What are the mainstream technologies of smart home

Along with the development of the economy, people's demand for modern high-quality life is growing, in this context, the smart home as a representative of quality of life, naturally became the object of popularity, but also the inevitable trend of the future of family life, attracting more and more people to come in to grab a piece of the pie!

In the face of more and more smart home brands on the market, will definitely make just want to step into the circle of the novice daunting, how can I find a profitable smart home home brand? Here are some things that you must know!

First of all, remember the truth: "What suits you is the best"!

One, the smart home according to the application of the way points, can be divided into two main wired and wireless:

1, wired, or bus type, this way all the control devices must be connected to the controller through the wired way, the controller terminals will be more than enough signal lines to frighten people, once encountered a problem if the logo is not clear will be difficult to troubleshooting and wiring costs are high, inconvenient to maintain, Inconvenience of remodeling is also its shortcomings.

Of course, this is not to say that wired is useless, if the design of the new house at the beginning of the reserved pipeline, many problems can be avoided, and it is super stable performance is also a wireless type of advantages can never be surpassed.

So if customers like super stable performance and don't mind the wired approach, then the wired type can still be considered! And even if it's a fully wireless smart home system, it's not exactly as they advertised that you don't need a single wire, there are still many places that need to be wired, such as power cables, audio cables, and so on, and there's no smart home brand that dares to say that it doesn't need any wiring at all.

2, the other is wireless, wireless transmission is infrared, bluetooth, wifi, radio frequency, zigbee, power carrier, etc., each transmission method has its advantages and disadvantages:

Infrared is the most commonly used and most economical short-range wireless transmission, such as televisions, DVD players, air conditioning and other equipment are used in the infrared control, but infrared equipment is linear reception, must transmitter Is a straight line to receive, must be the transmitter to the receiving device can be, can not turn, also can not penetrate, but this does not matter, through the infrared forwarding line or infrared transponder can be solved. Its most fatal drawback is that many times its signal is reversed, you can't know its status, and you can't know its real status during remote control, which is a problem that can't be solved at the moment!

Bluetooth is also a radio technology that supports short-range communication (generally within 10m) between devices, including cell phones, PDAs, wireless headsets, laptops, and other related peripherals for wireless information exchange. However, this is only point-to-point short-distance communication, and power consumption is high. In smart home applications, it can generally only be used as an auxiliary way to pass music from a cell phone and things like that, and can't be put to great use.

WIFI is a short-range wireless transmission technology that can support radio signals for Internet access within hundreds of meters. Its most important feature is that it is convenient for people to access the Internet anytime, anywhere, in the smart home network cameras, UPNP devices and all the wireless control is realized through it, so that Wifi is the most important kind of transmission. Of course, its networking expertise is relatively strong, power consumption is relatively high, which is also one of its major shortcomings.

RF, including 315M/433M/868M/915M, these wireless RF technologies are widely used in vehicle monitoring, remote control, telemetry, small wireless networks, industrial data acquisition systems, wireless labels, identification, non-contact RF, etc., our daily life in contact with the shaker in addition to infrared is the RF, electric curtains, garage doors, car Shake control, etc. are radio frequency, especially in the field of motor control is very wide, and so many years down, the technology is also quite mature, is a wireless smart home in one of the most mainstream control methods, but because it is point to point, networking is not very flexible, of course, this can be solved by increasing the way of the repeater, and in addition, it is relatively slow transmission is also a big disadvantage.

Zigbee is the common name for the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol, a short-range, low-power wireless communication technology. It is characterized by proximity, self-organizing network, low power consumption, low data rate, the transmission speed is much faster than the traditional radio frequency, especially worth mentioning its self-organizing network function, each device is both a transmitter and receiver, and each other can also be transmitted, so as to build a large-scale network, become a high-end transmission method in the smart home. However, in ordinary homes, because most of the equipment is fixed after installation, so its self-organizing network advantage does not come in handy, and ordinary homes do not have so many devices, unless it is to build a large-scale smart community, so at this stage it is not particularly obvious that this advantage. zigbee as a kind of radio wave, it can not break through the characteristics of the radio wave. 2.4G radio wave In the transmission process, the rate is high, the loss is small, but the penetration ability is poor, and there is a strong directional requirement. That is to say, in the environment without obstacles, Zigbee is still very advantageous, but in the environment with obstacles, Zigbee's electric wave will be blocked in part, resulting in poor signal, and in reality, the open space is actually very difficult to find, which is also an important reason why Zigbee technology can not replace the traditional radio frequency. In addition authentic Zigbee module cost is very high, the price is also a factor limiting its development;

Electric power carrier through the PLC protocol control signal using the original power line propagation of the communication mode, more affordable , without the need to increase the cost of wiring, but subject to fluctuations in our national grid, access to the dry noise is more and did not carry out a better suppression of the long-distance transmission, Poor contact or slight leakage will lead to signal weakening, in addition to large-screen televisions, computers and other home appliances have the ability to absorb the X-10f carrier signal, which will lead to its signal failure, which is also the power carrier for a long time can not be vigorously promoted in the country's reasons.

