Smart air conditioner is "coming"

Smart Evolution of Air Conditioning

From the traditional industrial manufacturing era to the Internet era, the impact of inverter air conditioners on traditional fixed-frequency air conditioners has not yet receded. Smart air conditioners with intelligent sensing, automatic detection, and cloud services have quietly entered the field of vision. With an imperceptible force to promote the transformation of the industry.

Currently, smart air conditioners in the market can be roughly divided into three categories: basic smart air conditioners, terminal smart air conditioners, and hybrid smart air conditioners.

In addition to the basic hardware and software systems, basic smart air-conditioning systems also include intellisense systems, intelligent decision systems, control systems, and actuators that can understand decision information and feed back status. The terminal type intelligent air conditioner itself does not have the decision-making ability. It is mainly connected to the intelligent home appliance service platform through a network communication system. The service platform performs intelligent analysis and decision based on air conditioning parameters and intelligent decision algorithms, and the air conditioning only completes corresponding sensing information. Receipt and execution of receiving and decision information. With the development of technology and network, especially the continuous innovation of the Internet of Things technology, all smart devices will form a huge “social network” in the future. The intelligentization of air-conditioning has also begun to upgrade from a single product to a smart home, etc. "Socialization and humanization" will become the inevitable trend for the development of smart air conditioners in the future.

Midea: Expanding Smart Air-conditioning with Internet Genes

Haier and Midea are the traditional home appliance giants that have first accepted and implemented smart changes in China. The United States, which had almost accelerated its upgrade process of the inverter air conditioner industry in China, led the way in the smart competition to lead the character networks and Internet genes, and took the lead in smart home appliances.

On the morning of March 17, 2014, the press conference for the strategic cooperation between Alibaba and Alibaba was held in Alibaba Park in Hangzhou. The high-level cloud strategic cooperation between the two parties is mainly divided into three phases: In 2014, a unified application standard for IoT products was formed to achieve seamless access and unified control of Midea’s full range of products; in 2015, data-based operations were realized. Combine user behavior data to improve product R&D and production. In 2016, form a complete smart life industry chain, use the Internet's thinking and technology to promote changes in the industry model and operating model of the traditional home appliance industry, and achieve centralized operation of all product line data. Value-added applications and services to create an open IoT smart appliances ecosystem. At present, the United States has achieved "M-Smart smart home strategy" of the product, that is, "the United States of the Internet of things intelligent air conditioning."

Joint operations will certainly be better than single combat, and the United States knows this well. In addition to technical cooperation with Ali, in order to further expand the field of intelligent household appliances, the United States also hand in Xiaomi, through the joint approach to achieve complementary advantages, thereby enhancing their market competitiveness. The cooperation between Midea and Xiaomi can be summarized in three aspects. First, Midea will fully integrate Xiaomi Ecology (smart millet platform and content platform). Midea’s future products will all be networked and linked via millet routers to other intelligent control terminals. And through the App to achieve remote and intelligent control, in addition, the two sides of the product agreement interoperability, and then the formation of a set of smart home standards; Second, the two sides in the channel and the advantages of complementary logistics, Xiaomi online sales capabilities, but in the logistics and offline The channel is relatively weak, and Midea has established a relatively complete logistics distribution and after-sales service system to cope with the development of e-commerce. It covers most of China's third and fourth-tier markets and township markets, and a series of products such as Xiaomi’s mobile phone have entered the flagship store in the United States. Xiaomi can provide logistics support, while the US penetration in the e-commerce channel, can also use Xiaomi's network sales and network marketing to enhance the competitiveness of the United States; Finally, after sharing the online channel and offline logistics service system, both parties next It is the common mining of users' sharing and the application of big data resources. The joint strategy of the United States will further stimulate the competitive landscape and model changes in the home appliance market.

Changhong: "humanized" air conditioning is "real intelligence"

Mobile remote control, voice control, and gesture control are all one-way human-computer interactions and require people to actively control it. A truly intelligent product must be able to actively adapt to "human" rather than passively waiting for someone to control it. The same is true for smart air conditioners. The ultimate in smart air conditioners will be the “personalization” of air conditioners. They will become smarter and more like people, and will perceive and self-regulate.

In March 2014, Changhong released the world's first human body condition sensing air conditioner - CHiQ air conditioner. This air conditioner uses a variety of sensing technologies to actively perceive the state of the human body and the surrounding environment, through the "air-conditioning and human and environmental dialogue" to form a list of human status, get the best temperature, cleanliness, dry humidity, and comfort of the human body to the family. The comprehensive demand model of the degree, and then through the matching of the human body comfort data model in the cloud, compared with the analysis of personal data to form a response model, into the various operating parameters of Yangshuo to read and adjust, to create a comfortable home living environment for people. This ability to actively "perceive", "think" and make "adjustment judgment" is a manifestation of "humanized intelligence." The smart air-conditioner of the future must belong to the enterprise that deeply integrates elements such as terminal equipment, big data, platforms, content, and services, and always pays attention to "user needs".