Reduce cost and entry threshold to activate smart home

Absrtact: Came to the millet router product owner Tang Yu's office, saw the router mold, circuit board and a variety of mechanical parts arranged in the desks and bookcases on both sides of the desk and bookcase, not a glance enough, Tang Mu took up the phone to me to simulate his daily into the office

To the Millet router product owner Tang Yu's office, saw the router mold, circuit board and a variety of mechanical parts arranged in the desks and the two sides of the bookcase, not a glance enough, Tang Mu took up the phone to me to simulate his daily into the office after the first thing to do.

Using a network of millet router applications, Tang Yu sits on the couch and lights up the lamp, turns on the Millet TV and lets the coffee machine start working. After the series of "chemical reactions" that were familiar and unfamiliar to me, I began an interview with him.

How to make the millet router a family center

Many people think that the addition of hard disk storage function can be remote download of the millet router is not intelligent, then how can it become the center of the family? Millet has other directions to consider.

First is the chip layer, millet for intelligent hardware products equipped with the appropriate WiFi chip (with fast Connection protocol and communication protocol), also said that whether it is smart hardware or traditional home appliances, with the chip after the product can be linked with the millet router, through mobile phone application can be controlled. This lowers the cost of getting started for the hardware company and also improves the gaming of the millet router.

Second is the experience layer, at this stage each intelligent hardware products will be equipped with a home app, operation is very troublesome. Millet is ready to integrate as many product controls as possible into its own router applications. Future Millet ready to embed more "content" in the application interface, such as the use of millet router to control the application of Millet TV, view the list of programs, manually adjust the brightness of the smart light bulb, and even see the rest of the coffee cooked time and so on. In other words, millet to unify the user experience, the operation of all networking equipment focus on the application of millet router.

Finally, the electric business layer, millet want to use the experience layer to join the third party content and accumulated users, in the application interface to add online direct purchase function. For example, when you are in the application of the millet router to control the coffee machine, the interface will show that there are not many coffee capsules, then you can directly click on the link on the interface, the system will jump to the millet network in the Coffee Capsule purchase page for direct purchase.

To be open and not to be exclusive.

The open platform has always been the model advocated by the intelligent router, which includes the technology to the plug-in, the system open, and the cooperation between the hardware support transparency. And for Millet router, open platform is very important.

Millet in the plug-in and system open and other intelligent routers similar to the hope that the use of legitimate plug-in resources to make the router look better play, enhance the user's active degree.

In cooperation, millet obviously more comfortable. In addition to offering open access and technical support to traditional appliances
Manufacturers and intelligent hardware companies, millet does not mind each other's products to support other brands of smart routers. "We don't do exclusivity," Tang Yu said more than once when it comes to the mode of cooperation.

Reduce cost and entry threshold to activate smart home

Before joining Millet, Tang Yu was the project leader of Tencent's small Q robot, although the product was a good experience when it was tested in the interior, but the pricing of nearly thousand dollars became a barrier for users to buy. In the area of intelligent home, this problem still exists.

Tang Yu that smart homes are not the kind of big, bulky and expensive things that traditional manufacturers define, but some of the "toys" that are high and inexpensive to play. The general age of 35-42 years old people are most interested in smart home, they have the concept and feeling of home, but this group of people are often reluctant to try new things, but also do not like tossing. If they are to design a complete set of smart home system, this is obviously a deviation. In other words, only the consumer's purchase cost threshold and the partner's technology entry threshold at the same time pull low, smart home will be widely used to promote the use of large areas.