Four obstacles to smart home development

At present, the smart home manufacturers on the market are mainly divided into three categories: The first category is based on the traditional building intercom manufacturers, such as Guanlin, Anjubao, Vision Security, etc. These manufacturers mainly provide an intelligent The integrated control platform integrates many subsystems such as security alarms and home appliances control on the platform; the second category is based on traditional home appliance manufacturers, such as Haier, TCL, Midea, etc. These vendors mainly provide information and networking. In addition, the third category is focused on lighting control, curtain control and other modules and interfaces manufacturers, such as Sobo, Bochuang, Ruilang, Clipsal, etc., these manufacturers are mainly with the first two types of manufacturers, providing Various types of intelligent switches and interface modules.

For smart home manufacturers, there are many obstacles in the process of market development and product promotion, including the following aspects.

1, product cost: At present, all kinds of smart home products are expensive, often a set of configuration down as few as a few thousand, as many as tens of thousands, but in fact compared with the owners home improvement when compared to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of inputs, The proportion of such smart home products is minimal, which needs to strengthen the guidance of end users' consumption concepts. For manufacturers, it is the key to further reduce the cost of products.

2. System functions: The complex operation of the system, lack of humanity, and low product stability all affect the development of the smart home market. To solve these problems, manufacturers need to increase R&D efforts, improve product technology, and solve problems such as cost, performance, and operation, and use stable and reliable products to win the market. It is believed that once the threshold of cost and technology is eliminated, the entire smart home market will emerge. Very large market demand.

3. Standard protocol: At present, manufacturers produce equipment according to different interface standards and protocols, which results in difficulties in interconnection and interoperability between different devices. Although the entire smart home function is powerful, there is no standard and unified communication protocol between each system. Each manufacturer operates independently and lacks coordination. With the promulgation of the "General Technical Requirements for Electronic Systems for Household and Building Use" this year, although it is not compulsory, as an attempt to unify the smart home industry standard, it will promote the development of the industry in the direction of standardization and unification.

4, after-sales service: For manufacturers and users, the product after-sales service is also an important factor, due to the limited size, the current related smart home supporting manufacturers have not yet formed a system maintenance system, once the manufacturers sold products When problems arise, whether or not after-sales maintenance can be timely is a big problem.