If you look at the phone, you know what's in the refrigerator. With a toilet, you can know the weight, the body fat rate, the urine condition...
In 2017, China’s home appliance market reached approximately 1.7 trillion yuan, an increase of approximately 10% year-on-year. Despite sustained low growth in recent years, it achieved a rapid growth rate of 4 years in 2017. At the China Household Appliances Expo in Shanghai , The 'Smart Home Appliances' and high-performance products that can be connected to the Internet are constantly unveiled. In China, where sharing services and smart phone billing are increasingly popular, home appliances may also come out of a unique development path.
This year's China Household Appliances Expo was held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center and lasted until March 11th. 800 companies from around the world participated in the exhibition and 25 million people visited. This year’s special attention is given to the word “smart”. Access to the Internet to operate, collective appearance of smart appliances with new features.
Haier Group exhibited a refrigerator with communication function. This refrigerator uses technology similar to face recognition to recognize juice, vegetables, and meat. It can be confirmed through the LCD screen or smartphone installed on the refrigerator door. Even in supermarkets. When you wait for a place, you can also confirm something on your smart phone with your smartphone before you go shopping.
Haier is considering the development of mechanisms for automatic supplementing of foodstuffs to supplement foods that are about to be eaten or have passed the preservation period. In urban areas of China, services are being delivered in 30 minutes or so by ordering fresh foods on smartphones. Haier seems to be contemplating linkages with these services and launching a mechanism that can also complement the purchase of various goods at home.
According to a survey conducted by the survey company Beijing Zhongyekang Times Market, the size of China’s home appliance market reached 1.735 trillion yuan in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 9.8%. Due to market saturation and other reasons, it maintained a low growth rate of 3 to 5% from 2014 to 2016, but In the year of 2017, a high growth rate was achieved in four years. The growth of the household appliances market is supported by the upgrading of high-performance products brought about by the increase in income levels.
In addition to high-performance sweeping robots, Midea Group also displayed automatic glass-wiping robots that can be attached to windows. This robot can automatically wipe the glass at heights that are not reachable by human hands.
Midea acquired KUKA, a German robotic giant, in 2017. It also exhibited medical devices equipped with ultrasonic inspection equipment at the tip of KUKA industrial robots. Doctors can remotely operate robotic arms, envisioning remote diagnosis for patients in sparsely populated areas. service.
Panasonic has exhibited products that enrich the 'living space' of kitchens, living rooms, and toilets. It demonstrates how to use the most cutting-edge cooking appliances to make dishes, and presents 'magic mirrors' that can look at mirrors to manage health status.
In the 'Toware' flush toilet, Matsushita has independently developed products that can measure body weight and body fat rate and check urine in China. Simply sprinkle urine on a small device like a thermometer to measure the presence or absence of urine. Occult blood and urinary protein values, etc. In addition to data management through smart phones and personal computers, it is expected that it can be sent to frequently visited hospitals for health management.
In the unique service areas such as sharing bicycles and smart phone billing, China has recently formed a foundation that can rapidly expand the market. In the field of home appliances, entrepreneurs and technicians are also launching innovation contests, and new products linked with the Internet appear to be born.