In many sci-fi movies, we can often see that a wave of TV is automatically turned on, and a scene where the curtains are raised slowly rises. That's right, these seemingly magical features have been gradually realized in real life, and this is the increasingly mature smart home. Bill Gates, the former world's richest man and chairman of Microsoft, is the first foreign family to use smart homes. It has been around for 30 years. So, what is smart home, what is its future development direction and the challenges it faces? Below, the author takes everyone to find out.

The development of smart home

According to the definition of smart home, it uses residential wiring as the platform, using integrated wiring technology, network communication technology, smart home-system design scheme security technology, automatic control technology, audio and video technology to integrate home life related facilities, and build efficient The management system of residential facilities and family schedules enhances home safety, convenience, comfort, and artistry, and achieves an environmentally friendly and energy-saving living environment.

  From the above point of view, the definition of smart home is very official and complex, making it difficult to understand. Smart home is white, it is people-centered, set up an intelligent control center, all the switches are assembled, and it is convenient to control various home devices according to the user's wishes. Including, for example, automatically putting a bath of water, cooking rice and soup automatically, and turning off a phone to turn off all the appliances in the house. In short, it is to use technology to make life more concise and convenient;
Turning over the history of smart homes, we will find that the origin of this concept is very early, but it has not been applied to the actual construction field. It was not until 1984, when United Technologies Corporation applied the concept of building equipment informatization and integration to the “urban building” in Hartford, Connecticut, the first “smart building” emerged. The world is competing for the construction of smart homes.

At the end of the 20th century, smart homes were still a new thing in China, and there were very few people who knew them. The entire industry is still in a stage of conceptual familiarity and product cognition. During this time, there are no professional smart home manufacturers in China. Only one or two companies in Shenzhen are engaged in the sales of American X-10 smart home agents. The company is mainly engaged in import and retail business, and most of its products are also for European and American users living in China.

    By the year 2000, the concept of smart homes has gradually been promoted, and manufacturers of production and R&D have gradually increased. By 2005, more than 50 smart home R&D and production companies had been established in China, mainly in the relatively developed areas of Shenzhen, Shanghai, Tianjin, Beijing, Hangzhou and Xiamen. The marketing and technical training system for smart homes has gradually improved, and the “Pandora Box” has gradually opened.

  From 2006 to 2010, a vibrant smart home industry ushered in a cold spell. The reason is multi-faceted. The core is the company that is eager for quick success and instant success. It has carried out barbaric growth and vicious competition, which has brought great negative impact to the whole industry. Such as excessive exaggeration of the function of smart home, neglecting the training and support of agents, product instability and other factors, so that industry users, the media began to question the actual effect of smart home, from the original advocacy became cautious. The market's reaction is more obvious, and sales have declined in some regions, and many companies have withdrawn from the market.

However, foreign companies seem to have entered the domestic market just like the New World, and the major foreign smart home brands currently active in the market have entered the Chinese market during this period, such as Legrand, Honeywell, Schneider, Control4 and so on. At present, the smart home market has begun to return to the track of rapid growth after years of accumulation.

At present, the three major mistakes of smart home?


Myth 1: There is no difference between wired and wireless connections.

 

Some dealers use wired technology at some key points in order to reduce the cost and complexity of construction. If there are customers questioning, it will be fooled to say that there is no difference between wired and wireless connections, but the connection is different, and the wired connection is more secure.

So, is there really no difference between wired and wireless connections? The answer is no. The older generation of smart homes use wired technology, which is not only complicated in wiring, but also expensive in cost, and the user experience is very bad. It is already in the stage of being eliminated. The new generation of IoT technology smart home, using wireless sensing technology, combined with the hottest mobile Internet technology, using intelligent terminal remote control, the comfort of the entire experience is significantly improved. At the same time, it also has the characteristics of free wiring, strong mobility and convenient upgrade, which is the mainstream of the current market. Therefore, consumers should not easily believe that "there is no difference between wired and wireless connections?"

In addition, some companies want to fish in troubled waters, using the wireless hot trend, launched a pseudo-wireless smart home with only one-way control signals to "fudge" consumers. Therefore, consumers must look for true wireless technology when they choose. The most mature and stable is the wireless sensing technology based on zigbee.

   


         Myth 2: Smart home appliances is equal to smart home?

 

When many home appliance manufacturers are marketing, they deliberately played the smart home brand and created the idea that "smart home appliances are equal to smart homes" to promote consumption. In fact, this is a very big mistake. The essence of smart home appliances is still household appliances, just an integral part of the smart home platform, or smart terminals, such as washing machines, refrigerators, etc., or control platforms, such as smart TVs, etc., we can not "blind people touch the image." The smart home is a platform, which is itself an intelligent control system. On this platform, all home appliances and door and window switches can be remotely controlled to achieve an intelligent application experience. Various intelligent controls can be performed according to the user's custom settings. This is the real smart home.

If you don't recognize it, it is easy to be "fudged" by some appliance manufacturers. When consumers choose products and brands, they must not be confused and misled by the so-called "intelligent" words of some home appliance manufacturers.

