First of all, the English name of home network is "Home Network", which refers to the home information platform that integrates home control network and multimedia information network. It is a system to realize the interconnection and management of information equipment, communication equipment, entertainment equipment, household appliances, automation equipment, lighting equipment, safety (monitoring) devices, water and electricity heat meter equipment, family help alarm and other equipment, as well as the sharing of data and multimedia information within the family.
Home network system constitutes a smart home equipment system, which improves the quality of family life, study, work and entertainment, and is the development direction of digital home.
Digital home is a digital family life service system with residence as the carrier, using the new generation of information technologies such as Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, mobile communication and artificial intelligence. Realize the interconnection between the system platform and home products, and meet the needs of users for information acquisition and use.
The origin of the concept of digital family;
Digital home, also known as smart home, is just a different name for regional differences.
There are many related products in America, such as Sea, Crestron and AMX.
The concept of smart home has a long history, but there has been no specific architecture case. It was not until 1984 that United Technologies 1 Gis Building System applied the concept of informatization and integration of building equipment to CityPlaceBuilding in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, that the first "intelligent building" appeared.
Since then, it has also opened the prelude to the global competition to build smart homes, also known as smart homes, which are often used as smart homes abroad.
Similar to smart home, there are home automation, electronic home, digital home, home network and online home.