HC hearing things smart home market has yet to take off in 2017, three years after the listing of Google's Nest almost no scenery, the former star product, is seen as the core of intelligent home, now become Google's tasteless. Amazon's Echo has also been on the market for three years, with shipments exceeding five million, and is still not recognized by the industry as the entrance or core of smart homes. The smart home market is getting harder and harder to do, which is the fact that many startups face.

The smart home market has not yet taken off in 2017. After three years of listing, GoogleNest is almost no longer a sight. It was once regarded as the star product of the smart home core, and now it is Google's tasteless. Amazon Echo has been on the market for three years and shipped more than five million. It is still not recognized by the industry as the entry or core of smart homes. The smart home market is getting harder and harder to do, which is the fact that many startups face.

Ultraloq smart lock on crowdfunding website indeagogo

What happened to the smart home industry? Google, Apple, Amazon, Hwawei, Samsung and other giants have made huge investments in this, not only the products of the master, but also the special software system, but still not improving. The smart home market is still not up. What is the reason? Isn't it a rigid demand or is it not enough for consumers?

A friend of mine (slightly) told me that he spent nearly 200,000 yuan to install a full set of smart homes in the Shenzhen complex of nearly 300 pings, including smart curtains, smart door locks, intelligent monitoring, and intelligence. Air conditioning, smart lighting, etc., can be installed anyway. After all, it is a house with a total price of nearly 10 million yuan. For him, this money is nothing.

I asked him what he thought was easy to use? He said smart curtains, lazy people like it most. There are so many curtains in the house, he usually lives alone, and he has to pull up trouble every morning and evening. Also, he said that smart locks are convenient. Because he is often outside, there is an assistant who specializes in the house to come to the door. The smart lock solves the problem of inconvenient handing over the keys when going out.

In short, for this single rich friend, the convenience brought by smart home far exceeds expectations. He even felt that it would be inconvenient to have these products.

Maybe a person's habit does not mean anything. For the house where I live in this house, there is not much money for a home economy man. If you buy a new car, you can’t afford a budget of 200,000 yuan. You certainly won’t think it’s a matter of pulling a curtain. His answer is just to make me think that smart home is a class market. Although smart home can serve all the public, the rigidity of different services for these services is completely different. Now it's not a smartphone, it's not a wireless network, it's not a sunny market.

Some new voices in the industry believe that fingerprint locks are the rigid demand of future homes and will become the entrance to smart homes. I searched for smart homes on industry crowdfunding sites (such as Indiegogo), and I saw a number of fingerprint smart locks or smart locks. There are data showing the civilian market, the penetration rate of smart locks in Korea is 80%, that in Europe and America is 50%, and the penetration rate of Chinese households is less than 2%, indicating that there is still huge market space for smart locks in China.

Smart locks provide access to people entering or leaving the home or room, and are also the only identifying identity for identity. As long as the door is locked through the smart lock, the smart home system knows who is entering the door. What is this person's habit of lighting, music, TV programs, indoor temperature or curtain opening, and gradually forms a pattern. This is far more straightforward than other accounts that need to be entered first.

Will smart fingerprint locks be the entrance to smart homes?

Of course, smart locks have to be the core or entrance to smart homes, and there is still a long way to go. For example, it does not have an operating system itself, and there is no industry standard. Even if it is a fingerprint identification module, the technology is constantly being upgraded to prevent security breaches. It also needs to be more energy efficient, and even the technology that does not require battery replacement is evolving.

In addition, for the demand for fingerprint smart locks, although the Chinese market seems to have a lot of space, according to industry sources, the most meaningful smart lock application may not be in the family, but in the office field. In today's more and more office buildings, fingerprint recognition is used as access control and attendance. Most of these access control adopts the first generation of fingerprint identification. Because it is easy to be modeled or captured by the minded person, most of the time. Can only be used as an attendance system, and can not replace the physical door lock as a security door.

With the upgrade of the new smart fingerprint door lock technology, the identification of living fingerprints has been added. It is located in the core office area of ​​the enterprise. The president, finance, designer, research and development personnel, etc. are identified by fingerprint locks, far more than wireless door cards or Key entry and exit is safer and more efficient. Whether the smart home market should go first from the office market is already a topic worth exploring.

Finally, it is said that the fingerprint chip manufacturers in the smart phone industry have to enter the smart home market. I don’t know what impact this will have on the industry.

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