Study On China Tobacco Industry’s IoT Strategic Planning And Promoting Countermeasures

In this dissertation, a research has been made on the strategic planning of tobacco Industry’s IoT。IoT (internet of things), as third I.T revolution followed by PC and internet, is an intelligent net which combined various types of access nets and internet. People’s lives are linked with IoT through building connection and communication between things and internet. Currently, IoT is applied to many fields due to gradual improvement of conceptual model and system frame. In tobacco industry, IoT could bring great profit. Advanced tobacco companies in the world have already used IoT for technical parameters, material tracking, security, anti-falsification, etc.China Tobacco also pronounced the will of building IoT and logistics system for Chinese tobacco industry. However, In Chinese tobacco industry, IoTs from different companies are isolated to each other due to lacks of unified theory and practice. This article, by using SWOT and PEST models, indicated advantages and disadvantages of building tobacco IoT and analyzed elements needed to be considered when building this system. In order to build connection and commutation between different companies in Chinese tobacco industry, principles and standards were discussed from the view of strategic planning and promoting countermeasures.