Today, when artificial intelligence has become the latest arena of global IT giants, China has undoubtedly entered the list of the world's largest artificial intelligence countries. The China Artificial Intelligence Development Report 2018 released by a research team jointly formed by the China Science and Technology Policy Research Center of Tsinghua University and the Government Documentation Center of the School of Public Administration of Tsinghua University in Beijing recently showed that the scale of China’s artificial intelligence market reached 23.7 billion yuan in 2017 , A year-on-year increase of 67%, and it is expected that the growth rate of my country’s artificial intelligence market will reach 75% in 2018.
At the same time, AI, as a new technology representing a future era, is merging with all walks of life to produce new chemical reactions. In China, the entire smart home industry has set off an upsurge of artificial intelligence. Almost all entrants have carried the banner of "Smart Home" to integrate artificial intelligence and smart home more closely. Through continuous update and iteration, the application of AI in smart homes is expected to reach the tipping point of explosion.
The wave of artificial intelligence has arrived
In 2018, the development of the field of artificial intelligence reached a new climax. The commercialization of the "AI+" industry is accelerating; from travel, finance, medical care to smart homes, the market and demand are becoming more and more subdivided. At present, artificial intelligence has been applied in many vertical fields such as medical and health, finance, education and security. In 2017, the global robot market reached US$23.2 billion, and the Chinese market accounted for 27%. Others such as drones, smart homes, smart grids, smart security, smart medical and smart finance are also developing rapidly.
First of all, hardware represented by smart home voice interactive terminals has entered thousands of households and profoundly affects people's lives. More and more smart terminals with microphones, cameras, screens or more sensors are appearing, and the types of hardware devices with networking, interaction, voice, vision and other capabilities are becoming more diverse. At the same time, it also promotes the continuous update and iteration of human-machine voice interaction technology. .
Secondly, AI will usher in a breakthrough in the field of service robots. As early as 2015, a large number of companies have launched related layouts in the field of service robots. From the perspective of the structure of China’s artificial intelligence market, the service robot market has reached 6 billion yuan, accounting for 29.4%. Behind the service robots are offline retail stores. Distribution services, family and children’s education and other landing scenarios are becoming more mature, including JD.com and the United States. Giants such as Tuan are all trying to make this approach truly participate in business daily.
Third, the security industry is the most direct application of artificial intelligence technology in the field of vision. The help of AI makes computer vision technology bring new development opportunities for home security products. Compared with traditional cameras, smart cameras can recognize images more finely, and can therefore make more targeted responses. For example, when a stranger's face is recognized, it can automatically alarm when a stranger breaks into a house; when a license plate is recognized, the garage door can be automatically opened. Some smart cameras even combine part of the functions of a voice assistant. These functions can play a powerful role in homes, shopping malls, schools and other scenes.
In the future, artificial intelligence will be presented to consumers in the form of smart products. Smart hardware extends from wearable devices to smart TVs, smart homes, smart cars, medical health, smart toys, robots and other fields.
Families become artificial intelligence competing for the first entrance
As the scene that people use for the longest time and the most frequently, the family has a natural advantage in the application of artificial intelligence, and therefore has become the first entry point for artificial intelligence competition. Numerous companies have already begun to make efforts. Therefore, the home has become the hottest application market for AI artificial intelligence. Whether computer manufacturers, home appliance manufacturers, and even Internet application manufacturers have devoted themselves to AI technology and product research and development. In the home appliance market, a variety of artificial intelligence products have appeared, the common ones are smart speakers, smart TVs, smart air conditioners, sweeping robots, smart robots, and even smart sockets, smart desk lamps, smart door locks, etc. product.
The application and promotion of artificial intelligence in the home field has eased users. Due to the implantation of artificial intelligence and deep school technology, smart home devices can not only realize voice control, but also learn the user's living habits, actively provide services to users, and greatly improve user experience.
On the other hand, smart home, as a directly related industry under artificial intelligence technology, is gaining enthusiasm, which will also become a new opportunity for enterprises. Luo Haiyong, PhD and senior engineer from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that the diversified and quality life needs of modern people have driven the traditional home furnishing manufacturing industry to make breakthroughs in technological innovation and improve product and service standards. Smart home creates more possibilities for life and brings unlimited hope for industrial development. Luo Haiyong predicts that the smart home market will reach 133.4 billion in 2018.
At the same time, Strategy Analytics' latest research report, "2018 Global Smart Home Market Forecast" pointed out that the global smart home market reached US$84 billion in 2017, an increase of 16% from the US$72 billion in 2016. In 2018, the total global consumer spending on smart home equipment, systems and services will be close to 96 billion U.S. dollars, and the compound annual growth rate during the forecast period (2018 to 2023) will reach 10% to 155 billion U.S. dollars.
With the rapid development of AI technology and the improvement of computer deep learning capabilities, the people's pursuit of high-level home life continues to increase, which is expected to detonate the development of the smart home industry. The industry estimates that by 2020, my country's smart home appliance sales revenue will exceed the 100 billion mark, reaching 101.5 billion yuan. Smart homes are becoming the next "blue ocean" for manufacturers.
The effective landing of AI is the key to improving the experience
At present, the leaders of my country's smart home industry chain come from the main players in China, and many of them are Internet powers such as Ali, Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu.
In addition, among my country’s home appliance companies, Changhong, Skyworth, Haier, etc. are all actively building a smart home industry based on artificial intelligence. Among them, Changhong uses an open IoT platform to integrate artificial intelligence technology, security systems, intelligent services, Terminal products such as energy management, CHiQ TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators, etc. are integrated into the real community and home environment, bringing a new "product + service" experience; Skyworth has demonstrated smart home solutions represented by IoT technology and artificial intelligence; Based on the needs of users for different content, TCL screens and judges user preferences through deep learning of artificial intelligence and big data analysis, so as to make accurate content pushes.
However, these are only the initial stage of the current combination of smart home and artificial intelligence. In the future, when AI and the Internet of Things achieve collaborative work, including wearable devices and connected home configuration devices, AI will become an important engine for the implementation of smart homes. In order to achieve these, it is necessary to solve several problems.
First of all, technology and products landed. Chinese manufacturers have accumulated a lot in artificial intelligence technology, especially in image processing, voice control, etc., but it is difficult to adapt artificial intelligence operating systems. Therefore, it is necessary to build artificial intelligence operating systems to make products landed.
Second, closely integrate AI and the smart home industry chain. At present, most smart devices in the field of smart homes are still in the "pseudo-intelligence" stage. Many products only provide basic networking control through WiFi communication modules. Many artificial intelligence functions based on voice recognition are difficult to achieve, let alone computer algorithms. Simulates certain thought processes and intelligent behaviors of people. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the practical operability and user experience of the combination of AI and the smart home industry chain.