In the era of the Internet of Things, the contradiction between the systematization requirements and the fragmentation status directly gave birth to the smart home platform. Through the smart home platform, everyone hopes to solve the compatibility problem, connect more intelligent products, and finally realize the so-called "Internet of Everything". However, with the participation of many world-renowned companies, the platform has become another competitive focus after the single product and system in the smart home field.
The iOS10 system push, WWDC (Apple Global Developers Conference) debut Apple's smart home application Home officially came out, once again pushed the smart home platform to the public, and will cause a new round of platform competition. In the end who can stand out in the big battle, let's compare the five smart home platforms.
HomeKitApple's smart home platform was released at WWDC2014. Homekit is not the earliest smart home platform, but it is the hottest, but also brought a group of "apprentices", such as Ali Xiaozhi, Jingdong Weilian and so on. The main feature of Homekit is that it is rooted in Apple's iOS system. The model relies on hardware advantages such as Apple's iPhone/iPad to attract hardware access from third-party hardware vendors, enabling end consumers to use this platform to manage other hardware.
Today's Homekit has been turned into Home with iOS10. In addition to supporting Siri voice control, it also adds some nice and excellent interaction methods, such as the use of 3D Touch callout panel in the lock screen state. However, the shortcomings of Home are also obvious, limited by the mobile phone system, users can not use Home through Android, it is difficult to draw Android phone users. In other words, Apple's smart home platform is likely to "come the iPhone, defeat the iPhone."
Nest is a Google brand and was acquired by Google in January 2014 for $3.2 billion. Originally, Nest was a startup with only two smart items, and Google's acquisition accelerated the platform transformation. Shortly after the release of Homekit, Nest announced that it would allow third-party companies to access its devices and communicate with them. Companies such as washing machine and dryer manufacturer Whirlpool, remote garage door opener maker Chamberlain, etc. all participated in Nest. Collaboration plan.
Moving from a single product to a platform and then working with third-party vendors is undoubtedly successful for Google and is already compatible with many hardware. But unfortunately, in the process of development, Nest itself has a lot of problems, the aura of the previous product is slowly faded, and the platform is not well known. In comparison, Google Home is more important than Google, and it is the main direction of Google Smart Home.
From a platform perspective, SmartThings is earlier than Homekit and Nest, but it's really familiar to the industry, but it's even later. SmartThings has received a lot of attention. Similar to Nest, it was also acquired by the giants, but Samsung is spending $200 million. After being part of Samsung, SmartThings has maintained its independent operation and has achieved rapid development. It has become a board member of the two IoT standards organizations of the Z-Wave Alliance and the ZigBee Alliance.
SmartThings is mainly positioned as the Samsung smart home platform. Unlike other platforms, its key is the built-in Z-Wave and ZigBee communication modules, which are mainly used to be compatible with devices based on these two types of communication. Currently, there are two main types of equipment running on SmartThings. One is the company's own five components, such as MulTI multi-purpose sensor, MoTIon motion sensor, Moisture humidity sensor, etc., and is seeking to cooperate with third parties.
HiLink is a smart home open interconnection platform developed by Huawei. It was officially launched on the second anniversary of the glory last year.
The purpose is to solve the problem of interconnection and interaction between intelligent terminals, and the function is mainly to connect devices based on different protocols. The core of HiLink is the HiLink protocol, which Huawei defines as "Mandarin" between smart homes for connecting smart home devices based on WiFi, ZigBee, Z-Wave and other standards.
From the model point of view, HiLink and Homekit are not much different, and also cooperate with third parties to provide consumers with intelligent products and services, but HiLink pays more attention to connectivity and emphasizes solving problems in industry development. However, on the platform side, Huawei is not as clear as Apple. Although it can realize some equipment interconnection, it is not universal, and the whole is not grounded, and there are still technical concept attributes.
Wlink Wanlian platform is a platform launched by AW in China's Internet of Things innovation company Wulian this year. Wulian mainly focused on wireless smart home devices and solutions based on ZigBee technology, and established a certain reputation in the industry with a complete terminal equipment system. The launch of Wlink indicates that Wulian has also officially joined the smart home platform battle.
The main feature of the Wlink platform is that the platform itself has a lot of hardware products, and then attracts traditional manufacturers and single-product manufacturers to join in a cooperative manner. In addition, Wlink has a unique point, and proposed the concept of super gateway. This gateway can not only connect enough devices, but also connect systems and systems, homes and families, hotels and hotels, communities and communities, and intelligence in public places. Chemistry plays an important role. However, this still requires further advancement of Wulian's smart products and cooperation with partners in other fields.
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