Smart home "standard unified" when dreams shine into reality

No rules no standards. The smart home industry does not have a basic communication protocol and interface standard, leaving an opportunity for the company's irregular behavior. Each company is under the banner of "openness and interoperability", but in actual operation, its own system will often exclude other brands of products.

This phenomenon will leave a negative impression in the minds of consumers, so that the user's experience will be greatly reduced, affecting the speed of adoption of smart home products.

Industry insiders call for the industry to formulate uniform standards as soon as possible, break down technical barriers, and achieve interoperability of products of different brands.

At home, users can easily control air conditioners, TVs, and other household appliances through the Internet. In the outdoors, users can “talk” with their home’s electrical equipment at any time through the Internet, mobile phones, and telephones, and remotely control them... Science fiction movies The scenes of family life depicted in this series once envied many people.

In fact, with the continuous development of science and technology, many smart home manufacturing companies have turned these living scenes into reality. However, household products with “aura of wisdom” did not receive the expected market response. Many smart home products have frequently encountered Waterloo in marketing, and have fallen into an embarrassing situation.

Zhou Jun, an industry analyst, believes that product incompatibility, lack of humanization in design, and lack of uniform standards in the industry are the reasons for the poor marketing of smart home products. In many problems, product incompatibility and lack of interaction are undoubtedly the key factors restricting the popularity of smart home products.

Respective of each other, forming technical barriers As the demand for smart homes continues to grow, home appliance companies, security companies, and IT companies have transformed and invested in this emerging industry.

In order to increase the "technical gold content" of the products, companies will formulate their own smart home network interface standards and data transmission protocols based on lonworks, EIB, RS485, and other international or industry standards. Although these protocols can ensure the smooth running of smart home systems, these transmission protocols and interface standards are not compatible with other companies' products and cannot be integrated into higher-level control systems.

Liu Wenxiao, head of the Shanghai office of Zhuhai Lok Lok Electric Co., Ltd., said that smart homes started late in the country, and manufacturing companies have no experience to learn from. They all touched stones and rivers. Everyone is immersed in research and development, and has become a faction. This virtually sets a technical barrier and makes products incompatible with each other. Users have problems with their smart home systems. When they need to replace parts, they can only choose the same brand products that the developer provides, and they cannot replace other manufacturers' products. This brings a lot of inconvenience to users.

A Hunan engineering company told the author that the problem of product incompatibility often appeared in the intelligent engineering. When they perform system maintenance, they need to identify the equipment interface and current model as well, and buy components that match the original system. If no interoperable product is found, the entire system will have to be removed. This often leads to huge waste.

Many people in the industry feel the same. Zhuo Guangling, marketing manager of Xiamen Di Nike Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., said that at present, smart home manufacturers are fighting each other and artificially create a lot of technical obstacles. Even if the market scale continues to expand, the participating manufacturers' standards and agreements are not open, and the entire industry is also It is difficult to become bigger and stronger.

Standards are not uniform, the development of bottlenecks KNX, lonworks, EIB, RS485...... industry standards, is a purely corporate behavior or the industry is not standardized, the "derivatives"?

Huo Zhen, director of marketing at Fujian Guanlin Technology Co., Ltd., attributed the reasons for corporate governance to industry standards. He believes that smart homes have many similarities with mobile phones and computers. In the current mobile phone market, various manufacturers have introduced a wide range of mobile phone products and operating systems. These mobile phones and operating systems must meet our country's wireless communication standards. Any two mobile phones can communicate with each other. Another example is the computer industry, an ordinary computer replacement parts, can find a lot of matching products in the market. Computer products meet the relevant product standards.

The mobile phone and computer industry have adopted a standard and a unified control system design platform to allow manufacturers to “strike their feet” within the prescribed scope. The industry is advancing rapidly on the track of sound development.