OFweek smart home network communications smart home this concept has been available for a long time, Apple's HomeKit smart home platform has also developed three or four years. But until today, they have not been able to become a big business such as a "next smart phone," and have never even been able to get close to this goal.
A relatively high price of the product is one of the important reasons. The HomeKit accessories currently on the shelves of Apple's official website store, the lowest-priced OPSO smart socket also sold for 298 yuan. This is six times more expensive than similar domestic products on the other big smart home platform in China.
Although there are slight differences in the function and use of the two, such price gaps are indeed too disparate.
One of the main reasons for the high price of HomeKit accessories is that manufacturers need to build Apple's special security chips for them. And manufacturers must first pass Apple's certification program before they can begin the development of HomeKit accessories. This makes it necessary for manufacturers to pay these costs before they can step into this system.
Although WWDC17 Keynote on Tuesday morning did not focus on HomeKit, Apple actually brought a big change to HomeKit on iOS 11.
First of all, if you want to try to develop a HomeKit accessory, you won't have to go through Apple's certification process. Apple allows any registered developers to join. This means that small and medium-sized companies and even individual developers can easily try and participate in the development of HomeKit accessories.
Of course, this does not mean that Apple gave up its relatively closed ecological policy. This HomeKit accessory developed without an Apple certification program can only be used for early development or for personal fans to entertain themselves. As for products that you want to market, you still need to go through a series of licensing processes.
However, this change has greatly eased the development environment of HomeKit. Any member of the registered developer can use his or her own ideas to create prototypes of HomeKit accessories without having to bother with Apple's certification license as before.
Another major change is that HomeKit accessories no longer need to be built with special hardware such as Apple Certified Chips. The safety certification of new HomeKit accessories can be accomplished by means of software. The original accessories can also be upgraded through firmware upgrades to achieve software certification.
As a result, other smart home products outside the current HomeKit platform will also have the opportunity to achieve compatibility and support for the Apple HomeKit platform.
Both of these changes have resulted in a reduction in the cost of research and development of HomeKit accessories. In principle, the selling price of HomeKit accessory products is also justified.
HomeKit accessories that are still under development or used by developers are exempt from official certification procedures. From a certain perspective, it is a bit like that the examination and approval system for IPO programs in the stock market has been changed to the filing system. The reduction of the development threshold will encourage more developers to invest in it, and it may even be developed based on a platform such as the Raspberry Pi.
The addition of more small and medium-sized manufacturers and individuals will also bring more molded products - the supply of goods will increase. On the other hand, the replacement of chip certifications by software has reduced the hardware costs of individual parts and reduced the cost of the development process.
Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that the current situation of the high selling prices of HomeKit accessories is expected to improve in the future. Since Apple has high hopes for the smart home market, a more reasonable and affordable price level is a factor that determines its competitiveness.
In addition, Apple also improved the matching of HomeKit accessories. The new version of the mating graphics includes a 10×10mm two-dimensional code in addition to the digital encoding. Based on the expanded NFC technology on iOS 11, HomeKit accessories can also choose the NFC Near Field Communication pairing method called "tap-and-pair".
Apple released HomePod, a smart voice speaker, on WWDC17. In addition to being a carrier and home music device for Siri, Apple is also seen as an entry point for the Apple HomeKit smart home platform. To make it easier for consumers to build a smart home system, naturally a variety of accessory product arrays are indispensable.
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