Consumption upgrades, the whole house "smart" home into a "new favorite"

HC Security Network News In recent years, the rapid growth of smart home market, from 2014 to date has been in a hot state. In recent years, from the current market sales situation, a single home appliance or household products can no longer meet the needs of consumers' overall consumption. Along with the iterative update of the Internet of Things technology, users have increased the demand for smart packaging products, and smart homes such as smart air conditioners, smart hoods, smart curtains, and smart door locks have begun to enter ordinary households.

With the popularization of smart packaging products, the demand for product interconnection between brands under the open Internet of Things platform has become more and more vigorous.

Home appliances and household products are connected by net

Smart packaging products are popular

The emergence of more smart home products has gradually set off a boom in smart home consumption in the market. According to a person from the Nanjing Home Improvement Association, “In this year's decoration samples of various decoration companies, the choice of home appliances for middle-aged and elderly customers is relatively traditional. Most of the purchases of these two types of products are carried out separately. But some young people, especially technology. Enthusiasts, more respect for smart packaging products."

Mr. Liu, who is currently renovating at home, admits that he is going to get married early next year and the new house is being renovated. However, compared with the parents, it is no longer limited to the purchase of a single smart home appliance, but the realization of intelligent cloud control throughout the house, including smart curtains, lighting, indoor background music, fresh air system, water purification system, security system And other modules, I hope to achieve a variety of remote control functions through a mobile phone.

The overall sales data from Suning's online and offline line for the past year also showed that thanks to Suning's smart logistics and intelligent shopping guide services, in the smart home, the sales of products rich in "black technology" functions accounted for an upward trend in previous years. In addition, from the sales data of five-star stores, smart air conditioners that can sense indoor humidity and temperature account for 20% of the total sales volume, and there is an upward trend. At the same time, the recent hot-selling products also have intelligent range hoods that can automatically sense the fume with WiFi control.

Insiders pointed out that as smart homes are increasingly concerned by consumers, on the one hand, they show the market potential of smart homes, and also encourage the industry to upgrade more diverse services to meet customer demand.

"Let a lot of friends, few enemies"

Open platform to achieve interoperability of brands

While users enjoy the joy of smart home, the cumbersomeness of smart home “wisdom function”, too complicated operation, and the incompatibility between multiple product platforms are gradually exposed. The development of smart home products in China is “a hundred flowers bloom”, but it is limited by the product planning and development of their respective brand enterprises. At present, they are still in their respective closed state. In order to avoid the “separation of government”, it is necessary to achieve interconnection.

Obviously, existing businesses have sniffed business opportunities. In view of the non-interoperability and low intelligence of the smart home platform, Haier Smart Home has effectively solved the problem of interoperability of cross-category and cross-brand smart home appliances by virtue of its advantages in software, hardware, platform and resources.

Not long ago, with the launch of the Xiaomi IoT (Internet of Things) developer program, the Xiaomi IoT platform will soon be connected to different categories and brands to access the perfect Internet of Things, helping to bring different brands of intelligence, Humanized technology is integrated into the daily life of users. In the words of Lei Jun, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Technology, it is: "Let a lot of friends, there are few enemies." As of November 2017, Xiaomi IoT already has more than 400 partners including Mobile, Microsoft Xiaobing, Siemens, Philips and Supor. At the same time, after more than three years of growth with Xiaomi IoT, Xiaomi Ecological Chain Company including Zi Mi, Huami, Zhimi, Ninebot, and Small Ants also rank among the unicorn companies. In the future, Xiaomi IoT will face more third-party brands with a fully open mind.

Editor in charge: Zhong Juanjuan