Giants rush into smart home market or "blowout" period

The rise of new technologies such as cloud computing, large data, wearable equipment and so on have provided favorable conditions for the development of intelligent home. Recently, the Giants have introduced a variety of measures, trying to be in the field of intelligent home a cup of soup, "multifaceted" wonderful scene is staged.

Cook says Apple Watch will be able to control smart home devices

Apple Watch, the first wearable device, has been officially released, but some of its features have not been mentioned at a press conference earlier this month. For example, someone has discovered that Apple Watch has its own music app that we didn't know before. And Mr. Cook has revealed in person that Apple Watch will be able to control its own set-top box Apple TV. "I like to manipulate my Apple TV with my watch because I don't have to worry about the remote control slipping into the sofa mat," Mr. Cook said in a recent interview with Bloomberg. ”

The reporter immediately pointed out that the Apple has not shown the outside world this function. Cook responded by saying that the version he used was "more advanced". Mr. Cook also revealed that Apple Tv,apple watch could "control other things".

While we can only speculate, Apple Watch may be expected to support Apple's HomeKit. The latter is a new architecture that Apple released earlier this year that could be used to control networked devices in users ' homes. This means that Apple watch users will be able to control their home lighting, door locks, thermostat and other devices on their wrists in the future.

Apple Watch is expected to go public early next year.

ARM's ambition: M7 chips aimed at smart homes and cars

In the Tuesday, mobile chip giant British arm also launched a chip design program for the above areas, aiming to tap into new chip opportunities brought by the internet of things.

ARM itself is not designed to make the final chip finished, but its design and intellectual property rights to the chip manufacturers. With this model, ARM has become a big winner of mobile device chips, leaving Intel, the design and manufacturing team, behind.

Segos, chief executive of ARM, said that at present some smart home products on the market, for the vast majority of consumers have no practical value, the future into the ordinary life of smart devices, should be able to give people the equipment to save money.

Segos For example, some refrigerators claim to be able to "talk" to the stored boxed milk, which is actually garish, but if the processor is intelligently analyzed by the built-in processors, the work cycle of the refrigerator, thereby saving electricity to consumers, this will be a practical smart home technology.

ARM's Tuesday issue is the design of a processor called CORTEX-M7, which is said to have purchased authorization from companies such as Atmel, Freescale and the Italian-French semiconductor.

Arm Company, this chip processing capacity, comparable to the 1990 's medium-term pc in the CPU. If used in the home security system, you can conduct facial recognition processing, if used in smart cars, you can handle the driver voice recognition functions.

According to statistics, last year, the world based on ARM architecture and design of the chip production and sales, more than 10 billion, of which half of the smartphone and tablet computers, the rest for digital television, washing machines and other mobile devices and industrial equipment.

Segos said that the future of society will be the calculation of the ubiquitous society, which will give arm's chips to bring a huge new market.

Amazon 55 million dollar investment hardware sector: Smart Home

Amazon is planning to increase the number of Lab126 employees in its secret Silicon Valley hardware department by more than 27% over the next 5 years, Reuters reported. Amazon is currently testing smart home devices, such as one-click devices that can order goods.

According to government documents and sources, Amazon CEO Bezos (Jeff Bezos) plans to strengthen hardware strategy. However, Amazon's recent launch of the Fire smartphone is general, and many investors are dissatisfied with the Amazon's huge investment in pilot projects.

LAB126 has developed the Kindle and other consumer electronics devices. According to an agreement between the Amazon and California governments in June this year, the total number of full-time employees in the sector will increase to at least 3757 by 2019, and Amazon will receive a 1.2 million-dollar tax cut.

The documents show Amazon will invest 55 million of billions of dollars in operations at Lab126, California's Sun Valley and Cupertino. According to sources, LAB126 is currently testing interconnected household devices, which means new competition between Amazon and Google and Apple.

Many technology companies believe that smart devices connected to the Internet, such as dishwashers, thermostats and other household devices, can drive new demand for products and services. But doubters say many of these devices are too expensive for ordinary users to become mainstream.

Amazon is currently testing simple WiFi devices that can be placed in a kitchen or wardrobe to help users order raw foods, such as fresh food, the source said. Lab126 is also interested in wearable computing devices. However, the source stressed that these products may still not be put into the market.

In a bulletin, Amazon said the Lab126 was "fast-moving" and referred to the 2014-year product developed by the Department, including fire handsets, fire set-top boxes, and several tablets and e-readers. "We will continue to invent and create new features, services and products and support such innovations," said Amazon spokeswoman Kinley Pierso Kinley Pearsall. The development of Lab126 is also very fast. ”

Google 3.2 billion dollar acquisition Nest smart home Usher boom

January 14, Google announced that the "father of the ipod" Tony Fader (Tony Fadell), founded by the smart home company Nest Labs on the acquisition agreement. The former will buy all the assets of the latter with 3.2 billion dollars in cash.

The deal is Google's second-largest acquisition in history, after the 2012 acquisition of Motorola Mobile's 12.5 billion dollar scale. Like the Motorola deal that marks Google's first foray into hardware, the takeover of Nest has given Google a springboard to enter an important new market. Nowadays consumer appliances and Internet services are becoming more and more integrated.

Fader said the company was not selling to make money but wanted to use Google to support Nest's development. Upon completion of the acquisition, Nest will continue to operate under his authority, which has its own brand and market.

Acquisitions need to be approved by U.S. authorities. It is expected to be completed within the next few months. Google currently holds about 56.5 billion dollars in cash.

Nest Company was founded in 2011 by the "father of the ipod" Tony Fader founder. Due to the introduction of a beautiful design and self-learning function of Nest intelligent temperature control device has been widely concerned about the market. At present it has become one of the biggest brands of smart home market.

Conclusion: The above is only to enter the smart home market, a number of typical representatives, as well as many large companies or start-ups, have looked to the field. However, no matter how smart home development, the general trend of its integration will not change, smart home market may usher in a "blowout" period, we will wait and see.

(Responsible editor: Lvguang)