The world's earliest smart building dates back to 1984. It was renovated from an old financial building and is located in Connecticut, USA. In 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates asserted in his book "The Road to the Future": "In the near future, residences without smart home systems will be as out of fashion as today's residences without Internet access." "
Bill Gates not only said this, he was also one of the earliest practitioners of "whole house intelligence". His "Future House" took seven years to build and was completed in 1997. This world-famous house uses advanced intelligent equipment and systems, making it a model of smart house. However, the cost of the "House of the Future" is beyond imagination - the cables consumed alone are 48 kilometers long.
Because of its advanced ideas and high cost, it seems that only super rich people like Bill Gates can own such a house. However, ideals will eventually become reality. With the development of the times and the advancement of science and technology, today, whole-house intelligence is no longer the patent of a few people, but is accelerating into the homes of ordinary people.
Whole house intelligence, the future is here
Smart homes are booming, and a trillion-level market is about to emerge. The business opportunities it contains cannot be overestimated. However, this market is also mixed, and even manufacturers involved in whole-house intelligence have obvious flaws in terms of interactive experience, ecological and scene capabilities, etc., which are not enough to support our imagination of the future. Consumers desire whole-home intelligence that is more worry-free, more secure, and has a better experience.
Huawei’s whole-house intelligence brings multiple upgrades
htmlOn July 4, the new generation of Huawei’s whole-house intelligence was released. With multi-dimensional evolution and better integrity, it once again revolutionized our understanding of whole-house intelligence—it brings It has made major upgrades at the three levels of interaction, space and ecology, which will kick off the intelligentization of space and lead the development direction of the industry.
sets off a revolution in interactive experience and brings fourfold evolution.
whole-house intelligence helps accelerate the digitalization and intelligence process of Chinese families. Whether it is market demand or policy support, it indicates that the trend of whole-house intelligence is coming. However, a spatial interaction revolution is still needed to break the shackles around the interaction, connection, ecology and scenes of whole-house intelligence.
Du Yuhui, a product designer at a technology company in Guangzhou, likes to experience trendy and cool products and is also a concept chaser. When renovating last year, he decided to design a "smart home" in order to make his home full of technology. However, he did not expect that this would become a scar in his heart.
Du Yuhui said that there are two main problems. One is that the platform he chose does not strictly control ecological products. Some smart home products give people a sense of inferiority, which not only affects the quality of the house, but also affects all aspects of the use process. This problem also makes people crazy; the second is that the interactive experience is not good, showing fool-like intelligence - intelligence for intelligence's sake, lacking a sense of technology and humanity, which is caused by insufficient technical capabilities.
Huawei breaks down the three major barriers in the industry
The problems encountered by Du Yuhui are precisely the crux of the industry. At present, more and more manufacturers are involved in whole-house intelligence, but they still focus on single-product intelligence and face three major industry challenges of "connection, interaction, and ecology". These challenges must be overcome through underlying innovation.
Huawei believes that whole-house intelligence is essentially a revolution in space interaction. The functions of the home will be extended from living to entertainment, office, and learning. This puts forward higher requirements for interaction—the whole house needs to be networked and spatially integrated. control, natural interaction and system linkage.
html More than 130 years of "saturation attacks" with intensive ammunition have given Huawei the ability to integrate software and hardware, and it has established an unreplicable advantage in terms of communication connections. So far, Huawei has launched a series of whole-house smart hosts, smart central control screens and other products. Based on the Hongmeng ecosystem, Huawei has created 10 major subsystems, breaking through three major industry challenges, and achieving more comprehensive interactive and controllable devices. , the interaction method is more natural and the interaction experience is more consistent, meeting people's expectations for smart spaces.
Huawei emphasizes the interaction of "moisturizing things silently", allowing users to enjoy high-quality intelligent life without knowing it. This is the advanced realm of whole-house intelligence. Users can choose the interaction method that suits them according to their needs - they can interact through voice interaction, buttons, touch, face recognition, intelligent sensing and other methods. Rich interactive methods allow users to truly "do whatever they want".
Central control screen reconstructs space interaction
At present, the smart home track is extremely lively, and it also gives people a feeling of being trapped in mud and sand. Whether a smart home is good or not, interactive experience is crucial. The new generation of Huawei's whole-house intelligence uses a new central control screen UX to bring spatial interaction experience 2.0, achieving four-fold evolution in the level of interactive experience, including the evolution of interaction distance, interaction logic, interaction methods, and super-fast control linkage, thus truly solving It solves the interaction problem and brings unbounded interaction. Based on its powerful AI capabilities, Huawei's whole-home intelligence can continue to evolve, with active learning and caring capabilities. Technology is no longer cold, but has warmth.
Aftermarket solutions fill the gap, home decoration The "light" era has come
Abraham Maslow is the famous founder of humanistic psychology . He proposed the famous " Maslow's hierarchy of needs in 1943 "Theory " divides people's needs into a "pyramid" five-level model, from low to high, physiological, safety, social, respect and self-actualization.
"Self-realization" is people's high-level needs. Today, with the improvement of living standards and the upgrading of consumers, people have a higher pursuit of living and are willing to increase their budget when decorating their homes. The survey shows that 63.3% of consumers are willing to pay for a high-quality home experience, and the spring of whole-house intelligence has arrived.
