Smart home: Life is more complicated? The more intelligent the more unsafe?

Turn on the light to use the app to turn on the TV to connect WiFi ...

The most prominent concept at the Shanghai Home Expo held recently was "smart home". Haier, the United States, Hisense, LG, Samsung and other traditional household appliances Enterprises play "smart card", intelligent strategy began to become the whole household electrical appliances industry choice. Traditional, saturated and outdated vocabulary is the industry's inherent view of the home appliance industry, and "intelligent strategy" to make it "suddenly", with it, the Internet, software, things networking, cloud computing, large data, sensors and other trendy and fashionable words to join hands.

In the "smart" banner of the home appliances bosses, "interconnection is the direction of the future, functional products are not suitable for this era." "However, in the face of the" simple "or" complex "that smart homes may bring, consumers and the industry are not unanimous in clapping their hands and cheers: are smart homes making our lives simpler and more convenient or more annoying?

is intelligence making life more complicated?

"Smart home" to give us a description of the scene: through the mobile phone app, you can inquire about how much air conditioning yesterday, the amount of electricity for the night to set different sleep temperature. "Users voice instructions to the phone, instructions will be converted into the data stream, through the mobile phone network transmission to the control center, and then translate the language into instructions, through a number of complex algorithms, and then through the fiber and home wireless network to the air conditioning smart chip, air-conditioning can follow the instructions to act. At the same time, the air-conditioning is also recorded in the switch machine, power consumption, temperature and humidity data, back to the control center, to the user ' report '. ”

At first glance, these technical gateways should all have little to do with the user, but users need to download at least a specific app, use micro-letters or microblogs to bind to a particular model, and must pay a hefty incremental cost for the use of the control center. In actual use, this is to make things more "simple", or more "complex" it? A senior industry personage engaged in LED lighting equipment has thought, "in the choice of home appliances, the future will be divided into two categories of people, a similar technology enthusiasts, hope that all the more ' intelligent ', ' automation ' the better; the other kind will insist on the use of simplicity. As if some people in modern society like urban life, some people would rather return to the countryside, for humans, today's technology is not underdeveloped, but may be too developed. ”

As an example of intelligent television, the current sales of intelligent television accounted for more than 50% of all TV sales, but because of the shortcomings of the product operation Humanization, the real use of intelligent TV Intelligent features of the user only accounted for the purchase ratio of less than 25%. The living room wall is hung with a large screen of intelligent network television, 64-Year-old Cheung with the remote control for a long time, but do not know how to connect WiFi network; The new microwave ovens have many features that make most older people over the age of 60 afraid to do so. When the Internet connects the refrigerator and washing machine that is alone in the home, and the name "smart home", a fundamental question to answer first is: Are they really as simple as they look?

The more intelligent the more unsafe?

Industry personage Argentine just from "cloud platform" of "heavy degree" come out, heard "smart home" and frowned. "With the cloud Platform, upload or download data always want to set what is ' shareable ', which ' is not shared ', but once confused, the results can be disastrous. The same applies to smart homes: we hold a variety of mobile phones, pad, PC terminals, which terminals can control which appliances, all kinds of authorization, password to bring us a new burden, and once mixed the terminal, will not appear ' I do not know who put the home stove lit the situation? If you are clearly at home, suddenly found that the door was automatically opened by others control, your mood will be how? ”

Reporter interviews found that, whether it is through the microblogging sent letters, or in the download of the app control air-conditioning open, rice cooker cooking, or home security automatic monitoring, remote operation, for users, "security" and "privacy" is always the most important value, and seemingly omnipotent hackers make the more familiar with the technology, interested in The more "enthusiasts" are afraid to try this "smart home" that is deeply implanted in technology.

Yang Jiajun, a professor at Nanjing University School of Management, said that, in contrast to the "fashionable" goal, whether it was air-conditioning, refrigerators, washing machines or even lighting, the ultimate goal of intelligent intelligence was the user experience: Smart devices familiar with your living time, eating habits and comfortable temperatures, light, Instead of letting you familiarize yourself with the way they operate, connect home appliances to the Internet for simple remote control. Real smart home should have the ability to learn, so that the machine gradually understand the human language, expression.

Home "smart" people become stupid?

Home appliances plate Under the traditional manufacturing industry, has been a strong resistance to risk characteristics, but in recent years the household appliance industry has generally shown performance fatigue. For traditional home appliances companies, internet companies and start-ups have shown the explosive power and creativity has made them helpless, and smart home is more like an act of stress-we must hurry to do something. But what is the result of all this? What changes will be made to the people who are all really "smart"?

Recently released a "smart refrigerator" built-in multiple cameras, it will be the refrigerator door with each opening and closing of the refrigerator food image recognition, and upload data to the cloud. The fridge then synchronizes with the server-side food-preservation database, synchronizing the types of existing foods, putting dates, freshness dates, and other data into your mobile app, and labeling them differently to remind you which foods are going to expire-how smart they look! We can think of something less, but is it really good? Thomas Hills of the University of Warwick, Britain, said that the explosion of information technology has caused the work of the human brain can be trained by computer or network automation completed, the brain "used into disuse", no longer development, will cause the decline of human intelligence level.

Not only that, but also some people think that smart appliances can disrupt the family space in social and emotional communication. A user said: "The kitchen is not just cooking as simple, but also a family cooperation, exchange, sharing process." A smart home that can get everything done and let the family members go silent may bring new problems. ”

Reporter Observation:

Interconnection is inherently difficult

The development of smart home for the development of household electrical appliances industry is enormous, will drive the home appliance industry from a traditional manufacturing sector to the sunrise industry, to achieve the transformation and upgrade. However, the user needs are diverse, consumers can not choose only one brand in all terminals of a company's products, it is necessary to achieve all intelligent terminal Home control, need to buy n boxes, download n mobile phone app? Such "intelligent", the first to give people the feeling is not convenient, but is cumbersome.

An endless range of intelligent home terminals in the market, commercial interests, the different positions of enterprises, the use of different technical standards, resulting in "cross-enterprise brands," the coordinated integration of control becomes difficult. The standard of interconnection of intelligent home also needs the relevant national authorities (association) to promote.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)