Alibaba A.I. Labs Opens New Connectivity Capabilities for IoT Portals

CES2019 Tmall Genie family appeared in the international vision with the status of domestic smart speaker, and competed with Google Home, Amazon Alexa and other products to become the focus of this year's CES. At the Alibaba A.I. Labs booth, the Tmall Genie family is not a single soldier, but uses artificial intelligence voice to connect a whole set of smart home products, from independent human-computer interaction to IoT ecological interaction, from point to face. Three-dimensional open. So what kind of experience is it to use the Tmall Genie to control the smart home? We felt a lot at the scene.

CES booth, built a smart home wall around the Tmall Alibaba Alibaba A.I. Labs, currently covering new IoT home products including Gree air conditioners, Dyson fans, air purifiers, smart TVs, sweeping robots, smart curtains and smart Door locks, etc., almost all the household appliances that can be seen in the home, which means that we can use the Tmall Genie and its cooperative home products to create a complete smart home solution.

Tmall Genie Fangtang (TG_C1)

In the traditional home environment, the control of home appliances is done by buttons and remote controls. For example, when you turn on the air conditioner, you need to find the remote control. For most people, the time spent looking for the remote control exceeds the operation time. The remote control often becomes a pain point for everyone.

Nowadays, with the popularity of Tmall Genie voice interaction in the past year, natural language has become an interactive way for everyone to quickly click on songs, check the weather, etc. Nothing calls for the Tmall Genie, most problems can be solved. Now the interaction ability of Tmall Genie has gradually shifted to the scene control of the smart home, which just solves the pain point of users using traditional home appliances.

For example, we only need to talk to the Tmall Genie about the voice commands such as “turning the air conditioner temperature up” and “turning on the fan”. The home appliance products equipped with the intelligent system will respond quickly and complete the operation, which not only allows you to throw away the remote control, but also Take advantage of the remote control of the Tmall Genie anytime and anywhere in the home products.

Tmall Genie Voice Control Sweeping Robot

On the other hand, it also drives the intelligent leap forward of non-electrical household products. For example, after the curtains are intelligent, we can directly open and close the voice remote control curtains directly across the remote control or mobile phone. Intelligent TV automatic film selection, remote opening of the sweeping robot and other operations have also greatly enhanced the smart home portable scene application, attracting ordinary consumers to get started quickly.

If the cooperation between the Tmall Genie and the smart home is to open the plane of the IoT product, and the ""grafting"" with the car allows the Tmall Genie to complete the cross-space stereoscopic scene to form a walking artificial intelligence. Recently, Tmall Genie has also completed cooperation with car manufacturers to integrate the core functions of Tmall Genie with the depth of the car. In the future, when driving or riding a car, the owner can directly enjoy the Tmall Wizard in the car through the voice wake-up service. Smart speaker all content and cloud ecosystem services.

The traditional Internet car needs mobile phone or smart central control to complete the operation. After upgrading the Tmall Wizard, we can complete all operations directly by voice. For example, if you want to check the tire pressure, you can use the natural language to ask the Tmall Genie. Tmall will help you answer by voice playback. Tmall Genie deeply integrates the behavior habits of car users. For example, you can directly query nearby gas stations in the car by voice, and even directly in the car for voice shopping, which greatly expands the car usage scene.

Tmall Genie grafted into the car

Closer to the ""smart hardware"" is that this is a car that can ""interact"" with other smart devices. If you have a Tmall Genie in your home, you can remotely control home appliances and smart devices with voice even in the car. To achieve a true ""home car interconnection.

As more and more families choose the Tmall Genie as the entrance to intelligent voice interaction, the traditional voice question and answer obviously cannot meet the needs of users. Therefore, the Tmall Genie is rapidly evolving in the horizontal and vertical directions with smart homes and smart cars, and is accelerating the deep integration of daily interaction with users.

At the same time, in addition to the evolution of the scene, thanks to the launch of the IoTConnect Kit voice networking solution, the product ecosystem of Tmall Genie is gradually expanding. In August last year, the IoTConnect Kit was piloted for some industries. In just over 4 months, more than 4.5 million new devices were connected to the Tmall Wizard through this protocol. In the future, with the continued accumulation of the Tmall Genie in IoT, there will be more home equipment and other terminals entering the Tmall Genie ecosystem, which will continue to strengthen the vitality of the Tmall Genie.

Written by Zhou Bolin on zol.com.cn