Four major problems in smart homes

"Smart home," "smart appliances," and "smart homes," seem to be similar concepts, and people often understand them as something. But in reality, the three terms represent three interrelated but complete Different concepts:

From the perspective of a smart family, smart homes on the market clearly have a lack of strategic wisdom at the present stage. The so-called "smart homes" all have the following strategic problems:

(1) "Smart intelligence" disease

There has never been a lack of domestic follow-up and conceptual hype. This is a common problem in various industries. This situation in the manufacturing industry is particularly serious. The concept of intelligence is hot, and many companies are following the trend and entering the smart home market. The so-called smart home products are far from the real "smart" standards, but they still produce, promote and sell under the banner of "smart".

For example, an ordinary automatic washing machine insists that simple computer control be promoted to be intelligent, and an ordinary automatic frequency conversion refrigerator will also refer to automatic temperature change technology as intelligent. Such a situation is common in the home appliance industry. These are not true smart home appliances at all, not to mention smart homes and smart homes. This way of misleading consumers will cause great damage to the smart home market. When consumers realize this misdirection, they will be very It is easy to conflict with the concepts of smart homes and even smart homes. Once broken, trust is difficult to repair.

(2) "smart low-sense" disease

Smart home products should be able to be networked. Different products in the same home environment should be capable of real-time interactive communication and communication through next-generation information technologies such as big data and cloud computing, while existing smart home products on the market can be realized. The basic networking, the level of intelligence is also very low, many products do not even have basic human settings, not to mention intelligent.

Many sci-fi films have described the future of smart home life. For example, people can automatically turn on the TV on the sofa. The curtains on the bed will automatically open. The night lights and the door will be automatically closed. The incredible function is to develop the performance of a mature smart home, and our current products are still far away from this level, and many products operate extremely complicated. For example, smart TVs developed better. Many elderly people in the family do not want to find a TV program. To watch TV, you need to wait for the children to help set up at home.

Smart home intelligence should be a home control system that is extremely easy to use and self-learning. It should be able to automatically manage various hardware products within the home environment according to the needs of users, providing users with an intelligent and comfortable home experience. . The existence of smart home is to allow users to enjoy a more convenient and comfortable home life, rather than bring more complicated operations and learning.

Smart home products should have their own thinking and learning capabilities. According to the observation of the user's lifestyle, they can automatically determine the home environment that is more suitable for the user, and automatically manage and control the home products according to the user's preferences.

Based on the current level of R&D and production, as well as the mode of thinking, traditional manufacturing companies are often unable to produce truly intelligent household products. Of course, they cannot afford the responsibility of building smart homes and realizing smart households. This is a dilemma that the manufacturing industry cannot break. Therefore, the realization of smart households also needs to rely on Internet companies, through the development of software systems to promote the intelligent upgrade of homes, just as Internet companies for other industries. With the addition of Internet giants such as Google and Apple, the realization of a smart family must not be too far away.

(3) "Internet connection" disease

Different brands, different categories of smart home products interconnect, communicate and control each other, is the most basic requirement for smart home. However, in the real world, manufacturing companies are engaged in the development and production of smart home products. All of them face their own systems. There are serious technical barriers between the products of different companies, and they cannot interconnect and communicate with each other. More can not control each other, leading consumers in the choice of smart home can only choose the same brand of products, greatly limiting the choice of consumers and the use of experience.

The smart home itself is a system, and no company can do a good job of all products of this home system, so consumers must choose different brands to install a complete smart home. If the products of different brands cannot communicate with each other, the family can not really realize smart home, and even if a brand can cover all smart home products, the differences between different families still cannot achieve interoperability. Smart homes and smart cities are also empty talks, and companies can only stay in the “pseudo-intelligence” stage.

In the case that these manufacturing companies are fighting for each other, the smart home industry urgently needs a smart home system platform that can be compatible with various brands of products, so that different brands of products can communicate with each other to meet consumer demand for different brands of products. . Only in this way can consumers truly enjoy the smart home experience. With the intermediaries of Internet companies, similar platforms will surely be built soon.

(4) "Smart Relentless" Disease

Wisdom families are linked by intimacy between family members. As an important part of them, smart home products should also be able to carry humanistic emotional factors such as care and concern. Otherwise, how cold and rigid household products can be Called smart? Although the concept of intelligence has been hotly fired, a variety of wonderful and intelligent stories are filled in people's lives, but so far no one company has been able to achieve breakthrough progress in humane care.