Is the connected giant entering smart home cabinet products smart or “mental”?

As we all know, smart home has entered the domestic market for more than ten years. Under the impetus of Internet technology, the "smart concept" has become more and more fierce in recent years. Especially this year, starting from Google’s acquisition of smart home product manufacturer Nest, Internet vendors such as Tencent, Sina, and Xiaomi have entered high-profile, and on May 6, Bai Zhenyun’s chief architect Hou Zhenyu also attended the MGIC Beijing 2014 Global Mobile Internet Conference. Said that Baidu plans to detonate the smart home field in the second half of this year. For the cabinet industry, smart cabinets are irreversible industry trends now and in the future. However, while enterprises are taking the intelligent road, how to truly improve the intelligence of products is still a major issue to be broken.

Is the connected giant entering smart home cabinet products smart or “mental”? (Appreciate more cabinet pictures)

Internet giants march into the home industry, and the concept of intelligence is heating up

From Lei Jun's millet to Alibaba's Tmall magic disk, to Baidu's small family, smart hardware has become the main theme of the new era, and the development of smart home seems to have entered the first year of rapid development.

Earlier in late April, Xiaomi took a hard drive and a CPU and memory router was launched. Whether it was in the Internet industry or the home industry, it caused quite a stir. Because this route has already exceeded the scope of ordinary routers, it is more like a smart home server, which is a small server that can interconnect smart home appliances such as TV, mobile phone, computer, kitchen appliance, etc., and can realize remote control function. "The ultimate goal of launching Xiaomi routing is to do smart home", Lei Jun said so frankly at the April 24 conference, and it is reported that Xiaomi has reached a consensus with Haier, Midea and other home appliance companies to conduct in-depth research and discussion on the intelligentization of home appliances. In addition, there is even more news that the kitchen electric appliance boss electric appliance has cooperated with Xiaomi Company to focus on the development of smart kitchen appliances.

Just less than half a month after the end of the Xiaomi conference, on May 6, Bai Zhenyun chief architect Hou Zhenyu said at the GMIC Beijing Global Mobile Internet Conference that Baidu not only did its homework in the field of wearable devices, but also worked together. Partners, will detonate the smart home field in the second half of this year. It is reported that Baidu specially established the "Baidu Cloud Innovation Lab" last year, and established a team integrating hardware, software and cloud services. It has accumulated dozens of technical patents, focusing on innovative research of forward-looking technology, and formed Appearance, interaction, application design, cloud integration and many other solutions. This year, Baidu will focus on two series of products, dulife and small family. The smart hardware of small family can provide users with smart furniture solutions, aiming to become a one-on-one healthy life expert for users, and open a new smart and healthy life. mode.

From a series of actions by major high-tech giants, it is not difficult to see that technological reform and innovation will be further embedded in people's daily lives. The "smart concept" will extend from electronic products to other related fields, and it is bound to cover all aspects. People's daily life. Undoubtedly, this has also added a fire to the development of smart cabinets, and intelligentization has become a new journey for all cabinet companies.

Smart market "internal heat and cold outside", is the cabinet product high intelligence or "low mentally retarded"?

Smart home is an organic system with integrated control of intelligent products such as security, video, lighting and other buildings. Although with the development of Internet technology, the technical bottleneck of smart home has already achieved a major breakthrough, but the “frozen concept” that is difficult to cure in the industry has added obstacles to its own intelligent road. According to statistics, although this year, smart home has become a popular term for Weibo, WeChat, Baidu and other connected media, but most of the mass consumers are not very satisfied with the "smart home", "internal heat outside the cold" becomes the present The best annotations for smart markets.

Taking cabinet products as an example, according to the survey and statistics of the reporter, many so-called “smart cabinets” on the market currently have a series of problems, which even seriously affect the actual experience of consumers. A few days ago, Mr. Huang poured a bitter water on reporters. He spent hundreds of thousands of renovated smart kitchens because of most of the flashy functions, being teased by friends "too mentally handicapped." First of all, the function is too cumbersome and not practical; this is a common problem of current smart products. In order to increase the added value of products, many manufacturers have increased the "intelligence" of their products, adding a lot of so-called "new skills" to the products. In the sales process, dealers create gimmicks to attract consumers to use “new skills” to publicize. However, the large multi-functional lacks the actual consumption experience, and when the consumers are fresh, they are uninteresting and the performance is not high. Secondly, the operation is too complicated; the original concept of smart home is to liberate the hands of consumers and create a comfortable "lazy life". However, the current smart products on the market are mostly the opposite. The complicated operation setting process has caused headaches for many consumers. The cumbersome procedures make it difficult for ordinary consumers to control. Finally, "smart" has lost its meaning. Finally, the general performance is poor; according to Mr. Huang, the light is a set of kitchen smart products, there are several remote controls, each function needs exclusive remote control equipment, a little careless will be confused, making a ridicule Jokes. The loss of product "universality" has also increased the cost of control for consumers.

From this point of view, cabinet companies want to take the intelligent industrial road, how to truly develop and manufacture smart products that reduce the burden on consumers' daily lives is fundamental. The development of Internet technology and the advancement of Internet companies have injected confidence and shortcuts into the smart road of cabinet companies, but how can cabinet companies use this "shortcut" to successfully cooperate with these companies to make smart products more intimate and have a long way to go.