Lenovo Connect enthusiastically forms a strategic partnership with aitos.io
When IoT Encounters the Blockchain: Lenovo Connect enthusiastically creates a strategic partnership with aitos.io on Mar 20th, 2020
When IoT and the blockchain meet head on, can we presume to understand what kind of chain-reaction is expected to ignite both industries? The development of the IoT use cases have been building up over a long period and evolving to large-scale, yet there are still some issues that need to be overcome in order for long-term sustained development. For the past two years, Blockchain technology has become a disruptive, yet driving force for the development of IoT vertical industries. This was chiefly due to the characteristics of its "immutability", "consensus mechanism" and "decentralized nature". So, how much change will the "IoT+ Blockchain" model bring to all walks of life?
2020 will be characteristic of alliances using the Blockchain and to kick this off is the recent announcement that Lenovo Connect and aitos.io formed a strategic cooperation for the integration of IoT with the Blockchain. Both parties are enthusiastically laying out a strategic and broad-ranging plan to enhance their respective business innovation advantages in the field of IoT and Blockchain technology. As part of this broad participation, there will be a major focus on developing innovative cooperation in the areas of IoT + Blockchain end-to-end technology verification, industry partner cooperation, commercial trials and demonstration promotion. Since the respective industries are still in a relatively early integration timeframe, there is much intended discovery expected for uncovering and generating business value for this combined "IoT + Blockchain" model.
The cooperation between Lenovo Connect and aitosi.io includes jointly customizing Blockchain IoT devices, Blockchain IoT modules and technical specifications tailored to emerging vertical industries. The plan calls for jointly launching Blockchain IoT devices and Blockchain IoT modules for IoT data on-chain solutions. Lenovo Connect is introducing 4G Blockchain IoT modules developed by both parties, for the purpose of developing various use cases, including smart mobility, smart retail, smart grid, and smart office.
Lenovo Connect is a subsidiary of Lenovo Capital Group, an AIoT service provider deploying a global intelligent IoT cloud platform service. Lenovo Connect Services utilize 5G/AI and other cutting-edge technologies, and provide industry-leading eSIM technology with cross-operator cloud networking technology. Lenovo Connect has independently developed the most complete IoT platform to serve enterprises among smart interaction, smart mobility and Industrial IoT. There are more than 800 enterprise customers in the three major areas and the number of cellular connections on the platform has exceeded 20 million.
“We are experiencing a huge shift from traditional telecommunication networks into global intelligent networks of the near future where 5G+AIoT(the Artificial Intelligence of Things) is morphing into 5G + ABC (ie AIoT, Blockchain, Cloud). The architecture of Cloud+Network+Terminals is also transforming into the new architecture of Terminals+Edge+Networks+Cloud+AI. The Lenovo Connect & aitos.io hook up is first in-depth strategic cooperation in IoT + Blockchain field. Lenovo Connect hopes to tap the strong resources of aitos.io to promote standard certification and early-adoption applications of blockchain technology for various vertical industry use cases of the Intelligent Internet of Things. ” Mr. Wang Shuai, VP of Lenovo Group & CEO of Lenovo Connect said “Major benefits of this cooperation for our customers will be a faster and fuller set of services that are more secure and easier to use, while also helping promote the integration and development of IoT and Blockchain.”
As a stealthy, China-based technical startup-team committed to IoT + Blockchain collaborative innovation, aitos.io has a mission to secure identity and data management of both physical and digital world so that identity and data can be trusted from the source to help the IoT industry to explore new business models for “economy of things”; this help provide technical guarantees for transparent supervision. The Blockchain of AI Things or “BoAT” from aitos.io embeds the blockchain trusted application framework BoAT into smart IoT devices to achieve trusted identity authentication and data privacy-preserving on the device side and enabling the trusted data on-chain of IoT devices.
“From the perspective of technological evolution, the digital economy is a combination of iteration of Blockchain + AIoT, and the entrance for trusted data is the smart IoT device.” Mr. Leo Lin, CEO of aitos.io stated, “aitos.io will continue to explore the blockchain to empower IoT vertical industries to tap the value of application and data, and will assist Lenovo Connect to become global leading service provider of trusted AIoT applications, while realizing that safe operations are essential in the data economy. ”
In an era where technology consolidation and integration are the norm, IoT and Blockchain are naturally complementary, and this integration will surely release greater commercial value, which can be used in various industries to bring more possibilities to our intelligent 5G and Blockchain-infused era.
About aitos.io:
aitos.io is a technology startup focusing on trusted identity authentication and data privacy-preserving for AIoT enterprises. Capitalizing on the rich resources of the global IoT industry, aitos.io has been instrumental to successfully navigate the fragmented IoT vertical industry with an advantageous early adoption strategy for surging cellular IoT platforms. The mission statement of aitos.io includes the ability to leverage the global alliance of cellular IoT manufacturers to empower IoT device manufacturers to tap the value of applications and data. At the beginning of the project’s launch in the second half of 2018, aitos.io obtained angel investment from IoT industry expert groups and strategic investment from Wanxiang Blockchain aitos.io also became a member of the sixth phase of the ARM accelerator growth camp.
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