OFweek smart home network news: life, as long as the use of smart terminals, I believe no one does not know WiFi. It can be seen that the existing quantity and popularity of WiFi are advantages that other wireless technology protocols cannot match. WiFi module is used in the field of smart homes, it is relatively easy to promote, and consumers are also easy to accept. This objectively brings advantages to the use of WiFi module in smart devices. It may be easier to achieve human-computer interaction by catching this vehicle.
WiFi module becomes the main force of smart home
In the past seven years, several waves of the Internet of Things have brought WiFi module manufacturers to the forefront. The transition from the industrial Internet of Things (Smart PV monitoring) to consumer electronics (Smart Appliance Control) ushered in the revolutionary era of "sockets." Smart home has ushered in an upsurge again and again. Different brands of smart home companies are registered. The arrival of the Internet of Things era has also led to a substantial increase in the demand for WiFi modules, and various hardware-related businesses have proposed to join the WiFi module.
Traditional home power plant manufacturers, a direct way for them to load the Internet gene, is to add WiFi modules to achieve home networking, affix Internet marketing ideas. Bringing different user experiences to consumers.
Intelligent hardware developers, most of whom are startup companies, have become the target of competition for platforms during the outbreak of smart hardware. WiFi connections give them a cheap wireless access solution.
Smart home solution providers, smart homes are one of the most common scenarios for consumers to experience the Internet of Things. WiFi deployment in homes and home upgrades are the best choices for smart home manufacturers.
From the days before, we used the mobile phone APP to look at how much electricity the grid had sent, and it changed to the era of controlling home appliances in the office. The continuous expansion of the market has brought about fierce competition. In addition to traditional module manufacturers, start-up companies and Internet companies have also started to enter the market. The price of WiFi modules has been reduced from a hundred yuan to a few dollars. The drop in market prices has led to the rapid adoption of various WiFi scene applications. For a time, wireless connection modules have been added to various types of smart home appliances and smart hardware.
Successfully solved some non-existent issues in life?
At the time of the Internet of Things, the smart home boom has yet to rise. The vision of WiFi to change the world is said by some to be a false proposition. A set of data shows that shipments are getting bigger and bigger, but the on-line rate of products is less than 20%. We can't help asking where the spring of the WiFi module is?
Over the past few years, the innovation and exploration of the business model have reached the limit. There are even many companies that use the product free of charge for customers. Customers are in trouble. To sum up, there are two main reasons: Remote control cannot help users solve problems; the operation forms are complicated and troublesome.
Only remote control is not enough
One of the key points of smart homes is networking, but it is not really a “smart†but actually a WiFi chip built into a home appliance that enables remote control of the phone. For example, some intelligent hardware developed washing machines and dryers can be remotely washed through the mobile phone application, but don't forget: For laundry, first you have to put clothes from the hamper into the washing machine. Obviously most people don’t have a home. robot. So, if you can already put clothes into the washing machine, why not directly operate it on the operation panel? Similarly, using a mobile phone to remotely control a slow cooker seems to be just a gimmick.
Obviously, networking is a basic trend of intelligence, but it is more reasonable to use the Internet and make products more intelligent. For washing machines, cooking utensils and other types of products, the development focus should be focused on the evolution of their own vertical functions, unless they evolved into fully automatic robots, otherwise what "remote laundry", "remote cooking" such selling points are all too flashy, Users do not need to spend more on these functions at all.
The form of manipulation of the cart before the horse
Smart light bulbs are a very interesting smart home product and they are also the starting point for many families. The original intention of the manufacturer is also very easy to understand: using a mobile phone to control the light switch, in addition to achieve color, and even with the sound system and other products to achieve linkage operation.
However, such a variety of functions depends entirely on the application of mobile phones and tablets. In other words, in addition to switching lights and other application forms, you must complete them through electronic devices, which brings a series of new problems. : If your phone is not around, you need to find the phone to control it; if the phone is out of power, you have to charge it first.
Perhaps the manufacturer realized that such a user experience was not "smart" in itself, so Philips and Belkin introduced an additional smart light bulb wireless remote controller to solve this problem. However, this not only means that you have an extra remote control in your home. You still need to spend a few hundred dollars to buy it, knowing that smart light bulbs are already very expensive. As such, smart light bulbs have not quickly spread to families.
Independent voice control may be a better solution, but due to the cost and technical relationship, there are few products as a concept.
Smart voice or will lead to a new round of smart home outbreak
Obviously, the innovation and exploration of the business model has been difficult to improve the user experience. The breakthrough in technology is imperative, and intelligent voice is a very good breakthrough.
The decentralized form of voice interaction is the next stop for smart homes. Whether it is a remote control or an APP-based touch point control, we are comfortable with our hands. Instead of performing complex operations, we can reach out and dim the lights and pull the curtains. The intelligent voice integrated in the WiFi module not only facilitates control, increases life convenience, improves user experience, but also helps expand various applications and helps solve life problems.
In the home environment, smart voice applications mainly focus on smart TVs, speakers, and home robots. The requirements for resolution include searching for movies, listening to songs, reminding, simple interactions, and application retrieval.
The arrival of Amazon Echo has driven the upsurge of voice interaction in the home field. From the second half of 2014 to the present, the number of Alexa platform applications has increased from the initial more than 20 to more than 7,000, and has increased at a rate of about 1,000 per month over the past six months. According to the CIRP report, as of November 2016, cumulative Echo sales exceeded 5.1 million units, and Q2-Q3 totaled about 2 million units in 2016, an increase of 18% over the first three quarters. (2015Q2-Q4 data from MaryMeeker 2016 Internet Trends report").
The natural features of the home environment make voice the most suitable form of interaction. Similar platforms such as EchoAlexa will attract more and more applications, continue to enrich its product features, and complete the smart home ecological environment. As users become accustomed to continuous development, such "smart home control center" and "flow portal" are expected to rapidly spread, becoming an iPhone-level explosion. However, since voice is a new interactive method, besides the improvement of technology, various applications will also face new challenges such as user experience and value considerations in the development and design.
Of course, with the advancement of science and technology, perhaps in the future, we do not even need voice interaction. It is not impossible that we can directly control brainwaves and live with ideas.
AI empowerment, active communication between smart homes
In addition to smart home appliances such as speakers and desk lamps, home robots have also become the object of entrepreneurs betting. The fiery nature of the pseudo-biological intelligent products bears the human desire for robots to some extent, but entrepreneurs still need to consider the design logic of their product form from the perspective of value and practicality. Ultimately, what kind of smart products will "laugh to the end" and the market will have the final say. The devices judge each other's received "task" instructions through the AI, and cooperate with each other to complete the controller's request. In this way, the remote control problems mentioned above will be well resolved.
Some traditional home appliances, such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, cooker hoods, etc., begin to be equipped with voice interactive functions, plus voice modules and WiFi connections, and with the ability to provide services such as Baidu cloud and other cloud platforms and AI capabilities, will truly realize the equipment room. The dialogue.
to sum up
Smart home has not been able to find a suitable business model, such as the cost is very high, but also from the consumer just need to be far away, landing everywhere blocked. However, with the help of intelligent voice and AI, it is possible to strengthen the function on the basis of a slight increase in the cost, and it is necessary for the consumer to get close to it. Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that a reasonable new business model of home + intelligent voice + AI is coming. Omnipotent WiFi, in what form will it be presented in the future, what kind of industry applications appear? This requires wireless communications developers to constantly innovate technology, provide turnkey solutions and work together upstream and downstream, and accelerate the application of the ground.
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