   Misunderstanding 3: Intelligent control is equal to smart home

At the moment, "smart" is a very hot word, especially with the strong rise of the mobile Internet, it seems that all products are now connected with intelligence, otherwise they are "silly to see people." Especially in the field of smart homes, some merchants have intelligently controlled "fudge" into smart homes, so that everyone thinks that as long as the intelligent control is realized, it is smart home.

In fact, this is also a one-sided statement. Smart homes need intelligent control, but just intelligent control is not enough to make smart home. On the one hand, smart homes also include security systems; on the other hand, smart home control methods are more diverse and convenient, and many functions can be controlled with iPad and iPhone.

In fact, the most fundamental requirement of the intelligence we need is to be able to solve our actual needs and use a convenient and user-friendly experience. Therefore, judging whether intelligence is not intelligent, can only be known through its own actual experience. When users choose smart decoration, it is necessary to go to the experience center to inspect the experience and experience it with heart. Only the product that suits you is a good product. Consumers who want to install smart home systems are pursuing a high-quality life enjoyment. Therefore, before choosing smart decoration, we must recognize these common misunderstandings, avoid waste of funds, and add “blocking” to ourselves. The future and challenges of smart homes.

Since the beginning of this year, the growth momentum of the smart home market has obviously accelerated. Even in Beijing, where real estate is regulated, smart homes are still growing at a gratifying rate. It shows that the smart home industry has entered an inflection point, and it has entered a new round of integration and evolution period. We predict that in the next three to five years, smart homes will enter a relatively rapid development phase. On the one hand, with the continuous maturity of technology, the emergence of new technologies such as the Internet of Things, the user experience of smart homes is constantly improving, and will be favored by more and more consumers; on the other hand, the concept of smart home, after many years of Cultivating, has gradually penetrated into the hearts of consumers, and then stimulated the potential of consumption, and promoted the birth of smart home enterprises with sales of billions of yuan.

 

According to "China's smart home equipment industry development environment and market demand forecast analysis report prospects", the domestic smart home industry will grow at an average annual rate of 19.8%, with an output value of 124 billion yuan in 2015, with broad prospects. However, the smart home industry is also facing six challenges.

      Challenge 1: "Intelligence" is infinitely good, but the price is too high

Although China's smart home market has already had a certain scale, the overall consumption of smart homes is still dominated by high-end affluent people. In the eyes of most ordinary consumers, smart homes are still a luxury consumer goods in the category of “icing on the cake”. At present, the installation of a complete set of smart home systems is as low as 10,200,000 and the height is more than 500,000. The initial installation cost is not a small investment, and the later use and maintenance is a bottomless pit, which makes ordinary families deterred from intelligence. How to reduce production costs and consumer prices will be an important issue in the expansion of the smart home market.

   Challenge 2: Smart home "flashy"

"It will not be used if it is installed, it is better not to install it!" This is the voice of many smart home users. This reflects the complexity of the operation of smart homes. At present, most smart home system designs are not user-friendly, resulting in great operational difficulties. Originally, I wanted to enjoy a more convenient and more comfortable life, but the complicated operation made the use difficult, which seriously affected the user experience.

Challenge 3: Hackers 觊觎 More security risks

In ordinary homes, hackers can't do anything to collect our data remotely. However, when more and more home devices such as heaters, light bulbs and even toilets are connected to the Internet, new channels are provided for hackers to carry out damage. At the Black Hat Security Conference, two hackers will show how they can monitor Samsung's latest TVs (with cameras) to monitor users. One of the researchers will prove that he can do this even if the user thinks the TV is off.

From a more serious perspective, the so-called smart home devices pose far more security threats than computers that are vulnerable to intrusion. On the one hand, they may cause your family to “open the door” and even bring some form of physical harm, although emails do not have “physical attack” capabilities; on the other hand, smart home devices are less secure, they are not Like mobile phones and laptops, they have long password protection and pass security tests. Therefore, in order to promote the popularity of smart homes, the security of system security has a long way to go.

   Challenge 4: Lack of standards, products are mixed

At present, the standards of the smart home market are not uniform, and there is still no unified regulatory mechanism. As a result, the smart home products on the market are mixed, and consumers are hard to distinguish. It is easy to be deceived by counterfeit and shoddy products, causing the consequences of “bad money driving good money”, flooding inferior products, seriously damaging consumer purchasing enthusiasm, and hindering the development of smart home industry.

  Challenge 5: The second decoration "intelligent" is going to hurt the bones

In China's smart home sector, secondary renovation is a market that has not yet been valued and developed. When renovating, consumers tend to spend money on upgrading electrical equipment and home furnishings, but they are less willing to change the wiring of the room itself. In order to realize the basic function of home networking control, some smart home products must carry out house wiring, which requires the house to be "scarred", which is not only costly but also painful.

   Challenge 6: Foreign big-name products "not satisfied with water and soil"

Some consumers have "imported" plots, non-European and American goods do not buy. At present, the smart home products of international big-name enterprises have committed the old problems of foreign companies to the Chinese market. Due to foreign products, mainly considering the needs of Europeans and Americans, important functions such as monitoring their own balconies and gardens are of little significance to domestic consumers. The survey shows that the most important smart home functions of Chinese consumers are lighting, curtain control and security, which are related to basic life. Therefore, the positioning of these products is not accurate, which will naturally lead to the slow sales of foreign big-name products, which will lead to the company's “unacceptable” and affect the smart home market.

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