Smart home development trend

With the development of science and technology, especially the emergence of cloud computing and the Internet of Things, the concept of smart home frequently appears on major media and enters the public's sight. In China, the concept of smart home was introduced ten years ago and pushed into the market. With the development of society and economy, people's pursuit of home quality is getting higher and higher. They require home comfort, safety, comfortable and smart home life, and the demand for smart home systems is also growing. The following is an analysis of China's smart home development trends:

First, the status of the smart home industry As a result of the domestic government's real estate regulation this year, the real estate economy slump, leading to reduced real estate sales, the entire residential industry and the corresponding electronic equipment industry will play a certain role in suppressing the smart home market customers The group will be reduced.

However, people in the industry generally believe that "opportunities and challenges coexist" and the regulation of the property market will not bring much shock to the smart home industry. As early as in 2008, the “Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of Residential Decorations” issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development had already guided and encouraged the construction of a newly-built commercial residential housing in a renovated or menu-style decoration mode. Therefore, the control of the property market will force property developers to take the fine line, launch a project of “a small amount of fine quality” and make differentiated marketing. Smart home is obviously the biggest selling point, which has a positive impact on the development of the smart home industry.

Moreover, in the long run, due to the reduction in the volume of housing transactions, it will inevitably lead to an increase in the competition of real estate companies and will increase functional decoration. The so-called increase in functionality is an opportunity for the development of smart homes. At the same time, the reduction of investment customers will increase the occupancy rate of some villas or large-sized houses. Therefore, smart homes may never be selected and become alternatives.

II. Trends presented by the development of smart homes 1. Wireless transmission technology is playing a big role Our urban construction is gradually evolving towards smart cities, and this advancement in intelligence has directly driven the development of related industries, including the popularization of smart homes. It is becoming more and more realistic with the development of its technology. Occasionally in our lives, for example, where the lights forget to forget, television forget about customs and other small details of life is asked, and the popularity of smart home systems in the future can be a very good solution to these problems, we only need to pass the relevant The device can control everything at home and bring a very convenient life.

In order to realize the realization of these control technologies, wireless network transmission is needed here.

In the past, traditional smart homes were spread by wired communication, and they needed to destroy the wall structure and arrange the wiring along the walls. Moreover, there were dense wire threads outside the wall, which hampered the appearance, required special construction personnel to operate, and the construction period was long and the cost was high. In particular, it cannot be tolerated that consumers see new smart devices, and they are more difficult to update and upgrade. They need to re-break the wall wiring and need to be repaired after sale. It is more difficult because the lines are buried in the wall and cannot Detecting faults and repairs in a timely and accurate manner is quite a headache.

In comparison, with the advancement of Internet of Things technology, wireless smart homes have shown obvious technical advantages. Equipped with a smart home based on ZIGEBEE technology, the owner can live a lazy life by holding a mobile phone and remotely controlling the home device. What is satisfying is that it doesn't need to open the walls and arrange complicated circuits. The appearance is simple and elegant. If you have a junior high school education or above, you can install it on your own; automatic networking, strong equipment expansion; low cost and low power consumption In line with the concept of modern family green life; easy maintenance, effective maintenance, timely and effective detection of faults and maintenance, customer satisfaction.

It can be said that in both technologies, it is a complementary relationship. Our demand for smart homes has increased, virtually driving the development of wireless transmission technology. With the development of wireless technologies, the effects of smart wireless home appliances have emerged. Both promote each other and develop each other.

2, ZigBee technology shines Today's smart home features really powerful, changing people's lifestyle. In fact, the development of smart homes has not been easy. In the 90s of last century, smart homes were introduced from Europe and the United States to the country. They also had a whirlwind and played out some smart flags and vague concepts. At one time, many consumers ran out of pockets. However, over time, the degree of intelligence was not High, dense wiring, high prices, untimely services, and complaints from consumers have not been recognized by the market.

Until the concept of the Internet of Things emerged quietly, smart homes regained their enthusiasm. In particular, the internationally popular ZigBee technology has been rapidly promoted in China, providing technical support for wireless smart homes. The degree of intelligence has been greatly improved, and customers can handle everyday life with electronic devices. Compared with traditional smart homes, this kind of smart home has obvious advantages. It does not require dense wiring, and it does not need to destroy the wall. As long as you have a junior high school or above, you can install it yourself according to the manual; automatic networking, strong equipment expansion performance; low power consumption, Low cost, in line with the concept of modern life; after-sales service is more thoughtful and timely, accurate and on-site diagnosis can be given to repair the fault.

According to relevant industry sources, ZigBee is a low-cost, low-complexity, low-power, high-security, near-distance transmission of two-way wireless communication technology, the biggest feature is the automatic networking, with strong scalability, can be embedded in various Home equipment, this is Bluetooth, WIFI, etc. can not be compared.

