世纪互联Vianet Group plc (VNET) 2018年年度报告「LSE」.pdf

1、Consolidated Annual Report&Accounts Year ended 31 March 2018GROUP PLCVianet Group plc iVianet Group plc(LSE:VNET)is a leading provider of actionable management information and business insight created through combining data from our smart Internet of Things(IOT)solutions and external information sou

2、rces.Servicing over 300 customers across the world and rendering live data to our IOT platform from over 235,000 connected machines daily,Vianet is one of the largest business to business(b2b)connected solutions providers in Europe with established long-term relationships with blue chip customers an

3、d growing recurring revenues which are 90%of our total revenues.The recent acquisition of Vendman Systems Limited(“Vendman”)resulted in a further c 200,000 mobile connections,the majority of which will over time become higher value Smart Machines connections.In our Smart Machines Division we connect

4、 a single data gathering device with its own on-board communication capability to a customers asset or system.The device then sends data back via our IOT platform to cloud based servers.Whilst the technology was originally developed for automated retailing machines,the flexibility and functionality

5、of the device means the technology can be applied to practically any machine which has the capability to output data.The device is also used to connect our contactless payment solution and communicate payment terms to our cloud based payment services providers where that application is also required

6、.Our Smart Zones Division connects multiple data gathering devices in one or more systems or assets with the data from those devices being communicated back to our IOT platform and cloud based servers via a single 3G communications hub.The technology was originally developed for flow monitoring devi