March 26 is the "Earth Hour" activity day in 2022, in addition to "turning off the lights for 1 hour", what actions can ordinary people take to care for the earth home? Using AI speakers to automatically shut down the "power consumers" at home may make the low-carbon life of modern lazy house people lighter and more efficient.
Recently, Tmall Genie, together with more than 80 home appliance brands on the Tmall platform, launched the "Green Energy Saving +1" plan, marking more than 2,500 products that meet the national first-level energy consumption logo as green home appliances and recommending them to consumers in a conspicuous position. At the same time, in the Tmall Genie official App online "one-click energy saving" scene mode, in addition to the timed automatic turn off of lights, the ecological power consumers, such as air conditioners, electric heaters, sweepers, air purifiers, water heaters, etc., can directly enter the standby or shutdown state with one key.
Image: The official created a smart scene for IoT users to automatically and regularly close multiple home appliances through the Sass app
Earth Hour is a global energy conservation activity proposed by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to combat global climate change, WWF advocates that on the last Saturday of March every year at 20:30 p.m. local time, individuals, communities, businesses and governments voluntarily participate in the voluntary participation of unnecessary lighting and power-consuming products for one hour to show everyone's concern for nature conservation and support for environmental protection. Although the event is only 60 minutes long, the impact of global climate change is intensifying, and people-oriented, earth-first low-carbon living has become the "new normal" advocated.
"In order to guide ordinary people to form a sense of energy conservation and emission reduction, and reduce the participation threshold of the 'Earth Hour' activity, we actively push the 'one-click energy saving' shortcut scene to users in the ecosystem with the help of the scene linkage mode of the Internet of Things, consumers only need to click on the authorization to agree to open, and the lights, air conditioners, electric heaters and other equipment in the home will automatically enter the standby or shutdown state between 20:30 and 21:30 on March 26." Tmall Genie IoT product director Zhu Yan introduced that under the custom intelligent scene, users can according to the preferences of living habits, so that the device that can be networked at home can perform special instructions under certain specific conditions, of which triggering the device to open or close in a fixed period of time is a very commonly used scenario, but for novice users or the elderly, self-DIY intelligent scene has a certain threshold, so Tmall Genie actively pushes more than 200 kinds of intelligent scenes in the official App in accordance with the Chinese family space and living habits. It is convenient for users to open it with one click directly.
Image: Estimated power consumption saved by all users after opening the 2022 "Earth Hours" smart scene
In response to the 2022 'Earth Hour' campaign launched the intelligent scene, can cover the lights, air conditioners, electric heaters, sweepers, air purifiers and water heaters six categories, according to the equipment off for 1 hour of power saving estimation, if the user all turn on the scene, the active equipment in this ecology will save more than 3 million kWh of electricity.
It is reported that Tmall Genie is also actively developing more popular home appliance categories of energy-saving models, the future consumers can directly view the home appliance energy consumption statistics, energy-saving curves and other data in the App, Midea, Fangtai, TCL, Haier, Gree and other head home appliance brands have actively responded and actively opened the data interface, "green home appliances" will become the new consumption normal.