OFweek smart home network news: smart home wind, and simply can not stop!
At the 2017 China Household Electrical Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (hereinafter referred to as AWE), nearly all exhibitors have played "smart cards."
In recent years, with the escalation of the concept of household consumption, the smart home industry in the intersection of manufacturing, real estate, and internet big data has become the focus of giants. From the dispute of the entrance of the smart home to the dispute of the scene and the dispute of the system ecology, each home appliance company launched a round of rounds of fighting, just like the battle between iOS and Android of the mobile phone, and now the smart home ecology. The system has also intensified.
"Now China's smart home technology is not a big challenge, such as technology from product contact technology, product and human interaction, the most important is how to break through the application scenarios, the application of life and increased technology Together, how can we better adapt to each and every consumer, be able to live more and more contextualized, it takes time to nurture.†Zhou Yunjie, president of Haier Group, told the “Business School†reporter.
Reporters at the AWE site interviewed and felt that kitchen appliances are the fulcrum to shake up the smart home industry. Major companies have devoted themselves to the field of kitchen appliances in terms of smart product layout.
Liang Zhenpeng, an analyst in the home appliance industry, believes that smart homes are relatively primitive to home appliance companies such as Gree, Midea, and Haier, but they are still far from mature.
Lian Heng: Cooperation and opening up is the future development?
During AWE in March 2017, Hu Ziqiang, vice president of Midea Group, described the future of smart home life at the “Smart Future†2017 US Midea Group Strategy Conference. The future kitchen is like a distributed home robot with awareness. Equipment and implementation equipment, intelligent control terminal "Xiaomei" is the kitchen's interactive center, virtual kitchen assistants, through the interconnection of people, things, and equipment, to help people create the most delicious dinner; intelligent hardware can achieve food preservation , pretreatment and cooking process.
In terms of software, Midea Health Cloud is a professional health platform that collects the results of global nutrition research. There is a huge database of ingredients, functional staple foods and functional recipes for slimming populations and three-high populations. These programs are all domestic Well-known top-three hospitals, universities and research institutes collaborated to produce results.
This is just a set of wisdom around the products of the United States, in the eyes of the United States, the core of smart home is "pass" and "joint." In the case of smart homes that do not yet form a unified standard for collaboration, Midea is also developing an infrastructure for open platforms while developing smart homes, rather than who is the dominant figure in intelligence. Putting the user experience first, and connecting with various platforms and technologies, can achieve beautiful products' barrier-free applications in various environments.
In fact, as early as 2014, Midea Group released the “M-Smart Smart Home†strategy. At the 14th China Household Appliances Fair one year later, Midea launched 30 categories of smart products and released “Smart Home†at the same time. The "System White Paper" is based on the principles of openness, mutual deposit, and common progress and builds a broader business circle and ecosystem.
Hu Ziqiang once stated that the “Smart Home†ecosystem constructed by Midea is divided into two parts. The first part is the intelligence of the monomer, that is, the product itself is technologically advanced, and breakthroughs are made in the basic technical fields, such as how to determine the color of the washing machine, how to color the clothes, and to increase the cleaning rate according to the characteristics of different fabrics. "This is a research that we have been working on for a long time. The dialogue between objects and things in a single product is more about sensor technology," said Hu Ziqiang.
The second part is the construction of intelligent systems. This requires a strong and intelligent environment for infrastructure construction. Non-US companies can solve this problem. To this end, "pass" and "connection" are the key to the role of smart homes. This is the basis for building a smart home ecosystem. Under the concept of interoperability, Midea adopted a "decentralized" strategy. Build "passwords" and support them with core technologies to form a mutually agreed protocol.
Under the M-Smart Smart Ecological Plan, Midea will gradually open up third-party cloud platforms and invite partners such as smart hardware, wearable design, smart home appliances, home appliance manufacturing, vehicle linkage, logistics, medical care, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence to jointly create wisdom. Life operation platform and smart life operation service.
