With the continuous emergence of smart home devices on the market, the fragmented experience caused by the independent control of smart single products has brought great inconvenience to consumers. How to control these smart devices in a unified manner has become the key to optimizing the smart experience in the whole house.
As the "central" of smart home, the smart central control screen can realize the whole house control on one screen, which is convenient to operate and can improve the exquisiteness of home decoration. Therefore, the smart central control screen has quickly become the darling of the consumer market.
Part.1 How big is the potential of the smart central control screen?
The working principle of the smart central control screen is to centralize the control functions of each smart single product on the central control system. With the help of a high-definition large screen, the linkage control of smart devices can be realized.
For example: when you come home after a busy day, you only need to touch the smart central control panel with one button, and it will actively turn on the lights, close the curtains, and simultaneously start the air conditioner, TV and other home appliances for you, creating an immersive and convenient experience for you. A personalized home experience.
By iterating software or systems , manufacturers can allow users to enjoy the latest developed functions and high-quality UI experience. It can not only establish good interaction with users, but also improve consumption stickiness.
With the emergence of market demand, the smart central control screen market has also ushered in more abundant participants. Technology giants such as Baidu, Huawei, etc. have deployed one after another, and rely on the strong technology they have accumulated to continue to promote market development.
IDC released a report stating that in the first half of 2022, China's smart central control panel shipments will be 300,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 160.7%. It is expected to exceed 650,000 units in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 106.4%, and the compound annual growth rate will exceed 60% in the next five years.
Under the joint promotion of market demand and brand strategy, the intelligent central control panel will develop in the direction of integration, gradient and lightweight , and gradually become a new entrance to the whole house intelligence.
Part.2 Future trend of smart central control panel
Although the market environment is vibrant, many manufacturers' central control panel products tend to be more like scene panels with screens, which do not belong to the real sense of intelligent central control panel, and the function fit with IoT is not deep enough:
- A real intelligent central control panel must have three core capabilities of voice interaction, GUI interaction and intelligent gateway . In order to integrate the above capabilities into the central control panel, a large amount of research and development personnel, time and energy are needed to overcome technical problems.
- The adaptability of smart central control screens to IoT is not ideal enough. Most manufacturers have not made some customized functions for IoT itself, resulting in serious product homogeneity.
- In the case of LAN disconnection, how can the smart central control panel realize cross-category, cross-gateway, and cross-protocol linkage ? In order to prevent the home IoT system from being paralyzed, the smart central control panel needs to have a strong localization function, which is a test of the research and development capabilities of the central control panel manufacturers.
- The IoT ecology among various brands is relatively closed, and if the smart central control screen cannot be interconnected, it will fall into the embarrassing situation of "fairy". How to connect various brands of IoT devices has become one of the important challenges for smart central control panel manufacturers.
To sum up the above, if you want to make a smart central control screen, brand owners need to invest a lot of research and development, software and hardware costs, and spend a lot of marketing costs on publicity and promotion. This will inevitably increase product prices and greatly reduce core competitiveness.
Part.3 What does a real smart central control screen look like?
In order to allow partners to obtain new smart home business opportunities at low cost and low threshold, Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA, HKEX: 2391), a global IoT development platform service provider, launched a smart central control screen solution. Not only can it build a rich intelligent ecology for domestic customers, but it can also provide overseas customers with a more localized ecological entrance.
Relying on the powerful "Powered by Tuya" ecology, the solution is equipped with two communication protocols, Zigbee and Wi-Fi, to easily realize smooth connections in multiple scenarios. Thanks to years of accumulated experience in various smart industries, the smart central control panel using this solution will break down the barriers between different brands and realize the interconnection of most devices. It not only greatly reduces the threshold of digital intelligent research and development for central control screen manufacturers, but also solves the ecological problems of intelligent central control technology for customers at low cost, and quickly builds core barriers.
Core functions:
01 Built-in Zigbee gateway, experience real central control
At present, most of the 3.5-inch and below smart central control screens on the market need to be equipped with additional gateways. This solution is aimed at intelligent central control panel products of various sizes, equipped with a full-featured Zigbee gateway , which supports the connection of 128 Zigbee sub-devices, and can easily realize cross-gateway and cross-protocol interconnection, and truly has extensive connection capabilities.
02 "Next screen" function, more convenient to use
The core of the intelligent function is to realize non-inductive active intelligence . This solution innovatively develops the "next screen" function, which can actively extract the core functions you often use into components and put them into standard containers.
You only need to slide down the home page to the next screen to quickly find and operate the device components, what you see is what you get, making the user experience more time-saving and smooth.
03 Ordinary switches can easily upgrade the smart central control screen
The smart central control panel empowered by this solution has its own 3-way relay, which can seamlessly take over the physical control of the original 3-way switch. You don't need to make holes in the wall separately, and you can upgrade from ordinary switches to smart central control screens, which is convenient and worry-free to operate.
04 The best voice assistant
The solution is equipped with the most useful IoT voice assistant ----- Xiaozhi Butler, whether it is controlling the device, switching the scene mode, or answering the life skills, it can serve you in real time without any obstacles.
05 Multimodal interaction at your fingertips
If there are too many connected smart home products and the operation is cumbersome, it will greatly affect the comfort of use. The solution supports a variety of interaction modes, whether it is touch screen fine control, physical button interaction, voice far-field interaction, or App remote control, fancy control methods meet your management needs in different scenarios, and the experience is more intimate and personalized .
06 Stable operation, not hot
Aiming at the problem that the smart central control panel on the market will heat up after running for a long time, the solution is based on Linux and deeply customizes the IoT-specific central control OS system, which can ensure that the smart central control panel runs stably for a long time without getting hot, and effectively optimizes the user experience.
At present, the solution supports the fine control of 21 types of commonly used equipment, and more smart products are also being continuously connected.
As the young people of Generation Z are more willing to try whole-house intelligence, the smart central control panel will be able to open up a broader market space in the future, and the first manufacturers to enter the game will reap the first wave of dividends under the wave of intelligence. To provide partners with a smart central control screen solution with more powerful functions, better experience, and continuous improvement of technical barriers will be the direction of Tuya's continuous efforts.