Looking at the development trend of the smart home industry in a few years

From 2013 to 2018, the smart home industry has undergone tremendous changes: the concept of smart home has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence have advanced by leaps and bounds, and cross-border cooperation cases in the industry have increased. So, in the next five years, what development trends will the smart home show?

Combination of digital intercom and smart home

In the foreseeable future, building intercom will add more smart home functions, which will integrate security, home appliance control, information services, and entertainment. This will result in a qualitative change in the building intercom system. Integrate closely. Different from the pure analog system, the digital/analog hybrid system uses lower cost analog equipment in the unit, and the backbone network uses the Ethernet-based digital TCP/IP protocol for networking. Digital/analog hybrid system is currently one of the economical and effective methods to solve large-scale community networking. The networking topology of large communities has great freedom, network adjustment is very convenient, and the cost is reasonable, the performance is stable, and the maintenance is simple. Therefore, the digital/analog hybrid system has developed rapidly. Digital/analog hybrid networking is the current economical and practical engineering solution, and will be the first choice for intercom networking systems in large-scale community buildings in the short term.

"Voice Assistant" will become the norm

Using mobile phones, tablets and other terminals to input and control smart home devices is slightly cumbersome and redundant. In the future, voice assistants will become the norm in smart home products, like Apple’s siri, interactive robot boy Xiaobai and other software devices, through "voice" to achieve product intelligence. Therefore, when you walk into your home in the future, you will be able to complete tasks such as turning on the air conditioner, closing the curtains, and putting hot water in the bathroom through your voice, making your life easy to open.

Personalized service becomes a selling point

In the future, personalized services will meet individual specific usage habits and preferences, and provide users with matching service content and service time, which is the key to improving user stickiness. Current smart home products have begun to use artificial intelligence learning technology to implement and improve user-defined management models. For example, smart light bulbs can learn the behaviors and habits of users, and automatically control the light-on mode; it can also sense the doorbell response, and instantly turn on the lights connected to the porch when a stranger visits, which meets the needs of individual households and serves as a security guard effect.

"Hardware + Service" model will become dominant

The future profit model is no longer dependent on single products. In the future where things are connected, the "hardware + service" model will become dominant, which means that the sale of smart hardware is only the starting point, and subsequent services are the protagonist. This includes embedding APP applications, building home entrances, collecting big data, and looking for opportunities to transfer data Realize with traffic and so on. In this model, hardware is not the point of profit realization, but the basic link and carrier of the value chain, while the latter is the competition of integration capabilities.

Industrial cooperation becomes a trend

Win-win cooperation is becoming a consensus, among which product alliances have become the main form of cooperation. The goal of the industry alliance is to unite industry resources, formulate unified standards, and promote the interconnection of smart home services. At present, leading companies in domestic vertical industries are also actively convening companies from all sectors in the industry to form alliances and release technical standards, such as China Mobile Digital Home Industry Alliance, Tencent Penguin Smart Home, Haier U+, and Alibaba Smart.

Standardization is the only way

Technically, the challenge for smart home construction is not equipment or practical issues, but standards and protocol issues, which directly hinder the interconnection between different devices. Therefore, standardization has become the only way to promote the development of my country's smart home industry. Under the background that the unified industry standard of smart home is not yet mature, major manufacturers and related organizations have participated in the formulation of interface standards and data transmission protocols for smart home related devices. Some standards for smart homes have been introduced. The development of a series of standardization work will provide an open standardization platform for the development of smart homes in my country, and point out the correct development direction in the field of smart home research.

System intelligence is a high-quality goal

In the future, smart homes will continue to develop towards intelligence. The systematic realization of intelligence is the result of further cross-product data exchange and interaction. Different products can not only exchange data, but also convert this into active behavior without the user's intervention. For example, when the smart bed finds that the owner is too hot and sweats, the air conditioner is activated, or the range hood finds out If the amount of oily smoke is too large, the purifier is ready to start adsorbing PM2.5 and deodorizing. Unified realization of intelligence is based on the premise of having perfect intelligent single products and intelligent products that can achieve cross-brand and cross-category interaction. This requires all products in the smart home to operate on a unified platform and follow unified standards. This means that manufacturers that have already entered the field of smart homes need to consider whether their own set of smart product gateway devices can be grafted onto the future large platform.