1. Xiaomi
Xiaomi deployed smart homes earlier. Similar to Huawei, Xiaomi also built a platform to absorb ecological resources to jointly build a whole-house smart solution. Since the IoT strategy was laid out in 2013, Xiaomi's ecological chain strategy has been implemented throughout. In October 2014, Xiaomi released its first smart socket, kicking off Xiaomi's smart home business. In the following seven years, it relied on one hot-selling smart product after another provided by ecological chain companies to establish what is known as the world's largest smart home appliance. The largest consumer-grade IoT network.
However, the difference from Huawei is that Xiaomi's ecological chain is more focused on the closed ecology of small and medium-sized hardware fields.
With the phenomenon of “de-Xiaomiization” of ecological chain companies such as Lumi and Chuangmi, Xiaomi’s top priority for whole-house smart homes should be to create “directly owned” hot-selling products and scenarios. After all, it is difficult to cultivate one's own competitiveness by relying only on "plug-ins". This is the reason for Xiaomi's future development. Xiaomi ecological chain enterprises also need to think about how to build core competitiveness in the future. .
2. Huawei
Huawei has vigorously developed smart homes in recent years. Through cooperation with well-known shopping malls, it creates a smart life that satisfies consumers and is committed to technology research and development and product innovation.
Many people’s first impression is its strong technology and R&D capabilities. This brand embodies the greatest expectations of Chinese people for technological research and development. Based on its strong technological innovation capabilities, in the field of whole-house intelligence, although Huawei started later than other brands, its layout and implementation speed are very fast.
In terms of products, driven by the HarmonyOS platform created by Huawei, it is accelerating the deployment of whole-house smart solutions. Although Huawei does not have a "directly affiliated" smart home hardware system, it relies on its excellent technology platform to break down "barriers" and integrates industry hardware ecological resources to enable communication and linkage between network devices under various brands.
In terms of channels, the whole-house smart products were released for the first time in April 2021, and the whole-house smart strategy was released on October 23. On October 30, the first batch of 15 Huawei whole-house smart stores officially opened. By the end of 2021, the construction plan of 5 stores in 5 cities across the country will be basically completed.
In addition, Huawei launched two whole-house smart packages last year, with 3 bedrooms and 2 living rooms (approximately 100 square meters) and 5 bedrooms and 2 living rooms (approximately 200 square meters) priced at 99,999 yuan and 149,999 yuan respectively. According to Zhijia.com, Huawei will launch more people-friendly products this year.
It is expected that in 2022, Huawei will accelerate its offline channel layout, and will also launch a more affordable product series to further expand the market.
3. Haier Smart Home
Haier Smart Home has developed very well in recent years. Through Haier's full range of home appliances, it can create a whole-house smart home.
Using the U-home system as the platform, using a combination of wired and wireless networks, all devices are connected to the network through information sensing equipment to realize "small home network", "community network", "World Wide Web" interconnection of things.
With the support of the brand strength of Haier Group, Haier U-home has formed a mature smart home system, including intercom, security, monitoring, panels, theaters, home appliances and other aspects.
4. Oribo Smart Home
Oribo Smart Home is one of the top 10 smart home franchise brands. Oribo can also join, providing a complete set of smart home decoration solutions.
Oribo has opened up channels for the implementation of whole-house smart solutions by opening stores and linking with real estate companies. First of all, as an important form of offline sales channels, experience stores can enhance user experience, thereby stimulating user purchases, and can also help implement whole-house smart solutions.
It is expected that in 2022, Oribo will continue to promote the construction of offline channels and tilt towards sinking markets such as third- and fourth-tier cities.
Secondly, real estate companies are an important entrance to the smart home decoration market. Oribo, together with Country Garden, Vanke and other real estate companies, can seize the pre-installation market of smart home decoration and promote the wider application of whole-house smart solutions. At present, Oribo has cooperated with more than 50 top 100 real estate companies and has implemented more than 300 smart real estate projects, which has established a brand reputation in the industry.
In addition, Oribo released a number of smart lighting series and products last year. As the smart lighting market has heated up in the past two years, it should continue to make efforts this year.
5. Midea Smart Home
Midea Smart Home M-Smart is a smart home development strategy proposed by Midea Group based on the advantages of Midea’s product group and industry group and focusing on the core demands of consumers. , committed to providing consumers with the most professional smart home experience services.
According to the plan, Midea will implement the "1+1+1" strategy in the smart home field, that is, "a smart housekeeper system + an M-Smart interactive community + an M-BOX management center". By creating Intelligent service sectors such as "Air Smart Butler", "Nutrition Smart Butler", "Water Health Smart Butler" and "Energy Security Smart Butler" are accelerating the deployment of the Internet of Things home market. To this end, Midea has drawn up a four-stage promotion plan to achieve everything from networking of various categories, automatic control of single categories, to automatic control of smart housekeeping systems, to interactive applications in ecosystems such as communities, stores, and hospitals. The ultimate goal is to build A new smart home ecosystem.
