From 2013 to 2018, great changes have taken place in the smart home industry: the concept of smart home is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies are advancing by leaps and bounds, and cross-border cooperation cases in the industry are increasing. So, what will be the development trend of smart home in the next five years?

Combination of digital intercom and smart home

In the foreseeable future, building intercom will add more functions of smart home, integrating security, home appliance control, information service and entertainment, so as to make qualitative changes in building intercom system, and the two will be more closely integrated. Different from the pure analog system, the digital / analog hybrid system adopts low-cost analog equipment in the unit, and the backbone network adopts the digital TCP / IP protocol based on Ethernet for networking. Digital / analog hybrid system is one of the economic and effective methods to solve the networking of large communities. The networking topology of large communities has a great degree of freedom, the network adjustment is very convenient, and the cost is reasonable, the performance is stable and the maintenance is simple. Therefore, the digital / analog hybrid system has developed rapidly. Digital / analog hybrid networking mode is an economic and practical engineering solution at present, and will be the first choice for intercom networking system of large community buildings in the short term.

Voice assistant will be the norm

Using mobile phones, tablets and other terminals to input and control smart home devices is slightly cumbersome and redundant. In the future, voice assistant will become the norm in smart home products. Like Apple's Siri, interactive robot childe Xiaobai and other software devices, products will be intelligent through "voice". Therefore, when you walk into your home in the future, you can complete the tasks of opening the air conditioner, closing the curtains and putting hot water in the bathroom through voice, so as to make your life pleasant and open easily.

Personalized services become selling points

In the future, personalized services will meet individual specific use habits and preferences, and provide users with matching service content and service time, which is the key to improve users' use stickiness. The current smart home products have begun to use artificial intelligence learning technology to realize and improve the user-defined management mode. For example, the smart light bulb can learn the user's behavior and habits, and automatically control the light on mode; It can also sense the response of the doorbell and immediately turn on the electric light connected to the porch when strangers visit, which meets the needs of individuals and families and plays a security role at the same time.

"Hardware + service" mode will become the dominant mode

The future profit model will no longer rely on single products. In the future, things will be connected, and the "hardware + service" mode will become the dominant mode, which means that the sale of intelligent hardware is only the starting point, and the follow-up service is the protagonist, including embedding app applications, building home portals, collecting big data, and looking for opportunities to realize data and traffic. In this mode, hardware is not the realization point of profit, but the basic link and carrier of the value chain, and the latter is the competition of integration ability.

Industrial cooperation has become a trend

Win win cooperation is becoming a consensus, in which the establishment of product alliance has become the main form of cooperation. The goal of industrial alliance is to combine industrial resources, formulate unified standards and promote the interconnection of smart home business. At present, the leading enterprises in the domestic vertical industry are also actively convening companies from all sectors of the industry to form alliances and release technical standards, such as China mobile digital home industry alliance, Tencent Penguin smart home, Haier U +, Alibaba smart, etc.

Standardization is the only way

Technically, the challenge of smart home construction is not equipment or practical problems, but standards and protocols, which directly hinder the interconnection between different devices. Therefore, standardization has become the only way to promote the development of China's smart home industry. Under the background that the unified industry standard of smart home is not mature, major manufacturers and relevant organizations have participated in the formulation of interface standards and data transmission protocols for smart home related devices. At present, some standards on smart home have been launched. A series of standardization work will provide an open standardization platform for the development of smart home in China, and point out the correct development direction in the field of smart home research.

System intelligence is the goal of high quality

In the future, smart home will continue to develop towards intelligence. The systematic realization of intelligence is the result of cross product data exchange and interaction. Different products can not only exchange data, but also convert it into active behavior, without the user's intervention. For example, when the smart bed finds that the owner is too hot and sweating, the air conditioner starts, or when the range hood finds that the amount of lampblack is too large, the purifier is ready to absorb PM2 5 and remove the smell. The integrated realization of intelligence is based on the premise that intelligent single products and intelligent products can realize cross brand and cross category interaction, which requires all products in smart home to operate on a unified platform and follow a unified standard. This means that manufacturers who have entered the field of smart home need to consider whether the gateway equipment of their own smart products can be grafted onto the future platform.