In 2014, it was a smart home year, and the media was full of smart homes, WiFi cameras, Internet access sockets, etc. Looks like the media is very hot, but there is less actual purchase. Users are not willing to spend a lot of time and money, go to buy a less necessary product. At present, domestic intelligent home is in an emerging stage. Whether it is Internet company, traditional home appliance manufacturers and entrepreneurial teams want to "fly" this stock. But who flew to the end, still unknown. The author believes that it can use open source hardware DIY way to alleviate the current pattern.
Internet giant - there is a platform, no application
The major foundation net giants have been involved in the field of Internet of Things, attempting to apply their extensive user groups, cloud services, software development and media advantages, and create routers into a central control platform for smart homes. Through the open interface, a large group of small and medium-sized manufacturers have developed smart home. Unfortunately, everyone has their own abacus, leading to home applications to talk on the stage. And those brand appliances are not willing to do intelligent route accessories. Therefore, the consumer has not purchased a smart home product of a collection and practical use.
So the smart router is best to open the API to open source hardware players, let the enthusiasts DIY more interesting gameplay. There are more players, there are more applications, naturally there will be many applications evolved into a product. And this kind of gameplay has the innate entertainment and the masses, and how does the smart route do not have a peripheral hardware?
Traditional brand appliances - too slow change, can't grasp the pain of consumers
The traditional home appliance giant is in the battle of the Internet of Things, the most important thing is to find a platform for yourself. Since there are even self-bucing platforms such as Haier, beautiful. Although the hardware innovation is very important, the added value is mainly produced in software, which is the background service of the Internet of Things. Therefore, the cloud platform for smart home is a military person. However, for SME, the competition between the platform seems to be inserted, it is better to develop smart products that cater to the current demand. At this time, you can fully understand the new Internet of Things technology through open source hardware, greatly reduce the cost and time of R & D. The initial prototype can even verify market prospects through fan communities or crowdfunding forms to help improve prototypes. Quickly put the market, and profit, is the way of survival of small companies. It can be seen that open source hardware can help small and medium manufacturers shorten product development time and cost.
Lovers - the true master of smart home
If you have the spirit of DIY, you don't want to use the manufacturer to die, you can customize a set of smart home through open source hardware. In this event, you can find a lot of information and hardware resources in this era of open source. Moreover, ordinary smart home features can be implemented by open source hardware. For example, the latest WIDO WiFi Internet of Things controller for DFRobot can collect information from the sensor to the cloud, which remotely controls the operation of other home appliances. Actual operation just knows the basic usage of Arduino and the HACK tutorial of ordinary appliances. In addition, since the TI CC3000 WiFi scheme is used, WIDO will have productive potential. Open source hardware vendors like DFROBOT have encouraged the transformation of the work, and even provide massive services. So the top of the pyramid of the Painted Vacancy Ecology is actually a startup company.
Where is the smart home industry? From the perspective of hardware and universities, the author is difficult. But there will always be several cost performance to meet the consumer needs. Buyers can buy it with an eager to buy, and can buy a performance-stable product. Hardware prices will always get less and lower, we need to see who's software added value. Or, you are not satisfied with the manufacturers, then learn to make a guest, do it yourself.
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