[Footprint of Tuya Internet of Things] Tuya Cloud Platform Panorama Introduction

In our previous article, we took the "air kiss machine" as an example to give a brief introduction to the concept and framework of the Internet of Things. If you are interested, you can click >>> "[Tuya Internet of Things Footprints] Internet of Things Basics Introduction" . In the next series of articles, we will take the "air kissing machine" as an example to talk about what development process we will go through if we want to develop a fully functional "air kissing machine" .
1. Introduction of Tuya Smart: The world is big, let's do it together!
However, before that, we first choose a cloud development platform that can help us complete the entire process of development, instead of completing hardware development on the A platform and then going to the B platform for software development. We adults, we want to "indulge in silky smoothness"~ Let’s make an evaluation of Tuya Cloud Platform~
First of all, please let our lovely Tuya Smart do a simple self-introduction: Tuya Smart is a global cloud development platform, The AI+IoT developer platform connects the intelligent needs of consumers, manufacturing brands, OEMs, and chain retailers, and provides developers with a one-stop AI IoT PaaS-level solution. It also covers three aspects of hardware development tools, global cloud, and smart business platform development, providing comprehensive ecological empowerment from technology to marketing channels, and creating a world-leading IoT OS.
Sounds a bit complicated? Look at the picture and talk: As long as the manufacturer provides the green part, we can complete the development of the blue part according to the manufacturer's needs and make the product intelligent. Simply put, as long as Howard (manufacturer) will "air kissing machine", we can complete the corresponding development according to his needs, thereby completing the intelligentization of the product, realizing the global deployment and global acceleration of the product. All in all, after Howard gave his product to us, we can help him reach the peak of his life!

Next, let’s look at a set of data: as of October 2020, Tuya’s IoT development platform has accumulated more than 230,000 registered developers, and daily voice AI interactions exceed 81 million, creating a completely neutral "AI+IoT" platform empowerment model . Powered by Tuya empowers more than 200,000 products, products and services cover more than 220 countries and regions, and radiate more than 100,000 online and offline sales channels worldwide.
"230,000 developers" is a very large number. The world is big, let’s do graffiti together~
2. Introduction of Tuya Cloud Platform: Global deployment, global acceleration, flexible expansion, data security, and openness. After a
brief introduction to Tuya Smart, let’s take a look at the capabilities and advantages of Tuya Cloud Platform.
As the title says, Tuya deploys cloud services globally and is committed to providing safe, stable, and fast cloud services to global customers. Tuya Cloud Platform has the ability to process hundreds of millions of concurrent massive data, providing users with uninterrupted computing services with a stability of up to 99.99%. Tuya integrates the global service nodes of different cloud platforms to provide users in various regions around the world with nearby access services to ensure an efficient and stable device experience.
The cloud platform provides service capabilities covering the entire life cycle of smart hardware access from product definition, simulation testing, hardware development, client development, cloud platform interaction, product testing, operation management, data analysis, etc. to client control. And these abilities are exactly the specific functions we need to complete the "air kiss machine".
Regarding the "air kissing machine", our positioning is to help couples in long distances and even heterosexuals (such as Leonard and his Indian girlfriend) to get along daily. Then the requirement for products is that they can be deployed globally; at the same time, considering the problem of high concurrency (after all, long-distance relationships are still a large group of people), we must ensure that the data can respond in a timely manner; of course, the security of the data is very important. An important part.
In this regard, the Tuya Cloud Platform has the following advantages to meet our needs one by one:
Advantages
Global deployment:
|- Wide coverage
Tuya Cloud Platform deploys data rooms in China, East America, West America, Europe, India, Hong Kong, Japan, etc. Local deployment of data acceleration services ensures high service availability. Customers' products can cover almost all cities in mainstream countries except Antarctica.
|- Multi-zone
Tuya Cloud Platform provides five available zones: China, East U.S., West U.S., Europe, and India, and automatically selects the nearest availability based on the user's geographic location, ensuring service response speed with the smallest data link.
Global Acceleration
|- High-speed network
China has in-depth cooperation with Tencent Cloud, enjoying the same level of network links as Tencent. Other countries or regions have deployed Amazon AWS cloud services, and in-depth cooperation adopts multiple computer rooms to deploy nearby services.
|- Accelerated service
Tuya cloud platform CDN accelerates coverage of more than 500 Chinese city nodes and more than 100 mainstream cities in other countries or regions. At the same time, the Tuya Cloud Platform provides different localized services such as DNS acceleration and SMS acceleration according to different operators in different regions to help Chinese companies develop their businesses in the international market.
|- Data Drift The
Tuya Cloud Platform has its own algorithm that allows Chinese companies to release global products and view global data in China, ensuring that users can use cloud services safely and stably in any country.
Elastic expansion
| - high availability
graffiti cloud platform uses a distributed micro-service architecture, which automatically according to business expansion peak. The modular architecture design enables parallel expansion and hot swap of business modules.
|- Service hot deployment
adopts a service-based code release mechanism. Even if the Tuya Cloud platform releases new functions every week, it can provide a service experience with zero interruption awareness, and the guaranteed control instructions will not be lost.
|- Mass data
Tuya cloud platform core R&D team has a rich mass service architecture and processing capabilities. At present, Tuya Cloud Platform processes hundreds of millions of requests every day, user data has already exceeded 3 billion, and the storage capacity is nearly 2 PB (ie 2097152 GB).
Data Security
| - User Equipment Safety
graffiti cloud platform offers five heavy securityStrategies to ensure the security of smart devices.
|- Corporate Data Security
Tuya Cloud Platform isolates corporate data to ensure data security. At the same time, Tuya Cloud Platform provides different data storage services for different business scenarios, and encrypts and stores core data.
Open
|- API
Tuya Cloud Platform provides multiple calling methods such as HTTP/HTTPS, MQTT, WebSocket, etc., and you can export your own business data at any time.
|- Partner
Tuya Cloud Platform provides docking services with well-known platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.
The availability zone
has to meet the needs of Leonard and his Indian girlfriend. After all, it is the first target for our products.
Let’s take a look at the available areas of the Tuya Cloud Platform :
According to the domestic and foreign sales areas of Chinese companies, combined with the distribution of submarine optical cables and the actual measurement results of cities around the world, the Tuya Cloud Platform is deployed in five geographic sectors: Asia, Europe, West America, East America, and India The main availability zone.

