Ink weather covering another 3/4 demand hardware is a breach

Last month, the introduction of weather information query and service software Ink Weather Company Ink Cloud officially released its "Air Fruit" smart device, can detect temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide and PM2.5 content, divided into indoor and outdoor version. The interior edition is priced at 999 yuan. At present, the outdoor version in the purchase of indoor version can be applied for free. News, in the industry, ink cloud hardware products have also caused some analysis and discussion, mainly concentrated in the following points: 1, 999 yuan too expensive 2, weather forecast is very professional, only rely on the air fruit intelligent hardware, can not provide more accurate weather forecast 3, outdoor version of the air is the ink weather strategic focus, In order to promote its installation, we have to do the indoor version. In other words, the indoor version is the outdoor version of childcare. To this end, entrepreneurial state interviewed the Ink Cloud founder Tech. Tech revealed that in the ink weather official online, the air fruit of the scheduled news release, quickly reached the millions of predetermined amount. Originally wanted to limit the number of 1 million units, but did not get stuck, the final plan than planned more than hundreds of thousands of of the predetermined amount. If you want to know about the climate and air conditions at every door, you can search in the ink weather the nearest air fruit can be viewed; To verify the effect of home air purifiers, and with the Home Air Index to adjust the working mode of these machines, you can use the home version of the air fruit ... These are the living scenes that can be achieved by air fruit. Last July, the ink was set up in the interior of the hardware department, began to develop and design these two hardware products. But the decision was established early last year. Currently, ink weather user 270 million, is the weather category app undisputed boss, ink weather "brand image has been deeply rooted." In fact, users can do at 100 million. We were advised to make hardware early on, but we didn't do it. Now it seems that the time is ripe, so decide to do it. "Tech said the timing, mainly refers to the intelligent hardware industry has developed to a certain stage, from the WiFi module to the supply chain are more mature, the market awareness, acceptance has reached a certain degree." But to remove these external conditions, for ink weather, this time point to do intelligent hardware products also have a certain necessity. Software is the body of this, hardware is a breakthrough, this is tech on the current ink under the two large pieces of the positioning of the product. From the application of the weather, ink weather has gone through the tools-life information-Community evolution, gradually from the application to the Life service provider transformation. and has made a breakthrough in the business model, the realization of a large user base large-scale transformation. By the end of 2012, the well-known weather software ink weather began their brand advertising profit model exploration. In addition, the ink weather with some domestic manufacturers to promote the built-in cooperation. These two ways are also the main business model of ink. Tech revealed that at present, ink weather income per month to reach tens. So, the introduction of hardware, ink weather is to break through what? Tech's explanation is that, at present, more and more people live in the indoor space, less than 1/4 of the time is outdoors. This means that there is still 3/4 of the scene in the ink is not covered. And indoor air is also people pay attention to the quality of life at the same time more and more attention. So, ink weather hopes to further expand the weather, air tools and services through hardware--monitor indoor air quality with indoor air fruit. And, through the open API with the home appliance manufacturers to provide free app and cloud support. has been able to cooperate with manufacturers of intelligent air-conditioning, air purifiers and other products to linkage, control the opening and closing of these equipment, and according to the air quality automatically adjust its working mode. Outdoor version, the collected outdoor air data can be uploaded to the cloud. According to Tech, it is hoped that it will become a deep into the community of the air broadcast station. When its use reaches a certain scale, it actually forms a high-density air broadcasting network. At the same time, attention to the same outdoor air fruit can also interact between users, which with the ink weather community is open. When the number of air fruit in a community reaches a certain number, it is not sent. "Tech said. Outdoor version of the air fruit detected data, tech hope to follow the weather and meteorological Department of the cooperation model, will be detected data provided to the Meteorological Department, to help them provide more accurate weather forecast. At the same time, it can also help the Environmental monitoring Department to develop pollution sources. After all, just over 30 PM2.5 testing devices in Beijing are far from enough to achieve this effect. Air fruit finally selected to detect four air quality indicators: temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide and PM2.5 content. They also considered measuring formaldehyde, but did not find a mature solution. More important is that the formaldehyde test is not a long-term demand, is basically a one-time, because it is only in the soon after the renovation of the existence, and then gradually disappear. Moreover, the formaldehyde test sensor production cost is very high. Comprehensive consideration of the above four main indicators, mainly because, temperature and humidity is the most basic indicators; Carbon dioxide is the largest number of changes in the air, the impact on air quality, human health and comfort is very large; PM2.5 is an important air index. And it is these four indicators that cause the high cost of air fruit. Because the main cost of air monitoring equipment is sensor and industrial design, more than one kind of monitoring gas will need to increase a class of sensors, such as carbon dioxide detection sensor cost is very high. Tech introduced, the air fruit is laser scattering technology sensor, cost up to hundreds of pieces. They have tried other sensors, but the test results are far from accurate. At the same time, in order to ensure performance, the air fruit fuselage with the same as Macbook Pro CNC aluminum alloy material, built in industrial-grade sensor chip. These parts and materials are the cost of the 999 yuan price of air fruit. Ink Weather Team also did a horizontal comparison, think 999 yuan is the market acceptable quality air testing equipment prices. They are compared to the dylos of the United States, such as the use of laser scattering technology, known for exquisite products.Tech Introduction, the air fruit will continue to update, in this process, will consider according to user needs to increase other air testing indicators, but the principle is to be practicable, and the cost if the user can bear.