Recently, the 2018 China Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo was held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. More than 800 domestic and foreign home appliance companies, consumer electronics companies and cross-industry companies participated in the exhibition. Household appliances, consumer electronics, artificial intelligence and Internet technologies were displayed in all directions. Fields. The picture shows a helium balloon robot controlled by a visitor in touch with a mobile phone app.
With the rapid development of technologies such as the Internet, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, the smart home product market continues to expand. However, for consumers, barriers between different brands are difficult to break. To this end, China Household Electrical Appliances Association launched a smart appliance cloud Interoperability standards make it possible for different vendors and different categories of smart appliances to interoperate
At the recent China Household Electrical Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE2018), the China Household Electrical Appliances Association cooperated with Haier, Midea, Bosch Home Appliances, Changhong, Hisense, TCL, Skyworth, Konka, Yunzhiyi, and more than 10 well-known domestic and foreign home appliances. The cloud platform company officially released the latest work of the smart home appliance cloud cloud interconnected interoperability project (referred to as cloud cloud interconnected, English abbreviated as CIC) working group - Yunyun Internet logo and SDK (platform software development kit).
Jiang Feng, chairman of the China Household Electrical Appliances Association, said that this represents an important step for smart home appliances to achieve cross-brand interconnection and interoperability. Products that adopt the cloud-connected Internet standard will be pasted in the future.
Smart life is coming
With the rapid development of internet, artificial intelligence, and internet of things technologies, the smart home market business opportunities are highlighted. Statista, a market research firm, predicts that the global smart home market will reach 79.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. In order to seize the air, Chinese home appliance manufacturers will be smart , From smart speakers to smart home appliances to smart homes, it’s very dizzying. People in China are increasingly aware of smart home appliances and consumer enthusiasm. Advanced smart environments are emerging. However, smart home appliances also exist. The painful point of interconnected and difficult to communicate, each brand of smart home appliances self-contained system, each fighting, like one by one 'island.'
Insiders described this scenario to reporters. If consumers want to create smart homes, they often have to work together: A brand speakers, B brand air conditioners, C brand ovens, D brand TVs, E brand refrigerators... Although all of them are intelligent hardware, they are difficult to connect because of the brand barriers, and there are problems that require the use of multiple APP controls. The smart life cannot be played, which seriously affects the user experience.
Fortunately, this bottleneck is being broken down by the home appliance industry. In the AWE2018 ad hoc smart home appliances cloud cloud interconnected exhibition area, televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, water heaters and other 16 categories of smart appliances and hardware products unveiled, the audience can through voice, Key interactions and other interactions trigger the intelligent linkage of multiple home appliances and related devices in one step, providing convenient information feedback and timely alarm information to achieve customized scene experience. Such an easy-to-use smart life is the “Smart Home Appliance Interoperability Standard” Brand Smart Appliance's 'Governor of the Second Pulse' after implementation.
Through the implementation of the Cloud Connect SDK, it has been verified that different manufacturers and different categories of smart appliances can be interconnected and technologically feasible. “ Dr. Xu Chengmao, Vice President of the Central Research Group of the Midea Group believes that the Cloud Connect SDK will receive more and more recognition. Implementation, accelerate the breaking of the island phenomenon and promote resource sharing.
Collect power to solve pain points
Right now, this Chinese version of the interconnection solution has attracted worldwide attention. The United States, the European Union, Japan, South Korea and other home appliance associations have proposed to the China Household Electrical Appliances Association access to "Smart home appliances cloud cloud interconnection standards."
It is understood that the China Household Electrical Appliances Association took the lead in setting up a working group of smart home appliances cloud-connected interoperability projects in 2015. The founding members include Haier, Midea, Boxi Home Appliances, Changhong, and other seven domestic and foreign home appliance companies. Since then, Yun Zhiyi, Konka, Galanz Well-known technical service companies and home appliance companies have joined. After more than three years of hard work, the working group has achieved a series of important results.
It is worth mentioning that the “Intelligent Appliance Cloud Cloud Interconnection and Interoperability Standard” formally released and implemented in November 2017 is the first group standard for smart home appliances interconnection in China. This standard condenses the exploration and research achievements of the project team and innovatively Using open standards, a set of feasible solutions for interoperability between different home appliance manufacturers' intelligent systems was proposed.
Dr. Shao Huaorong, general manager of TCL Home Appliances Group, and TCL Smart Home Technology Co., Ltd., said that this standard is of great significance. The backbone equipment of smart homes is large appliances. Participating in this standard development is China's major large-scale home appliance manufacturers. 'If large appliances can be connected Intercommunication, barriers to smart home technologies, such as the bottleneck of interconnection, have been fundamentally resolved.
Service Industry Leads Development
According to reports, the new standard is quite groundbreaking. 'We're doing a minimal standard, really solve the interconnection problem, the core is the connection between the manufacturers.' Shao Huairong introduction, the standard is based on the principle of decentralized design of cloud-interoperability agreement , Agreement-based implementation of interoperability between smart home appliance manufacturers and their cloud platforms to achieve interoperability between devices across vendors. The benefits of doing so are that they do not affect the original cloud architecture of the manufacturers, nor do they affect the original smart devices of the manufacturers. And their own APP design and experience not only solves the problem, but also minimizes the cost of factory transformation.
Relevant experts believe that the “Smart Home Appliance Cloud-Connected Interoperability Standard” is simple but rigorous. It has built the overall architecture of interoperability between various types of smart home appliances and related equipment, and put forward user interfaces, device interfaces, and connections. In order to achieve openness and interconnection, it also highlights information protection, such as entry mode, equipment model, and security strategy.
In the critical period of the transformation of the traditional home appliance industry, the China Household Electrical Appliances Association organized industry forces to work harder to formulate standards and win praise from many enterprises. Zhao Feng, CTO of Haier Home Appliances Group, said that this standard is from an industry perspective. After several major communication and thorough investigations, mainstream appliance manufacturers began to work out after unanimous consent of all participating companies. The selected entry point has effectively solved the pain points of the industry and enterprises and represents the appeal of the entire industry. This standard is very vital. of.
Bo Fan, vice president of digital transformation at Boss Electric Greater China, confidently stated that in the future, Boss Electric Appliances will continue to build a safe, open, connected “home-connected” ecosystem around user needs to enhance user experience and bring consumers More localized content and services.
As the interconnection of cloud and cloud goes deeper, the landing of smart appliances is expected to speed up. Jiang Feng expressed that he hopes to liberate home appliance companies from heavy connection tasks and devote more energy to creating better smart experiences for users, and truly promote smart home appliances. Health, rapid development.