Academician of the Internet of Things experts from the Chinese Academy of Engineering said that with the continuous rise of advanced technologies, smart homes are moving toward the direction of networking, information, and intelligence. Their functions are constantly strong, and they are easy to use, easy to operate, and extremely convenient for people to use. With the formulation of smart home industry standards, it is expected that it will be introduced in the near future, and it is expected to further dilute R&D costs and improve product cost-to-performance ratio, thus promoting the speed of adoption. It is expected that smart homes will usher in the peak of development in the next 3-5 years.

3, the Internet of Things into a smart home development watershed At present, the construction of the Internet of Things has risen as a national strategy, as an important part of the Internet of Things industry chain, smart home will undoubtedly get a lot of advantages. First, last year's "12th Five-Year Plan" of the Internet of Things released, put forward nine key areas of application for Internet of Things development and support, including smart home. Then, this year, the State Council encouraged private capital to invest in IoT applications. As a sunrise industry in the field of Internet of Things, smart home just caught up.

It is inevitable that home life is moving towards intelligence. Therefore, the smart home as a Blue Ocean project has an inestimable prospect. As emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing have entered the smart home industry one after another, public companies have also formed their own distinctive products, and prices have gradually moved towards the trend of civilians. From wired to wireless, from the concept of speculation to application implementation, smart home after more than a decade of development, and finally achieved a qualitative leap. The smart home in the future will be better served by users. The Internet of Things has become an important watershed for the development of smart homes. It will expand and extend the development direction and industrial scale of smart homes. Smart homes in the era of Internet of Things will have more potential for development.

4. The trend of home appliance companies leading the smart home appliance IT upgrade is irresistible, and intelligence has become the core area in which major TV companies seize the status of the industry. Comprehensive home appliance companies with full industry chain advantages, from taking the lead in building smart TV platforms, to launching smart voice search engines first, to upgrading “smart homes” based on the Internet of Things technology, making breakthroughs in the field of smart technologies and becoming the industry’s smart innovation Trends, driving the leader in industrial intelligence upgrades.

It is understood that household appliance companies have established the nation's largest intelligent software and hardware development team around the intelligent industrial chain system, and completed the entire business model and platform overall framework design based on the cloud service platform. At the same time, with its proposed "simple and easy to use" consumer philosophy, 3107 smart experience centers have been built across the country, and the "smart home" based on the Internet of Things technology has been vigorously promoted, bringing users unprecedented entertainment audiovisual experiences. .

It is not difficult to find that the achievements of the home appliance business intelligence platform continue. Such as the world's first intelligent voice browser developed independently, won the CMMI5 global software development capability certification, which is also the honor of the entire Chinese home appliance industry. Based on this core technology, home appliance companies took the lead in launching TVs that subvert traditional usage habits and were welcomed by the young main consumer groups.

"In the future development of the smart TV intelligent control technology will also be applied to the field of white electricity, making the entire intelligent industry chain increasingly perfect, and realize the "smart home" field of comprehensive navigation." An industry expert said. It is understood that at present, home appliances in smart white products, has completed the construction of smart refrigerators, smart air-conditioning technology platform.

5. Cloud computing makes smart home functions more powerful At present, domestic smart home manufacturers that use cloud computing technology include Haier and Wulian Sensing. Haier considers it from the entire smart community, and Wulian Sensing is The first company at home and abroad to introduce cloud services into smart homes.

Through cloud computing, users can not only look at the disturbances in the house in real time, but also can trace their source. For example, if someone at home is invading, even if the suspect flees, it can also call up the video recording of the exact time period based on the response time of each sensor, and provide the police with evidence to solve the case. In the same way, through the analysis and analysis of the data of various types of smart sockets and smart switches in the home, energy control of households can be achieved, and energy saving and environmental friendly, convenient and comfortable home appliance lighting use plans can be formulated.

"In addition to providing users with large-capacity data storage space, cloud services also bear more and more critical roles!" IOT sensor technicians said, "Smart life has now gradually entered the people's attention. And, it will be implemented in more and more people. In an intelligent home life, wireless networks are everywhere and everywhere, and cloud computing can ensure that users can get the quickest and most secure services at any time and any place. Cloud computing, the user is truly God, through cloud computing, the family will become an open cloud platform, mobile phones, tablet computers, personal computers and other terminals can share information in real-time, locking the focus of attention to meet users on security, comfort and even Social needs, of course, according to the actual needs of users, the system can also provide users with real-time care, electronic health services! With the further development of the Internet of things, and smart cities, smart medical, smart transportation and other industries to grow, Smart Home will play a bigger and more active role in the Internet of Things!"

6, the inevitable trend: the combination of digital intercom and smart home In the foreseeable future, building intercom will be more to increase the function of some smart homes, will set security, home appliances control, information services, entertainment for one, so that The quality of the building intercom system has changed, and the two will be more closely integrated.

Unlike pure analog systems, digital/analog hybrid systems use lower-cost analog devices in the cell, and backbone networks use Ethernet-based digital TCP/IP protocol for networking. Digital/analog hybrid systems are one of the most economical and effective ways to solve large-scale community networking. The networking topology of large communities has a lot of freedom. The network adjustment is very convenient, and the cost is reasonable, the performance is stable, and the maintenance is simple. As a result, the digital/analog hybrid system has developed rapidly.

