The Internet of Things (IoT) transforms every corner of life, especially in the home – home appliance IoT devices allow us to more intelligently control door locks, lighting and appliances, connecting personal life with external systems and environments. After further joining the current most popular voice assistant function, the development of “Smart Home†in 2018 is expected to take it to the next level. Although Smart Home has been a long-term issue, the market development does not seem to have explosive growth. However, after the addition of voice assistants, the development of smart homes is expected to rise to the next level in 2018. In the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), major manufacturers such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, LG, Haier, etc. The industry has formed alliances with each other and exhibited the latest smart home products. It is worth noting that smart voice assistants combined with smart home appliances will gradually see more applications and systems with smart voice assistants appearing in life in 2018, and will be more powerful for the smart home market. kinetic energy. Voice control injects live water into the smart home market From this year's CES observation, smart homes are still the main development goal of the relevant industry. According to the survey data of the city's survey units, by 2025, 10% of the world's households can be called smart homes. According to the GfK report, the market output value generated by smart homes reached US$48.5 billion in 2015. The growth trend has gradually slowed down. It is expected to maintain a growth rate of about US$8 billion per year. It is expected that the market size will reach US$71 billion in 2018. In terms of the output value of smart home equipment alone, if the large equipment such as home appliances is not counted, the turnover of smart home equipment will grow to $9.5 billion by 2021. In addition, according to the statistics of the smart home laboratory lecturer Lin Youzhen citing foreign market agencies, the smart family annual compound growth rate (CAGR) will reach 50% between 2015 and 2020. The Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs also estimates that if Taiwan's 8 million households have a penetration rate of 25%, they will spend 2,000 yuan a month. It is expected that the annual output value of Taiwan's smart home services will reach NT$48 billion in 110 years. These growth estimates may be quite attractive to the industry, but for the smart home to continue to grow, the high-profile voice control in recent years has been indispensable. Although the concept of the voice assistant is turned on by Siri in the Apple smart phone, the Amazon Echo smart speaker is the fastest to jump off the phone, allowing the voice assistant to "glow and heat" in the smart home, forcing Google, Apple Follow up to strengthen their market share and status in the smart home market. Therefore, it can be said that a new wave of spurt in the smart home market is provoked by voice control. Zhang Bowei, CEO of Link of Things, said that it is quite difficult for older people or heavy users of non-smart devices to take the time to understand or operate a mobile app or a home control panel. Through voice, the instructions can be issued more directly, and the operation is relatively simple. Therefore, not only smart home-related manufacturers are optimistic about the development of voice control in smart homes, but also other application fields, including vehicle use, indoor positioning, etc., have begun to import voice. Control this technology that has been available until recently. Intelligent home voice control operation architecture (Source: Boyun Intelligence) In contrast, because of the intuition and ease of use of voice control, consumers are more willing to introduce smart homes. In addition, Amazon sells Echo smart speakers to its e-commerce PRIME members through low-cost subsidies. Although it is creating a new type of online shopping experience, it also promotes the development of smart homes. In other words, whether it is Google, Apple or Microsoft (Microsoft) platform operators, through voice control technology, more types of smart devices can achieve a greater position in the living space at home, allowing more Internet of Things (IoT The device is easier to enter the field of the family, so the application of the voice assistant not only brings more surprises to the family life, but also drives the smart family to make more obvious progress in 2018. Therefore, in 2018, CES has seen that more home appliances, alarm clocks, or other products can be connected to the Internet, and have features that can be controlled through Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri. According to Moshe Sheier, director of marketing strategy at CEVA, voice is the most natural human-machine interface. It can perform hands-free operation that cannot be done by touch and gestures, so it is an ideal way to control smart home devices. In addition, compared with busy offices or noisy streets, the family is a fairly private, quiet and narrow place, so it is more suitable for voice control environment, so it is logical to use voice control in the home. . The most popular smart home voice control devices today are smart speakers such as Amazon Echo or Google Home, and cloud virtual assistants for controlling smart home devices. By connecting smart speakers to other smart home devices, you can control the voice of multiple devices, such as providing voice commands, such as "Alexa, please Blink start my home security system." Therefore, a smart smart speaker can be used as a private audio. As a starting point, the smart home will be more convenient and the future may be more “personalizedâ€. However, even if voice assistants are expected to attract new development momentum for smart homes, can voice-based control continue to make smart homes continue to thrive? Of course not so easy. Standardization is essential Why have smart homes not previously grown