On March 18th, home appliance eldest brother in Shanghai haier high-profile issued its "U + intelligent operating system," by this system, users can be achieved with all smart home terminal interconnectivity across different brands, products; And haier in early January the CES appearance of smart home products haier air ball (also known as air box) was also recently launched online booking.

According to sources close to the haier haier U + intelligent life operating system upgrade after haier e home league, is an open platform for cooperation, including open SDK, API standard, category of the access of all brands, as well as the open platform. Cover a full range of smart home solution to family Internet platform, U + U + wisdom of cloud services platform and U + big data analysis platform for technical support. Based on this platform, users in the family of all kinds of household appliances, lighting, curtains, as well as a full range of household equipment such as security, are available to achieve interconnectivity across different brands and products.

After speak bluntly, is with the aid of haier's operating system, you just need to use a terminal control of home intelligent objects, like control TV with the remote control, but compared with the TV remote control, remote control before new terminal has thousands of miles, everything connected function.

Haier air ball is a NEST like intelligent hardware, detection of indoor air temperature, humidity, such as VOC, PM2.5, also can control the home air conditioning, air purifiers and other home appliances. Haier said consumers can through the air ball, infinite, smart, convenient to the air in the home equipment, mobile phones and other mobile terminals for remote control.

Is a box, an operating system, haier was obviously prepared, frequently to contain the haier behind how intelligent household ambitions?

Before answering this question, the author is necessary to first take you know about the present situation of smart home, do a bit of "science".

Smart Home is not a fresh concept, its development has a history of more than ten years, from the Google Android @ HomeOS Home to Microsoft, from abroad to domestic, many players.

Mention intelligent household, what people thinks of above all is associated with the network. Such as Internet access, Internet access, washing machine, fridge, TV, Internet access, microwave oven, online, these products are made of traditional vendors thinking "smart home", actually not how intelligent. And, similar to smart home due to the price is high, the practical value is not high, the subsequent use and high maintenance cost factors, the current penetration rate is low, only local using a small scale.

Advocating by the manufacturer for more than ten years of "smart home" has been much cry and little wool, underdeveloped, the reason for this? In addition to the innovative atmosphere and the influence of the market, there is no uniform standard, the manufacturer's fragmented, lack of openness is also a main reason.

The application of smart home is not an isolated, but should be a complete system. Its operation need to integrate many of the resources, the difficulty of resource integration is not technology, fusion is difficult or between different industry, but in the integration of multiple interests of allocation and balance. Smart home industry is not one manufacturer can do big alone, interdisciplinary, cross-industry, different industry partners help overcome will be a big trend.

Although on the surface of intelligent household is stagnant, but actually undercurrent. Well-known columnist, "tong will enter at present in the field of smart home is summed up in three types, three kinds of modes: the traditional home appliance giant using the Internet to open innovation mode of haier; Represented by small entrepreneurial team iKair gen guest mode; By Internet users oriented integrated manufacturing services mode of millet (millet millet router that smart home control center).

If the slightly analysis, it is not hard to see the direction of three kinds of products have the same place. Millet just do mobile phone hot, can't wait to develop intelligent router, because the router almost became each family essential Internet terminals, is a good entry point into the intelligent household; IKair flagship is air intelligence products, air quality is the most sensitive topic, the present Chinese easy cause attention; Haier air ball, from the function and layout of the equipment management and air quality monitoring of two lines.

To summarize, all of them are to be the one to capture user "pain points" of high viscous products, to attract users, and then occupy the entrance of smart home, seize the entrance, then to build open platform, access to the third party software, hardware, and services.

Here, we would not be difficult to understand, why haier launched intensive haier air ball and U + operating system? They looked, but close. Air ball is in order to occupy the entrance, and U + operating system is to build open platform and ecosystem, so as to seize control of smart home, it should be this elephant haier recently the real purpose of a series of actions and ambition.

Although the officials did not say haier haier air ball and U + operating system, but I guess, haier air ball should be based on U + operating system, an application example. While haier should not be content with the air ball this entry, media reports also show that haier router products also are developing their intelligence. Haier frequently, the elephant will undoubtedly of millet, iKair constitute a great threat.

Beautiful imagery of smart home is a daydream, while the elephant's dance, highlighting is the smart home biggest hotspot, it is destined to become the PC era, the network era, mobile Internet after another round of new hot spot. Finally is necessary to remind those who still stay in a single product for intelligent upgrade enterprise: walking too slowly, carefully left behind!

Source: nine is building materials net