Smart home appliance industry needs to be unified

After two years of promotion, smart homes attracted the attention of industry giants including Apple, Google, and Samsung. In the A-share market, the concept of smart home stocks has become a subject matter stock. What is the status of the smart home market? What? Recently, the reporter learned that although smart homes already have some mature products and channels, product support and compatibility are still two major bottlenecks restricting the development of smart homes.

Market or up to 60 billion U.S. dollars

The smart home concept emerged last year, and with the launch of the HomeKit smart home platform, Google has launched a new version of the Android system that can run on processors and low-memory, display-less devices for coffee makers, refrigerators, and more. Home appliances. It indicates that the smart home market is maturing. The latest survey data shows that in 2017, the global smart home market will reach 60 billion US dollars.

In addition, major domestic household appliances companies and some Internet companies have begun to seek layouts in the smart home field. Haier, LG, Samsung, Changhong, Midea, LeTV, and Xiaomi have all released smart home appliances or smart home strategies: Alibaba is preparing a huge intelligent living ecological network.

Recently, Ali Group announced 2015 smart strategy: fully mobilize Taobao crowdfunding, smart cloud, Tmall Electric City, Baichuan plans and other business resources to provide "one-stop" intelligent services for home appliance companies, the future smart home appliances in Tmall Home appliance sales will reach more than 50%. Xiaomi is also preparing a series of ecological chains in the smart home field, which is expected to trigger the Internet of Things ecosystem and drive up the price of LED lighting.

Smart home brings new lifestyles to people, but also brings new business opportunities to many internet companies and traditional home appliance companies. This year, home-listed companies have also used smart homes to attract a round of market: Xilinmen and Thai joint development of smart bedroom products; Sophia shares Wuhan comfort easy to create a "comfortable home system"; Del home positioning "smart home master" and so rely on the concept of smart home, in the A-share market there are multiple daily limit board.

Product has not yet formed a climate

Although the prospects for smart homes are excellent, there are few products on the market that are extremely amazing. The new forces have not yet formed. There are still many problems in smart upgrades such as smart communities and smart homes. The products of “anion floor” and “curtain control” have become the hot spots for corporate publicity in major building materials stores, but safety, convenience, comfort, and compatibility have not been well developed.

According to industry insiders, at present, smart homes are still only on a single product. It takes time for the industry to form a climate. Take intelligent lighting as an example. The number of lighting companies that can truly produce smart products is small and small, and many companies do remote control. Turning the light on and off, it puts its own product on the “smart home” label. In addition, for an industry, the barriers between standards, norms, and platforms must also be bridged. Only in this way can the market be further developed.