internet.
According to their estimates, by the year 2015 more than six billion devices and systems will be connected to each other and exchanging data via the internet.
Bosch are working on software and hardware, and a platform to link up various technologies. Bosch see partnerships between businesses are becoming more important than ever as no single company can successfully tackle all of the increasingly complex challenges
on its own. As of 2012, Bosch opened the Internet of Things and Services Lab in cooperation with the University of St. Gallen.
博世相信在不久的将来，越来越多的设备和系统将能够自动地通过互联网发送和接收数据。根据公司的估计，到2015年年底，将有超过六十亿的设备和系统，通过互联网彼此相互连接和交换数据。
博世涉及开发IOT的软件、硬件，以及将各类技术汇聚在一起的平台。博世将企业合作看得比以往更重要，没有一个公司能够独自成功应对所有越来越复杂的挑战。在2012年，博世跟圣加仑大学合作创立了物联网与服务实验室。
Top 7
Vodafone 沃达丰
Vodafone provide a global M2M platform and have a clear focus on developing strategic partnerships to provide end-to-end M2M services. Vodafone’s view is there
should be a presumption in favor of industry self-regulation. They also encourage a mandate for public policy benefits associated with M2M and are focusing on the enablement of new business models for M2M services.
沃达丰为全球提供M2M平台，重点发展提供端到端M2M服务的战略合作伙伴关系。沃达丰认为应该有一个行业内的自我准则。他们也鼓励批准 跟M2M有关的公共政策利益的制定，重点是M2M新商业模式的实现
Top 6
GE 通用电气
GE see the Industrial Internet as bringing about a profound transformation to global industry, by connecting more intelligent machines,
advanced analytics, and people at work. This deeper meshing of the digital world with the world of machines has the potential to bring enormous economic benefits. GE have estimated that this new wave of innovation could boost global GDP by as much as $10-15
trillion over the next 20 years, through accelerated productivity growth. Discussions of the Industrial Internet tend to focus on the machines and the data, but people at work are an equally essential element of this revolution. GE sees the Industrial Internet
delivering its benefits in terms of greater efficiency, lower costs, and ultimately more and better jobs and rising living standards.
GE看到了工业互联网带给全球产业的深刻变革，通过连接更多的智能机器，运用先进的分析方法，人们协同工作。数字世界与机器世界更深入地咬合带来巨大的经济效益潜能。GE估计，这一波的创新可以在未来20年内给全球GDP催生高达10-15万亿美元，通过加速生产率的提高。工业物联网的讨论往往集中在机器和数据，但是工作中的人也是这场革命的一个同样重要的元素。通用电气认为工业互联网会带来更高的效率、更低的成本，并最终带来更好的工作和生活水平的提高。
Top 5
IBM 国际商用机器
Over the past century, IBM claim to have seen the emergence of a kind of global data field. IBM see that the planet
itself — natural systems, human systems, physical objects — as always having generated an enormous amount of data, but until recent decades, we weren’t able to hear it, to see it, to capture it. Now we can because all of these things have been instrumented
with microchips, UPC codes and other technologies. And they’re all interconnected, so now we can actually have access to the data. IBM’s research focuses include examining the business case for the Internet of Things and examining the benefits of Blockchain
technologies within IoT. IBM’s primary Internet of Things product is a cloud hosted service.
在过去的一个世纪中，IBM声称已经预见到全球数据领域的到来
自然系统，人类系统，物理对象--都会产生巨大的数据量，但在最近几十年以前，我们都不能听到它，看到它和抓住它。现在我们可以 是因为这些东西都已经安装了芯片，UPC码等技术。而且他们都相互联通，所以现在我们可以访问这些数据。IBM的研究主要包括研究物联网的商业案例、检验物联网技术产业链的利益。IBM的主要物联网产品是云托管服务。
Top 4
Google 谷歌
Google have made acquisitions of various companies in the field of IoT. With its last three acquisitions — Boston Dynamics, Nest and DeepMind — it seems like Google is rapidly collecting the individual
pieces to put together a “real life Internet,” a network of AI-driven robots and objects that could improve transportation, manufacturing and even day-to-day consumer life.
