"Layman" is the ink weather, a 150 million users of the tool class app

If the field of smart hardware suddenly breaks into a layman, especially when the layman has an Internet background, the field is not far off. The latest "layman" is the ink weather, a tool-type app that sits on 150 million of users, announcing the upcoming launch of air monitoring hardware, extending from a macroscopic forecast to an individual's home environmental monitoring.

There are two points to note, first of all, Internet enterprises, especially tool applications have turned to hardware, the second is more and more around the life of intelligent hardware is emerging.

Intelligent hardware is a new way of production

Smart hardware is not a combination of soft and hard. Because the combination of soft and hard history has been very long. Cloud + END hardware? The smartphone age has become a mature model. Big Data? That's just the added value of smart hardware.

Intelligent hardware features can be extended, product rapid iteration. It can be automatically perceived, can learn from self, can connect to each other, with other devices, with people, with the cloud, with the environment, and the internet tightly combined.

In addition to the product itself, the product fund-raising, design, research and development, production and marketing will be internet, applied to the public, pre-sale, 3D printers, cloud Platform, reverse pricing and other means. Intelligent hardware is a new mode of production of hardware.

Wearable equipment, intelligent TV, car networking, smart home, intelligent medical, cool play equipment has become the focus of smart hardware.

All of these areas have a combination of traditional hardware and the Internet. Internet into the traditional entity industry in the background, the Internet enterprises to do hardware, hardware enterprise Internet, as well as software and hardware entrepreneurs (including creators) to become the current smart hardware tide of the three main forces.

Internet admission Intelligent Hardware becomes lively

In the ink before the weather, the United States Mito launched beauty mobile phones, 360 to do the pan-security hardware, music video from the site down to the TV, the launch of the small square box, Baidu's several multimedia hardware.

Internet companies ' entry thinking has prompted them to constantly sink in and out of the software and penetrate the underlying hardware. Either hire someone, work with someone, or offer a service for smart hardware. All in all, they are trying to establish a more or less connection to the hardware.

Baidu has not less than 5 hardware, there are dedicated to health equipment dulife;360 is brewing the establishment of Intelligent Hardware division, in the field of intelligent television will soon have big action, TV box and TV browser Jianzaixianshang. Ali joint Tcl, Skyworth, the United States and other manufacturers into the field, recently simply launched the Day Cat magic disk This one portable WiFi products.

Entrepreneurs want to be hard, too. Some offer proprietary apps, such as UC, from TV browsers to smart hardware, while others make hardware directly, such as ink weather, and some entrepreneurs simply betray the app ecosystem, and a founder of the alarm clock is launching his smart hardware project. Even if there is no real action, also in the YY product how to combine with hardware, Sogou typany, pea pod onespace ...

Smart hardware market is very lively.

Smart hardware Next city will be home

Googleglass detonated the smart hardware. Wearable devices, including smart watches and bracelets, became popular last year, as are smart TVs, boxes, video bars, and super TVs.

Wearable devices and smart TVs are exploding. Berg Insight Company's latest analysis shows that as of 2017 can wear electronic equipment shipments will be more than 64 million units, the 2012 can wear equipment 8.3 million units shipments of more than 8 times times. Internet TV this year will appear million shipments of enterprises, most likely in the music or tv+ in the birth of a.

What will be the next area? One investor who focuses on smart hardware says smart homes and then smart cars. Tesla became a synonym for popularity, OBD's prosperity, the emergence of CarPlay is the opportunity of the imminent outbreak of smart cars.

Nest's 3.2 billion dollar success case first, undoubtedly gave the domestic smart home manufacturers a shot of tonic.

Smart Home range is very wide, Baidu I spy camera, intelligent door locks, smart curtains can be counted, but also ushered in the outbreak is likely to be smart home appliances-TV outside the white goods.

Haier, Gree, the United States and other giants in the air-conditioning, refrigerators and other equipment implanted chips, so that the electrical appliances with data collection, self-regulation, inductive environment, remote control and maintenance functions. Ali, Intel and Jerry and other IT companies are also beginning to try to work with home appliances, home manufacturers close cooperation. Even the company that locks the door is trying to get the user to open the door through the app.

Not long ago, Ray Technology received a fan that could be controlled by the app.

Air becomes the cut-in point of smart home appliances

Some people question the intelligence of electric fans-do I really need this stuff? For intelligent refrigerators, washing machines, air-conditioning and soya-bean milk machine, many people have the same problem.

Just need or pseudo need, intelligent use habits can be cultivated, users are willing to pay for the intelligent cost, become a market-oriented problem. On the other hand, the depth of intelligent technology, such as automatic induction, self-learning, understanding and predicting the user's use of electrical appliances, can not keep up. Nest succeeded because nest in the United States had just needed and it was really smart enough.

Returning to domestic air monitoring equipment may be a good entry point.

The city haze has brought a grand air cleansing feast, but the air purification market is dominated by some traditional air-handling giants, and internet companies and entrepreneurs are hard to cut in. The opportunity for intelligent air testing equipment is greater.

The air monitors the populace to have the market just to need, the new house, the newly car formaldehyde monitoring, Beijing PM2.5, in-vehicle air monitoring and so on scene. These requirements are closely related to information, data analysis, data cloud, weather/air prediction and social sharing, are the areas where smart hardware is good. On the other hand, from the air monitoring, but also with the air purifier, smart curtains, smart cars, the whole home intelligent Solutions company linkage, and even their own purification equipment.

Ink weather, dog noses, ikair, celery and other entrepreneurs have entered the air monitoring, monitoring gases, including formaldehyde, PM2.5, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, temperature, humidity and even radiation; the scene is a new house, a family, a car.

A sample of a start-up team in Guangzhou that has already been eyeing this field is coming out. The temporary open entrepreneurs believe that the ink to do intelligent hardware has the opportunity to have a user base, there are channels, the key to see the implementation of the hardware, air monitoring needs of professional technology such as correction algorithm, compensation curve, which is the traditional monitoring enterprises are good at. These technologies have a bearing on the accurate measurement. However, the case of heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory test bracelet shows that the user seems less concerned about the test.

Ink was released last December to release the smart hardware, but is still not seen. This is the Internet enterprises and entrepreneurs to do the general phenomenon of intelligent hardware. First worry about market demand. Market demand, capacity and quality may not be met, intelligent hardware tools and methods and software development is completely different.

Air monitoring, air purification, home appliances, lighting, temperature control, security, smart home is changing our lives, which is likely to be the next outbreak of intelligent hardware field.