Haier joins the "smart Home Platform" situation

October 23, the "hitchhiking" of the Android Global Developers Conference, Haier u+ Smart Home Platform Developers Conference also held in Shenzhen. Haier U-home Department of the secretary Lily to the "First financial daily" reporter said that Haier supports Apple, but also support Google, "which partner strong, we are with WHO, the key is the user buy".

Haier and its foundation this year "Haier Race rich wisdom Home Venture Fund", yesterday in the vast number of developers in front of the "first show." Wang Tiule, executive director of the Fund, said to the reporter that the real investment project is expected to begin in December this year, "some projects have begun to make decisions."

Interestingly, yesterday's conference not only came to many intelligent home developers, but also attracted a lot of venture capital, industrial investment funds. And sitting in this reporter around a Shenzhen intelligent home development Enterprise CTO but cautiously said: "We are not anxious to ask for money, the first development of good products to say." Consider the assessment if you are joining the u+ platform. ”

Haier will cast about 30 projects

In order to create a more dynamic and richer intelligent family ecosystem, Haier has upgraded the u+ platform this year. Wang Zheng, director of Haier Uhome operations, said that following the March Haier official release of u+ Intelligent Home Platform, u+ platform has now been upgraded from 1.0 to 2.0 version, to provide developers with industry, market and financial support.

Wang Zheng says u+ provides developers with virtual labs, open the laboratory, help to do product testing, but also established a u+ joint brand network stores, the future u+ platform members can enter the Haier u+ intelligent life of the chain stores, and set up a u+ financing platform, and with Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other five industrial park cooperation.

u+ financing platform, refers to the September this year Haier and its fund jointly established Intelligent Family Industry fund, the first fund scale of 320 million yuan.

Where is the money going to be? Facing hundreds of developers, Wang Tiule yesterday revealed that there are about 30 investment projects in the first phase of the Haier Fund, including intelligent home, smart home, IoT-related materials, technology, products, applications and services, as well as investment opportunities in the areas of hardware, software, services, Internet, mobile internet and so on that are related to modern life.

"Our investment goal is to have the core innovation ability, the growth of good science and technology enterprises." Wang Tiule said that the investment early project 10~20, each project cast 1 million ~1200 million yuan, investment into long-term projects nearly 10, each cast 12 million ~3000 million, investment expansion period project several, each cast 30 million ~6000 million.

Wang Tiule said: "I am more optimistic about the broader area of intelligent life." Technological progress allows electronic sensing, chip processing functions to strengthen, faster, smaller, lower cost, so that the threshold to enter the smart home to become low, many enterprises are Cross-border entry. Smart hardware, software and a variety of cloud services, will be born with many new things. We not only invest in hardware, software, but also in a variety of new applications. ”

u+ platform to be completed next year

After setting up the financing platform, Wang Zheng said the u+ platform will be upgraded to 3.0 next year, "the 2015 u+ platform will be completed." ”

At present, the u+ platform's partner domain also expands unceasingly. Yesterday afternoon, mobile medical app developer, Shanghai Branch Jianling Medical Technology Co., Ltd. CTO Zhang Hongguang introduced that they and u+ platform has formed a benign interaction. "We can upload the user's health information to the platform, the doctor to give feedback, and with the refrigerator, hand ring linked to the formation of health, nutrition recommendations." ”

Zhang Hongguang said that they now provide blood pressure device, blood glucose meter, micro-letter service number, brain stroke prediction model services, and future plans to develop community health management services, "hope to promote to Haier flagship store." ”

A representative of Tomoon Smart watch introduced the experience, the two sides have set up a joint laboratory in Beijing. In addition to using smart watch remote air-conditioning and other appliances, "in the future will be more in-depth cooperation, such as monitoring the health of blood sugar and so on."

In fact, in addition to Haier, Ali, Baidu, Tencent, Beijing-east, Millet and other major internet companies and other household appliances, it giants are also building their own wisdom home, smart home platform. One developer said, "which platform to join, the key to see two points, platform cost is lower, the standard is more compatible." From this point of view, it is not surprising that Haier u+ join the Apple Smart Home Platform HomeKit and actively participate in the Google platform.

However, the Shenzhen Intelligent Home Enterprise CTO said: "The internet age, not necessarily a single big situation." Shenzhen has more than 100 intelligent home enterprises, although some live well, some live well. He then changed: "The situation is pressing, they are too powerful." We first accumulate ourselves and see if we make new choices. ”