Behind The Demand Mismatch: Smart Home Cooling

In recent years Intelligent mobile phone The trend of the wave has swept into China, and manufacturers expect to replicate this success and transform new traditions with intelligence to create new value. The concept of smart TV and intelligent router has come into being. At the same time, smart home has also returned to public view.

Although the essence of smart home has not been sublimated, with the upgrading of hardware, the concept of Internet of things and the extension of Internet Co's platform thinking, the market has once again been concerned.

Market prospects are favored by analysts. Juniper, a research firm, predicted 2017 intelligence. Home market The scale will reach US $60 billion. Judging from the growth rate of about US $8 billion in 2013, it is not difficult to achieve this goal. A domestic industry organization predicts that by 2017, the market scale of China's smart home industry will reach 8 billion yuan.

So, in 2014, whether it was a traditional household appliance manufacturer, Internet enterprises Smart home solutions have been put forward based on their own background characteristics, and some start-ups have also proposed their own vision for the market. In this market with frequent connotation and low technical threshold, the market is becoming bloated.

Practitioners always expect that the market will be further opened, but if they have to pour a basin of cold water, this round of smart home fever may still be a tidal wave under the big wave of Internet technology.

You can open the curtains with your cell phone, let the speakers play the music, even change the color of the bulb, or when someone breaks in, the system will automatically alarm, and the mobile phone can grab the real-time picture. This is the way that some smart home solutions are described. To sum up, it is to set up a scene and integrate the switches through a terminal.

However, the design of these usage scenarios is not a consideration of users' needs, but a technical staff's patching of existing products.