Global Industry Vision 2025

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Overview

The Global Industry Vision (GIV) 2025 is a directional report on global digital transformation. The report was published in Shenzhen, China on April the 18^th, 2018. The report acts as a predictive model on how digital transformation will unfold by 2025. The report offers advice on how it believes ICT industries can better prepare themselves for the transition. The GIV report also acts as a guide on how individuals and homes can incorporate intelligent technology into their personal lives. The data provided covers over 170 different countries and regions. It analyses statistics from international organizations, consulting companies and industry manufacturers such as The World Bank, Microsoft, IBM and Goldman Sachs.

Key Findings

The GIV 2025 report is split into three categories: the sensory world, big data and mass innovation. These categories refer to personal life, family life, logistics, manufacturing and energy.

Personal Life

• Wearables will see rapid growth, with more than 440 million applications utilizing AR/VR, developing sensory experiences for people. Alongside the development of broadband connectivity and display capabilities, cloud wearables will become assistants, which process data and provide smart support to the user. The report predicts that by 2025, 90% of users will have a smart personal assistant.
• The report predicts that there will be a dramatic change to the way we sense the world through technology. Technology will allow for a heightened sensory experience. Technology will also make our lives vastly more convenient and empower people with impairments and disabilities. For example, there are currently 39 million blind people and 246 million people with impaired vision around the world.
• META is an augmented reality company based in Silicon Valley. They have developed the first cloud-based smart wearable from CloudMinds.  META uses video cloud-based presentation, providing highly precise and real-time information to the visually impaired.

Family Life

• In regards to family life the report focuses on the development of virtual reality and interactive media. Light VR devices will develop to offer immersive virtual experience to people’s homes, enabling families to experience different places and settings, as if they were actually there.
• The report forecasts that by 2025 there will be over 8 billion wearables being used globally, with 440 million users being VR/AR/MR. The cloud VR market space is predicted to be commercially valued at US$292 billion by 2025.   
• In Xinjiang, China people were showcased a high quality HD ceramics class as a way of rejuvenating a once much loved art. This was done via the use of high-speed connections and improved viewing technology. The experience proved successful with over 15,00 views in two hours. With VR technology, people will be able to feel the heat emanating from the kilns and virtually bake the ceramics themselves. Thanks to VR, a once costly experience could be obtained for as little as CNY100.   

Industry: Logistics

• The report predicts that data will be the main driving force within the world and by 2025. It is calculated that 90% of computing load and 92% of storage will be done inside cloud data centers. It is also predicted that 100% of companies will be cloud based and 86% will be using AI technology.
• The report projects that more than 100 billion connected devices and things around the world, which will be capable of exchanging information. This will particularly affect the development of smart cities.
• In Yanbu, Saudi Arabia the city has aimed to build itself into a smart city by implementing a three-phase strategy. In the first phrase Yanbu constructed wired and wireless broadband networks and open access networks throughout the entire city. In the second phase they adopted smart applications, and then in the final third phase the city built intelligent urban management platforms that included a big data analysis platform, IoT data platform, and communications integration platform.
• The report cites the benefits that resulted from the development of the smart city. The number of road accidents dropped and there was an overall drop in public lighting costs of over 30%. Inbound investments reached 16 percent, representing average annual revenue of over US$100 million.  

Industry: Manufacturing 

• Data will be the main driving force in the digital economy, levelling supply and demand, turning connections into profitable resources.  Cloud and AI will act as “refining plants”, which collect, transmit, and refine data, and then send it to the source of demand for further "purification" and reutilization.  This framework will be a phenomena associated with the new intelligent world.
• In smart factories, physical equipment will operate at the same time in which data is transferred. This will create a bridge between physical and digital manufacturing.
• In instances where Cloud EI services have been implemented within manufacturing, sorting and packing efficiency has been increased by 20%. Due to EI having the capability to calculate optimal packaging that’s based on the type of goods. The shipping container can also be made completely visible in a 3D model, raising overall utilization rates by 6%. Logistics then uses EI to plan routes, reducing expenses and costs by 30%.   

Industry: Energy

• '+Intelligence' platforms built upon big data, cloud, IoT, and AI will become springboards upon which enterprises improve and develop. Intelligent power grid assessment robots will be deployed and used to determine energy needs.
• The report cites the Clean Energy Emission Reduction (CLEER) tool, which estimates that if email, Excel and customer management software are all placed on the cloud, energy usage can be cut by up to 87%.  
• Edge computing is gaining traction in IoT. Edge computing lowers the response latency of devices, enlarges node scale, and increasing demand for data and transmission. The report cites IDC figures, which predicts that over 50% of data will need to be analyzed, processed, and stored on the edge of networks.
• The report forecasts that as blockchain technology gains momentum, it will be applied to a multitude of different sectors including finance, healthcare, logistics, and education, and a range of blockchain applications and solutions will then gradually emerge. 

Methodology  

The GIV 2025 breaks down quantitative data based on what it considers to be the three major enabling forces of the intelligent world: all things connected, all things sensing and all things intelligent. GIV 2025 utilizes an approach that combines trend extrapolation and time series forecasting, using a model that is based on historical data and business development patterns. The research data was taken from industry statistics and was acquired via surveys, consultancy and business operations. They were sourced from telecom operators, enterprises and customers. Analyses was based on historical data, using trend characteristics and scatter plot graphs to formulate trend and statistical predictions.

References

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