significantly? Chen Junzhi, regional business manager of Nordic Semiconductor, said that even if the prior industry generally believes that adding a network function to the device is bound to drive the growth of smart homes, in fact, smart homes are not able to “wait for revenueâ€. Behind it involves many related issues arising from networking. Sheier believes that the current smart home device is a single point device built into the device itself, which can be called "edge computing" (Edge compuTIng) or combined with the intelligence and analysis functions provided by the cloud system software. Popular smart home devices are new versions of traditional home products that connect to the Internet, such as thermostats, lighting, garage door remotes, and door locks. However, most of the existing devices today are scattered, although they are all in the same wireless network, but there is no connection between them. In other words, hundreds of networking technologies, which one is the most appropriate? Each industry naturally has the "best candidate" in mind, but the connection technology is different, the products cannot communicate with each other, and even the cloud system cannot be shared. The result of "separate politics" leads to inconvenience to consumers, and thus reduces the willingness to use. . Not only that, but the smart home as a whole does not have a common cloud service standard that can be pursued by the industry. Terminal manufacturers must follow the footsteps of cloud service providers and manufacturers of Netcom products to create products that can be used in the market. However, the industry can be a little comforted. Currently, the smart home cloud service on the market is only Apple, Google, and Amaon. The financially strong players can support the three major players' own smart home standards in their products, but A company with less financial resources can only rely on extraordinary "inspiration" to choose a bet. Without a device that is interconnected as a complete smart home network, there is no single Netcom product to connect to a single cloud for control or information analysis. Consumers may have to download an application for the product from different vendors, or You have to put a remote control on a different brand in your home. You have to "guess" whether to open the app or take the remote control every time you use it. If you are such a smart home use environment, can you accept it? Consumers don't want to use smart home products, and the market development of smart homes is naturally unfeeling. However, the situation has begun to change in 2018. Hundreds of flowers and communication technology standards are converging Wang Yunlong, the chief of intelligent cloud technology, pointed out that smart homes must be developed in a timely manner, that is, the overall ecosystem, networked devices and cloud services must be relatively mature, and the need for unified standards to eliminate incompatibility issues, plus In order to overcome the entry threshold, simple installation steps, and enhance consumer experience, we can have a better development. Prior to this, smart home appliances could be connected through cloud services, but this is not a 100% solution. Fortunately, large factories have begun to work on standard integration, and it is expected to accelerate the solution of smart home networking devices. Incompatible issues. Chen Junzhi believes that the communication standards of smart homes in 2018 will not only slowly converge into several mainstream technologies, such as Bluetooth, Thread, ZigBee or Wi-Fi... Standard single unit. In this way, on the one hand, the product design complexity can be reduced, the products of various industries can be further compatible, and the gateway between the device and the cloud disappears. Chen Junzhi explained that the so-called disappearance of the gateway, for example, the mobile phone does not have built-in ZigBee, if you want to control the ZigBee fixtures built in your home through the mobile phone, or the data of the ZigBee fixtures should be transmitted to the cloud, you need to Additional gateways act as intermediaries. If a single device supports multiple standards, it means that the device itself can select the corresponding technology according to the work to be performed. For example, if it is controlled by ZigBee, if it is connected to the mobile phone, the data is transferred to the cloud and switched to use Bluetooth. Through the gateway, the user can also use it more easily, and it is easier to build a smart home system. It is generally believed that the current lighting control part has adopted ZigBee as the bulk; and if it is necessary to connect via mobile phone, it is mainly Bluetooth. Xie Jingxiang, senior technical marketing engineer for analog, MEMS and sensing components in Asia Pacific, STMicroelectronics, said that observing the development of smart home networking devices at this stage, it can be found that Bluetooth 5.0 has a mesh network and low The characteristics of power consumption have a tendency to come up later, and the proportion of built-in Bluetooth 5.0 in smart home devices will gradually increase in the future. This is not to say that other short-range low-power communication technologies will be completely eliminated, but that the most suitable communication technology will appear in different usage environments, and gradually converge to only a few mainstream wireless technologies, which is echoing Smart home single devices support the trend of multiple wireless standards. And this also shows the industry's ideas, so many technologies, supporters are numerous, it is not easy to bet on the treasure, it is impossible to have only one kind of wireless communication technology can be unique, so pick the most likely technologies, Full support in a single chip or further cooperation with a third party will be the best approach. Bldc Motor,Brushless Dc Motor,Bldc Hub Motor,Brushless Dc Fan Wentelon Micro-Motor Co.,Ltd. , https://www.wentelon.com