Since the launch of the M-Smart strategy, Midea has actively cooperated with the industry. First, M-Smart's communication protocol is linked with the agreements of various manufacturers, including Huawei, Ali Xiaozhi, and Anjixing. IBM, Alibaba Cloud, and several Amazon giants also cooperated with Midea to jointly realize the intelligence of after-sales service, equipment unit, system operation, and cross-category device scenes, including intelligence in various scenarios such as home security, power supply, and lighting. application.
In August 2016, Midea Smart Home Technology Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen TCL Smart Home Technology Co., Ltd. and Tianhui United (Beijing) Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. announced cooperation to establish an open standard platform for smart home in China. The three parties fully developed their respective resource advantages to form " "Internet + product + service" ecosystem.
At the beginning of 2017, Tencent QQ and Midea Group formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Shenzhen to jointly launch a variety of smart home appliances based on QQfamily IP licensing and Tencent IoCloud technology. Obviously, whether it is the interconnection of hardware or the development of software platforms, on the road of smart home, the United States is taking an open and win-win ecosystem. From the perspective of the United States, the industry is large enough to have no big winner. There are only endless opportunities for cooperation.
Collapse vertical: full-scene layout of the ecological chain
In the smart home ecosystem building, Midea’s cooperative win-win ecosystem is similar to Android’s operating system in mobile phones, open and open source, while Haier, another big home appliance company, has engaged in smart home research and development for more than 10 years. For a long time, the difference with the United States is that Haier is a "co-horizontal technique," and more like iOS in mobile operating systems.
At the AWE exhibition, the kitchen became the center of major home appliances companies creating a smart home ecosystem. Haier demonstrated the world's first refrigerator-free Internet refrigerator that implements artificial intelligence. It uses language interaction as an entrance to realize human-computer dialogue. This is actually due to its implantation of Baidu's speech module. At the same time Xin refrigerator also become the kitchen's "brain", and ovens, dishwashers and other kitchen appliances to achieve interoperability.
Smart appliances equipped with the U+ operating system can be used to interact with users through various entrances such as mobile phones, refrigerators, TVs, Ubots, and magic mirrors in different settings such as kitchens, living rooms, and bathrooms to acquire personalized requests from users, machines, and objects. Real-time interconnection allows home appliances to proactively provide services based on individual needs.
Such scenes are not realized in sci-fi movies, but are gradually entering the home of ordinary consumers.
There is also the Internet company Xiaomi, who also walks the "integral vertical" technique. Open millet's online platform Mijia Mall, the reporter saw its smart hardware in addition to mobile phones and bracelets and other wearable devices, smart home single product became the mall's mainstream. Rice cookers, sweeping robots, water purifiers, air purifiers... Xiaomi’s ecological chain layout has long since moved from its original armed individuals to armed families.
At the end of 2016, Lei Jun said in a public speech that in 2016 Xiaomi Intelligent Hardware Ecological Chain, its annual revenue is expected to reach 15 billion yuan. At present, Xiaomi invested a total of 77 smart hardware eco-chain companies, 30 products have been released, 16 have annual revenues of over 100 million yuan, 3 have annual revenues of more than 1 billion yuan, and 4 have become independent companies with valuations exceeding 1 billion US dollars. Horned beast."
From this point of view, Xiaomi’s ambitions in smart homes are far more than smart hardware with different functions and shapes. Xiaomi’s ambition is the entire smart home ecological chain.
Gree also independently developed smart home systems. At AWE, Gree exhibited a smart home system using residential as a platform to form smart energy, smart air and wisdom through six key technologies such as smart connection, intelligent interaction, intelligent perception, intelligent cloud platform, smart energy management system, and artificial intelligence. Water, smart food four management systems. The platform is initiated by Gree's “Intelligent Integrated Management System†independently developed by Gree. Based on the independently developed cloud platform, the platform integrates energy, air, water, and food management to achieve the interconnection of various products and equipment within the home. Create a smart home environment with smart control, convenient and comfortable for consumers.
