It is the sea that the intelligent home is eager to find the incompleteness.

The original intention of smart home is to make family life healthier, low-carbon, smart, comfortable, safe and convenient. At present, technology has basically been able to meet these needs, but smart homes have not been able to land.

AWE looks at the status of smart home

In the just-concluded AWE, smart home has clearly become the object of competition among major manufacturers. Whether it is a traditional household appliance company or an Internet company, there are many start-up companies who have all given up their "techniques" in AWE.

Household appliances companies are most typical of Haier and the United States. Haier's model of universal citizenship has opened up an ecosystem of smart life - U+ smart life platform. Haier is committed to providing an open platform where users can participate in the whole process of design, R&D, etc. with their U+ open interface protocol. , Allowing various types of home appliances and various service access systems to achieve interoperability, with excellent home APP as an open entrance, to provide users with appliance customization, production, distribution, installation of the whole process of visual experience.

At the same time, Haier’s vision for a smart life is carried out in the seven major ecosystems of water conservation, water, air, food, health, safety, and entertainment. Such an ecosystem is no longer confined to the family. It encompasses neighborhood interaction and community. Business, and other aspects of content, is intended to achieve all-round, multi-level coverage of life.

The beauty of AWE is the beauty of the world. The 2,300-square-meter exhibition area creates the M-Smart smart home system that “sees the future”. U.S. faced users' pain points and achieved new breakthroughs in the functionality of traditional products through intelligent technologies such as "one-click completion," "image recognition," "AI technology language interaction," and "product linkage," to achieve "the beauty of the morning, the degree of food, and There are seven smart life scenes that are worry-free, welcoming, enjoying private kitchens, beckoning new life, and sleeping peacefully.

If Haier emphasizes the "community wisdom life" in which users participate in interaction, then Midea focuses on the precise creation of family life scenes. During AWE, Midea announced that it will work together with Huawei, IBM, Anjixing, COFCO, Amazon, Ali, Tencent, JD.com, HKUST, and other top-notch partners at home and abroad to create a smart living operation service platform with distinctive features of “decentralization”. Completely breaking the island of information and achieving ecological co-building.

Internet companies such as JD.com, WeChat, and Xiaomi also show their own blueprints for smart living on AWE. Here, Jingdong Intelligence officially released JD Micro's “Smart Home” strategy and teamed up with Dongyi Risheng to launch the first C-side smart home solution; WeChat brought its own hardware products and internet platform, WeChat wanted to build a set Message center, social attributes, interconnection, data sharing hardware platform; Xiaomi's booth is only TV, but Xiaomi's smart home is based on millet TV as a smart interactive interface, using millet cloud system to control the millet bracelet, routers, purification Equipment and other equipment. One of the states they present is to either tell their own stories about smart homes or seize the entrance to smart homes in advance.

Of course, the stage of smart homes is not without the participation of numerous Internet of Things service providers, such as the provision of Internet of Things (IoT) technology support, remote control of equipment management, data storage analysis, hardware socialization and other technical services, such as the smart cloud; development of home appliances, including Marvell for smart products such as thermostats, wireless storage systems, and HomeKit accessories; and smart hardware developers Yun Zhiyi, which provides cloud access, remote device management, and firmware upgrades for smart homes, smart businesses, and smart wearable manufacturers... etc. And so on are demonstrating their smart home solutions, seeking more cooperation with hardware developers.

In general, in this AWE, both the scene creation of smart homes and the centralized display of IOT products are displayed, but more are still constructive ideas for smart life. Unfortunately, there is still no mature and impressed intelligence. Home full range of solutions.

Is smart home beautiful?

From the perspective of consumers, China has the largest Internet and mobile Internet users, with a middle class of nearly 100 million. The young people who have touched the Internet after the 1980s and 1990s have become the main consumers. The entire economic environment and cultural environment in China are smart homes. Provides a good foundation for subversion and innovation. According to the "2015 China Smart Home Market Research Report," the smart home market will reach 180 billion yuan in 2018, and it is expected to exceed 1 trillion yuan by 2020.

The trillion-dollar market prospect of smart homes attracts more and more participants. However, behind the fiery appearance of the industry, the unresponsive status of end-markets can not be ignored. Although smart single-items are emerging in an endless stream, they are difficult to handle because of complicated operations and poor experience. Gained favor from the market; many cross-border players - home appliance giants or Internet giants have launched smart home open platform, but due to poor compatibility, standards and agreements are not uniform and other factors and high and low.

From the first smart building in 1984, the global smart home has gone through nearly 30 years of development. During the development process of 30 years, it has experienced the transition from the Internet era to the mobile Internet era to the home Internet era. With the emergence of various cross-border games and the continuous maturation of technologies, the smart home industry in China is gradually developing. In 2012, Haier initiated the establishment of the China Smart Home Industry Alliance, which has greatly promoted and guided the development. However, it is undeniable that in the international market, China's smart home industry is still in the green growth period.

Wei Yuhuai, director of research at Ove Cloud Network, proposed at the 2016 China (International) Smart Home Innovation Forum that two major issues in China's smart home industry are user pain points and platform issues. He said that there is no need for new products to catch users' pain points. Companies often talk about very good concepts. However, they lack sufficient stamina and do not have a good grasp of the user's pain points. They lack the driving force behind technological innovation and the market has not been stimulated. Come out; and everyone talks about their own platform, each playing with each other, the data is not open and shared, there is no good unified platform can not be a good application of data, can not be a good data value into productivity.

The evolution of intelligent technology has enabled smart homes to meet all the requirements for health, low-carbon, smart, comfortable, safe, and convenient. The reduction in product prices brought about by the industry scale effect is also helping smart homes to open up the market earlier, and the capital's strong Support has also become an important opportunity for the rise of smart homes. The industry is so busy, but the consumer side is still flat.

At the end of AWE's recent CCTV 315 evening party, it was also pouring cold water in advance of smart homes. Using loopholes, hackers can control the entire building's power system; remotely start the microwave oven in the home; start the user's home camera to steal shots; break the POS's stolen bank card; control the car to crash into the roadside ditch, etc., to make the audience frightened. This undoubtedly set a barrier to the marketing of smart homes, and there is nothing wrong with it. The security of smart homes is also a long way off.

There should be no way to reject the replacement of an era. Smart homes are an inevitable trend. Just as Apple changed the world with the iPhone, the future life scene must have changed under the smart home.

There are many mountains in front of smart home companies, and on the other side of the mountain is the blue sea of ​​smart homes. The future may not come now, but it will surely come.