Rebirth in a Perfect Era Chapter 1257: The prototype of the Internet of Things

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When Li Mu was reborn, the internet industry of China was at its peak, and the concept of internet + was also booming. This further gave birth to China. At that time, almost all industries were integrated with internet as much as possible, as was the express delivery industry.

In the impression of Li Mu, Shunfeng and Jingdong at that time can provide users with real-time logistics information and real-time location. Users can see where their courier arrives, at which location, who is dispatched, and the dispatcher leaves themselves. How far is this perfect customer confidence service depends on the real-time communication between GPS and the network.

Li Mu hopes that Taobao Logistics can also have such ability in this era. In this way, Taobao Logistics will be at least eight to ten years ahead of previous life logistics enterprises in the informatization level. Li Mu although does n’t understand hardware well, but he sorted out his own. Some points, I feel that in this era to achieve this, the hardware should have sufficient foundation, but only need a new product concept to combine these hardware.

So he asked Fang Xudong to bring the hardware experts over and propose to them some of his not professional but visionary ideas.

Li Mu said to everyone: "I believe that real-time positioning equipment should not be difficult to achieve, because the current GPS satellite positioning module and GSM mobile Instant Messenger module are all ready-made, as long as the two are fused together, you can let the device pass GSMInstant Messenger module, real-time transmission of GPS coordinate location information Real-time positioning information equipped with containers, should this be correct? "

Hu Bo, who is an expert of Instant Messenger, nodded immediately and said, "The more popular mobile Instant Messenger technologies are GSM and CDMA. Both of them can realize the real-time data transmission function you just mentioned, and the GPS module although is relatively expensive. , But it has also been popularized in many fields, so it should not be difficult to combine the two into one. "

Li Mu nodded: "Since these two functions can be realized, then I will talk about my other ideas."

After a pause, Li Mu said: "The reason why I need to add RF technology support to these two functions is that we hope that in the future we will install it on every car, every trailer, and every large express package. Such equipment, then install radio frequency technology reading equipment to all logistics nodes, thereby improving our operational efficiency. "

"For example, we have packed ten large parcels in the container hung by Beijing A555, and these ten large parcels must be sent to Shanghai for sorting and transfer, then when these ten parcels are loaded in the car, Directly through the radio frequency technology in the car for automatic reading, recording and uploading, and then the vehicle is on the road, we can use GPS coordinate data sent by GSM to monitor the location of the car in Beijing "A555" in real time; "

"When entering the distance of 20 kilometers or 10 kilometers from the Shanghai distribution center at the location of this car, system will automatically hang the information of this car on the large screen next to the staff at the distribution center to remind Their car is about to enter the site, the staff can immediately see its loading information, it is loaded with ten large parcels, and these large parcels are going to which area of ​​the Shanghai surrounding sales office, the relevant information is also clear at a glance , In this way, before the car arrives, our workers can be ready, as soon as the car comes in, the RF reading equipment outside the door can immediately determine the identity of the car and the package inside the car, and directly remind us The pick-up worker, the car has arrived, and is ready to work immediately, and then when the car arrives, the ten packages can be immediately transported to the loading point that will go to their respective destinations. In this way, the overall efficiency should be A lot of improvement. "

The hardware idea of ​​Li Mu's is basically equivalent to a GPS tracker, plus a set of equipment similar to highway ETC, but Li Mu is not clear whether the current hardware-based development of such equipment is realistic.

As a Instant Messenger expert, Hu Boluo thought about it and said to Li Mu: "Chief Li, this set of hardware is achievable. Let me disassemble it first, because your ideas for both sets of devices include GPS and GSM, So let me talk about these two first. "

After a pause, Hu Bo continued: "We can directly purchase the GPS module and GSM module, and then buy a batch of SIM cards that can run data from the operator, and use their network to support, which will involve Part of the Instant Messenger protocol, but it is not a problem. The protocol is open and the cost is very low. It can be easily realized by integrating the single-chip technology. The basic structure is the GPS chip, GSM chip and single-chip microcomputer. "

"As for the radio frequency technology, because I am not an expert in this field, I am not very sure, but I have heard that there is a non-parking charge system abroad, although has not been popularized in our country, but abroad A small number of countries are already using it. This technology should be consistent with our needs. "

"The principle is based on a radio frequency technology called RFID. This technology generally requires two sets of hardware and one set of system. One set of hardware is placed in the car and the other is placed at the highway toll station. Or you do n’t need to stop when going out of the highway. When it passes the toll station, the toll station equipment will automatically read the information of the equipment in the car, and then record its starting point in system, wait for it to reach the destination, When you leave the highway, you have to go through the toll station again, and the information is read again. When the two data are merged, you can know when and where the car is on the highway, and you can also know what the car is Where did the time go off the high speed, and then calculate the amount to be paid, and then perform a set of cost calculations, I think the principle of this set of technology is enough to support the needs you said before, we just need to use this function with GPS , GSM module integration, you can achieve all your needs. "

Li Mu nodded in agreement, said with a laugh: "This kind of technology is needed for support. If technical problems can be solved, shouldn't it be so difficult to develop such hardware products?"

