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According to different mobile phone brands, the way to wake up the voice assistant is also various, Xiao Ai and Siri are more familiar to everyone, then Xiaoyi and Xiaobu are "where is sacred"? They are actually the second member of the domestic mobile phone "Huami OV", Huawei and OPPO.
This shows a phenomenon that the voice assistants of Xiaomi and Apple have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and they are also well-known "voice hubs" for controlling smart homes at home and abroad. In addition to Xiaomi, Apple, Huawei is actually a part of the smart home can not be ignored, although Xiaoyi Assistant is not well known to everyone, but in the field of IoT technology and whole house smart home solutions, Huawei has done very well in recent years.
Voice assistants are actually just a small part of the smart home, and the knowledge about smart homes is far more than that. If you pay attention to our friends, there are recent ideas for the layout of smart homes, Xiao Black has some experience to share with everyone, so that everyone can take fewer detours when building smart homes, at least have a simple understanding of smart home-related knowledge.
Smart home solutions depend on your needs
In recent years, with the rapid development of equipment maturity, Internet, Internet of Things, 5G and other technologies, how to break the sense of separation of home appliances, digital and intelligent devices has become a problem that many manufacturers need to think about. Because of this, many products are endowed with intelligence. However, the vision of intelligence is good, but if you don't choose the right method, sometimes artificial intelligence will become "artificial mental retardation".
How to avoid stepping into the "pit" of smart home, Xiao Hei believes that it is important to understand today's smart home solutions. According to the current general direction, smart homes are mainly divided into "whole house smart home solutions" and DIY smart homes, represented by Huawei and Xiaomi.
The focus of the whole house smart home solution is the "whole house" and "plan". As the name suggests, the whole house is to run the smart home through all aspects of the family, and the solution is to provide users with a set of solutions, which cover both hardware and software. This is also an area that Huawei is actively expanding.
In this regard, Huawei provides a "whole house intelligent front installation solution", that is, before the decoration, Huawei has prepared a set of professional solutions for users. It can be said that it is a must for lazy people, but being a lazy person also has a price, and the price is that you need to bear this expensive cost.
This package provides whole house smart host, N large subsystem, Hongmeng system and smart home appliances and devices that access The Hongmeng protocol. You can understand it as "soft decoration" and "hard decoration" that need to be purchased before renovation, the difference is that you only need to pay money, huawei will give you a set of ready-made smart home solutions.
At the same time, this solution not only supports voice control, but also supports panel control and App control. Of course, this is not new, it provides style, comfort, convenience, health, interaction, security 6 intelligent scenes, let you experience the meaning of the sentence "real technology is to make you feel that it does not exist".
Huawei is the representative of a complete set of smart home solutions, which is undoubtedly a big blessing for people who have a budget and are too lazy to toss. But for some "ordinary families", is it difficult to achieve a whole house smart home?
Here we have to mention Xiaomi's solution. Some people jokingly say that Xiaomi is not doing business, in addition to the mobile phone field, it is also called "Xiaomi grocery store", that is, it feels that Xiaomi has everything to sell, such as smart homes.
According to the data of "2020 Q3 China Smart Home Market Top3 Shipment Share" released by IDC, Xiaomi surpassed the two established home appliance manufacturers of Midea and Haier with a market share of 62.7%, and sat firmly on the throne of domestic smart home. It can be seen that Xiaomi smart home is very recognized by domestic users.
Different from Huawei's "a complete set of smart home" solutions, Xiaomi smart home does not provide one-stop service, but requires everyone to DIY according to their own ideas and family environment. In the Xiaomi official website, a number of smart home-related products such as gateways, smart devices, sensors, and smart home appliances are provided, and then the smart home ecology is connected through the control hub such as the Mijia APP and the Xiaoai Voice Assistant to create the user's own smart home ecology.
Xiaomi's smart home devices also inherit Xiaomi's consistent pricing style, and other domestic manufacturers are almost invincible in terms of cost performance, which is also the reason why Xiaomi's solution attracts everyone. In addition, compared to Huawei's program, it may be more suitable for most people, first of all, it does not need to be laid out in advance, smart home as a product of the rise in recent years, for some friends who have not laid out in advance before decoration, its appearance is undoubtedly a regret medicine.
In addition, DIY smart home seems to be tossing, in fact, it is far less difficult than imagined. In this regard, Xiaomi has specially designed some operations to reduce the difficulty, such as when it comes to some operations that require wiring, Xiaomi has its own set of solutions, for which the small black will be mentioned below.
In addition, Xiaomi smart home is also suitable for some friends who are under budget, or want to try early, if you are such a user, you can first buy a few Xiaomi smart devices to test the water, if you feel suitable, the follow-up can also be added on this basis. In the process of increasing devices, the smart home experience will gradually climb.
On the whole, if you plan in advance and pay more attention to the senselessness and technology of smart homes, then the "whole house smart home solution" represented by Huawei is more suitable for you; if you pursue playability, willing to toss, and want to get a set of smart home solutions at a lower price, perhaps the DIY smart home represented by Xiaomi is more suitable for you.
DIY smart home, the choice of platform is also very important
The above introduces the two ways of whole house smart home solution and DIY smart home, and describes their respective advantages and disadvantages. But for the vast majority of people, perhaps diy smart home from the perspective of operability, cost performance, etc., will be more suitable. Therefore, Xiaohei mainly focuses on DIY smart home to introduce some relevant knowledge and related smart home products for everyone.
