Since 2024, it has become a new trend to put AI large models into homes. During AWE 2024 held in March, all major appliance and smart home manufacturers seem to be FOMO ("Fear of Missing Out") in the face of large models, and they are frequently acting for fear of missing opportunities. However, the facts show that although everyone has rolled up a large model on the slogan, in fact, there is a lack of novel products and application experiences, and more of them are still at the level of control and interaction of intelligent voice on household appliances.
How should AI technology penetrate into the smart home scene to create products and experiences that people can see and touch? The author saw the light of day in the new version of Huawei's whole-home intelligent solution released on May 15. Aiming at the dilemma of China's aging population and the health care problem of an aging society, Huawei has intensively cultivated AI health care applications without shouting the slogan of large models, released AI-assisted health care sensors and their high-frequency use scenarios for the elderly, leading the experience with products and reshaping care with AI, taking the step of characteristic and differentiated development.
At the same time, in addition to the core breakthrough point of AI health care, the newly upgraded Huawei whole-home intelligence also continues to improve the intelligent and beautiful experience of the whole home through a series of other visible and tangible technologies and product innovations such as sound and light, interaction, etc., and continuously consolidates the seven core experiences (stability, easy installation, ease of use, sense of premium, flexibility, low cost, and guaranteed life cycle) that Huawei's whole-home intelligent solution should have, and promotes ecological construction from the perspective of the spatial intelligence industry, so that the whole home intelligence can truly go deeper and more practical!
Huawei focuses on home-based elderly care, and AI warmth blows to the silver-haired population
When it comes to smart home or whole-home smart solutions, many manufacturers or industry observers are still focusing on young people. In fact, stimulated by the aging population and the two-child policy, the demand for security care, healthy pension, and parent-child companionship at both ends of the family market is increasing day by day. Taking the elderly as an example, data shows that by the end of 2023, the population aged 60 and above in mainland China has exceeded 296 million, and experts expect this number to exceed 400 million around 2035.
At the same time, the proportion of the elderly living with their children is gradually decreasing, which brings a series of problems that endanger the quality of life and health of the elderly. According to the survey data, 65.5% of the elderly choose to live independently, and only 26.8% live with their children. Even among the elderly aged 80 and above, the proportion of elderly people living alone has reached 48%. Falls and bed falls caused by living alone have not been detected and treated in time, which has become one of the main causes of disability, disability and death of the elderly.
The national "14th Five-Year Plan" also proposes to "implement the national strategy of actively responding to population aging" to guide all sectors of society to solve the problems of population aging and social health care for the elderly. Among them, digital families covering smart home services, online social services and online government services are expected to be high. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other 16 departments issued a document clearly stating that the construction of digital homes is not only a key measure to "deepen the reform of the housing supply side and strengthen livable housing", but also an important support for the construction of "new urban infrastructure", and set a measurable goal for digital homes to become the "standard" for new real estate for sale by 2025.
This time, Huawei's whole-home intelligence focuses on home-based elderly care, which can be said to blow the warm wind of AI to the silver-haired people, and take an important step to solve the problem of health care in the aging society.
Overall, Huawei's whole-house intelligent AI health care solution takes AI-assisted health care sensors as its core products, relies on the AI+ interconnection dual hub capabilities provided by the whole house intelligent host, and uses unique millimeter-wave radar technology and deep learning algorithms to identify human presence and point data, accurately detect and judge changes in human posture, and then notify the set emergency contacts through intelligent hierarchical alarms, so as to achieve contactless and non-monitoring intimate protection of the elderly's home life. Children and guardians can take care of the elderly remotely with less interference and privacy.
Compared with some existing wearable and video-based practices in the market, the biggest highlight of Huawei's solution is that it uses millimeter-wave radar technology to achieve a contactless and non-monitoring experience. By installing sensors in the ceiling, walls and other spatial environments (rather than the user), children and guardians do not need to worry about the elderly wearing discomfort or forgetting to wear the sensing device, nor do they need to worry about the bathroom and bedroom and other private scenes becoming a blind spot for monitoring; The elderly can also avoid the hassle of wearing the sensing device for long periods of time, while avoiding being under video surveillance for long periods of time.