Hu Bo said: "It mainly depends on what kind of hardware and solutions are used, and then integrate, and also need to write microcontroller program, and also have to carry out industrial design at the same time, industrial design is simple to say, but the actual is still more troublesome For example, for mobile phones, we have to repeatedly find ways to reduce the size of the motherboard, and we will reconcile and compromise with the design. After finally encountering a final dislike, we will find a OEM (original equipment manufacturer) supplier factory for mold production, but if we Just for your own use, the industrial design can be less refined, so that our entire process can be faster. "

Li Mu said: "This piece of equipment is mainly installed in truck tractors, trailers and containers, express parcels, so there is no need for cumbersome industrial design, as long as it is reliable and practical that's alright."

Speaking, Li Mu said again: "But the courier holding the terminal I just mentioned involves our corporate image, so it still needs to be designed better, with a sense of technology and a high-end sense."

Hu Bo said: "The handheld device you mentioned requires a scan code device in addition to the GPS and GSM modules just mentioned, but this is not a problem. Our system devices are now fully supported by scan code devices. The scan code gun quickly recognized the code and uploaded it to the server. We have solved this problem long ago. Even if it is replaced with a handheld device, it is not very troublesome. It is to change the data from network line transmission to GSM mode wireless transmission. "

Li Mu nodded: "In theory, this is indeed the case, but we can't just develop a blind scan code device to our courier, we have to give him a screen, give them a set of system, so that they can have more More operation space, for example, if we add a mobile phone screen to this device, he can choose whether to pick up scan code, scan code before delivery, or scan code after delivery; "

"At the same time, we also want to make this device a remote business processing terminal. For example, if a user in our building places an order online and fills in the address here to send a courier, then our After the server receives his order request, it will immediately find the nearest courier through the location of the terminal equipment on our courier, and then send him a pickup notice, and at the same time send the order information in the form of SMS Give him. "

"Alternatively, we can automatically screen the delivery process of the courier through the scan code record of the courier when the courier leaves, if the courier A is still far away from although here, but he carries the destination here. If the courier of the building is not delivered properly, we can determine that courier A has a delivery service in this building, so he will definitely come to this building, so that we can give priority to the task of pickup Give him, so that we can minimize our human waste and make the entire process more efficient. "

Fang Xudong immediately said: "Chief Li, I will organize a new project team today to tackle these kinds of hardware devices you mentioned."

Li Mu nodded: "Communicate with colleagues in the patent department, do n’t let go of all patents that can be applied during the research and development process."

"Understood."

Li Mu said: "Take this matter as the first key R & D project of our hardware laboratory. While you are developing the combination of GSM and GPS modules, on the one hand, you must make the two modules compatible and compatible. It is more powerful. On the one hand, think more about the effects they can produce when combined with other devices. As long as the three are well integrated, we can allow all possible things to be connected to internet. This is the future era of the Internet of Things. "

The Internet of Things is just a vague abstract concept in this era. Even Western countries have not embarked on the real research and development and development of the Internet of Things, so when Li Mu talked about the Internet of Things, everyone present was at a loss. They have heard of this concept in although, but they do not know how to put this concept into landing.

Li Mu said: "This set of equipment that we have installed in vehicles is actually the basic 'Internet of Things', but the future of the Internet of Things should not only be a one-way transmission of information, it should have more , The actual wisdom function, let's give you an analogy, if I let you develop a new type of bicycle lock, this lock does not have a keyhole, but uses a GSM module and a single-chip module to control a set of miniature relays. Then connect the GPS module and use a lithium battery as a power source. In this case, the bicycle equipped with this bicycle lock is already connected to the internet itself. "

Li Mu wants to use the concept of remote unlocking of shared bicycles as a case of the Internet of Things to make a popular science for several people, but there is a very big problem that there is no smart phone and there is no mobile phone scan code, so Li Mu will modify the logic After a while, the link of the smart phone scan code was changed to the ordinary mobile phone to send text messages through GSM.

Then, Li Mu went on to say: "I give this bike a unique ID and keep the matching information on the server, and then throw this bike on the street for free use by our specific users. The specific logic is : If the ID of this car is 6666, when the user sees this car, he only needs to send the number of 6666 to our server by SMS. After the server verifies that his mobile phone number is qualified to unlock, it will Through the GSM module, an unlock command is sent to the lock on this bicycle, and then the GSM module passes the received command to the single-chip microcomputer, and the single-chip microcomputer controls the relay. What do you say? "

Fang Xudong said excitedly: "The single-chip microcomputer receives the zhi command to energize the relay, and unlocks the car lock in an instant!"