谷歌在物联网领域展开各类公司收购。最近的三笔收购分别是波士顿动态研究所，Nest和初创人工智能公司DeepMind--似乎谷歌在快速地收集个人碎片信息，将其放在一起形成一个“现实生活的互联网，一个智能驱动的机器人和对象网络，可以改善交通运输，制造，甚至是日常消费生活。
Top 3
ARM
ARM creates sensors, controllers, and other embedded intelligence in devices. ARM see their technology designs as enabling IoT applications and services
to become truly ubiquitous and intelligent.
ARM’s business model is based on licensing the core technology to different partners, allowing them to differentiate and add value. Multiple suppliers for each form factor ensures competition, competition spurs innovation and differentiation, which exemplifies
the fact that diversity is what the Internet of Things is all about.
Besides the ability to address different markets, to explore new ones, and the ability to scale from small to large, the ecosystem for the Internet of Things will have to be more diverse than the mobile Internet today. Enabling ecosystems that drive innovation
is a critical part of what ARM does with its partnership based business model.
ARM创建传感器、控制器，和其他嵌入式智能设备。ARM认为自己的技术设计使得物联网应用和服务 真正做到无处不在和智能化。
ARM的商业模式是基于许可不同的合作伙伴使用自己的核心技术，通过它们的差异化实现增值。每个形式代理有个多个供应商，这样确保竞争，竞争激励创新和分化，这恰恰证实了，多样性才是物联网。
除了覆盖不同市场的能力，ARM还探索新的、能力规模从大到小的物联网生态系统，这将比今天的移动互联网更加多样化。这样的生态系统能够驱动创新，这也是ARM 基础的商业模式中选取合作伙伴关系的一个关键部分。
Top 2
Intel 英特尔
Intel see the Internet of Things as transforming our world from disconnected, isolated systems to Internet-enabled devices that can network and communicate with
each other and the cloud, providing the opportunity for businesses to enhance productivity and efficiency, develop new services and improve real-time decision making. Intel is working to accelerate the development and deployment of the Internet of Things through
building intelligent devices, creating systems of systems by connecting legacy devices to the cloud, and enabling end-to-end analytics.
英特尔认为物联网将我们的世界从不联通、孤立的系统转变为具有联网功能的设备，这些设备能彼此相互通信或跟云联通，这为企业提高生产力和效率、开发新的服务和提高实时决策能力提供了机会。英特尔致力于通过开发智能设备，构造连接传统设备和云的系统，提供端到端的分析，来加快物联网的发展和部署
Top 1
Cisco 思科
Cisco defines the Internet of Everything (IoE) as bringing together people, process, data, and devices to make networked connections more relevant and valuable
than ever before, turning information into actions that create new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented economic opportunity for businesses, individuals, and countries. Cisco apply many services to the Internet of Things including hardware,
software and solutions.
思科定义万物互联（IOE），将人、流程、数据和设备都联系起来，使网络连接比以往任何时候都更相关和更有价值，将信息转化为行动，创造出新的能力，更丰富的体验，和前所未有的商业机会，无论是对个人、企业还是国家。思科为物联网提供多种服务，包括硬件，软件和解决方案。
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个人介绍：
Samsung Electronics VD IoT Platform高级工程师，在物联网，云计算，移动通讯，网络安全和消息传递基础构架领域拥有超过9年的专业知识和经验。拥有丰富的企业消息传递基础构架开发，物联网、云、设备联接解决方案开发，以及成熟的管理软件和解决方案，如敏捷和DevOpts的开发经验。在国内首次提出SDT(softwaredefined Things)的IOT概念，拥有3项专利（一份正在评审）。
是三星、英特尔、戴尔所成立智能家居设备标准联盟开放互联联盟(OIC)的代码贡献者(https://gerrit.iotivity.org/gerrit/p/iotivity.git)
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