Both Haier, Gree and Xiaomi, the leading enterprises in the traditional home appliance industry, are looking forward to users using all smart home products under their own brands, and have their own brands in each scene. However, in Liang Zhenpeng's view, for home appliances companies with relatively complete product lines, smart homes are already in their infancy, but they are far from mature. "First of all, the vast majority of users at home have few intelligent devices and do not have the premise of linking them organically; after connecting these devices together, users do not enjoy the convenience of living."
After all, most of today's so-called smart home products, such as the built-in WiFi electric kettle, mobile phone remote control of the air conditioner, etc., are similar to consumers. The practitioners of the smart home industry generally agree that the future mobile phone APP will never be the entrance of smart home, and the Internet of Things and voice interaction will become the biggest highlights of smart home. At present, most devices require a mobile phone APP to complete, and manufacturers are not compatible with each other. For consumers, it is unrealistic for a mobile phone to have a dozen or more APPs. This should enjoy the convenience and comfort of intelligence, but it will make consumers' life more tedious.
“The scene revolution of the smart family is not a single individual need but a system integration category. It needs to combine the fields and the landscape organically, including the interconnection, sharing, and sharing of home appliances, communications, home appliances, electrical equipment, and even buildings. How to really bring convenience to consumers and be accepted by consumers is still being explored." Liang Zhenpeng said.
For Haier, who started smart home exploration earlier, the year 2017 will become the outbreak of smart homes. “According to the law, it takes about 20 years from the introduction of a new technology and era to universal application. In 2017, and In the next two years, China will usher in a great development in the era of the Internet of Things. At that time, the smart home ecology will reach a very high level.†said Zhou Yunjie.
Unified platform: short-term or difficult to achieve
Haier and Xiaomi are "combined" on the system of smart homes, while the United States adopts "Lianheng" strategies. Huawei also uses Huawei as its strategy.
Midea owns its own home appliances, and other brands can “graft†with Midea’s products to achieve 1+1>2 effectiveness. Huawei, as a giant in the field of communications, has also been expanding in the field of IoT in the past two years, and has gradually taken the connectivity as its core, uniting different home appliance brands to build its own ecosystem in the smart home field.
“In the rapidly developing smart technology and mobile Internet industry, smart homes are considered to be the next enthusiasm for the tech industry. In the transition from the traditional to the Internet of Things era, what is needed most at the moment is the collaboration between the industry chains. "Fangtai related responsible person said that Huawei has a strong connectivity, can quickly increase the kitchen appliance brand and the user's connection and range, while Tai Tai is considered to be currently the most intelligent lineup of intelligent kitchen business.
It is reported that Huawei's principle in adhering to the smart home system is to “do something wrong†and focus on the concept of connecting to maximize the advantages of a cooperative brand. The purpose is to promote the smart home to a unified standard.
However, for the smart home system dispute, Liang Zhenpeng believes that by the government organizations related businesses, industry associations to build the only smart home platform to achieve the sharing of technical standards is the best solution. It is a convenience for consumers. It will reduce waste, bring synergy and reduce costs for home appliances and chip manufacturers. However, this vision is not achievable in the short term, as many manufacturers have already invested heavily in R&D and cannot fully deprive their own interests. In addition, the smart home itself is a fast-growing industry. Today's smart homes have a great difference in technology two years ago. There is a constant fusion of new technologies and new industries. Therefore, for such a changing industry, It is also very difficult for the state to establish a unified standard.
Huawei, Haier, Midea, Xiaomi ... ... more and more home appliance companies are building their own smart home ecosystem, but the immediate problem is that the agreements between the various manufacturers are not interoperable, and the situation of self-government is obvious, even if it is like the United States. In order to make Huawei an open platform company, access providers also need to follow the "rules of the game" of the system.
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