Smart Home "IQ" is Low: Manufacturers are incompatible with each other's standards

[Review] Each smart home product needs to use the mobile phone software of its own brand manufacturer, which exposes the problem of lagging or even missing the construction of the artificial intelligence standardization system. This has affected the application of technology and the creation of industrial chains and has become a pain point in the industry.

How does "false intelligence" create "real intelligence"?

After the “80s” Beijing residents, Mr. Liu, recently renovated the house. In order to catch up with the trend, he installed a lot of smart homes for his new home: smart TVs that can be remotely controlled by mobile phones, smart door locks, and smart air purifiers that can use voice switches. Smart Air Conditioner... I would like to look forward to experiencing the convenience and comfort brought by “Black Science and Technology”. After a while, he discovered that in fact, life is not as convenient and convenient as it is, but from pressing a remote control and another remote control, it becomes Out of the phone, click one after another software. "I feel like I've been 'conceptualized' by the concept." He spoke to reporters.

Relying on the concept of "walking the lake"

Recently, a commercial intelligent automatic cooking machine appeared on the scene of the Shanghai Fair. The on-site staff used the machine to fry a variety of food and attracted the audience to taste. Wang Gang photo (people pictures)

The living scene of "smart home" is indeed embarrassing, and the "future concept" has brought fire to the market and promoted the development of the entire industry chain. Traditional home appliance manufacturers such as Haier, Midea, Gree, TCL, etc., have been intensifying their intelligent transformation several years ago. Emerging Internet companies Xiaomi, Alibaba and JD.com have also launched a variety of smart home appliances or smart home platforms. Occupy the entrance to a smart life. However, the performance of the entire market is not satisfactory. It seems that the product is still in the stage of “low IQ” and the concept is hard to come by, and some are even “false intelligence”.

“My home’s smart door locks are controlled by a mobile phone. The first thing I still think is novelty. Later I used it and found it wrong. I’ve come to the doorstep of my home. I took out my mobile phone and compared it with my key. There is no intelligence, and there is a risk of being cracked by hackers.” Mr. Liu also said that his home’s televisions and washing machines all had voice operation functions, but he could not recognize his mother’s instructions. "Now smart products are more useful than gimmicks. At the beginning, it was easy for people to be surrounded by concepts, but they are actually overdrawing consumers' interest and confidence." Mr. Liu told reporters.

"Intelligence-making" is the trend of future products, and therefore it has become the gimmick of business marketing. At this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, there have been many “eye-opening” products: the voice smart flush toilet for $5625, and the intelligent stacking clothes robot for $16,000, claiming to be able to operate all the intelligence in the home. Home smart speakers... Some netizens shouted: “Poverty limits my imagination.”

Consumers are not so easily cheated. Experts said that this fictitious “false intelligence” cannot impress users, and ultimately hurt the reputation of the entire industry and consumer confidence.

No standard is difficult to be compatible

Each smart home product needs to use mobile phone software of its own brand manufacturer, which exposes the problem of lagging or even missing of the artificial intelligence standardization system. This has affected the application of technology and the creation of industrial chains and has become a pain point in the industry.

According to the reporter, there are widespread incompatibility issues in the smart home appliance products on the market. Each product has its own mobile client. Smart product makers are fighting each other. Everyone wants to use their own technical standards and is not willing to compromise with each other. Haier's "U+" smart living platform has been well-designed and passed the international certification of information security system to provide standard interfaces. However, because other manufacturers are not willing to cooperate, this platform is still an empty stage. "Integration" scattered into their own battle.

The real intelligence is obviously not the accumulation of intelligent hardware controlled by multiple mobile applications. If the so-called smart appliances in a family all use different standards and cannot interconnect with each other, then it is not a true "Chinese intellectual creation." According to analysts from the industry, currently, due to the lack of a standardized system in the artificial intelligence industry, although the technological content of new artificial intelligence products continues to grow, it is difficult to achieve interoperability between brands, users cannot experience the convenience of intelligence, and it is urgently necessary to formulate uniform standards from the national level. specification.

At the same time, there is also a lack of quantifiable enforcement standards for the "intelligent" recognition. Take intelligent sweeping robots that are currently very popular, although China has already established corresponding national and industrial standards for the performance testing methods of sweeping robots, it is also limited to quality or not, and there is no quantitative requirement for the quality level of samples. Many smart sweeping robots in the market are advertised with functions such as path planning, intelligence, ultrasonics, anti-dropping, sweeping, etc. There are still large differences between actual use effects and declared effects.

Ingenuity "IQ"

The chairman of Gree Electric Appliances Dong Mingzhu once said such a story in Shenzhen. Once she went to South Africa, Brazil and other places to expand business, the other party told her that Gree air-conditioning is good, but unfortunately it is "China-made wisdom." Dong Mingzhu asked back: "What happened to 'China's Zhi Zhi'?" The other party replied: "The quality of 'China's Zhi Zhi' is not good."

In recent years, the Chinese have gathered to go to Japan to buy toilet lids and rice cookers. The huge domestic market and hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer funds have been lost to foreign countries. “What did our entrepreneurs do? What are our responsibilities?” Dong Mingzhu recounted, “Everyone must have a craftsmanship spirit. We can create first-class products before we can be recognized by this society and consumers. China Only companies have core competitiveness."

The data shows that in 2017, the market size of China's smart manufacturing equipment industry has exceeded 1.5 trillion yuan, and this figure is still growing rapidly. In order to stand out from the global competition, we must master key technologies, improve product "IQ," and consolidate product quality.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued relevant policies and decided to focus on smart home appliances, wearable devices, industrial robots, high-end CNC machine tools, and domestic large aircrafts to accelerate the elimination of quality bottlenecks. When China's "black science and technology" has become "authentic intelligence", it also has its core competitiveness.

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