Smart home market covering all the traditional weak industry attractive prospects for development
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Smart home concept originated very early, but has no specific construction cases appear until 1984, United Technologies (United Technologies Building System) will be construction equipment information, integration of concepts to Connecticut, USA (Connecticut) Hart When the Buddha City (Hartford) The City Place Building, there came the first buildings "smart buildings", from around the world opened a competing faction prelude to build smart home. Smart Home is under the impact of the Internet of Things of expression. Smart home networking technology through a variety of devices in the home (such as audio and video equipment, lighting systems, curtain control, air conditioning control, security systems, digital cinema systems, video servers, shadow cabinet systems, network appliances, etc.) connected together to provide appliance control, lighting control, telephone remote control, indoor and outdoor remote control, anti-theft alarm, environmental monitoring, HVAC control, infrared repeater and programmable timing control and other functions and tools. According to Chilean Institute observed, compared with ordinary home, smart home features not only traditional residential function, both construction, network communications, information appliances, automation equipment, to provide comprehensive information exchange capabilities, and even save money for a variety of energy costs ???
First, home automation (Home Automation)
Home automation refers to the use of electronic micro-processing technology, to integrate or control home electronic products or systems, such as: lighting, coffee maker, computer equipment, security systems, heating and air conditioning systems, video and audio systems. Home automation system is mainly based on a central microprocessor (Central Processor Unit, CPU) receive messages from the associated electrical and electronic products (changes in environmental factors, such as the light changes and so the sun rises or sets in the west caused, etc.), the then established procedures to send the appropriate information to other electronic products. Central microprocessor must control home appliances through many interfaces that may be a keyboard, it can be a touch screen, buttons, computer, telephone, remote control; consumers can send signals to the central microprocessor machines, or receive signals from the central microprocessor.
Home automation is an important system, smart home, smart home when first appeared, even the equivalent of home automation smart home, today it is still one of the core of the intelligent home, but with the network technology has widespread application of smart home, network appliances / information appliances mature, many home automation product features will be integrated into these new products go, so that a simple home automation products less and less in the system design, its central position also will be a home network / home information systems instead. It will serve as a home network control network part to play a role in the smart home. The most famous home automation system for America's X-10.
Second, the home network (Homenetworking)
First we take this home network and purely "home network" to separate, we will mention "home LAN / home network," the name in the book, it is the connection of the family PC, all kinds of outside located and interconnected networks and the Internet, it's just an integral part of the home network. Home network is within the family range (expandable to neighbors, community) will PC, home appliances, security systems, lighting systems and a wide area network with a new technology connection. Current connection technology used in the home network can be divided into "wired" and "wireless" in two categories. Cable programs include: twisted pair or coaxial cable, telephone cable, power cable and so on; wireless solution include: infrared connection, radio connection, connection-based RF technology and PC-based wireless connectivity.
Compared to the traditional family network office networks, adding a lot of family applications and systems, such as appliances, lighting systems, and therefore appropriate technical standards are complex, there is also involved in many well-known benefits of network manufacturers and appliance manufacturers We as detailed in smart home technology in a variety of technical standards will be a chapter. According to observation, the development trend of home networks is the smart home integration into other systems, and ultimately dominate the world.
Third, network appliances
Network Appliance is a common household appliances use digital technology, network technology and intelligent control technology designed to improve the new appliances. Network Appliance can be interconnected to form a home network, while the home network and can be connected to the external Internet. Visible, Network Appliance technology consists of two levels: the first is the interconnection between the appliance, which is so different appliances can recognize each other and work together. The second level is to solve the communication appliance and external network, so that the family truly become an extension of the network appliance to external networks.
To achieve interconnection and exchange of information between appliances, we need to address:
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????1, describing the operating characteristics of household appliances product model, making the exchange of data having a specific meaning;
????2, information transmission network media. Network media in addressing this difficulty, you can select the program are: power lines, radio frequency, twisted pair, coaxial cable, infrared, optical fiber. For consulting network that feasible network appliances including refrigerators network, the network air conditioning, washing machine network, network water heaters, microwave network, network cookers. The future direction of network appliances is fully integrated into the family networks.
Fourth, information appliances (3C or IA)
Information appliances should be an inexpensive, simple, practical, home appliances with a PC main functions. The use of computers, telecommunications and electronic technology and traditional home appliances (including white goods: refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens and black appliances: TV, VCR, stereo, VCD, DVD, etc.) with a combination of innovative products, is digitized and network technology More broadly in-depth design of the new family life and home appliances, information appliances including PC, set-top boxes, HPC, DVD, super VCD, wireless data communications equipment, video game equipment, WEBTV, INTERNET phone, etc., all can exchange information through the network system home appliances, can be called information appliances. Audio, video and communications equipment is a major component of information appliances. On the other hand, on the basis of traditional home appliances, information technology into the traditional home appliances which make it more powerful, easier to use, convenient and practical, creating a higher quality of living environment for family life. For example, the development of analog TV to digital TV, VCD into DVD, refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens, also will become digital, networked, intelligent information appliances.
From a broad classification point of view, information appliances actually contains a network of home appliances, but if narrowly defined definition, we can do a simple classification: information means more small household appliances with embedded processors (personal) information equipment, its basic features are network (mainly the Internet) are connected and there are some specific features that can be packaged product, it can also be a supporting accessories. The network appliances refers to having a network operating function appliance products, such appliances can understand that we had to upgrade ordinary household appliances.
Information appliances by the embedded processor, related support hardware (such as video cards, storage media, IC card or credit card reading device), embedded operating system and application layer software package components. According to consulting network for observation, information appliances to break out of some functions of the PC, is designed to use stronger, more appliance-based products, so that ordinary residents step into a more rapid pace of the information age, it is high performance, low Prices, features easy operation lnternet tools. The emergence of information appliances will drive the rise of the home networking market, as well as the development of home networking market, in turn, promote the spread of information appliances and in-depth applications.
to sum up:
The initial development of smart home remote control mainly in light, electrical remote control and electric blinds control-oriented, with the development of the industry, more and more intelligent control function, the control object expanding linkage scene control requirements are higher, which continue to extend to the home security alarm, background music, video intercom, fingerprint access control and other fields, we can say the smart home can cover almost all the traditional weak industry, market prospects attractive, therefore, and its industry-related brightest brands invariably increase the intensity of competition for the smart home business, market trend had become the Spring and Autumn Period.
