With the advent of 5G and AI, people will enter the era of wisdom connected to all things. Ai makes interaction with everything more natural, 5G makes the IoT (Internate of Things, the internet of Things) a reality, covering more scenarios, and the first stop of IoT is the home scene, the smart home.
IDC data shows that smart home equipment sales continue to grow rapidly, 2017 global smart home sales of 430 million units, is expected to 2022 global shipments of nearly 1 billion units. In the environment of domestic mobile phone circles, with limited space, the daily economic news reporter found that handset makers, including Huawei, OPPO, Vivo, Xiaomi and Yi-Plus, are referring to the IoT to a higher strategic location, even as the second battlefield of the mobile phone industry.
However, each family in the game to seize the internet of things ' big cake ' play different. Among them, Huawei announced the construction of an ' incubator ', The Ark Laboratory, which could be the world's largest IoT interconnection laboratory, which would promote hilink certification and home scene innovation, while the listed Xiaomi chose to invest in the eco-chain route, unlike the more closed ecosystems advocated by Huawei and Xiaomi,
Oppo and Vivo united the United States, ECOVACS, Sunshine Lighting, rice technology and other manufacturers jointly set up the "IoT Eco-Open Alliance", a mobile phone in the morning of September 17 announced that the cross-border into smart TV in the way of the Internet smart home area.
Giant layout Internet of Things
With the development of intelligent hardware, more and more intelligent terminal carriers of IoT are being integrated into people's lives. According to a research report of Changjiang Securities, it is an inevitable trend for the development of the information society from ' Internet + ' to ' IoT X '.
The internet of things reflects the state and change of the physical world, objective, real, real-time, and predictable to the IoT system, realizing the deep integration of the physical world and the digital world, and a profound transformation of the core and model of the traditional industry. In the trend of Internet of things, the Internet of things market scale will be further expanded. According to IDC data, smart home equipment sales growth, 2017 global smart home sales of 430 million units, compared with the previous year 27.6% increase.
The market is expected to reach 1 billion units in 2022, with a CAGR of 18.5% per annum.
Facing the great ' big cake ' of the internet of things, whether it is the traditional manufacturing enterprise that seeks transformation, the Internet technology giant, or the mass entrepreneur, they are trying to share from the positive layout. From abroad, in 2011, Google announced the launch of Android home, hope that all devices are linked to the Google system, 2014, a huge acquisition of smart home company Nest. And at the end of 2014, Amazon launched the smart home product echo. Also this year, Apple launched the HomeKit project for smart home.
America's search, e-commerce and mobile giants are almost at the same time entering the IoT world, and since then, China's social, e-commerce, search companies have started to enter the field, and handset makers are no exception.
Mobile phone manufacturers play different roles For today's smartphone industry, the ' winter ' landscape is still unchanged. According to the recent data published by the Chinese Institute of Information, August 2018, the domestic mobile phone market shipments of 32.595 million, down 20.9%, down 11.8%. Among them, the number of smart phone shipments of 30.448 million, down 17.4% yoy.
Worse, according to IDC's latest report, global smartphone shipments are expected to fall by 0.7% in the year to 2018, with the prospect of resuming growth in 2019. In the domestic mobile phone ring pattern tends to be stable, display space limited environment, in recent years, more and more mobile phone manufacturers began to refer to the Internet of things higher strategic position, even as the second battlefield of the mobile phone industry, but their different play. In the morning of September 17, Liu, CEO of One plus technology, announced through Weibo: "One plus will start with Smart TV and join the Internet smart home field." ' Imagine that, 5 years or even 10 years from then, TV will be in a brand new form, replaced by a ubiquitous Smart Display in family life.
' As we all know, the TV industry is not only competitive, but also less profitable than smart phones, but in Liu's view, ' with the development of 5G, AI and other technologies, the home intelligent life scene will be very different from now. Today, there are four major Internet applications in user life: Mobile, home, car and office.
The family, as a very important scene in life, is still in a relatively elementary stage. With a different, OPPO, vivo in the Internet of things and did not choose to produce their own home appliances, and united Beauty, ECOVACS, Sunshine Lighting, rice technology, such as a number of manufacturers jointly established called the "IoT Ecological Open Alliance."
It is understood that the IoT open Ecosystem alliance with the device manufacturers to achieve control and interconnection, for the consumer, can use an app to control a variety of devices, for developers, only need to develop once to adapt to multiple control side.
Around the dean of the Vivo AI Global Institute, the future of the internet of Things is bound to be open, and he hopes that the open protocol standards of the IoT eco-Open Alliance can become national or industry standards in the future. However, compared with Oppo, Vivo's Open Ecological Alliance, Xiaomi, Huawei and other manufacturers in the Internet of things in the field of ecology is still relatively closed. Xiaomi is a mobile phone manufacturer in the Internet of Things, the first choice for the "investment ecosystem"-mobile phone as the core to connect all devices, driving the transformation of the smart home field. According to Xiaomi's second-quarter results this year, Xiaomi's IoT and consumer products business grew fastest, with revenues of $10.378 billion in the second quarter of 2018, up 104.3% from a year earlier.