Giant technology giant get together intelligent speaker industry first appeared in the Internet all charm

With the progress of the times, the number of smart devices in consumers' homes is increasing. Therefore, in daily life, a great variety of electronic devices are required. Each device has unique attributes, so that more and more electronic devices slowly become The burden of consumers in their daily lives.

Giant technology giant get together intelligent speaker industry first appeared in the Internet all charm

In response to this phenomenon, Samsung at the just-concluded 2018CES show, released a series of new vision of the Internet of Things, such as seamless connectivity, everything connected. Samsung hopes to connect all the home appliances through the open internet of things platform SmartThings, opening up a whole new era of "all things connected". As the name suggests, more and more things, people, data and the Internet are linked through the "Internet of Everything", and all the connected products are controlled through an entrance to simplify everything.

In the "Internet of Everything" entrance on this point, louder voice carrier are smart TVs, smart speakers and smart phones. In contrast, smart TV is not suitable, although smart TVs are commonly used electronic devices at home, but the main function of the television is to provide viewing experience, and can not be turned on 24 hours a day, as family and other smart devices interactive entrance. Moreover, the interaction of the smart TV is mainly the interaction between the consumer and the television content, such as voice shutdown, volume adjustment, search for video content and the like.

In contrast, the voice of the same high smartphone, "Internet of things," the Internet of things era, mobile phones can interact through interactive voice of the family's IoT ecosystem. But for the smart home, just using the mobile app to complete the control is not fully consistent with the final concept of the Internet of Things. Currently, there is no Internet of Things that can control everything in your home through your mobile phone. Take Gree mobile phones for example. Gree released the "cell phone WiFi control" technology that controls air conditioners directly through WiFi. However, some Gree devices except air conditioners can be controlled by Gree mobile phones , There are a lot of smart devices can not be associated with it.

There are not many existing cases of mobile phone as an Internet of Everything. Apple Homeki smart home plans to do more successful, but this requires at least two Apple devices as a control center, but also need to replace the expensive Apple peripheral smart devices, the cost is huge. In addition, although the phone can carry, and can not be on standby, after all, no "Siri" in the pants pocket to communicate with the user.

Similar to the Homeki smart home plan, Lenovo also announced the smart home plan in May last year, but the control center is not a mobile phone. According to Jia Zhaohui, vice president of Lenovo, Lenovo invested more than 10 billion yuan in this year, in the hope of building common use Affordable product. But before the smart home program was released, the reason why it was released first was because it was most likely to become the "gateway" to smart home. Jia Zhaohui also introduced that, as a variety of intelligent terminal entrance, it connects many users' equipment, intelligent speaker as IoT control center, will access to more non-Lenovo devices.

According to the data, in 2016, domestic smart speaker sales 60,000 units, from January to August 2017 a total of over 100,000 units sold, the annual sales of smart speakers in 350,000 units, and according to the relevant data to predict domestic smart speakers this year Sales will grow to 1.2 million units, global sales will reach 56.3 million units. Intelligent speakers from the very beginning nobody cares about the sharp increase in recent years, consumers continue to accept smart speakers, enjoy the "all things connected" strong evidence of the times, which also let the technology giants have seen new business opportunities. In the fierce competition from many manufacturers, smart speakers will certainly speed up into the ordinary users, but also allow people for the "everything is interconnected," the future has been more intense expectations.