As the wind vane of the home appliance industry and one of the three major consumer electronics exhibitions in the world, AWE 2023 with the theme of "Intelligent Technology, Creating the Future" was held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center from April 27th to 30th. Innovative achievements such as technology and scenes reveal the development direction of home appliances and consumer electronics for us. This year, the scale of exhibition halls has expanded to 14, with an exhibition area of more than 160,000 square meters, attracting more than 1,200 domestic and foreign companies to participate in the exhibition.
With the explosion of ChatGPT, the topic of ChatGPT and smart home also caused heated discussions at the exhibition. At the GTIC 2023 Global AIoT Smart Home Summit held at the same time as the exhibition , under the current background of AI technology such as ChatGPT , topics such as intelligent upgrading of smart home and home appliance industry, cost reduction and efficiency increase, and development acceleration caused heated discussions in the industry. With the theme of "OpenCPU Technology Accelerates the Intelligent Upgrade of Home Appliances", Michele Long, the founder and CEO of Xiaojiang IoT, brought a technology sharing about the intelligent upgrade and cost reduction and efficiency increase of the home appliance industry.
OpenCPU : The intelligent speed-up engine for the home appliance industry
For the home appliance industry, with the development of the Internet of Things, more and more applications are being updated and created, and the types of IoT applications are increasing. Many lightweight IoT terminal products require less resources for the MCU, but for cost, Demands on power consumption and security are becoming increasingly prominent.
Michelle believes that under the background of core shortage, the importance of OpenCPU technology is increasing. As the promoter of the domestic Open CPU technology, Xiaojiang IoT has accumulated a lot of experience in this technology, helping many smart home appliance manufacturers to alleviate the chip crisis, and bringing commercial value of cost reduction and efficiency increase.
In the past two years, OpenCPU technology has attracted great attention from the Internet of Things industry. It can effectively reduce hardware costs, shorten the development cycle, and reduce product energy consumption. More importantly, in the context of the current chip shortage, it provides an effective solution path.
According to Michelle, OpenCPU is an application method in which the module is used as the main processor. With the development of communication technology and the constant changes of the market, more and more users realize the advantages of OpenCPU solution. In particular, its practical advantages of effectively reducing product costs make it favored by industry users. Using the OpenCPU solution can simplify the user's development process for wireless applications, simplify hardware structure design, and reduce product costs.
OpenCPU is a software technology application solution, which can open the computing and storage capabilities of a certain master to provide computing support for the entire hardware. As far as the IoT scenario is concerned, it is to release the resources of the communication module for other functions of the hardware. In this way, the communication module not only undertakes the sending and receiving of external data, but also undertakes the processing of local data.
OpenCPU : Reduce costs and increase efficiency for the intelligentization of the home appliance industry
Under the wave of AIoT, the home appliance industry is facing intelligent transformation and upgrading, but it is facing challenges in terms of development cost, development cycle, and security . The emergence of OpenCPU technology can reduce costs and increase efficiency for the intelligentization of the home appliance industry.
According to Michelle, compared with the traditional solution, the OpenCPU solution does not require external processors, memory and discrete and related designs, which can reduce the development cycle and greatly reduce the development cost; the OpenCPU solution can reduce the complexity and difficulty of PCBA; In the traditional solution, the components used in the OpenCPU solution will also be reduced, which greatly reduces power consumption; in addition, the anti-copy technology of the OpenCPU solution can enhance product security.
In terms of technology, OpenCPU also has six advantages of lower cost, shorter time period, higher integration, lower energy consumption, easier upgrade and higher security.
Lower cost: no need for an external processor and related memory and peripherals, reducing hardware costs;
Less time period: no local communication protocol development, shortening the product development cycle;
Higher integration: reduce product size, reduce volume, suitable for some handheld devices;
Lower energy consumption: remove the energy consumption of the MCU part, less intermediate resource occupation, and higher interaction efficiency;
Easier upgrade: only need to upgrade the communication module, making OTA upgrade easier;
Higher security: Avoid the possibility of near-end attack and stealing, and no longer need to transmit key business data through UART .
QUMI OS : The Internet of Things operating system for the home appliance industry
Xiaojiang IoT is based on communication modules (chips). While providing OpenCPU technology solutions without relying on additional MCUs, it is compatible with major IoT platforms through QUMI OS integration. Customers can click and configure on the zero-code platform , directly generate customized plug-ins/firmware online, and support connecting products to Xiaojiang Cloud and Matter, Mijia, Tmall Genie, Huawei Hongmeng OS, HomeKit, Xiaodu, Tencent Lianlian, Amazon Alexa, JD Xiaojia, Google Home, etc. The Internet of Things platform greatly reduces the development threshold for customers and shortens the development cycle.
In addition, the product testing system specially customized by Xiaojiang IOT for the full link from the R&D end, PCBA production end, and complete machine assembly end collects real-time data through different modules, efficiently processes comprehensive information, and displays it in the background of the system management Concise and clear visual data can provide quick inspection services for factory incoming material inspection and factory inspection, and can export summary information of test data, which is convenient for qualitative problems and systematic analysis, and is conducive to customers to improve their own production processes, processes and details. , to facilitate customers to carry out material planning, production planning, production management and product testing, assist customers and connect with customer MES and ERP systems, as a line of defense after products leave the factory, greatly improving production quality and production efficiency.
Zhinar believes that the intelligentization of traditional home appliances and the iterative upgrading of the smart home industry are hot topics in the current industry. As the engine for accelerating the intelligent development of the home appliance and home furnishing industry, the emergence of OpenCPU technology carefully crafted by Xiaojiang IoT will greatly reduce the development cost and development cycle for the intelligent home appliance industry, while also reducing risks and improving security. At present, OpenCPU technology has been widely used in electrical lighting, personal health care, environmental appliances, living appliances, kitchen appliances, home security and other fields.