After clarifying his own needs, Xiao hei believes that it is important to choose a platform, and only by choosing a platform that suits him can he plan the next step. The product brands and smart device ecosystems adapted to different platforms are different.
At present, there are three mainstream smart home platforms, which are Mijia, HomeKit and Hongmeng Zhilian.
Friends who are familiar with Xiaomi products know that Mijia is the hub that controls the entire Xiaomi smart home, and the Mijia APP can be downloaded at each device terminal, through which it can control the smart devices in the home at will. Secondly, it is also a protocol, only smart devices that support the Mijia protocol can access the Mijia ecology, and the smart devices on the current Xiaomi official website, as well as the smart devices under the Xiaomi ecological chain, all support the Mijia ecology, and there are still more selectivities.
HomeKit is a smart home platform launched by Apple, and it is also a smart device that needs to support the HomeKit protocol to support HomeKit. Compared with Xiaomi, HomeKit is more suitable for Apple users, and it will be more convenient to control it when using the HomeKit platform and Siri. However, in general, devices that support HomeKit will be more expensive than Mijia devices.
In addition, for domestic users, HomeKit has relatively little choice, but there are also domestic manufacturers that specialize in homeKit smart home devices, and GreenMi Aqara is one of them. Comparing MiJia and HomeKit Xiaohei, we can't say which is better or worse, after all, what suits you is the best. If you are trapped in the Apple ecosystem and have a budget to experience the HomeKit platform, you can choose it; but if you are an Apple user who wants to control the Mijia ecology, downloading a Mijia APP in the Apple Store can also be solved.
The third platform is Hongmeng Zhilian, its predecessor is Huawei HiLink, the reason why it was renamed is because after Huawei was sanctioned, it turned to the field of Internet of Everything, hoping to achieve business transformation through a strong software ecosystem, and Hongmeng is playing a key role in transformation. In the field of smart homes, Hongmeng Zhilian is also a control hub, capable of controlling smart devices that support the protocol.
Huawei is taking more of a complete set of solutions for whole house intelligence, but it is not without the direction of DIY smart home. However, in terms of ecological adaptability, the number of smart device access, cost and other considerations, if it is a single selection of smart devices to form a full set of smart homes, it will take more effort.
Low threshold to build a smart home, you need these things
After having a preliminary understanding of smart home solutions and smart home platforms, I think everyone has their own ideal smart home scene. So how to implement it?
Xiaohei takes the DIY smart home represented by Xiaomi as an example, and introduces which categories of smart home products need to be recognized and purchased before the layout of smart homes.
The first thing to prepare is the control center, which refers to the control of the smart home in the home through voice, clicking and so on. If you are using Xiaomi products, then ready-made little love classmates are enough. If there is no Xiaomi product at home, Xiaohei recommends starting a Xiaomi smart speaker, which will be more convenient through voice control.
In the Xiaomi Mall, there are Xiaomi wireless switches to choose from, priced at less than 100 yuan. It acts as a function of the remote control, through a customized way to control the smart home in the home, suitable for some special scenes, for the elderly, children to use is also more friendly.
There is also a major theme of Xiaomi smart home that also runs through it, that is, "giving intelligence to non-smart products", of which representative categories are Xiaomi Mijia smart switch, Mijia air conditioner companion and Mijia smart socket.
For non-smart air conditioners in your home, you can use mijia air conditioning companions to make air conditioners smart. It supports remote temperature control, voice control, power statistics and other functions. You can use the Mijia APP to remotely turn on or off the air conditioner, and you can also adjust the temperature, so that you can reach the most suitable temperature for the human body when you return home. Currently supports up to 229 air conditioning brands.
The principle of smart switch and smart socket is almost the same, both through the built-in Bluetooth gateway, to achieve the remote opening or closing of home appliances, but also support voice control, intelligent timing, overload protection and other functions.
Of course, a single combination of smart devices can not be called smart home, only by connecting multiple smart devices to form a closed loop, can we get a better smart home experience. In this regard, Xiaomi's approach is to connect smart products through collaborative gateways and devices to form many intelligent scenarios.
For example, the air conditioner companion, humidifier can be used with electronic thermohygrometer or sensor, when the device detects that the current temperature, humidity and other indicators are not within the appropriate range of the human body, Mijia can automatically send the collected information to the processing center through the gateway interconnection, then the system will automatically adjust the air conditioner, humidifier and other equipment, the user only needs to perceive the change, without the need to manually control it.
Of course, in order to achieve the "great unification" of smart home protocols and devices. Xiaomi has also launched a smart multi-mode gateway, which supports Three protocols of Zigbee, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Mesh, and also supports the control of WiFi devices.
For example, you can set your own "home mode". Through the Xiaomi intelligent multi-mode gateway in series smart bulbs, Xiaomi smart door locks, automatic curtains, electric heaters and other equipment, after the user opens the door, these devices can be automatically activated, according to user needs or intelligent feedback, they are adjusted to the most appropriate state.
Of course, in addition to the smart devices mentioned above, there are also traditional smart home appliances, such as sweeping robots, vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, electric heaters, etc.
Smart device threshold is getting lower and lower, how to make smart devices convenient for our lives, is a science, the existence of smart home some people say chicken ribs, some people say good use, the key lies in how you use, whether it can meet your needs. Whether it is a whole-house smart home solution, or a DIY smart home, you still need to explore it yourself, this article is just to provide you with a direction.
Image source: Google, Xiaomi official website, Huawei official website, IDC