Device interaction needs to warm up smart home networking technology mashup

Different from the past, smart home appliances mostly use a single human-machine interface (HMI), which only allows users to issue simple commands, remote control, and lack of interactive mechanism. The brand factory will introduce more novel human-machine interfaces and mobile networking in a new generation of smart home appliances. Technologies such as wireless local area network (Wi-Fi) 802.11ac, Near Field Communication (NFC), etc., to achieve a more diverse operating experience, and create more revenue sources through accurate marketing.

Chen Yude, manager of the Electronic and Systems Research Group of the ITRI Center of Industrial and Technological Affairs (IEK), said that observing the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), smart homes are beginning to take off a new wave of transformation, and home appliances are now more capable and handheld. Such as tablet or mobile phone links, and for the interests of family members, provide a variety of customized services, while collecting user behavior, giving advice to different consumers.

Chen Yude believes that the future Smart Home will be used as the endpoint of input data by smart terminals, and smart TV will become the core of output information. The reason is that audio-visual sharing is still one of the key applications of smart homes, so the integrated family Products for regional networks and other networking functions have been widely deployed. Take Sony and Haier's remote control as examples. Both integrate NFC chips to simplify the interaction between the remote control and the mobile phone.

Not only that, but the new generation of remote control design also uses the touchpad and sensor to allow users to complete simple commands such as turntable and sound adjustment. For more complicated commands, it can be done through voice recognition or a hand-held terminal that can be connected.

Chinese mainland manufacturers are aiming at the huge business opportunities driven by this wave of intelligent family generations. They are also actively demonstrating various innovative technologies at CES, including Hisense, Haier, TCL, Changhong, etc., and emphasize the creation of TV and mobile phone links. Audio and video, game application scenarios. Among them, Haier has exhibited a variety of human-computer interaction technologies, including gestures, body sensations, fingerprint recognition, and NFC applications in remote controls, while Hisense also introduced smart TV voice, face, gesture and other identification functions, which are more powerful.

Chen Yude pointed out that the above-mentioned human-machine interface will become a key technology for manufacturers to stand out. Take Panasonic as an example, which shows the smart TV's function of judging the main users of the TV through voice recognition function, thereby launching the entertainment recommendation mechanism for movies and games. And hope to use the precise marketing approach to promote more business opportunities.

It is worth mentioning that under this wave of precision marketing, Yahoo has also shown ambition, not only to acquire Tumblr and Flickr in succession, as a source of consumer and data, and to launch Yahoo Smart TV at CES ( Yahoo Smart TV's Yahoo Smart Guide feature allows users to personalize viewing content by analyzing user viewing habits, while importing different advertising modes with an emerging user interface.

All kinds of smart home appliances compete in home applications, and the network transmission technology behind them is indispensable, whether it is wired technologies such as Power Line, Coaxial Cable and telephone lines, and wireless LAN. As a result, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) are accelerating the competition for smart home business opportunities, and are preemptively releasing the unified standards for home hybrid networks.

Anti-G.hn forces sit on the IEEE to speed up the development of P1905.1a

In addition to the G.hn standard, the International Telecommunication Union is expected to publish the Open Protocol AbstracTIon Layer (OPAL) specification compatible with the IEEE 1905.1 standard in the fourth quarter of this year, and implement IEEE 1905.1 technical support in software. In order to prevent the G.hn forces from sitting on the 1905.1 working group, the working group has also stepped up the development of the new P1905.1a standard. It is expected to support the G.hn technology first and enhance the willingness of manufacturers to adopt it (Table 1).

Device interaction needs to warm up Smart home networking technology mix and match

Figure 1 He Zhixiang, head of the Institute of Smart Netcom Systems, pointed out that G.hn is very close to the IEEE 1905.1 technology, and the wrestling between the chip vendors/standard alliances is exciting.

Figure 1 He Zhixiang, head of the Institute of Intelligent Networking Systems, said that G.hn is very close to the IEEE 1905.1 technology, and the battle between chip vendors and standard alliances is exciting.

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