The information of cutting-edge technology has always been on the cusp of the whole field and is closely related to the lives of all people. On June 5, 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology finally announced that it will issue commercial licenses to China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Radio and Television. Before the arrival of the 3G era, it triggered a big explosion in the Internet era. 5G is coming so fiercely, will it bring a brand new blue ocean to the smart home field?
Smart home: a home ecosystem composed of hardware (smart home appliances, smart hardware, security control equipment, furniture, etc.), software systems, and cloud computing platforms based on the Internet of Things technology based on residential houses, enabling people to remotely control equipment and equipment Interconnection, self-learning of equipment and other functions, and provide users with personalized life services through the collection and analysis of user behavior data, so that home life is safe, comfortable, energy-saving, efficient and convenient.
Smart home sprouted in China in 1999, and experienced a long period of exploration and market start-up. In 2016, it was once included in the government work report and the 13th Five-Year Plan, and it has become an industry that the government vigorously supports and cultivates.
From 2017 to 2018, the scale of smart home users in China reached about 60 million, and the number of users is said to be a spiral upward trend. In 2016, the scale of China's smart home market exceeded 100 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.6%. Since then, the market scale has expanded every year, but the growth rate has shown a certain downward trend. Compared with the rising growth rate before 2016, the smart home industry is going through its own calm phase.
The industry chain is mixed with fish and dragons, and the island effect is serious
As an emerging industry optimistic by all parties, why does the popularity of smart home decline? In fact, artificial intelligence and big data have been continuously promoting the gradual expansion of the smart home market.
All kinds of smart products are pouring into people's lives. Smart lighting, smart home appliances, smart hardware, home environment monitoring, home background music, home theater, smart shading, door and window control, automatic meter reading, watering of flowers and plants, pet care, etc., although the main function of these products is to serve people's lives , But in fact, they lack linkage with each other and each act independently.
Just as "digital" was applied to people's lives in the early days, each product of digital camera and MP3 is independent, but now a mobile phone can connect the functions used. The current smart home products can be said to be independent islands of information. Moreover, the degree of intelligence of a single product itself is low, and the user experience is poor, which cannot provide consumers with a complete intelligent platform.
5G accelerates terminal device connection to build smart scenarios
If you want to link existing smart home products to achieve a multiplier effect, the network environment is very important. The existing 4G environment is difficult to meet the omni-directional penetration of smart home scenarios. Only when the network link density reaches a certain index, a large number of smart devices can achieve network links and achieve the effect of building smart home scenarios.
What are the breakthroughs in 5G vs. 4G? First of all, the transmission rate is increased by 10-100 times, the user experience rate can reach 0.1-1Gb/s, and the user peak rate can reach 10Gb/s; and it can effectively control the delay problem, reducing 5-10 times to the order of milliseconds; The device density and traffic density can be increased by 10 to 1000 times, and the mobile performance can be increased to 500km/h, which can also provide a good user experience in the high-speed rail environment.
Faster speed, higher stability, lower energy consumption, shorter delay, these comparisons all mean that 5G will explode 4G in all aspects. This also makes many people believe that the commercialization of 5G will bring a new blue ocean to smart homes.
Industry insiders have predicted that after 5G is commercialized, it is likely to detonate the Internet of Vehicles and LOT. The autopilot +5G mode may appear in our lives. Not only that, the increase in the number of 5G network addresses, lower power consumption and lower delay probability, all of which provide conditions for the interconnection of IoT devices. In the future, when the Internet of Vehicles, autonomous driving, smart cities, smart homes, and smart environments, all systems are built together, true smart scenarios are expected to be realized.
Data dominates future profitability & services rely on it
Although the current 5G technology is still a certain distance from commercial use, people's prediction of its performance has made the global technology market eager to try. In the field of smart home, the emergence of 5G can provide people with more complex and diversified services.
The Internet of Things promotes the construction of smart scenarios, and at the same time provides a new world for the collection of massive user data, and all user behavior feedback will promote the further evolution of smart hardware. On the other hand, the continuous development of the Internet of Things and artificial technology has laid the foundation for human-computer interaction, and the interaction between machines and the environment. When people, products, and technology are integrated, our imagination is bound to complete a qualitative breakthrough to the existing level. More and more conveniences, better services, and a more standardized use environment will all be available in the future.
In the future, the core profit model of the home furnishing industry must be based on data. For example, smart home devices can collect data on users' exercise habits, eating habits, hobbies, etc. from multiple parties, and share them with other community hospitals. Doctors can monitor these data to provide door-to-door services for users.
With smart scenes as the entrance and smart products as tentacles, it acquires consumers' living habits from all aspects, conducts data analysis, and connects with third-party service providers to finally provide consumers with personalized offline services. The excellent performance of 5G makes all this possible, and smart homes will undoubtedly be a major outlet in the future. (Text|Sina Home Furnishing Zhao Chen)