Truly intelligent Intelligent home, there are still a lot of distance

Absrtact: Recently, IT industry and home appliance industry exhibition will be quite a lot, CES (the United States Consumer Electronics Show) after MWC (Barcelona World Mobile Communications Conference), MWC after the Shanghai Home Appliances Expo (AWE). And without exception, in these exhibitions smart home

Recently, the IT industry and home appliances industry exhibition will be quite a lot, CES (the United States Consumer Electronics Show) after the MWC (Barcelona World Mobile Communications Conference), MWC after the Shanghai Home Appliances Expo (AWE). Without exception, at these exhibitions smart home is high profile. Even the most can not tell the story of the home appliance industry, also in awe on the concept of the big speculation smart home.

Although the origins of smart home in the United States has been 30 years of history, but the "mess" was gradually started last year by more people to pay attention to, now seems to be a vent concept.

In awe, many home appliances manufacturers in addition to the display of some intelligent air-conditioning, intelligent refrigerators and other terminal products, such as Siemens home appliances and other manufacturers are launched a smart home platform.

At CES and MWC, more are solutions for smart homes from upstream chip makers and handset makers. Samsung, for example, unveiled its smart home open platform at CES, SmartThings, Samsung's joint CEO and CEO Yunfugen, promising that all Samsung products built through SmartThings are open and compatible with other products, and that 90% of Samsung's products will be networked by 2017, From smartphones to refrigerators. Marvell launched an End-to-end intelligent home ecosystem solution and opened its KINOMAJS program architecture, and currently includes Google, Samsung, Millet and other manufacturers have become their first-level partners; In addition, there are many enterprises on display intelligent home control solutions, can support smart home electronic equipment, Including intelligent thermostat, lighting system, air-conditioning equipment and intelligent door locks and so on.

Although the variety, but in fact, at present in the application of intelligent home, it is difficult to achieve the effect of interoperability. Industry insiders believe that there may be a way to control, but in the Open data, has not seen real results. Even the smart home platform for each home to say that they are open, willing to access different brands, but there is no real interest in the drive to allow other vendors to access; the market is immature, winner has not yet known, which manufacturers are willing to access other manufacturers platform, It's not easy to even make a brand's product communicate and exchange data with a competitor's product.

Not only that, the industrial chain of smart home, from the upstream there are different standards, multifaceted, even if nominally joined a certain alliance or to achieve some kind of cooperation, mutual. In particular, the Giants, all in happy enclosure, the intention to unified rivers and lakes.

For example, the current popular wireless communication standards are ZigBee, Z, WiFi and Bluetooth and so on. In fact, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth is not designed for smart home devices, in the application of the time there will be a lot of limitations; relatively mature and stable based on ZigBee wireless sensor technology, although many manufacturers are nominally belong to the ZigBee Alliance, is still the state of each other.

Therefore, although in each manufacturer's pavilion, we can see smart home application is very intelligent, operation is also very smooth, a utopian scene, but in fact, from the current point of view, the real intelligent smart home, obviously there are still a lot of distance.

And in such a fragmented case of smart home, playing "smart" banner of home appliances products, compared to ordinary product prices are generally quite high, but not to the user experience on the real change, the lack of a certain price.

The two sessions, Millet Technology Chairman Lei on the recommendation of the National Standards Committee under the leadership of the Ministry of Industry, according to the Department of the lead, in accordance with the principle of emergency first, speed up the development of smart home industry standards to promote the healthy development of smart home industry. It can be seen that some mainstream manufacturers have a demand for this, to be able to open a wider range of smart home market.

Perhaps the unified standard of intelligent hardware, but also need to wait until the industry matures, it may be effective, so that users can truly experience the changes brought about by smart home.