Analyze the six major problems common in mainstream smart home hardware

Internet of Things and smart home are the hottest new technologies. The core concept is to connect all the home appliances and home products to the Internet, use smart phones to control, and combine multiple sensors and big data for more intelligent use. Experience.

However, due to the development stage, everyone is basically groping forward. Most products have no more in-depth intelligent experience except for adding WIFI function and remote control. Even there are some problems with the inversion, security, and practicality. So, if you want to enter the smart home field now, what should you pay attention to? Below, we will give you a few questions about mainstream smart home products. At least you need to reduce your psychological expectations and make a comprehensive understanding before deciding whether to buy.

First, is it just remote control?

One of the key points of smart home is the Internet, but it is only a built-in WIFI chip in home appliances to realize remote control of mobile phones. In fact, it is not really "smart". For example, some smart washing machines and dryers can be used for remote laundry through the mobile app, but don't forget: to wash, first you have to put clothes from the hamper into the washing machine, obviously most people do not have a robot. So, if you can already put your clothes in the washing machine, why not operate directly on the operation panel? In the same way, using a mobile phone to remotely control the slow cooker seems to be just a gimmick.

Obviously, the integrated Internet is a basic intelligent trend, but how to use the Internet and make products really smarter is more reasonable. For washing machines, cookware and other types of products, the focus of development should focus on the evolution of their vertical functions. Unless they evolve into fully automatic robots, the selling points of "remote laundry" and "remote cooking" are flashy. Users don't need to spend more on these features.

Second, the control form of the original inversion

Smart light bulbs are a very interesting smart home product and the starting point for many families. The original intention of the manufacturer is also very easy to understand: using a mobile phone to control the light switch, in addition to achieve color, even with other products such as audio systems to achieve linkage operation.

However, such a wide range of functions depend on mobile phones and tablet applications. In other words, in addition to switching lights and other application forms, electronic devices must be used to complete the application. This brings a series of new problems. : If your mobile phone is not around, please look for it and then control it; if the phone is out of power, please charge it first.

Perhaps the manufacturer realized that such a user experience is not "smart" in itself, so Philips and Belkin introduced an additional smart light bulb wireless remote control to solve this problem. However, this not only means that there is another remote control in the home, you need to spend hundreds of dollars to buy it, you know that the smart light bulb itself is already very expensive. As such, smart light bulbs are not quickly spread to the home. As for the solution, we believe that independent voice control may be a better solution, but only due to cost and technical relationship, there are few products as concepts.

Third, the form is greater than the actual effect

Many friends who don't like to do housework have a dream: an all-round cleaning robot that can help you with all the housework, and the cleaning effect is excellent, the ground is clean, and all the furniture is completely new. But at the moment, such intimate robot butlers may only exist in Japanese animation or science fiction movies. If you pin your hopes on a variety of sweeping robots, you will be greatly disappointed.

In fact, no matter how expensive the sweeping robot is, the sweeping ability is relatively limited, even if you take a hand-held vacuum cleaner to take a circle. Although they use built-in sensors to resolve obstacles and cross obstacles, home environments are often complex, even though they can avoid a coffee table, but not necessarily identify each obstacle effectively, let alone help you swipe every corner. clean. If you have a large living area or even a duplex structure, you may end up working hard to make the sweeping robot work effectively. It is far less reliable than working alone or choosing a clean aunt.

Fourth, the data is useless

The high PM 2.5 makes us realize how bad the air is, and everyone pays more attention to air quality. In addition to air purifiers, intelligent monitors and personal weather stations that are independent of air purifiers are also available, designed to give you more accurate indoor air quality and weather data.

This concept is actually good. After all, we like personal data, which is always more accurate than a wide range. But the problem also comes with it: after getting the data? Obviously, just knowing that the current air is very bad, if there is no air purifier, it is still in vain. Of course, some products are still open API interface, and can be automated with temperature control equipment and air purifiers, but the number is not much.

Therefore, we believe that independent air quality testing is actually not very meaningful, so it is possible to integrate it directly into the air purifier. If you are interested in such products, you should understand whether the product will combine data with automation before purchasing.

Five, security issues

The main security Internet surveillance camera is also a product that many users are interested in. Compared with the previous camera on the PC, they can work independently on the WIFI network, and access real-time images through mobile phones, tablets or PCs. The built-in motion, face recognition and sound monitoring functions will also be sent to the user's mobile phone when they are found abnormally. Notification messages for a safer home living environment.

But have you thought that the security camera itself is full of security risks? Previously, a US hacker successfully broke into a baby safety camera in a family and insulted the baby (the built-in duplex microphone of the camera), which caused a great social reaction. As in the famous video game "Watchdog", as long as your device is connected to the Internet, there are hidden dangers of being attacked and intruded, especially if the manufacturer does not update the firmware and plug the vulnerability according to the network security environment.

The same example exists with other smart home products, such as a smart refrigerator that has been hacked as a spam sender and sent tens of thousands of spam messages; the Nest thermostat exposes security holes, and hackers can know if the user is at home. All in all, don't buy a product without ensuring that the manufacturer has effective anti-hacking technology, because family safety risks may have more serious consequences than mobile Trojans.

Six, incompatible interconnectivity

Since the concept of smart home and Internet of Things is still in its infancy, and there is no unified platform, most of the vendors are working alone, providing only the interconnection compatibility of their own products, or supporting a relatively independent standard, which brings Some obstacles in the use of linkages. For example, if you want to achieve "playing a soothing music with a wireless sound while smart light bulbs are flashing with music," then it's best to make sure they support the IFTTT standard, or that the smart light bulb application provides the sound. stand by.

In the future, Apple's HomeKit, Google Android Home and other giant-level smart home platforms are expected to improve the current split situation, providing a holistic linkage platform that allows devices to work together better, but still needs a longer period of development. . So if you can't wait to enter the smart home field, it's best to see if the product supports the future mainstream smart home platform.

to sum up:

Obviously, people's pursuit of "intelligence" is endless, but at present smart home products are not perfect. Although we can't expect home products that have AI and can think and learn like humans in a short time, better control, more practical functions, effective linkage mechanism and higher security are all manufacturers can The direction of hard work. All in all, smart home products must not pursue the “big up” like empty and gimmicks. Only by gradually improving from the basic experience and providing people-oriented application forms will a true “intelligent experience” be brought.

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