March 17 Morning News, Alibaba, the United States signed a strategic cooperation agreement this morning, the two sides will work together to build an open platform based on Aliyun, to achieve connectivity and remote control of home appliances products. The United States also released the first intelligent air-conditioning based on Aliyun, will be on March 19 in the days of the Cat Electrical City exclusive debut.
It is reported that from 2014 onwards, the United States will be in all new air-conditioning products in the application of intelligent technology, planning three years time will be more than 50% of the air-conditioning network, the future of the United States a full range of products will be connected to the Aliyun platform.
U.S. group executive vice president, home Air Conditioning Division president Wu Wenwan revealed that the United States and Ali's strategic cooperation project will be divided into three stages: 2014, the formation of a unified network of products application and communication standards, the United States to achieve a full range of product access and unified control; the 2015 data operation, Improve product development and production with user behavior data, 2016, the formation of a complete industrial chain, to achieve the centralized operation of product line data, to provide value-added applications and services.
The release of the United States of the Internet intelligent Air conditioning will be officially on March 19 in the days of CAT Electrical City exclusive debut, including three appearance, eight models of products. Among them, "small cloud" a big (26) frequency conversion hangs The machine, the initial price 3399 yuan.
Sina technology in the scene to see, the current United States launched a app for its air-conditioning remote control, through the app can be used to control air-conditioning voice, check the electricity generated every day, for the night different time settings for different sleep temperature.
Alibaba's engineers explained that when a user sends a voice command to a cell phone, the instruction is converted into an invisible torrent of data, transmitted through the mobile network to the Intelligent Control Center on the Ali Cloud, calculated and analyzed, and sent to the air conditioner's smart chip through a fiber and WiFi network, The air conditioner acted according to the instructions.
"At the same time, the air-conditioning is also recorded in the switch machine, power consumption, temperature and humidity (in the future, including PM2.5) and other data, back to the Ali Cloud Intelligent Control Center, ready to report to consumers. "He revealed that the two sides will get through the account system, the fastest April to achieve contacts, pay treasure purse, such as Ali's app to the United States intelligent Home appliance Products Interactive control."
According to the engineers, the future contacts can not only control air-conditioning, after-sales service and fault inspection can also be completed through the online. Users can call customer service on the public account, you can be in the home of the air conditioning on-line detection, and then help you to make an appointment repair master door-to-door service, with payment treasure wallet checkout.
Alibaba and the United States in the field announced that the future will open the relevant protocol standards for Third-party applications to provide a standard API interface (application programming Interface), the formation of an open intelligent networking platform, the future will be able to support billions of of equipment access.