In 2017, the Chinese home appliance industry giants have successively realized the output of intelligent manufacturing capability, which opened the second runway by providing intelligent manufacturing solutions with different output contents.
However, from a smart home perspective, the 'equilibrium status' among the three has been broken, and Haier has taken the lead in opening up its output model of smart service capabilities.
Haier released the first artificial intelligence solution in the smart home industry and the results of two platform-based applications covering artificial intelligence interactive system and in-depth study based on smart home solutions on November 28. In addition, Haier U + initiated, jointly with Sogou, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Haier U + will be open to the introduction of the AI industry technology companies, resource companies, developers, etc. to build a smart home The artificial intelligence in the field opens up the ecology and promotes the integration of artificial intelligence and intelligent families.
It is understood that Haier's goal is not 'AI +', but '+ AI', the purpose is to promote the deep integration of AI technology and smart home, at the same time, will own research and development of AI technology to the industry open source, enabling smart home industry, build Smart home industry innovation and open platform.
The industry calls for an open AI ecosystem
In recent years, China's artificial intelligence industry has made considerable progress. The government has also promulgated a series of policies to promote the integration of artificial intelligence in all fields. In 2016, a three-year plan of action on artificial intelligence + was introduced. On July 20 this year , The State Council printed and distributed "a new generation of artificial intelligence development plan", and artificial intelligence formally rose to a national strategy. On November 15, the Ministry of Science and Technology held a new generation of artificial intelligence development plan and the launching ceremony of major scientific research projects, marking that artificial intelligence has entered a comprehensive implementation stage.
Wang Li, deputy director of the Industrial Standard Committee, said: 'The development of artificial intelligence should not only remain at the strategic guidance level, but should also be implemented in specific areas of implementation. Enterprises should be established as the mainstay, market-oriented, and industry-university-research institutes should be deeply integrated Technology innovation system to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence in various fields.
According to Zhou Ming, vice president of Microsoft Research Asia, the development of artificial intelligence is represented by four levels of computing intelligence, perceiving intelligence, cognitive intelligence and creating intelligence.At present, the relatively well-known artificial intelligence enterprises in the industry mainly focus on perceptive intelligence Related speech recognition, image recognition and other technologies, the overall cognitive intelligence is still relatively backward.It is because of the development of the industry is facing many challenges, so it requires the combination of artificial intelligence companies to create an open and powerful ecological environment, and promote the artificial intelligence and wisdom of the family The fusion.
'Many companies have done a good job in the first phase of a single product control, and some companies began to do scene-based interoperability, and Haier's ultimate goal is the whole house smart.' Haier's CTO Zhao Feng, CTO So AWE in March this year, took the lead in the first to put forward the entire scene smart product line, is inseparable from the wisdom of artificial intelligence, family open innovation platform.
Accelerate smart home artificial intelligence applications
As early as June 2016, Haier released the U + smart home IoT IoT cloud solution.Zhao Feng said that through this IoT open platform, Haier can open hardware and software solutions to the industry's hardware manufacturers and developers , Thus enriching the home use scenario in the intelligent hardware ecosystem.
Specifically, by providing IoT modules to hardware manufacturers, they can focus on the main business to create differentiated, competitive products that enable broader collaboration and a more refined experience through connectivity. The newly released Voice interactive open platform and big data cloud open platform, but also for developers, hardware vendors, technical cooperation, ecological cooperation provides a broad basis for expansion.
It is understood that the Haier U + AI solution is a one-stop artificial intelligence solution launched by Haier U + in the smart home industry. The goal is to cloud the home device with the home device as the core to collect and calculate data, sense and analyze users Of the living habits of nature to interact with the user to provide the necessary services to provide users with a better life experience; the same time through the open source, to industry developers, AI providers, big data service providers, partners modular Opening up and building an industry-led open platform for artificial intelligence, empowering the smart home industry, and promoting the large-scale promotion and application of AI intelligent home artificial intelligence.
Haier U + site showcased two major applications of artificial intelligence and smart home solutions, one is artificial intelligence interactive system solution, which is a solution for intelligent home providing distributed intelligent home natural interaction system.This time showed the speech module, human Face recognition module, food identification module, clothing identification module, etc. The Haier U + artificial intelligence interactive system is now open to third-party services, including software and hardware integrated voice solutions, intelligent device interaction services, hardware data entry , Skills development interface, etc. Through the opening of the platform, the future will be landing six intelligent audio, smart TVs, smart phones, smart appliances, robots, smart furniture and other six scenarios.
The second is based on the depth of learning smart home solutions designed to U + brain as the core data collection and calculation of the entire real-time analysis of intelligent home-based analysis, automatic analysis of learning habits of users, recommended system to provide users with custom Now, Haier U + depth study smart home solutions, has been landing on the family's water, air, water, air, Heating, energy consumption, security, health, entertainment, education and other eight scenes and living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, entertainment room five space.
In addition to releasing two major solutions, in order to promote the application of AI artificial intelligence home, Haier U + and Sogou signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the conference to define the future application of artificial intelligence in the field of smart home scenarios, the two sides will form a joint research and development Team to jointly develop terminal devices and smart products that enable users to interact naturally with smart appliances and provide users with a smart lifestyle solution that better experiences them.