Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
When it comes to space magic, many technology enthusiasts or science fiction fans will think of Doraemon's "Any Door". Through that door, you can enter a brand new world and go wherever you want, which is a beautiful fantasy of many people in childhood.
This year's AWE, Huawei's whole house smart debut, through a lot of black technology, broke some limitations of the industry solutions, opened up more possibilities for the space, such as:
The exclusive PLC power line carrier technology of "power and network" breaks the limitation of the traditional connection method of "disconnection when disconnected from the network";
"Words can't follow" the scene control of multi-device active cooperation, breaking the limitation of passive interaction of single product control;
The cross-brand connection of "All kinds of cream competing for freedom" breaks the limitation of bundling single-brand products.
At this AWE Summit Forum, Shao Yang, Chief Strategy Officer of Huawei Terminal BG and President of Whole House Smart Product Line, also delivered a keynote speech "Huawei Whole House Smart Opens the Door to Space", sharing the "Huawei solution" in the era of space intelligence. ". Let's use Huawei's space magic to see how the heavy shackles between limited space and infinite experience are untied.
The scenery behind the door
infinite world beyond space
It is necessary to answer a question first: why do we have to open the "door of space", what scenery behind the door can attract us?
Kant said: "Beauty is the view of infinity." People have an instinctive desire to transcend the limited and pursue infinite possibilities in the unpredictable realm. Any door is the starting point of imagination, the entrance of adventure, and the connecting point of infinite excitement.
Today, people's yearning for a better life has also given birth to three new needs for living space:
1. Experience takes a leap. With the explosion of the number of smart terminals around everyone, people began to expect more powerful capabilities in the living space - overall intelligence. This requires the comprehensive introduction of AI's perception, reasoning, understanding and decision-making automation capabilities into the entire space, transitioning from single-product intelligence to whole-house intelligence.
2. The industry needs to be upgraded. In the space 1.0 stage, we must first solve the needs of people who have no houses to live in, the houses are not big enough, and the home appliances do not have enough functions, which drives the real estate and home appliance industries to take off. The rise of smart homes, etc.; in the space 3.0 stage, smart items are incompatible, and the contradictions and problems in the living space have become more prominent, forming a large experience gap with the highly mature personal intelligence and the accelerated development of automobile intelligence , to drive related industries to upgrade and iterate, and to empower family space with technology.
3. Cities need to evolve. Digital and intelligent transformation has become a national strategy, and urban "smart transformation to digital transformation" is in full swing. Among them, family space is an indispensable and important part of urban space. Without the intelligence and digitalization of family space, there will be no "good neighborhoods, good communities, and good cities". Therefore, the space intelligence of family scenes needs to be strengthened.
It can be seen that space intelligence is a foregone conclusion, with trillion-level potential. However, home space and smart technology will not be integrated naturally, as Shao Yang said: "Space intelligence is a door that has been dusty for a long time. There are three locks on this door, and each lock is very heavy. "
The "Huawei Solution" displayed at AWE this time did bring some new things worth thinking about, and opened the "triple door" between the limited space and the infinite intelligent world.
first weight
Reliable connection, open the door of safety
The connection of "any door" is unreliable, and it is very interesting to put it in cartoons, but in real life, the smart device cannot be commanded or moved randomly, which is absolutely unbearable for users.
At present, the connection technologies used in many whole-house smart solutions are still various communication protocols in the space 2.0 stage, such as Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Bluetooth, etc. WiFi has a high transmission rate and strong real-time performance, but it is expensive and has dead spots in coverage. Once the power is cut off and the network is disconnected, the device will go offline; ZigBee has low power consumption and low cost, but the transmission speed is not high, and the delay-sensitive application experience Not good; Bluetooth has requirements on the distance between devices. Once it exceeds the connection range, it can no longer be effectively controlled... Although these protocols have their own characteristics, they have not achieved real efficiency, economy, and stability at the same time.
We all know that Huawei started out in communications and has a solid technical accumulation in connection. When Huawei starts to solve the problem of "efficient, economical and stable connection of space intelligence", it will naturally contribute different tools and solutions. Means - PLC power line carrier technology.
Huawei's self-developed PLC power line carrier technology is more stable than wireless solutions. PLC technology uses the wires connected to each lamp and each curtain to communicate, so it can realize the ultra-stable connection of "there is a network when there is electricity". Under extreme conditions, the network at home is disconnected, and the smart device will not be disconnected. , so that the smart service at home can be continuously online.
Through technological innovation, Huawei can connect 128 nodes on a PLC circuit, which is 50 times more stable than wireless connections and 50 times faster than wired connections, so that it can support all smart devices in the home to run stably and efficiently, and respond to the owner's needs in a timely manner. call. Huawei Whole House Smart uses the original PLC technology to open the door to safety.
second weight
Integrate scenes and open the door to experience
In the complex and diverse intelligent space, with so many digital and intelligent devices piled up, the result of "stacking" is more and more functions and more and more screens, and the single-product control interaction adopted by many brands requires Operations such as switching, adjusting, increasing and decreasing by the user have also become extremely cumbersome.
Huawei's whole house intelligence has made great explorations in the "unified experience", and realized the scene control of subsystems with the "1+2+N" architecture, bringing the fusion magic of "one step in place".
1 host, integrating brainpower.
Huawei's whole-house smart solution is the first to create a highly integrated and scalable whole-house smart host, which is equivalent to a "whole-house brain", where the data and service capabilities accumulated by various smart devices converge. The smart host can be used as an "interconnection center" to sense and control the devices in the whole house, or as a "computing center" to perform unified calculation, decision-making and distribution. In this way, all smart devices in the house have a unified and reliable base, avoiding confusion caused by smart devices going their own way.