Digital/analog hybrid networking is currently the most economical and practical engineering solution. In the short term, it will be the first choice for large-scale community building intercom networking systems. It solves the problems of long-distance transmission and analog network channel blocking and other issues, and achieves better audio and video effects. Compared with pure digital systems and analog systems, this method has obvious price advantages; and this kind of network structure facilitates stable expansion. The network performance is stable. Although the digital/analog hybrid networking method has many advantages, it is limited by the entire physical platform. The terminal equipment is an analog product. It has insurmountable obstacles in terms of functions and networking. The digital community and its integration with multiple systems are mainly Rely on TCP/IP pure digital video intercom system. The potential for simple talkback is limited, and the key to integration with the three networks is to provide a solution that integrates an integrated smart home management platform with a digital security system. In this system, the management level of the property company, the acceptance of the public, and the forward-looking thinking of network operators are indispensable. In general, the development of domestic smart home systems and the development of a video intercom system have become more similar. In terms of development trends, smart homes and building intercoms are also developed from small screens to large screens, and they are developed toward touch-screen control. They require a more beautiful and beautiful appearance, and installation requirements are more in line with the home environment. They also save space and have functions. On the more demanding.

The combination of building intercom and smart home, in a sense, can be said to be the inevitable result of the development of the building intercom system from analog to digital. The digitalization of intercom fundamentally opens up the development bottleneck of the intercom system, making the smart home Combined with it becomes possible. The combination of the intercom and the smart home system further enhances the value-added space of the intercom system, and the cost-effectiveness of the system has also been improved, thus making the new system more widely used. The future direction of smart homes should be based on practicality and ease of use. With the continuous maturation and productization of smart home accessory technologies, digital intercoms will inevitably achieve more in-depth cooperation with smart home systems in their functions, and be combined in a wider range to realize more functions.

7, the emergence of smart cities to promote the development of smart homes have a "wisdom city", which must have a premise, that is, home intelligence. In January of this year, the list of the country’s first batch of 90 smart city pilots was disclosed, and an upsurge of “smart city” construction in the country quickly emerged. Many cities began to use smart cities as blueprints for future urban development. Zhuzhou City, Shaoshan City in Hunan Province, Yunlong Demonstration District in Zhuzhou City, Baijia Town in Liuyang City and Meixi Lake International Service Area in Changsha City are on the list.

The emergence of smart cities has accelerated the popularity of smart homes. This is mainly reflected in the continuous improvement of people’s living standards and constant awareness of new technologies. And the emergence of smart homes makes life truly "safe." Compared with ordinary homes, smart homes not only have traditional living functions, but also optimize people's lifestyles, help people to effectively arrange time, enhance the safety of home life, and even save money for various energy costs.

It is predicted that in the next five years, the global smart home equipment market will see a two-fold increase, from less than 20 million nodes in 2012 to more than 90 million nodes in 2017. In China, the smart home market has more than 100 million potential smart home customers. In this market, with an average of 1,000 yuan per household per year, there is a market of 100 billion yuan. With the continuous increase of our population and the overall improvement of our living standards, this data is constantly changing.

Smart home has already obtained the "recognition" of the country and has become the "new born king" in the home market.

Third, the future trend In fact, smart home technology is not what cutting-edge technology, but the combination of network technology, communications technology and automation control technology and applications. Excessive pursuit of technology, functionality, operation, and appearance can only be counterproductive, making products less accessible. After all, smart products with complex functions and difficult operations make users feel tedious and burdensome.

What is the future of smart homes? To put it simply, the ultimate goal of smart homes is to allow owners to think more and make smart home systems serve their owners more in accordance with the owner's lifestyle; create a more comfortable and healthier home. More environmentally friendly, more energy-efficient and smarter technology living environment. To be specific, from a technical point of view, the smart home in the future will develop in the following directions:

1. The touch control in the next 5 years will become the universal smart home control mode. Through an intelligent touch control screen, intelligent control of lighting, electrical appliances, curtains, security, monitoring, and access control in the home will be realized. This is necessary.

2. The smart phone will become the most important mobile smart control terminal in the future smart home. Through the smart home client software or WEB mode of the mobile phone, remote monitoring and control within the home will be realized, and the remote unlocking of the home will be confirmed. , Remotely turn on air conditioners and heaters. This will become a must for everyone to move control.

3. The wireless and wired control systems will be seamlessly integrated. The trunk area adopts the cabling control system and the small area adopts the wireless control system. This will be the development direction of future intelligent home control systems and technologies.

From a market perspective, the future of smart homes will be in the following directions:

1. The smart home will become the home edition of the Internet of Things. Realizing the mutual communication of all objects inside the home will be the future direction of smart homes.

2. The smart home system will be seamlessly connected with smart national intelligent systems, smart city systems, intelligent buildings and smart communities. All smart home systems will inevitably be compatible with the seamless control of the above large systems.