In recent years, intelligent home appliances become an important opportunity for the transformation and upgrading of the home appliance industry, however, there have been a lot of controversies about the standard of intelligent appliances. On November 22, at the 'China Smart Home 2017 Summit Forum' held in Chuzhou, Anhui Province, China National Light Industry Council and China Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute jointly announced the launch of smart home community standards development and release of "smart home appliances industry NB-IoT technology application white paper."
Smart home community standards start
'Start smart home standardization work will help smart home to break the industry barriers and regulate the development of the industry.' 'China Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute, Ting Liu and Deputy Minister of Consumer Goods Industry Xiao Duyu said.
According to Guo Yongxin, deputy secretary general of China National Light Industry Council, China National Light Industry Council undertakes the work of frame design, drafting, reviewing, approving and approval of industry standards, etc. At present, standard work of smart home groups has initially set the organizational structure, that is, Will set up a smart home standardization working group, standardization expert group, joint trade associations, industry standardization technology agencies, testing agencies, certification bodies together to develop smart home standards.
Guo Yongxin said that the smart home standard system is huge, and now will give priority to some of the much needed smart home standard development, the key technologies include interoperability standards for products, human-computer interaction interface, product and cloud platform interoperability standards and big data standards, products Including smart appliances, smart locks, smart lighting, smart furniture, smart piano, smart body cleaner, smart body fat scales, mirror, smart clothes hanger and so on.
Appliance companies have adopted NB-IoT smart IOT solution
Interoperability of smart appliances depends on wireless communication technology.At the conference, "White Paper on Application of NB-IoT Technology in Smart Home Appliances Industry" (hereinafter referred to as "White Paper") pointed out that NB-IoT technology solution will further promote the standardization of smart home in China .
The "White Paper" pointed out that the development of smart home appliances encountered the most prominent problem is the lack of a unified industry or national standards, especially the communication interface standards, leading to the development of home appliances enterprises more closed system of intelligent home appliances, social support can not be obtained. More and more pursuit of energy saving and environmental protection, the future high-power WiFi wireless communication module will not be suitable for smart home applications.But NB-IoT with low power consumption, wide coverage, low cost, large capacity, can be widely used in more Vertical industries, including smart home.
According to the White Paper, in the home appliance industry, in the first half of this year, Haier, Midea, Changhong, Little Swan, Rongshida and other home appliance enterprises signed cooperation agreements with telecom operators respectively in the field of NB-IoT to reach strategic cooperation with Huawei, Qualcomm, MediaTek, etc. Have announced their NB-IoT chip plans.