The three major points in the smart home industry can not be ignored

What should a true smart home look like? From the definition, smart home is the integration of various home devices on the basis of the Internet of Things, including smart lighting , smart security, smart home appliances, digital cinema systems, etc. Users can use smart phones or tablet and other mobile terminals to control anytime, anywhere. All kinds of equipment in the home to create safe, healthy, comfortable, efficient, convenient and energy-saving home living environment. However, today, smart homes only pay attention to the operation is obviously not enough, security, connectivity and cloud computing are three points that smart home can not be ignored.

Safety

Emphasizing security is a problem that many people are aware of, but the security here refers to the security of smart home devices . If your smart home device is not safe, talking about "smart home appliances" can be considered rogue. How important is smart home security, we can use the “Snowden incident” and the “great cousin Pornography” analogy. Although these two things have little to do with smart homes, smart home insecurity can often achieve the same result. Let users have no privacy at all. When you take a bath, there is a pair of eyes that you don't know, but can you be so laid back?

This may sound like an alarmist, but Daniel Buentello, a student at the University of Central Florida who is working on security research at the Black Hat Security Conference this year to capture the Nest smart thermostat, doesn't think so. He said, "These devices are smart flags, but users can't install anti-virus software for them. Worse still, this device has a secret back door. If you are used by bad guys, you can stay and observe you forever." And this really installed an uninvited guest on its own wall."

There is also a similar view of Zhou Hongyi, chairman of 360. At the 7th Sino-U.S. Internet Forum that ended not long ago, Zhou Hongyi stated that with the rapid spread of the Internet and smart devices, human society will enter the Internet of Things era, which will also bring huge security challenges in the next five years. , "As an Internet company today, when you boast about how many users you have and how to master these user habits, you must also do your utmost to protect these data, because the user data is stolen from the server. ”

One point to note is that we cannot limit security to security breaches, and we should also include potential security issues for product design flaws. For example, a smart home device can not be hacked, but its alarm settings often produce false alarms, errors, or non-reports and other unsafe conditions, which will also cause us many problems. In addition, the stability of the operation can also be calculated into a large safety category.

interconnected

Security is very important Many people understand that the Internet is where to start? The interconnection is necessary. There are two points that can be explained: First, the smart home involves a wide range of areas that require unified management and control and need to be interconnected. This can be understood from the above definition of smart home; The effect of independent work on smart home devices is very limited, and it is difficult to meet our needs for intelligent homes. We also need to interconnect with other devices and work together to “combat” and maximize the effectiveness of smart devices.

We can also see some clues about the change of status of Nest. As we all know, Nest's two products are very good, not only the process design fresh and refined, but also has a powerful feature, but they were just smart home items. However, since June of this year, this situation has undergone major changes. In order to attract developers to achieve more interactions for them, Nest announced the launch of Nest developer program to open an API to third parties. This means that Nest's products are no longer simply a single product, but can be interconnected with other devices and achieve other Equipment management platform.

We do not need to say more about the benefits of interconnection, but there is one point that needs further emphasis. Smart home is a "soft and hard" system, which involves a lot of equipment, the average family is difficult to get a one-time, and therefore need to add and expand the follow-up equipment. However, if these devices cannot be interconnected, it is almost impossible to add them to a network system. What would be the result of their own "single fight alone"? The most likely results are two: One is that these devices make themselves dizzy; the other is that the APP corresponding to these devices confused your mobile phone.