Two major issues facing smart home

1) The cost of smart homes is high and the consumer threshold is too restrictive

Although the concept of smart home has been deeply rooted in people's minds, due to the limitations of technology, product procurement costs are relatively high, product investment and R & D costs are relatively large, lack of flexibility, leading to high prices. Now a set of more complete smart home systems, the standard configuration of wireless cameras, light sensors, central touch screen and automated systems are often calculated in units of thousands of yuan, so many people are discouraged. For example, an average family home with a 30m2 house would cost 500,000 yuan for renovation, and the entire home furnishing system would cost 200,000 yuan. This is only the simplest anti-theft lighting system in the smart home concept, plus late maintenance and The cost of repairs and the cost of various expenditures will deter ordinary consumers. According to relevant statistical data, smart home products have the highest spending power and consumer demand. They are high-income consumer groups. Apartments, duplexes, and villas with an area of ​​more than 120mz are installed with smart home systems to realize greater practicality and comfort. Hedonic. Positioned in the high-end market, only in some large-scale luxury homes will be equipped with or partially equipped with a corresponding smart home system, consumer groups set in the particularity of high-end customer groups, so that the promotion of product smart home promotion is slow, popularization is facing a severe test, the majority Payroll consumers can only be deterred, resulting in the development of the entire industry is even more difficult.

The smart home industry standards are not uniform and hinder the development of the smart home industry

At present, there are numerous companies engaged in R&D and production of smart homes. There are many well-known brands such as Haier, Meiling, Gree, Sanyo, etc., but due to low market acceptance, immature product technology, and unstable product quality, especially in home network systems To form a unified technical framework and standards, each brand's equipment is self-contained, and it is difficult for various products to communicate with each other. When the user's smart home system has problems and needs to replace parts, only the same brand products provided by the developer are selected and cannot be replaced. The products of other manufacturers bring a lot of inconvenience to the users, which makes the products and systems developed by the smart home enterprises only stay in the experience stage, and cannot achieve industrialization and scale. The entire industry is also difficult to obtain sustained and healthy development. The growth of the smart home industry.