Ink Weather The Weather application company officially launched a smart hardware

In a rare rainy day in Beijing, ink weather The weather application company officially launched a smart hardware, air fruit. This is a small personal weather station, or air monitoring equipment, that can measure the climate and air data.

Functional logic

When the ink weather team first publicly announced the introduction of smart hardware, there were a lot of guesses, including mobile phones and so on. But this product is still not leaving its own business, but a soft to hard extension.

By connecting to the Ink weather app, the user can monitor the health level of the indoor air fruit in a single button on the mobile phone, and get temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration and PM2.5 concentration equivalent. The health level is obtained by contrasting the data of the air fruit with the outdoor data of the ink weather.

In addition, the air fruit also include voice control, gesture interaction, comment interaction, alarm clock and other functions.

Product profile

Internal structure

Hardware Products

The appearance of ink air fruit Some think early Google has launched a Nexus Q speaker, but cut off half. As a dot matrix display panel.

This product is more refined, using a similar iphone CNC machine tool turning process, the use of the setting of the scene is placed in the indoor desktop, or hanging on the wall.

The difference with other similar products on the market is that air fruit uses a rechargeable built-in battery, plus its own WiFi access network, so is the real "wireless" state, in the room can avoid the cable clutter.

Business model

I think that all mobile applications such as ink weather are joining the smart hardware industry to complement their main business. The purpose of the ink weather is to use the small hardware of the air fruit to allow it to be used to form another weather information sharing network other than the official data.

At the same time, its users are not limited to individual users, there will be business-oriented applications. The other 2 scenarios were used to alert family members about the weather, such as parents, and to make their weather a social sharing for young users.

Problems faced

Ink Weather The introduction of air fruit in the intelligent hardware is a sense of location, but such products still face several problems:

1, the use of its own air monitoring equipment or relatively geek players, the market is relatively limited.

2, its current built-in 4 large air monitoring sensors, temperature, humidity, PM2.5, carbon dioxide, if you can have toxic gas, formaldehyde-related sensor data, it will be more practical.