Smart Home Standards

Standards are the world, so smart home standards have been hot pursuit. Recently, the China Smart Home Industry Alliance officially released the "Smart Home Products Interoperability Middleware Technical Standards." It is understood that the standard is based on the development of interconnection and interoperability, and is drafted in accordance with the rules of the China Smart Home Industry Alliance to regulate the data exchange between the sub-gateways and the main gateways of various equipment manufacturers in order to promote the interconnection of smart homes. , and claimed to be the first alliance standard in China's smart home industry. Some people say that the development of smart homes lacks a unified standard of Dongfeng, and China Smart Home Industry Alliance has also implemented smart home standards. Where will China's smart home industry go?

Still the classic question, the China Smart Home Industry Alliance has implemented smart home standards. Why should we say "yet"? Do not misunderstand, not China's smart home industry alliance has engaged in smart home standards before, but before there are many alliances engaged in a variety of standards, China's smart home industry alliance and a whole.

Before the China Smart Home Industry Alliance's "Smart Home Products Interoperability Middleware Technical Standards", the WIFI Alliance, the Bluetooth Technology Alliance, the ZIGBEE Alliance, and the Z-WAVE Alliance have long been alive in the smart industry and later came again. The enocean alliance is also the master of establishing wireless communication technology standards. The AllSeen Alliance goal that Microsoft announced last week was to join in the development of a unified industry standard for smart home devices, followed by an attack by the Intel-led Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) to achieve mutual discovery, connectivity, and interoperability.

In fact, some of this is not counted. For example, in order to supplement existing smart home communication standards, companies such as Nest and Samsung have introduced the smart home network standard Thread; Apple Inc. has introduced the smart home automation kit standard implied by Homekit; China's well-known smart home enterprises Sensing SMARTROOM, a new standard protocol developed by the company; New York startup Quirky and GE have developed a box that also integrates multiple communication protocols. It is fully compatible with various types of smart homes, and so on.

Similar to the previous standard of the alliance, the China Smart Home Industry Alliance introduced the standard, saying that it is “to further standardize the data interaction between the sub-gateway and the main gateway of each device manufacturer and define the relationship between the main gateway and the sub-gateway. Communication is used to realize the control, status acquisition, and device event release between the various subsystems and the application formed on this basis.", "The equipment supplier does not have to change the existing equipment, only the original gateway is modified according to this standard." Part of the software will be able to interconnect and unify the devices.” Sounding a good solution, this standard at least provides a solution that is difficult to integrate with multiple technologies in the smart home, but whether it can truly achieve a unified smart home standard?

In fact, according to the relevant description is not difficult to find, this standard has important significance, at least for the alliance is very important. Its greater role is to provide other companies with a choice of "teams" that other coalitions will have to "acquire more smart home companies, smart home appliances companies, and smart hardware Internet companies that want to participate in the 'interconnection and interconnection' work. Wait". However, after all, it is achieved in the framework of the alliance to achieve "easy integration, simple installation, stable control," smart home solutions, without entering the alliance can not have this benefit, to achieve "so that the alliance standard can promote smart home It is only a good vision to make positive contributions to the healthy and orderly development of the industry.

It is worth noting that although China Smart Home Industry Alliance is a voluntary, self-disciplined, non-profit social organization, its influence is still limited. It is currently unknown whether it can promote the industry. On the one hand, it is not an official and authoritative organization. On the other hand, many foreign coalitions have already reached the mainland. On the team side, instead of choosing to work together with the domestic companies within the alliance to pursue standards, it seems that it is not as loud as fighting with the big names in the world. The foreign alliance is also the same as the two hands. How can the standard of smart home be unified? It is estimated that the smart home standard will be yellow again.