Those who are familiar with smart home know what used to be presented the most in the exhibition. Or Tmall, Mijia, Doodle ecology, or WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee solutions, while in the last two years, the most attention in the exhibition is Matter, PLC, and radar sensing, why will there be such a change, in fact, to smart home terminal pain points and demand inseparable.
Smart home with the development of technology, market demand changes are also evolving, from the early years of intelligent single product, to intelligent scenario-based interconnection; from passive control to active perception of the implementation, and even in the future AI empowerment in advance of the demand, which Matter, PLC, radar sensing in the "potential" for the smart home. This is where Matter, PLC, and radar sensing contribute their "energy" to the "potential" of the smart home.
The Matter is Blossoming and Ecological Boundaries are Disappearing
For consumers, they can buy smart products because of their functionality, appearance, and experience, so why should they choose a certain smart product for the sake of choosing a certain ecology, which invariably reduces the desire to buy; for smart home manufacturers, they do not need to cater to the ecology of large manufacturers, nor do they need to dock to each ecology to meet the difference in demand, which is more suitable for the positioning of their own products, and which platform to choose; for the smart home industry, the development of the industry needs to break the ecological boundaries in order to achieve true interconnection and thus increase market demand, so Matter was born.
After Matter 1.0 was released in early October last year, it received full support from enterprises upstream and downstream across the ecological chain. The number of downloads of the technical specification reached 17,991 and the number of new products certified reached 1,135. After the standard's release, Matter has attracted more than 60 new members to join the alliance.
The major smart home ecological platforms have upgraded their mobile phone APPs and major smart home control devices, such as smart speakers and HUBs, as promised, to support the entry and control of various Matter devices; smart hardware device companies have listed their Matter products one after another; solution and chip manufacturers have even taken the lead in launching Matter solutions and related tools.
At this year's AsiaWorld Expo, we saw chip manufacturers and IoT platform solution providers impacting Matter. On the chip side, in addition to the joint CSA booth where we saw chip manufacturers such as CoreTech and Nordic, we also saw Loxin showcasing Matter ecological solutions in key positions on its own booth; in terms of IoT platform solutions, companies like Jixian, YiWeiLian, and JingXun were not as In terms of IoT platform solutions, the likes of Jixian, YiWeiLian, and JingXun did not focus on pushing eco-solutions like Alexa, Tmall, and Doodle in the past, but instead took Matter as the main focus to light up their booths; and for smart device companies like Green Rice and Oribe launched Matter terminal products as early as possible, and many lighting companies also launched Matter-based light bulbs with switches and other products.
The development process of the Matter standard is also continuing apace, with the official release of the Matter 1.1 update just recently, on May 17. This makes it easier for device manufacturers and developers to get started, easier to get products certified, and allows for faster delivery to users. The release also provides greater support for battery-powered devices, which are involved in many types of smart home products.
PLC: Wired to Do More Than 20% of the Market
In the smart home to do the whole house smart market circulated a saying: wireless to do 80% of the market, wired to do 20% of the market, before the PLC took off, this sentence still applies, in the market wireless smart home main market or small and medium-sized homes, for large homes or high-end users or more recognized wired smart home, such as KNX, 485 and other wired networking, in personal opinion there are this Several reasons:
Users are recognized wired stability, after-sales less, because the wired smart home has a history of decades, in the hotel and other scenarios have been applied very mature, this part of the user in high-end hotels have experienced similar products.
Wired can be connected to more devices, the ecology is more unified, and you can integrate security, lighting, entertainment audio, and video under the same system, more convenient to use.
Wired whole house intelligence has its own advantages, but the disadvantages are equally obvious, the cost is too high, the deployment is complex, which determines only for a small number of people, how can we achieve a balance between cost, stability, ecological openness, light deployment of these, this time PLC in the smart home solutions come to us.
PLC is a more simple and stable wired network and the advantages of front and rear installation adaptation, without additional wiring, greatly reducing the difficulty and cost of deployment, but also the flexibility of wireless solutions, scalability, through physical isolation and the way the device address, can effectively avoid interference between different devices and households.
Really let PLC let everyone know is Huawei launched PLC whole house intelligent solution, and establish PLC-loT ecological alliance, PLC application ecology began to expand rapidly, from the chip to the solution, and then to the terminal lighting enterprises and smart home enterprise recognition and application, PLC ecological development into the fast lane, indeed promote the development of smart home industry.
In this exhibition, we have seen many lighting companies pushing PLC intelligent lighting products, in the PLC-loT ecological alliance is also a highly popular booth, more than a dozen chip companies are promoting their solutions, the ecology is becoming more and more perfect.
Radar Sensing
From Passive to Active
From Option to a Necessity
As we mentioned earlier, the development trend of smart home is from passive to active, and the application of radar sensing, especially millimeter wave radar sensing in smart home, is highly respected. Several leading radar sensing solution providers such as Yunfan Rui Da, Yi Tan, Spaced, etc. were all out to showcase their products and solutions at the Optical Asia Exhibition. In fact, the AIoT Star Chart Institute's "2022 Millimeter Wave Radar Industry Analysis Report" analyzes millimeter wave radar that will be widely used in smart homes in areas such as lighting, recreation, and security.
Before the rise of millimetre wave radar, in the combination of smart home sensing and lighting more with infrared sensors, to achieve the function of people come to light, people go away lights out, the pain point of infrared sensors is when people are stationary when the inability to sense, in the actual scene experience is not good, and just need is not very strong, and millimetre wave radar in addition to the realization of the presence of sensing, can be derived from more scenes, more importantly, in the health and safety This is what is just needed. The smart home needs more just needs, not just the improvement of young people's lifestyles, or just to meet the psychological needs of some people.
Post time: Jun-19-2023