The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming every corner of life, especially in the home—home appliances and IoT devices allow us to control door locks, lights, and appliances more intelligently, connecting our personal lives with external systems and environments. When the most popular voice assistant function is further added, the development of "smart home" in 2018 is expected to be further improved. Although Smart Home has been a topic that has been developing for a long time, the market development does not seem to have explosive growth. However, after joining the voice assistant, the development of Smart Home in 2018 is expected to be higher. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018, major manufacturers such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, LG, Haier, etc. manufacture services or home appliances Industry players have allied themselves with each other and exhibited the latest smart home products. It is worth noting that after intelligent voice assistants and smart home appliances are gradually fermented in 2017, in 2018, more applications and systems using intelligent voice assistants will really appear around life, injecting more powerful development for the smart home market. kinetic energy. Voice control injects live water into the smart home market From this year's CES observation, smart homes are still the main development goals of related companies. According to the survey statistics of the city survey unit, by 2025, 10% of households in the world will be called smart homes. The market output value created by smart homes, according to the GfK report, reached USD 48.5 billion in 2015, and then the growth trend gradually slowed down. It is expected to maintain a growth rate of approximately USD 8 billion per year. The market size in 2018 is expected to reach USD 71 billion. In terms of the output value of smart home devices alone, if large appliances such as home appliances are not included, the turnover of smart home devices will grow to US $ 9.5 billion by 2021. In addition, according to the statistics of the smart home laboratory lecturer Lin Youqi quoted by foreign market survey agencies, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of smart homes will reach 50% between 2015 and 2020. The Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan also estimates that if 8 million households in Taiwan are used and the penetration rate is 25%, the monthly expenditure is 2,000 yuan. It is expected that the annual output value of Taiwan ’s smart home services in 110 years will reach NTD 48 billion. These growth estimates may be quite attractive to relevant players. However, in order for smart homes to continue to grow, the high-profile voice control in recent years has been a major contributor. Although the concept of voice assistant was initiated by Siri in Apple ’s smartphones, the Amazon Echo smart speaker is the fastest way to get out of the phone, allowing the voice assistant to “glow and heat†in the smart home, forcing Google and Apple Follow up one after another to strengthen its market share and position in the smart home market. Therefore, it can be said that the new wave of the smart home market is triggered by voice control. Zhang Bowei, CEO of Link of Things, said that it is quite difficult for the elderly or heavy users of non-smart devices to spend time understanding or operating mobile phone applications (Apps) or home control panels. Through voice, commands can be issued more directly, and the operation is relatively simple. Therefore, not only smart home-related manufacturers are optimistic about the development of voice control in smart homes, but other application areas, including automotive, indoor positioning ... etc. Controlling this existing technology, but only recently has more room for technology. Operation architecture of smart home voice control (Source: Boyun Intelligence) In contrast, due to the intuitive and easy-to-use features of voice control, consumers are more urged to introduce smart homes. In addition, Amazon sold Echo smart speakers to its PRIME members of e-commerce through low-cost subsidies. Although it is to create a new online shopping experience, it also promotes the development of smart homes. In other words, whether it is Google, Apple or Microsoft (Microsoft) and other platform operators, through voice control technology, more types of smart devices can achieve a greater position in the living space at home, allowing more Internet of Things (IoT) ) The device is easier to enter the field of home, so the application of voice assistant not only brings more surprises to family life, but also drives smart home to make more obvious progress in 2018. Therefore, at CES 2018, we can see that more home appliances, alarm clocks or other products are not only connected to the Internet, but also have features that can be controlled through Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri. Moshe Sheier, director of marketing strategy at CEVA, said that voice is the most natural human-machine interface. It can perform hands-free operations that touch and gestures cannot, so it is an ideal way to control smart home devices. In addition, compared with a busy office or a noisy street, the home is a fairly private, quiet and narrow place, so it is also more suitable for the use of voice control environment, so it is logical to adopt voice control in the home . The most popular smart home voice control devices today are smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo or Google Home, and cloud virtual assistants used to control smart home devices. By connecting smart speakers to other smart home devices, you can achieve voice control of multiple devices, such as providing voice commands, such as "Alexa, please Blink to activate my home's security system." Therefore, a smart smart speaker can be used as private audio With the housekeeper as the starting point, smart homes will be more convenient and may be more "personalized" in the future. However, even if the voice assistant is expected to inject new development momentum into the smart home, can voice