The current situation and development trend of home Network service

The concept of home network is a changing concept, which develops with the development of users ' needs, policies, techniques and standards. Today, different industries (including it/home appliances industry, communications industry, residential property) on the home network of different understanding are based on different user needs.

The broad understanding of the concept of home network is that the home network is a limited scope (for example: Home, Office) in a wired or wireless way to connect a number of devices to form a network, the network is to meet the needs of users and set up to provide users with a certain business and application. The user's requirements can be the flow of information between multiple devices within a limited range, or the flow of information between a limited range of devices and a public network, or even between all devices within a limited range and between these devices and the public network.

Four elements of Home network

It can be considered that the home network contains four elements, namely, the user needs, equipment, network, business and application, each element for different users, different times are different.

The user's requirements can be the flow of information between multiple devices within a limited range, or the flow of information between a limited range of devices and a public network, or even between all devices within a limited range and between these devices and the public network. This limited range can be: Inside the home, in the office.

Depending on the needs of the user, the home network involves a number of devices: computers, printers, fax machines, scanners, projectors, mobile phones, IP phones, PDAs, VCRs, televisions, set-top boxes, A/V devices, cameras, digital cameras, washing machines, refrigerators, microwave ovens, security systems, lighting systems, Visual intercom system, electric curtain system, automatic smoke detection, water meter, gas meter, meter and so on.

Although we can divide these devices into information equipment, home appliances, communication equipment (including communication terminals and gateways), the devices that are connected to the home network emphasize multiple, not multiple, depending on the needs of the user. For example: Some users need simple, only needs a family of multiple PCs to be able to share the Internet, then his home network connected to the device only includes multiple PCs and gateway devices (such as Adslmodem). Some users need to be complex, and his home network connected to the device may be all of the above equipment.

A network connection to a home network can be wired or wireless. The network connection of home network can adopt a kind of technology, also can adopt a variety of technology, this depends mainly on the business that the user needs, the expense that the user is willing to pay, the maturity of various technology and so on.

it/Appliance manufacturers to provide business

it/Home appliances manufacturers to provide business is the family control network and multimedia Information network in one family information platform, is within the family to achieve information equipment, communications equipment, entertainment equipment, household appliances, automation equipment, lighting equipment, security (monitoring) devices and hydro-thermal meter equipment, Home help alarm equipment interconnection and management, as well as data and multimedia information sharing system.

The home network system constitutes an intelligent family equipment system, which improves the quality of family life, study, work and entertainment. The application now consists of two aspects, on the one hand, information equipment sharing collaborative services, the main research direction is the home multimedia equipment (such as television sets, audio equipment, DVDs, of course, including computers, printers) between the data sharing, the transmission of data between the various devices is very convenient; another aspect is home appliance network control, such as lighting control, air-conditioning control and so on.