Sohu It Infinity Club is a position to share the frontier of scientific thinking

Sohu It Infinity Club is to share the forefront of scientific and technological thinking of the position, the second phase is still invited several intelligent hardware pioneers to share their ideas and products. (Two period of video tension production, will soon be rolled out)

After the meeting we had a small area of sharing, in North Korea on the edge of the North Korean restaurant, the audience and guests together to explore the various puzzles of intelligent hardware, the development of media patterns, is very interesting.

Smart wear equipment cost only hundred yuan?

Dinner discussion more casual, leaving the two guests Guangzhou le source technology VP Li Xiaoxu and Arduino player Circle celebrity Tang, chatted a lot of dry goods and their practical experience, I simply summed up:

1, the cost of intelligent equipment, Li XIAOXU Long-term in the hardware upstream industry work, said now usually the cost of intelligent equipment around 100 yuan, the price is very low. But to do well, the upfront design, open mold costs will be very high, the final cost depends on sales.

2, we see a lot of smart devices such as the domestic "smart watch, bracelet" and no large-scale shipments and profits. This industry really make money or do exports, which chat to me before I saw good quality but "Mio" heart rate smart watch, Li Xiaoxu revealed that the company is also Shenzhen people do, just registered a company in Australia.

This is actually a bit like some of the Chinese developers in the app Store, developing applications in China that are suitable for foreign markets, because the English market has a better charging habit, so the profit is good. Now the smart hardware also has this phenomenon, the domestic user acceptance is limited, many products sell better abroad, before nine Ann's president, Liu and I talked about the same view.

3, now the so-called intelligent hardware, the core is "soft and hard combination", the software part may be overlooked by many people. Le Yuan for the Taiwanese company to make a sports wrist watch for golf, Li Xiaoxu team light to do algorithm design, and did 6 months.

Smart wear equipment cost only hundred yuan?

4, the domestic smart hardware has two types of users, one is the individual consumer, the other is the enterprise, personalized products can be exposed in the public face, dozen brands. Real money should still go industry market, such as Le Yuan their accumulated product experience can be combined with outdoor sports brands, pension-related products, the introduction of appropriate intelligent equipment, to do the behind the brand, is a way to make money.

Hangzhou Ancient North Electronics founder Liu Zongru also said this point, we see that they give consumers products, smart remote control, sockets and so on, while they are also lobbying traditional home appliances manufacturers to cooperate, through simple transformation, can let traditional appliances into their intelligence system, the market is endless, So it attracts the big players such as Jingdong.

5, the meal, several friends from the media and do hardware start-up friends themselves on the smart hardware market demand are skeptical, who will buy? Li Xiaoxu talked about a point of view I think quite incisive, is "strong demand", smart devices to be accepted by users, users need to have a "strong demand."

Smart wear equipment cost only hundred yuan?

He then divided our daily time into 3 paragraphs to explore the need for 8 hours at work, 8 hours after work, and 8 hours of sleep. After the life time is divided into these 3 paragraphs, and then look for strong demand but products, such as the work of call reminders, work rest of the sports record, sleep health monitoring and so on.

6, the discussion, most of the more agreeable point is that the development of smart devices should be the direction of "mobile phone as the computing Center", other devices are only data acquisition and display assistance. Since the thunder of the media "it Monster", also many times and I have talked about this.

7, Tang translation too much of the book Arduino players, but also a beneficiary. Before working in a food company, I began to try to use the open source hardware platform of Arduino, which is used in the factory to control the temperature and humidity adjustment of the factory.

Then developed into a "stamp modular" mature method, with Arduino open source hardware to solve many of the practical problems in the factory.

8, the final discussion of a people are constantly spit the problem, "why there is no good smart hardware products?" ", a more rational conclusion is: the domestic not allowed to make good products, because there is no overseas market rich investment and time costs, practitioners are the emphasis on rapid integration, the pursuit of cost."

But as long as the patient, willing to pay the cost, there is a strong investment support team in the country will soon have fine intelligent hardware out, and now there are a lot of such cock silk counter attack team appeared.