Internet-of-Things for "Made in China 2025": The Trends and Technology Challenges

The background of the Industrie 4.0 is first summarize, the EU’s policies on Internet-of-things briefly reviewed. The core of IoT is to break the barriers among the information islands and to share the information, and therefore the IoT is the results of the informationisation and can be concluded as "to let the thing TALK". The techniques such as RFIDs, wireless sensing networks, advanced wireless communications, internet, etc. are the basics for realizing the informationisation. Finally "7Cs" principle has been proposed for IoT.