High-frequency scene detection and alarm, AI health care for the elderly
Those who have taken care of the elderly or have elderly people living alone around them may know that falling is the biggest risk of elderly living alone. Due to the decline of physical function, the consequences of falling and falling into bed are generally more serious, often requiring long-term bed rest and recuperation, and a series of chain reactions in life care and economic expenses. In fact, as early as 2016, it was reported that falls have become one of the leading causes of disability, disability and death in the elderly; 47% of elderly people who fall after a fall are unable to stand up on their own, and lying down for more than 1 hour after a fall may lead to delayed treatment, dehydration, hypothermia, difficulty breathing, and even death.
In terms of specific scenarios, Huawei's whole-house intelligent AI health care solution also goes straight to the core of the problem, providing detection functions such as bed fall assistance detection, long bed and bed stay detection, intelligent night detection, and sleep detection in private places such as bedrooms and bathrooms. On the one hand, the program actively intervenes to assist in reducing the occurrence of fall incidents, and on the other hand, timely alarms after falls occur to effectively reduce secondary injuries, so as to achieve 24-hour all-weather and all-scene protection, so that the elderly and their families can rest assured.
Taking a typical elderly person getting up and going to the toilet at night as an example, in the bedroom, the AI-assisted health care sensor can detect the user's action of getting up and getting out of bed in a dark environment, and actively turn on the night light to prevent the elderly from tripping by groping for the light in the dark. When you come to the door of the bathroom, the system will take the initiative to turn on the lights when you detect that someone has walked in, which is convenient for the elderly to go to the toilet at night; If the elderly are stranded or fall during the toilet, the system can also accurately detect and report at different levels, and notify the guardian in time; Back in the bedroom, the night light turns on again and automatically turns off when the old man goes to bed...... The elderly do not need to do any superfluous operations during the whole process, which greatly reduces the possibility of accidents.
In particular, Huawei's AI health care solution has dual privacy guarantees for intelligent hierarchical alarms and detection data, and its security attributes are much higher than those of general solutions on the market. Among them, intelligent hierarchical alarms support intelligent classification of event levels, multi-channel special alarms for important events, and general push notifications for ordinary events, so that family members of different roles can take specific actions and avoid indiscriminate information bombardment. Millimeter wave technology intelligent detection only generates point data without imaging, which highly protects privacy; At the same time, the AI algorithm runs locally, and only reports the processing results instead of uploading process data, which is more secure.
A variety of new products are "in the house" to comprehensively enhance the smart beauty experience
In addition to the core upgrade of AI health care, the new version of Huawei's whole-home intelligent solution also released a series of technical and product innovations focusing on sound, light, and interactive experience, which continuously consolidate the seven core advantages of Huawei's whole-home intelligent solution and continuously improve the intelligent and beautiful experience of whole-home intelligence. These upgrades and releases deeply integrate leading technology into the home scene, which can also be seen and touched, and what you see is what you get.
For example, in terms of music experience, the newly released whole-house music ultra-thin ceiling speaker adopts an ultra-thin sound cavity design, which is thinner and easier to install, and at the same time, the small body has a lot of energy, which can release the surging sound effect of HUAWEI SOUND. Adding multiple speakers to Huawei's unique PLC networking system can also use distributed HarmonyOS to deliver a ubiquitous and freewheeling broadcast and control experience, matching exclusive lossless music content jointly selected by high-quality music libraries such as Huawei Music, allowing users to seamlessly enjoy a companionship, immersion, and peak music experience while traveling through various rooms in their homes.
For example, in terms of light and shadow experience, Huawei has brought high-end lighting packages and a series of high-end lamps and lanterns to continuously upgrade the lighting subsystem of the whole house. With the help of advanced AI perception algorithms and light control technology, Huawei's whole-house lighting can achieve 10,000-step-level delicate and silky precise dimming capabilities, realize a healthy and comfortable home environment such as rhythm light, healthy light, and comfortable light, and support users to customize and create personalized lighting scenes according to interior decoration, and link with other subsystems such as music and sunshade throughout the house to restore the high-end sense of space design to the greatest extent, and combine sound, light and shadow to create a variety of spaces.
