Do You Know Three of the Major Trends in the Development of Smart Home Industry?

According to the international data report (IDC) released by a research institutions, sales volume of global smart home appliances will reach 549.5 million units this year, an increase of 26.8% over the smart period last year. Among them, smart loudspeaker box and video entertainment products are expected to account for 71% of the sales volume of smart home appliances. From smart loudspeaker box to smart appliances, the "ecosystem" of smart home is emerging.

"Modern people's diversified and quality life needs push technological innovation breakthrough in traditional household manufacturing industry and improve product and service standards. Smart home creates more possibilities for life and brings infinite hope for industrial development," Luo Haiyong, doctor of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said. Luo predicts that the market size of the smart home will reach 133.4 billion in 2018.

Escalation of patent wars in smart home.

According to the law and the track of the development of other industries, fierce competition in the industry gradually entered the mature period. The corresponding intellectual property rights protection are becoming increasingly important because disputes will increase. As far as the mature smartphone industry is concerned, there are numerous patent battles about the protection of intellectual property rights of mobile phones. Faced with the huge market and rapid growth, the future smart home market competition will undoubtedly become more intense. For patent technology barriers, the way to the smart home of many enterprises might enter the dead road. Intellectual property rights will be the key to smart home competition.

Mutual benefit and win-win is the way out for smart home platform.

While most domestic manufacturers still pay attention to the research and development of smart products, such as focusing on the hottest smart speaker products at present, most of them are still only earning the single product money, and have not formed the scale effect. The reason is that it takes time for the speed of integrating of the third party hardware and ecological perfection. That is difficult to form a smart family system and the tycoons want to control their own ecological discourse power. It leads to the formation of a situation that different tycoons have different opinions. But in the view of industry experts, and the traditional era is a product brand, the Internet era is a platform brand, and the Internet of Things era is an ecological brand. 

The smart home which started from 2013 has gone through the era of single product intelligence, and is going to enter the intelligent linkage period. In the key node of smart home from single intelligence to swarm intelligence, it is a general trend for home manufacturers to platform and build family scene linkage. However, smart home platform can only be trusted by home manufacturers and attract more excellent partners if it truly adheres to the principle of "openness and mutual benefit".

Whole house wireless is a big trend.

Conceptually speaking, unlike the digital home relying on various communication technologies, the whole house wireless smart home is based on automation control system, which connects security, air conditioning, home, lighting and other equipment to create a comfortable living environment. Huang Minqiang, who comes from Vanhi IOT, emphasizes that the whole house wireless smart home is the maximization or the highest level of home intelligence. It can comprehensively improve the family environment and optimize lifestyle. It also highlights the family intelligent management and control system with the concept of "safety, health, energy saving, environmental protection" and accelerates the process of smart home landing. It is the trend of smart home industry development.

Conclusion: Patents, mutual benefit and win-win situation, and all-house wireless are hot words that can represent the development trend of the current household industry. All enterprises want to be in the leading position in the market. However, everything needs to be gradual. The expansion and ambition of ignorance will lead to the loss of standardization and specialization of the industry. While enterprises are actively seeking change, they should also recognize their position and be cautious in transformation. Although it is not advisable to be complacent, it is dangerous to follow blindly. ​​​​