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Network acceleration
For different regional network acceleration problems, the solutions of Tuya Cloud Platform are as follows:
• DNS acceleration
o Tuya Cloud Platform has implemented resolution acceleration in mainstream cities in China and mainstream cities in other countries or regions according to different global operators.
o Tuya's automatic algorithm mechanism can maximize the stability of DNS resolution and resolve carrier hijacking incidents.
• CDN acceleration
o Accelerated nodes in Mainland China:
|- More than 500 city nodes enjoy the same level of network edge acceleration as Tencent.
|- Real-time monitoring to accelerate stability through independent monitoring services.
o Acceleration nodes in other countries and regions:
|- North America nodes: Ashburn, Virginia, Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas (Fort Worth), Hayward, California, Jacksonville, Florida , San Francisco, California, Miami, Florida, New York, New York, Newark, New Jersey, Palo Alto, California, San Jose, California, Seattle, Washington, South Bend, Indiana, and St. Louis, Missouri.
|- South America nodes: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
|- Europe, Middle East, Africa nodes: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dublin, Ireland, Frankfurt, Germany, London, England, Madrid, Spain, Marseille, France, Milan, Italy, Paris, France, Stockholm, Sweden, Warsaw, Poland.
|- Asia-Pacific nodes: Hong Kong, China, Taipei, China, Chennai, India, Mumbai, India, New Delhi, India, Manila, Philippines, Seoul, South Korea, Singapore, Melbourne, Australia, Sydney, Australia, Osaka, Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
• Global networking report
o The network response time of all cities in China is less than 40ms (ie 0.04 seconds)
o Asian cities are less than 80ms (ie 0.08 seconds), and the response time is extremely fast
o It is less than 90ms (0.09 seconds) in Europe and the United States, and the nearest access to the computer room is nearby
o The Middle East and Africa can also provide better services and response
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Security is a link that cannot be ignored. After all, Leonard will never want to combine him with The interaction between his girlfriends was announced.
In this regard, Tuya Cloud Platform has built financial-level security-level cloud services to provide a comprehensive security protection system. Tuya Cloud Platform has established main security measures such as real-time log analysis, security protection, risk perception capabilities, and security management system, and realizes multiple guaranteed communications such as data encryption, identification, dynamic password, channel encryption, chip security, and virtual devices Technical solutions for security and data security.

3. Introduction of platform advantages: The world is huge, let's do graffiti together!
Tuya Smart provides five major products and services, and completes the infrastructure construction of smart product cloud, networking module, and App control terminal in one stop. The development mode of the Tuya platform can help complete the intelligent upgrade of the product within one day at the fastest. The full-link value-added service and data operation platform is to create smart products that are competitive in the global market.
The cloud module
has undergone six generations of updates. Tuya module has the following outstanding advantages:
• Strong and stable signal
• Wide coverage
• Small size
• Low power consumption
• Rich interfaces
• Plug and play
cloud module independently developed by Tuya globally , Obtained multiple authoritative certifications, easy access to the global market.
Tuya Cloud Platform
Tuya is committed to providing safe, stable and fast cloud services to global customers. Tuya Cloud Platform has hundreds of millions of massive data and tens of millions of users concurrent processing capabilities, providing users with uninterrupted computing services with a stability of up to 99.99%. For more details, please refer to the introduction of Tuya Cloud Platform above.
• Global deployment: wide coverage
• Global acceleration: high-speed network
• Flexible expansion: high availability
• Data security: user equipment security
• Open platform: rich standard API
App control terminal
Tuya provides Tuya public version App and brand exclusive App.
• Tuya public version App: The solution is convenient and instantly available. For more details, please refer to Tuya Smart User Manual.
• Brand-specific App: The solution does not require additional development resources, and the brand-specific App can be generated within 3 days, supporting flexible configuration and highlighting brand personality. For more details, please refer to the introduction of OEM App.
Data and operations
• All-round data-driven, covering the three dimensions of equipment, sales capabilities and consumer usage.
• Refine user operations, establish seamless connections with users, operate in real time, and seize marketing opportunities.
Value-added services
Provide full-link value-added services from product intelligence to sales, helping to enhance global market competitiveness. For more details, please refer to the overview of value-added services.
After evaluation, Tuya Smart is fully in line with our product positioning and goals, that's it!