The rapid rise of the smart home industry

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Since the craze for intelligence was rolled up, major industries have sang the slogan of intelligence one after another, and the home appliance industry is no exception.

The rapid rise of the smart home industry

The rapid rise of the smart home industry

As a result, Internet companies such as Baidu, Xunlei, Xiaomi, and 360 are competing to release various smart wireless routers to enter the smart home market.
As the first step to surf the Internet, in the future, smart routers may play the role of network control center, equipped with smart operating systems on the basis of hardware configuration, thus becoming an important entrance for Internet companies to seize the "high ground" of smart homes.
Take Xiaomi as an example.
Through mobile phones, Xiaomi routers can form a system with Broadlink and other brands of smart home devices.
Xiaomi not only intends to make Mi Router the traffic entrance for smart homes, but also to use Mi Router as the entrance to smart homes.

In order to develop smart homes, traditional home appliance vendors such as Midea, Changhong, Gree, TCL, etc.
logically use smart home appliances as the physical entry point for smart homes.
Their biggest advantage is all kinds of smart home appliances such as smart air conditioners, smart refrigerators, smart washing machines, etc.
, which are closer to people's lives.
It is worth noting that smart homes not only require devices such as smart home appliances, but also need to use the network to connect various devices.
Therefore, for e-commerce companies to transform, they must also be supported by technologies such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing.
For this reason, in addition to smart home appliances, it may be a good choice for home appliance vendors to develop smart systems that connect smart home appliances and build an open platform for smart homes.

Acquiring smart product manufacturers with a certain development foundation is the fastest way to enter the smart home market.
For example, some smart home companies that already have complete products are using smart wireless gateways to connect sensors, buttons, and various devices in the home to provide users with a good experience.

Lin Binye, an analyst at Beijing Runzheng Investment Consulting Co.
, Ltd.
, said that no matter what kind of entry is used, in this trillion-level blue ocean market, major companies are following one another in order to take the lead in this market.
The most fierce thing in the entire smart home industry is the "entrance battle".
Who can lead this market in the future is still full of unknowns.

The rapid rise of the smart home industry

Get rid of the problem, "walk" firmly

Counting from the emergence of the concept of "home automation" at the 1933 Chicago World Expo, smart home is already an "old man" in his eighties.
Even with the start of the world's first "intelligent building" built by United Technology Corporation in 1984, smart homes have gone through more than 30 years of growth.

However, families with smart homes are rare in real life, and doubts and criticisms about it as pseudo-applications continue to this day.
Lin Biye believes that at the moment when the Internet of Things is transforming human life in an all-round way, smart homes with the Internet of Things as the core technology are indeed the future development trend, and the continuous efforts of related companies are the correct strategic choice.
It's just that on the way forward, the smart home industry needs to break through the three sticking points in three steps to usher in the dark.

The first step is the integration and unification of IoT technology standards.
At present, there are many people entering the smart home market, and the interfaces and communication standards set for self-developed products are not the same, and it is often difficult for different brands to connect smoothly.
This behavior of setting standards is naturally to make oneself form a monopoly in the industry.
However, the reality is not what people want.
Instead, it causes serious fragmentation and hinders the progress of the entire industry.

To this end, some companies have announced that they will form an IoT alliance to speed up the development of common standards for the Internet of Things through information sharing.
Although the cooperation of these giants serves as a good example, it is far from enough.
The unification of smart home IoT standards requires the collective participation of large and small enterprises.

The second step is to cancel the control center, so that intelligence can truly pervade every corner of the home.
Most of the smart home systems currently launched on the market have a control core, mainly smart phones or smart refrigerators.
The ideal smart home system should be decentralized, and users can directly communicate with any household appliances in the system.
These appliances are connected to each other, so no matter where the user is in the home, they can always control the equipment they need.

The third step is to upgrade the security technology of the Internet of Things.
The family contains a large amount of personal privacy information, so the network security of smart homes needs to be paid attention to by the industry in particular.
Judging from the current situation, there are news that smart home products such as sweeping robots and child escort robots that are highly accepted in the market have been attacked and have security vulnerabilities.
If network security is not guaranteed, then consumer trust cannot be established.
Even if the first two steps are taken, the smart home still can't get off the ground.
Therefore, early preparations must be made for the development of security technology.

Before the price and user experience of smart homes are sufficiently attractive, most consumers will not completely replace the entire home system for the newly added smart applications.
However, as time goes by and technology advances, smart homes will eventually usher in the day when they become popular, and the industry still needs to take a firm footing.