control alone keep the development of the smart home prosperous? Of course it will not be so easy. Standardization is essential Why did smart homes fail to grow significantly before? Chen Junzhi, Nordic Semiconductor ’s regional business manager, said that even if the previous industry generally believed that as long as the device is connected to the network, it will inevitably lead to the growth of smart homes, but in fact, smart homes can not "connect and wait for the revenue to roll over" without the devices connected Behind involves many related problems arising from the Internet. Sheier believes that the current smart home device is a single-point device with built-in smart functions into the device itself, which can be called "edge computing" (Edge compuTIng) or combines the intelligence and analysis functions provided by the cloud system software. Popular smart home devices are new versions of traditional household products connected to the Internet, such as thermostats, lighting, garage door remote controls and door locks. However, most of these existing devices are scattered today. Although they are all in the same wireless network, they are not connected to each other. In other words, there are hundreds of networking technologies, which one is most suitable? The various operators naturally have the "best candidate" in mind, but the network technology is not the same, and the products cannot communicate with each other, and even the cloud system cannot be shared. The result of "separate politics" leads to inconvenience for consumers and reduces their willingness to use. . Not only that, there is no common cloud service standard for smart homes as a whole, which can be pursued by the industry. Terminal manufacturers must follow the footsteps of cloud service providers and related manufacturers of Netcom products to produce products that can be used in the market. However, to the industry ’s comfort, the only smart home cloud services currently on the market are Apple, Google, and Amaon. The financially powerful companies can support the three smart companies ’own smart home standards in their products, but Companies with less financial resources can only rely on extraordinary "inspiration" to choose a bet. There is no device connected to a complete smart home network, no single Netcom product can be connected to a single cloud for control or information analysis. Consumers may have to download an application for products from different manufacturers on their mobile phones, or You have to put remotes of different brands in your home, and every time you use it, you have to "guess" whether to open the right application or get the right remote. If it is you, can such a smart home use environment be accepted? Consumers do not want to use smart home products, and the market development of smart homes is naturally uninviting. But in 2018 the situation has begun to change. Hundred Flowers Qifang Communication Technology Standards Are Converging Wang Yunlong, Chief Technology Officer of Boyun, pointed out that smart homes must develop in a timely and harmonious manner, that is, the overall ecosystem, connected devices and cloud services must be relatively mature, and unified standards are needed to eliminate incompatibilities. In order to overcome the barriers to entry, simple installation steps, and enhance the consumer's experience, it can be carried out better. Prior to this, smart home appliances can be connected through cloud services, but this is not a 100% solution. Fortunately, major manufacturers have begun standard integration work, which is expected to accelerate the solution of smart home networking devices. Incompatible issues. Chen Junzhi believes that in 2018, the communication standard for smart homes in full bloom will not only slowly converge to several mainstream technologies, such as Bluetooth (Bluetooth), Thread, ZigBee, or Wi-Fi ... etc., but will also be able to support multiple Standard single device. In this way, on the one hand, the complexity of product design can be reduced, the products of various manufacturers can be further compatible, and the gateway between the device and the cloud can be eliminated. Chen Junzhi explained that the so-called letting the gateway disappear, for example, ZigBee is not built in the mobile phone, if you want to control the ZigBee lamps built in your home through your mobile phone, or when the data of the ZigBee lamps need to be transmitted to the cloud, you need to pass The additional gateway serves as an intermediary. If a single device supports multiple standards, it means that the device itself can select the corresponding technology according to the work to be performed, such as controlling through ZigBee, switching to Bluetooth when connecting to the mobile phone to upload data to the cloud, there is no need to Through the gateway, users can also use it more easily, and it can also be easier when building a smart home system. The industry generally believes that the current lighting control part has adopted ZigBee as a bulk; and if it needs to be connected via mobile phone, it is mainly Bluetooth. Xie Jingxiang, senior technical marketing engineer for analog, micro-electromechanical and sensing components in ST Asia Pacific of STMicroelectronics, said that observing the development of smart home networking devices at this stage, Bluetooth 5.0 can be found due to its mesh and low The characteristics of power consumption have a trend that will later prevail, and the proportion of Bluetooth 5.0 built in smart home devices will gradually increase in the future. This is not to say that other short-range and low-power communication technologies will be completely excluded, but that the most suitable communication technologies will appear in different usage environments and gradually converge to only a few mainstream wireless technologies, which is echoing A single device in a smart home supports the development trend of multiple wireless standards. And this also shows the industry ’s ideas, there are so many technologies, and there are many supporters. 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