Amazon's Internet of Things water test--amazon Echo

Home for the new year, with the relatives to chat, found the hometown of Small county real N-line city, also know Smart home, also began to sell automatic control of the door lock, the internet of things seems to have begun to slowly immersed in people's lives. In the 2015, I hope to see more applications and more companies in this area to make a surprise.

In the second half of last year, Apple launched the HomeKit and WatchKit, more recently there is speculation that Cook intends to meddle in electric vehicles, launched ICAR with Tesla higher, affected by this, analysts are optimistic that Apple's share price will continue to rise 30% in 15, market capitalisation trillion. Whether or not Icar's message is true, 2015 is still a year of high-speed IoT growth, and wearable devices are transitioning from small-scale trials to large-scale commercial applications this year. Morgan Stanley analysts expect Apple to sell 30 million smart watch products this year, and Apple Watch will build consumer awareness of smart wearable devices, redefine the market and lead the future of smart watches. Apple is booming, as a strong competitor of Google can not be weak, just after the Lunar New Year, it is heard that Google is developing a similar to the Uber car rental application Goober, and is willing to rely on driverless cars to make it a powerful logistics platform, A potential competitor is undoubtedly the darling of Uber in the venture capital market last year. Relying on the world's most powerful web platform, Google collects user data and uses that data to serve targeted advertising, which constitutes Google's core business. But the service market sector, which is exclusively owned by Uber and Airbnb's two startups, and once Uber makes the logistics platform bigger, will undoubtedly be like Facebook and other social networks, creating a closed, open source of data for Google, so Google will do Goober, develop driverless cars, is feasible and necessary.

Three people will have my teacher, Samsung in the introduction of S5 after the lack of bright spots, especially the Iphone6 large screen of the listing is directly led to the Samsung mobile phone market share shrinking, although 14 years to buy smartthings bright colors, but compared to Google acquired Nest Market sensation, it is flat, But February 24 (sheep early six) on the acquisition of the world's leading electric car battery Assembly company Magna Steyr, it seems that everyone is optimistic about the broad prospects of the Internet.

Having said that for so long, I didn't see Amazon, the leading company in recent years for new technology applications. Amazon's Computing status in cloud computing is no match so far, no matter Google Engine, Microsoft Azure, or VMware's cloudfoundry, will not be able to shake the banner of Amazon AWS. So is Amazon going to have no plans in the IoT world? Of course not, at the end of last November, Amazon finally launched its own ECHO speaker products and officially entered the internet of things.

         Maybe Jeff Bezos has been thinking about how to join the IoT boom, This launch of ECHO is clearly positioned as a home voice control device. Although there are many criticisms, such as alexa " provides a good voice service to users, Faster than Siri response time, inline 7 microphone , even in the case of playing other speakers, it is also very good to capture the user's voice commands. These instructions are routed to Amazon's backend cloud service for identification and response. Amazon Echo collects large amounts of data in the process of user use, constantly "learns" the user's life habits, thus becoming a more and more understand the needs of the host speaker. The author speculates that the background cloud service is similar to the lambda Common case knowledge Learning (common sense learning) system. Currently echo only supports WiFi and Bluetooth connected devices

Although the speech recognition technology is not perfect , but Amazon's entry point is undoubtedly accurate, one of the audio equipment this scene has no giant intervention, not like mobile phone to win the death, and the future of smart home should be language control, It's hard to imagine a user placing any order by clicking on the app button on a phone or other device, which not only frees hands (especially when hands are dirty), but is also more secure and reliable. As Forrester research, a US market researcher, predicts, voice will become the primary way users interact with computers in the short term, especially at home. "From Google to Apple, all the big digital platform companies are trying to install sensors in your home. With the acquisition of Nest and Dropcam, Google has thermostats and cameras, and Apple has launched a smart home development tool, HomeKit. But Amazon is the first company to deploy a microphone interface in your home, and it's always ready to listen to your instructions. "In addition, Amazon's Echo is undoubtedly an excellent business model that allows it to better understand users, which will help Amazon To further sell their products .

From Echo we can basically see that Amazon has long been planning to make echo such a thing as a control center for all smart appliances, which is the same as the idea of Apple's iphone. At present, the lack of the correct rate of speech recognition is not high, coupled with AI (artificial intelligence) has not yet breached the practical threshold.

Major companies have recognized the trend of the tide of the internet of things, after a fierce war is inevitable, as a user or technician, are you ready?

Amazon's Internet of Things water test--amazon Echo