Two, understand the above smart home application methods, the next to come to understand the user's needs, these points are very important.

At this stage, in addition to the north of the country, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, such a large city, the concept of smart home elsewhere is still in the middle and late stage of the introduction phase, the majority of people choose to use smart home value, that is, to really bring their own life what to improve, because no one wants to move the smart home home as a furnishing. So in the consumer demand-oriented smart home market, the function has become the decisive factor to dominate the next step of the development of the whole industry.

From the market survey, we know that the top three smart home features that consumers value most are: security and anti-theft, entertainment and leisure, and convenient and efficient home life. At this stage, who can interpret these functions to the extreme, who will be able to obtain the favor of the market!

Safety and anti-theft essential

Safety first in all things" is a common saying often recited by the people. From the ancient latch, to the modern security door, is an essential part of family security. Now the smart home into people's lives, security and anti-theft is still the first problem to be solved. Family intelligent security system is very good to assume the function of security and anti-theft, with a full range of intelligent security system, for the home to build an invisible "steel wall". So when choosing a smart home brand, you must focus on the stability of its security part.

Entertainment and leisure needs

When the sense of security has been satisfied, people's entertainment and leisure needs should be born. To make life easier and more enjoyable, a smart home entertainment system is definitely the way to go! That requires a smart home system that can highly integrate existing entertainment devices, which can be easily manipulated, allowing consumers to easily enjoy the convenience of high technology.

Convenience and efficiency are the icing on the cake

Safety is guaranteed, and the needs of family entertainment are fully met, life is still about returning to its most genuine aspects, i.e. convenience, comfort and efficiency. Smart home through the family networking, the realization of automatic control of home equipment, with simple operation, to achieve integrated management of the home, whether it is air conditioning, television or lights, curtains, rice cookers, water heaters, can be realized in one key control and remote control, for smart life to add flowers.

In addition to these essential features, some other fancy features, sometimes just a vase, not very practical, only those high-end people in order to reflect the noble status and need to use.

Three, a true understanding of the characteristics of the smart home brand, which is particularly important for the franchisee

For the first time in this line of friends, first of all, you have to choose according to the local consumption level of the brand suitable for the local market price, to their own ready to sell the product to do a positioning, is ready to do high-end villa row houses, or to do a relatively ordinary neighborhood suites? If you position yourself very high at once, then you have to do a good job for a long time to prepare for the empty guard. It is recommended that the franchisee can choose a few more varieties of grade brand, so that customers also have more choices.

The stability of product performance, which is overwhelming, the performance is not stable, and then cheap is useless, we must know that customers who can afford to buy a smart home they do not care about a few dollars cheaper, they want a kind of comfort and convenience, if your product performance is not stable, often the situation, then not only they will be annoyed, you as a franchisee, but also be annoyed by them, because you are not to put the product Sell out on the finish, you are also responsible for the follow-up maintenance it!

Manufacturers to develop the price system is very important, some manufacturers, in order to expand the market share of their products, the market price of the product is high, the franchisee's discounts to the low, but also to give you a high rebate, it looks very tempting, in practice it is impossible to go to the market price of the sale, as if the stalls on the clothes of the price tag , people will not believe it for a long time, so that the franchisee is very passive. Franchisees are very passive. And you this side of 20% off, where he hit 70% off, and even some brand manufacturers do not manage their own dealers, the product is released on the electronic marketing platform, the price is so transparent hanging online, imagine this way you join what profit can be said?

The strength of the manufacturer and the follow-up technical support is very important, and then the good smart home products, ultimately, are electronic products, it is difficult to guarantee that it is not any problem in the process of prolonged use, the problem is not terrible, the terrible thing is that there is no professional technical support, you don't know where the problem is? Imagine if you encounter such a product and company, how do you still develop customers in the future?

Additionally, to be realistic, the overall quality of the domestic brand is still not hard, although there is no lack of real heart to do the national brand, but in terms of technology, the overall is still slightly inferior. If possible, choose some foreign brands on product quality will be more certain!