However, the whole-house solutions currently on the market are not friendly to post-installation users and cannot cover a wider range of people. Even if there are companies involved in the aftermarket, the deployment is often cumbersome, the cost is high, and the experience is difficult to guarantee. Many users who have the need for post-installation said that they gave up the idea of having to "rip open" the house and the long waiting time.
Space intelligence should not only be limited to the front installation space, but also serve the rear installation space. For the aftermarket, Huawei's newly launched smart host EZ unlocks the aftermarket space - covering more space. The new post-installation solution eliminates users’ wiring worries and supports one-click batch network configuration and scene import, making deployment simpler and more efficient.
No wall breaking, no wiring required
In a large rear installation space, network coverage is a problem, and anti-interference issues must be considered, otherwise the interactive experience may be greatly compromised. As the hub of whole-house interconnection, Huawei's smart host EZ can connect the whole house with one machine. It creatively adopts a wired + wireless dual-network architecture to make the network more stable and more resistant to interference. Through the desktop central control screen, one-screen centralized control can be achieved, truly simplifying the complex. The
research institution predicts that the intelligent aftermarket market has broad space, but of course the threshold is also higher - the aftermarket solution must fully consider the concerns of users. Huawei's new solution quantifies the aftermarket. Consumers can easily purchase a solution that suits them and then quickly install and deploy it. This solution has the characteristics of "extremely fast renewal" and can be installed and used on the same day at the earliest, which is conducive to arousing consumer demand.
Huawei’s Whole House Intelligence 2.0 unlocks the “light” era of home decoration, fills the gap in the aftermarket, and will accelerate the construction of smart homes.
The ecology is more flexible and supports the evolution of smart spaces.
The problems encountered by smart homes in the development process are not only technical but also ecological. Currently, manufacturers that can provide complete whole-house smart solutions are extremely scarce. Most of the players in the market focus on smart home products, with weak ecological integration capabilities, rigid scenarios, difficulty in customization, and poor ease of use, which has caused trouble for consumers. This requires a powerful platform to connect various smart home brands through technological empowerment and maximize their value.However, the threshold for this industry is too high. In addition to leading technical capabilities, it also requires strong brand appeal and an open and win-win spirit. Huawei has these elements.
Huawei has proposed to establish a " Costa Rica -style" ecosystem, a prosperous ecosystem with openness and diversity. Why “Costa Rica” ecology? The Costa Rica tropical rainforest has more than 500,000 species and is world-famous for its biodiversity. When it comes to the smart home field, Huawei advocates cooperating with the world's leading partners to build a strong whole-home smart ecosystem and break the three major boundaries of brand cooperation, ecological interconnection, and user experience.
Huawei’s powerful whole-house smart ecosystem is inseparable from the joint efforts of partners. They have enriched the Hongmeng Intelligent Connect ecosystem and built ten complete subsystems, covering lighting, sunshade, heating and cooling fresh air, security, furniture and furniture, etc. fields. Take the heating and cooling fresh air system as an example. It consists of air conditioners, heaters, fresh air, humidifiers, air purifiers and other parts. It can adjust the air quality and temperature of the whole house according to seasons, weather changes, and user preferences. Humidity is the most comfortable state for the owner. When you have a busy day, the moment you step into your home, the heating and cooling fresh air system that understands you will always think about what you want, and prepare a comfortable whole-house environment in advance, so that you can relieve yourself of the fatigue of the day!
Hongmeng system is a distributed operating system for all scenarios. It was born for the era of Internet of Everything, and the new Hongmeng Intelligent Ecosystem is Huawei’s weapon for whole-house intelligence. This open and diverse ecosystem continues to grow. Huawei builds a prosperous ecosystem by empowering partners and sharing benefits. These smart home brands and items are all carefully selected by Huawei. A strong and flexible ecology will fully support the evolution of intelligent space.
Huawei is committed to bringing the digital world into every person, every home, and every organization, and building a smart world where everything is connected. The home is an important part. Through the new generation of Huawei's whole-house intelligent solution, high-end devices can be seamlessly connected to build a powerful whole-house intelligent ecosystem and create new value for users. Based on the seamless connection of "people, cars, and homes", Huawei has completely eliminated spatial boundaries and will reconstruct a new level of smart life in the future.
Ecological expansion
Currently, there are some shortcomings in the whole-house intelligence on the market. The main reason is that the solutions lack systematicness and integrity, and cannot meet user needs in one step. Huawei's new generation of whole-house intelligence brings major upgrades at three levels, including the interaction level, the post-installation level, and the ecological level, thereby making the whole-house intelligence more perfect.
From the serialization of smart hosts to desktop central control screens; from the continuous upgrade of the "1+2+N" model to today's whole-house intelligence 2.0. Huawei's whole-home intelligence continues to evolve, and the interactive experience continues to upgrade. In a chaotic industry, Huawei will carry the banner of whole-house intelligence and kick off the intelligentization of space, allowing more consumers to enjoy the beauty of technology and the joy of life. Based on industry development trends, Huawei's integrated and space-intelligent whole-home experience will surely lead the industry trend. Text/Xu Shangfeng