Another example is in terms of voice interaction control experience,HuaweiAIThe speaker2eWhole house version relies on wake-up model upgrade、Fuzzy semantic recognition of Huawei's new version of the whole house intelligent version of Xiaoyi,Support multiple rounds of continuous dialogue、Full duplex dialogue、Dialect communication,It also supports children's voices、Male voice、Female voice and other timbre personalized customization,Incarnate a good helper for smart life,Easy to realize bedroom、Study、Children's room and other multi-space voice control scenes,Let the voice of the whole house device be easily controlled,Users can solve the daily trivial needs at home with their mouths。 At the same time, the speaker is also equipped with a large amount of rich content, which can meet the needs of the whole family to listen to music and listen to the radio and learn long knowledge.
In addition, based on the leading intelligent voice capabilities, Huawei's whole-home intelligence realizes the seamless linkage between the HarmonyOS car machine and the whole-house intelligent central control, allowing users to wake up Xiaoyi in the car and issue instructions to remotely control the home, and control all scenes and devices in the home in real time, such as turning on the home mode in advance (related to turning on the lights, turning on the air conditioner, etc.) on the way home from work, so that everything is ready when you get home, so that it is no longer cold when you go home in winter and cool when you go home in summer.
In addition, based on the powerful circulation capabilities of HarmonyOS, Huawei's whole-home intelligence also supports video intercom with smart door locks Pro through the smart central control screen, so that the owner does not need to run in a hurry when he hears the visitor ringing the bell, no matter where he is, he can answer with one click, and the images captured by the smart door lock can be transferred to the central control screen across the screen, so that you can view or communicate immediately, so that you can control home safety.
It can also be seen that despite its strong technical power, Huawei's whole-home intelligence does not shout slogans such as large models, but goes deep into the scene to polish specific products and interactive experiences, so that AI and other black technologies can moisten things silently in the family scene, comprehensively improve the Zhimei experience, let the Zhimei mansion enter thousands of households, and continue to shape the benchmark of high-end future homes!
Paying tribute to the times with works and leading the evolution of the spatial intelligence industry
Of course, in addition to the WYSIWYG technology product release, as the pioneer of the spatial intelligence track, Huawei's whole-home intelligence also pays tribute to the era with WYSIWYG space works, showing works such as Future Home and Variable Space, heralding the upcoming era of "space works", and continuing to explore and lead the future of the space intelligence industry.
Among them, the Future House integrates space, art, and technology, including a movable futuristic cabin and a full set of whole-house smart devices in the cabin, which can be placed in the core areas of major cities to become a Peugeot building or exhibition check-in point, for users to experience the whole house intelligence in a variety of scenarios.
Relying on the three key technological breakthroughs of the expansion and rotation and movement of the wall, the storage and use of furniture, and the control of space can be divided and separated, the variable space can be switched to a bedroom, cloakroom, guest room, etc. at will, bringing about a leapfrog increase in space utilization efficiency, realizing a qualitative change in the living experience, and continuing to explore the ultimate form of a "good house" in the future.
At the same time, with the continuous consolidation of the seven core experiences of Huawei's whole-home intelligence, Huawei's whole-home intelligence has also previewed the upcoming era of "space works", paying tribute to the era with excellent spatial intelligence works, taking responsibility for ecological construction from the perspective of industry, and reshaping the space with ecological and industrial forces.
Write at the end:
Since the emergence of ChatGPT in 2023 to detonate the large model, the story of holding a "hammer" (large model) to find a "nail" (application scenario) has been staged one after another in all walks of life. Judging from the current situation of the smart home industry, the large model has not really solved the problem. Instead of shouting the slogan of fashionable large models, the new version of Huawei's whole-home intelligence uses "classical" AI technology to intensively cultivate the field of home care for the elderly, bringing visible and tangible AI health care scene applications, which can be said to have embarked on a differentiated and forward-looking development path.
At the same time, it can be seen that while seeking a "single-point breakthrough" in AI health care, Huawei's whole-home intelligence has promoted a series of innovations in technologies, products, experiences, and industrial ecosystems, empowering products with technology, leading experience with products, reshaping care with AI, paying tribute to the times with works, consolidating seven core experiences, and creating a benchmark for high-end future homes that has been transformed and renewed, demonstrating the determination and action of the pioneers of the spatial intelligence track to make all-round efforts and continue to lead the transformation of the spatial intelligence industry.