In order to achieve this goal, Midea Group continues to increase its investment in research and development in the field of smart home. In 2014, Midea invested more than 4 billion yuan in related research and development, and the cumulative investment in the next three years will reach 15 billion yuan. . At the same time, Midea has unified all internal product research and development departments with the same code to achieve interconnection and interoperability of all its products. At present, Midea's Fluid Technology Research Laboratory, Nutrition Research Laboratory, Water Health Research Laboratory, Frequency Conversion Research Laboratory and other units are stepping up the research and development of new intelligent products.
6. Xiaodu Smart Home
Xiaodu is an artificial intelligence assistant owned by Baidu.
Xiaodu’s built-in DuerOS conversational artificial intelligence system allows users to operate more than 800 functions such as audio and video entertainment, information inquiry, life services, and travel conditions through natural language conversation interaction. At the same time, with the help of Baidu's AI capabilities, Xiaodu continues to learn and evolve, understand users' preferences and habits, and become more and more "smart".
As of February 2019, the number of activations of smart devices equipped with DuerOS has exceeded 200 million. The Xiaodu System (DuerOS) platform ecosystem continues to expand. The number of partners has exceeded 300. There are more than 160 main control devices equipped with Xiaodu System (DuerOS). The developer group on the Xiaodu System (DuerOS) platform has already More than 27,000 people. Xiaodu’s footprints have spread to 1,188 cities in 77 countries around the world.
On April 18, 2019, Xiaodu artificial intelligence speaker 1S was released, with greatly upgraded functions that can control traditional home appliances with infrared.
7. Tuya Smart Home
Tuya Smart
The first time I learned about Tuya was at the LFI Lighting Exhibition in the United States a few years ago, when I saw a I was very surprised by the large booth. I thought it was from some awesome international company. Later I asked my colleagues and found out that it was from China (I was ignorant), and all major lighting companies in North America were its customers. But it’s normal. Tuya only deals in the B-end market, and initially focused on European and American customers. It was a partner of Philips and Snyder in the early years, and it was only in the past two years that it vigorously developed domestically.
The ten domestic smart home systems I am more optimistic about - No. 6
Tuya Smart
Tuya Smart is formed using the "PaaS+SaaS" approach It completes the closed loop of R&D, operation, and management. The PaaS layer expands IoT hardware SKUs to gather developers and vertical industry SaaS to provide a complete IoT experience, improve user retention and increase profits. Tuya Smart earns profits based on this active ecosystem.
The reason why Tuya Smart is recognized by the majority of developers is mainly due to the amazing efficiency of its intelligent hardware development platform, which has a rich hardware ecological chain and the ability to provide rapid hardware intelligence: it provides 475 types of development-free solutions, 1,510 MCUSDKs and more than 4,000 public version panel apps. Based on the Tuya IoT development platform, developers can create customized apps in as little as 5 minutes, realize product intelligence in 8 hours, and complete product mass production in 15 days.
8. UIOT Super Smart Home
UIOT Super Smart Home is a whole-house smart home system brand owned by Super Smart Home (Shanghai) Internet of Things Technology Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2011, it is a domestic enterprise specializing in whole-house smart home systems. It has successively received venture capital from Red Star Macalline, Poly, CICC and other companies. This is where I am more optimistic about it. Macalline is the leading home furnishing store company in China, and Poly is the leading real estate company among state-owned enterprises. These are all conducive to the promotion of smart home products and systems. In addition, I originally wanted to put Panasonic Smart on the ranking board, but after checking the information, I found that Panasonic was developed in cooperation with Super Smart Home, which means using Panasonic's brand and Super Smart Home's technology to achieve a win-win situation. It turns out that Super Smart Home Family is the king behind Panasonic. In addition to Panasonic, it also cooperates with Feili, JD.com, and the American SU Group (the world's top audio and video group).
9. Lumi Smart (Aqara)
Lumi has its own cloud platform that can communicate with Mijia (Xiaomi series, required), Apple Homekit, Google Assistant, and Amazon’s Alexa Connect multiple platforms. The product covers all aspects of smart home, uses Zigbee/WiFi wireless technology, and realizes local area network localization to protect system stability and achieve distributed control.
Sales channels are available online on JD.com, Tmall and other platforms, and offline there are smart experience centers (under Aqara’s own brand). As of now, Aqara has more than 600 services covering most cities across the country. It has more than 500 smart home experience centers, providing tens of thousands of users with professional one-stop whole-house smart customization services from door-to-door survey, solution design, installation and commissioning to after-sales maintenance.
10. Jingyuzuo Smart Home
Jingyuzuo provides intelligent services such as voice control, remote management, and scene linkage around smart homes, Internet of Vehicles, smart hotels and other scenarios. Smart home experience space. At present, Jingyuzuo has recruited cooperative operators in Henan, Sichuan, Shandong, Hunan, Hebei, Guangxi and other provinces and cities, and launched smart home flagship stores. Previously, in September 2021, the full range of Jingdong Cloud smart home brand Jingyuzuo products has officially entered Juran Smart Home. The first store in Beijing was unveiled at the Juran Smart Home Century Jinyuan flagship store in Haidian District.