2015, the development of smart home also faced problems

Technical standards are not uniform has been a cliché of smart home, in the analysis of the development of smart home for decades has not achieved the reasons for the popularization of the general will be referred to it, and often placed in a very prominent position, then why the technical standards are not unified will cause the popularity of smart home?

Generally speaking, the technical standard refers to the communication protocol between intelligent home devices, in itself, in order to achieve the "series" of multiple devices, there is no good or bad in nature. However, because of the diversity and incompatibility of communication protocols, the "fragmentation" of intelligent homes between different protocols has intensified, and each of them can work independently but separate from each other, and it is difficult to interconnect, and the requirements of intelligent home are opposite.

Smart Home is one of its own characteristics is "fragmentation, whether in the industry involved or the inclusion of a very wide range of equipment, in this premise, the smart home to play the biggest function of the system through technical means to achieve interoperability, the technical means is the intelligent home communication technology standards." However, aside from the wired technology, the current more popular wireless communication standards are ZigBee, Z, WiFi and Bluetooth, and in real life, users rarely choose a single technology based on the standard equipment, "eggs in the same basket", because of this, Technical standards to a certain extent to solve the problem of intelligent home interconnection, but also brought a compatibility problem, to some extent, hindered the rapid promotion and popularization of intelligent home.

According to the general idea of solving this problem, to create a unified standard should be the solution, but the actual result backfired. Microsoft announced its accession to the AllSeen Alliance last July, and the alliance's goal is to try to AllSeen "a unified industry standard for smart home devices". But it has to say that even if the alliance has Cisco, LG Electronics, Qualcomm, Panasonic, Sharp and other internationally renowned corporate members, There is still no unified smart home standards.

and AllSeen similar class and Samsung, Nest, Arm teamed up to launch a new protocol thread. At that time, Samsung and other enterprises are holding the "Unified Lake" ideal, hope that through the new agreement in the field of intelligent home to establish their own status and achieve standard integration, But the actual result is only one more communication standard, it is impossible to talk about the unification standard.

It turns out that trying to unify the standard of chaos by creating new standards is not a good thing, because instead of unifying the standards, it is confusing standards. But even so, for now, technology standards are less important to smart homes, and technical standards are not that important, mainly for two reasons.

One is the diversity of technology. There seems to be a paradox here, but that is not the case. The diversity of technical standards does affect smart home compatibility to some extent, but technology diversity can also give users more choices, at least from the technical standard point of view, and another effect of this additional choice is which technical standards are difficult to stand out as standards, in other words, Are not irreplaceable, are not as important as we think.

Second, the technical standards brought about by the problem of step-by-step solution. It's not very reliable to create new standards to solve the problem of smart home incompatibility but does not mean that there is no way to solve, at present, there are three kinds of solutions to the technical standards do not unify the negative impact of the smallest, or even negligible: first, smart home platform, many smart home platforms have adopted technology integration strategy, Usually can make the equipment based on different technical standards work together, such as smartthing and so on; the second is the Intelligent Universal module, this way can make use of this module of all equipment without the brand gap, such as millet General module, the joint-purpose Sensor ZigBee Universal module, etc. three is the cloud service, Although cloud services are less mentioned in solving smart home compatibility problems, their feasibility has been proven.

It is worth mentioning that, although it can be said that smart home technology standards are not so important, but does not mean that they are worthless. Technical standards are not so important, the long-standing cable, wireless technology disputes can be put down, but these technical standards can not be put down, after all, smart home equipment to achieve information interaction between the need to rely on technical standards to complete. There are a number of technical standards may bring some compatibility problems, and no technical standards smart home is definitely disunity.

(Responsible editor: Lvguang)