"Subtracting tedious life" new concept of smart home

Smart home is based on the development of information technology and the continuous improvement of human living environment. It conveys the concept of “subtraction for cumbersome life”, allowing people to enjoy a truly convenient and intelligent home life. The Internet of Things smart home mentioned here is a concept relative to the traditional smart home.

1. Traditional smart home

Traditional smart homes mainly refer to smart homes in the home automation stage. They are dominated by control functions and products are mainly microelectronic products. Traditional smart homes adopt wired methods, which not only require professionals to construct and maintain, but also have long construction periods, high costs, poor system flexibility, difficult maintenance, and low expansion capability. Users cannot update or upgrade after many projects are completed. The consumer experience is poor. Traditional smart homes have been developing for more than 20 years, and this has made some progress. However, backward technology, outdated ideas, and lack of innovation have always been the overall characteristics of Chinese traditional smart home companies.

There are four types of traditional smart home manufacturers: The first category is based on traditional building intercom manufacturers. Such manufacturers mainly provide an intelligent integrated control platform, integrating security alarms, home appliance control, and many others on this platform. The second category is mainly home appliance manufacturers, which mainly provide information-based networking appliances; the third category is focused on lighting control, curtain control and other modules and interfaces manufacturers, mainly with The first two types of manufacturers provide various types of smart switches and interface modules; the fourth category is home theater, background music production and integrators, mainly to provide home theater for high-end customers.

2. Internet of Things Smart Home

The concept of “subtracting for cumbersome life” conveyed by smart homes cannot be accepted well by users in the traditional smart home period. Various deficiencies have been affecting the promotion process, and some products have even become the furnishings of the user's living room. Products. The emergence of the Internet of Things has brought a second opportunity for the development of smart homes. Based on ICT technology, smart homes are free from the constraints of traditional smart homes, allowing home life to develop in a more intelligent direction. The Internet of Things is ubiquitous and omniscient, and the goal of a smart home based on the Internet of Things is to develop green wireless technologies, including sensing, communications, etc. This requires not only extremely low power consumption but also full wireless coverage, high reliability connectivity, and strong Secure communication, large network size, and self-repair. Specific to the home application is to require very simple installation, very easy to use, maintenance do not have to worry about, expand arbitrary. Simply put, it is an ordinary consumer who looks at simple instructions and can quickly assemble and complete a complete smart home system without requiring the participation of professionals. This is an important feature of IoT-type smart home products.

Taking locks as an example, using the standards of the Internet of Things, all the states of a lock, including unlocking, locking, and unlocking, should be transparent to consumers. Once the lock is opened, consumers should be able to immediately sense when and where they want to be. To. If the family forgets to lock the door, you can feel it and be reminded in a matter of thousands of miles. It is clear that the current ordinary smart lock does not have these functions at all. In addition, the so-called smart air conditioners, smart TVs and other smart appliances will not be "smart" closed after you leave home. The so-called Internet of Things air conditioners may not even be automatically turned on before you go home. Therefore, from the standard of the Internet of Things smart home, the traditional home intelligence products can not be considered as a real thing in the Internet of Things home products.

It is an inevitable trend that home life is moving toward intelligence, and the smart home based on ICT technology is a blue ocean project, and the prospect is inestimable. Counting a single piece of data, IoT smart homes cover smart lighting, smart switches, smart appliances, smart sensors, smart security, smart health, and other areas. The average number of these devices in a modern home is 50 to 100. The composition of people in a modern family is generally 2-3 people, that is, 2-3 mobile phones. From this point of view, the market size of a smart Internet of Things alone is about 30 times that of the mobile Internet. However, at present, smart home product technology based on Internet of things technology is strictly controlled by only a few companies in the world, and it is very few in the country. Many domestic traditional home appliance companies even stay at the beginning of this century. s level. To achieve "tall" on the Internet of Things smart home, still need a long time of technology and market accumulation.