The "Hot hold" of intelligent hardware and the sand table deduction

"Talk about selling is still a little far, now smart home is the first task is not to do their own death." "September 20, in the Sohu it sponsored intelligent games, smart home Magic Teng Intelligent CEO Wang this view."

If you receive a sci-fi, Ultimate intelligent Hardware description, then the user exposure to the actual product may have only one feeling, disappointment. Even if a hardware device itself is more sensitive to dozens of percentage points, it is still unlikely to meet the user's expectations.

Wang take the hkust to cite examples, before the intelligent voice has been placed high hopes, but indeed there is an overdraft future suspicion. For example, the correct rate of speech recognition from 80% to 85% is actually a great progress, but for the end user, the experience is not very different, feel that there are errors.

The author deeply agrees, although the MIT Human Power Laboratory director Alex Pentland mentioned the smart wear equipment has been to the neuron identification and help people make behavioral judgments or decision-making so advanced stage, but, from the laboratory to civil, the middle need to go through too many twists and turns, it is impossible to step. This is also the author vainly attempt to the intelligent hardware equipment "The sand Table deduction" the original intention.

The so-called intelligent hardware in the future, nothing more than through a variety of hardware equipment as a portal to obtain data related to human behavior, and to make decisions and pre-sentencing, to improve people's lives. Cars can be smart hardware, glasses, watches, televisions, washing machines can be smart hardware.

At present, the acquisition of data and data processing itself is not a problem, the problem in the "dumbbell" at both ends, one end of the hardware itself needs to improve the technology, such as intelligent hand ring step sensitive period is appropriate? What's more, people want to detect blood sugar, blood pressure and so on. The other end is standard and system. If each intelligent hardware docking system, that is lost the possibility of popularization. And who to determine the standard, who will be the control of intelligent hardware "brain" becomes the king of the battle.

Hardware: Entrepreneurs Try the wrong, the Giants wait and see

One said that smart hardware, the topic will always lead to the domestic public to raise the Web site naming time, public network, or foreign Kickstarter. Otherwise, the cat, the jd+. This is a good illustration of the attitude of entrepreneurs to test water carefully.

Optimistic about this field, and can not directly into the large equipment, so find a vertical, small and beautiful field is the entrepreneur's choice. And the small step fast, quick trial and error is also using the Internet thinking to do a hardware consensus.

Magic Teng Intelligent selection of home lighting lamps to start, to achieve the use of the app to achieve the switch, light and shade, preset functions. And Broadlink chose a separate intelligent remote control to start, hope that through a remote control of all the home equipment.

The products displayed at the Infinite Salon are intelligent sockets, intelligent lighting, intelligent POS machine and other small products, in addition, the domestic internet giants are also doing some little hardware products, such as 360 of children's guardian hand ring, Chi, and Baidu itself to launch a small wifi, small routes, Baidu Shadow stick, such as "gadgets."

Foreign intelligent hardware products is a higher technical content of the "bulky", such as Google Glasses, Oculus virtual display glasses, Leap motion body sense control equipment.

Although the capital has a new round of hot pursuit of smart hardware, but the current domestic entrepreneurs have the capital and strength is only to improve the original product of the micro-innovation stage, but not the ability to achieve breakthrough innovation. Of course, with the pursuit of capital and market recognition, Chinese entrepreneurs can also launch more good products.

Moreover, the realization of innovation technology in the hardware field is the only way for entrepreneurs. System, ecology, channel ... It's all someone else's business.

And the Giants with capital strength are more on the sidelines, for example, even if Baidu wants to test the water intelligent hardware, will play the integration ability, with canon, Haier, Lenovo, Huawei and other traditional brand joint release involving intelligent voice, intelligent audio-visual, intelligent health, intelligent vehicle, intelligent Gateway and other intelligent hardware products.

Entrance: TV, mobile phone Red Sea, accessories blue sea

The future description of smart hardware is that all of the things we touch can become smart products. Of course, home appliances because of their innate nature, there will be more strong scene application.

For example, the introduction of the Super TV, in smart home equipment, interactive screen is a very important link. This link can achieve the traditional functions such as video playback, but also to achieve the current computer, cell phone functions, such as video calls, body sense games, shopping and other large-screen applications.

The family is also a battleground for smart hardware, refrigerators, air-conditioning, washing machines and other traditional equipment can intervene in the electronic intelligence system, in addition to many of the current needs of the emergence of new hardware, such as air detection, temperature, humidity detection. There are entrance-level routers, network management, TV boxes and other products.

In the whole product system, the router belongs to the key entrance, the television belongs to the important export, the other functional application is the important data acquisition equipment, but another key product is the handset. A mobile phone is a natural remote control.

Currently, Le Vision led the Super TV and millet led mobile phones to take these two areas and stir into blue ocean. Traditional home appliances have sought to change the internet, and Millet's UI has been ready for remote control furniture equipment applications.

and millet to do the TV, le Vision is about to do mobile phones, also reflects the layout of the two have been crossed encirclement momentum. If there is no accident, music and Millet will also have a war, because the two plot consistent, and compared to other similar products first step.

Systems and platforms: The Battle of Kings

The Battle of the tools belongs to the low-level competition, and the contention between the system and the platform is the War of kings. Microsoft relies on PC system all, and Apple and Google occupy the fortress of the mobile era.

With the support of national policies and funds, China is expected to be the birth of its own system in smart hardware devices. The system is not a refinement of the Android UI, but rather a research and development.

At present, Baidu combined with traditional manufacturers to establish u+ platform, millet in the continuous optimization of Millet's UI, although also hope to establish a music as the dominant ecosystem, but in view of the policy is not clear, developers are not afraid of the system on the video to put heavy bets.

Of course, the battle between platform and system was opened soon, followed by more competitors. The smartphone system has also been in the dust for several years, being dominated by Android and iOS duopoly, and Symbian and WP systems eliminated.

At present, domestic products in the smart device system, or in the Android system to do UI improvement and optimization, but these are still the transition, expect in the intelligent hardware improvement opportunities, the early emergence of domestic systems, platforms, standards.

The King competition platform, the giant competition integration, the entrepreneur competes for the vertical technology, finally in competes the unification to form a complete intelligent hardware future ecosystem. This time may take three years, maybe 5-10 years.