With the progress of the times, the number of smart devices in consumers' homes is increasing. Therefore, in daily life, a great variety of electronic devices are required. Each device has unique attributes, so that more and more electronic devices slowly become The burden of consumers in their daily lives.
In response to this phenomenon, Samsung unveiled a series of new IoT visions such as Seamless Connectivity and Connected Everything at the just-concluded 2018CES. Samsung hopes to connect all its home appliances with SmartThings, an open IoT platform that opens up a whole new 'Internet of Things' era. 'Internet of Everything' As the name implies, more and more things, people, data and the Internet will be linked through an entrance to control all the connected products respectively.
At the entrance to the Internet of Everything, higher-powered carriers are smart TVs, smart speakers, and smartphones, which are not suitable in comparison with smart TVs, which are commonly used in the home, but whose main functions Is to provide a viewing experience and can not be turned on 24/7 to act as an interactive portal for families and other smart devices.Moreover, the interaction of smart TVs is mainly the interaction between consumers and TV content, such as voice shutdown, volume adjustment, search for video content, etc. .
On the other hand, in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) where the voice is equally high, mobile phones can participate in the family's IoT eco-chain through voice interaction, but for the smart home, using the mobile APP alone is not completely compatible The final concept of networking.Not available at home through the phone control of all things in the Internet to Gree mobile phones, for example, Gree introduced Gree mobile WiFi control technology, WiFi can directly control the air conditioning, but in addition to air conditioning and some other Gree appliances Can be controlled by the Gree cell phone, there are a lot of smart devices can not be associated with it.
There are not many existing cases of mobile phone as an Internet of Everything. Among them, Apple Homeki smart home plans to do more successful, but this requires at least two Apple devices as the control center, but also need to replace the expensive Apple peripheral smart devices, the cost is huge. , Although mobile phones can be carried around and can not be on standby, after all, no 'Siri' can communicate with users in their pockets.
Similar to the Homeki smart home plan, Lenovo also announced the smart home plan in May last year, but the control center is not a mobile phone. According to Jia Zhaohui, vice president of Lenovo, Lenovo invested more than 10 billion yuan in this year, hoping to build a platform for people to use Affordable products.But in the smart home plan before the release of the reason why the first speaker, because it is most likely to become the entrance to smart home.Jia Zhao Hui also introduced that as a variety of intelligent terminal entrance, it connects many User equipment, smart speakers as IoT control center, will access more non-Lenovo devices.
Coincidentally, smart speakers Jingdong vice president, head of product development Ricoh platform also recognizes the speaker 'entrance': because of the cheap, with its own use value, comes with voice features and other elements of smart speakers in the intelligent future based on interactive voice age In the 'smart center' is the most suitable carrier.
According to the data, in 2016, domestic smart speaker sales 60,000 units, from January to August 2017 a total of over 100,000 units sold, the annual sales of smart speakers in 350,000 units, and according to the relevant data to predict domestic smart speakers this year Sales will grow to 1.2 million units worldwide sales will reach 56.3 million units from the beginning no one cares about smart speakers to the substantial growth in the past two years, consumers continue to accept smart speakers, enjoy the 'all things connected' strong evidence of the times , Which also allows technology giants have seen new business opportunities in the fierce competition from many manufacturers, smart speakers will certainly speed up into the ordinary users, but also allow people to 'all things connected' future has been more intense expectations.