2 central controls, integrating scenes.
Huawei's intelligent smart central control screen for the whole house integrates lighting, sunshade, air conditioning, heating and ventilation control, etc., multiple sub-spaces, subsystems, etc., such as whole-house WiFi, whole-house music, whole-house energy consumption, and Sub-scenes can be mastered on one screen, and switched according to the scene to achieve multiple uses on one screen.
For example, just after returning home, the subsystem is in "cooking mode" to appease the empty stomach of the family. After dinner, the subsystem can be in the "entertainment mode" for family reunions, or in the "red wine mode" for romance and art, and for pet families, it can also be changed into "feeding dogs and teasing cats mode". When it comes to holidays, switch to "Christmas Mode" and "Birthday Mode" to create a sense of atmosphere and ceremony.
Huawei Whole House Smart also supports personalized scene cards. Users can freely design the desired smart space in an exclusive scene and save it with one click, and then call it at any time.
Multiple subsystems and sub-scene composite services provide a strongly integrated experience, and one-key switching through the central control screen allows the "smart home" to bid farewell to complicated and various switches, and the elderly and children can easily get started.
N systems, integration capabilities.
Huawei Whole House Smart innovatively divides the space into ten relatively independent subsystems. Each subsystem has a very rich brand, and one entrance can dispatch all equipment. When preparing to fall asleep, the user does not need to lower the lights step by step, close the curtains, adjust the temperature of the air conditioner, turn on the aromatherapy, and play sleep-aiding white noise, just say "Xiaoyi Butler, I am going to sleep" to start the sleep scene.
Compared with the direct improvement of experience, we should see that Huawei's unique fragmented and scene-based Lego-style module architecture has greatly improved the process and efficiency of space upgrades.
For example, some government offices and conference rooms cannot be connected to the external network, and have the task of saving energy and reducing emissions. Smart energy management is needed. At this time, Huawei's "1+2+N" architecture of the whole house can be used to Connect various lighting, air-conditioning and other equipment in the office space, and then use the scene-based capability of the subsystem to perform unified calculation and analysis by a host. Once it detects that there is no one in the space, turn off the relevant subsystem and let the office It no longer consumes power, and each room and each subsystem can be controlled separately, eliminating the trouble of relying on manual switches.
The "one step" N subsystems are like N Lego, each technology and personality can be spliced and integrated, the tediousness and fragmentation of multiple devices disappear in the wind, and countless possibilities can be realized.
third
Open ecology, open the door to freedom
In the all-encompassing whole-house smart scenario, it is impossible for any company to meet all the long-tail needs alone.
Users are worried about being tied up by a single brand of "family bucket" and have to accept monopoly premiums; in real estate, hotels, medical care, education and other commercial spaces, a single brand cannot meet the intelligent needs of the entire space, and cross-brand deployment is worried about too many brands , The system is fragmented and cannot be interconnected.
Unity but difference is the future that users in various markets such as C-end/B-end/G-end are looking forward to. Huawei Whole House Smart is making it a reality.
In harmony with Hongmeng. The ten subsystems of Huawei's whole house intelligence work together with ecological partners to connect 2,200 brands and 5,600+ smart items into the Hongmeng Zhilian ecosystem, allowing users to freely choose and arrange their own space intelligence.
Different in diversity. The whole-house smart solution composed of many single-brand products is limited to home appliances, but the needs carried in the space are often complex. For example, the bedroom must not only have basic heating and cooling, fresh air, lighting management, but also the hostess's personal beauty care. Makeup, or children's education, toys, reading, etc., will involve various non-home appliance smart items. The cross-brand connection of Huawei's whole-house intelligence supports the access of multiple categories and brands, thereby combining personalized and capable subsystems to meet the complex needs of all spaces.
By saying goodbye to the shackles of a single brand and a single category, users can truly enjoy the beauty of intelligent space and roam freely in a smart life.
One starting point, thousands of possibilities
Why is it Huawei that breaks the limitations of the whole house smart field? At least Huawei has several irreplaceable advantages:
Eyesight——Only when the eyes are wide open can the brain be wide open. To build the future, we must first be able to see the future. Huawei's accumulation in communications, terminals, intelligence and other fields, as well as its in-depth understanding of cutting-edge technologies, enable it to make forward-looking judgments. A new path to create industry-leading solutions.
Grip strength - only with excellent technology can there be excellent experience. Having said that, opening the "gateway to space" still depends on the strength of the hands, which ultimately falls into the research and development capabilities, the ability to master key technologies, and the ability to apply products. With its strong underlying AI software and hardware capabilities, Huawei combines space and intelligence depth.
Efforts——Only with an open mind can there be an open ecology. Think about the future with the industry, and do those difficult but correct things. In Huawei's Ark No. 1 space intelligent open laboratory, partners and Huawei jointly innovate; reached strategic cooperation with Shenzhen, Chengdu and other places to use technology to empower urban renewal; and Idea-Tops co-hosts Idea-Tops-Huawei Whole House Intelligent Design Competition, and establishes Idea-Tops International-Future Space Design Research Institute to stimulate the creativity of designers and promote "big industries" with "big design"... Supporting the development of an individual, a family of companies, and a city naturally gathers the ecological energy for sustainable development.
The combination of eyes, hands, and heart gives Huawei the ability to light up the magic of space. Opening the door of space is just the beginning. The infinite scenery and myriad possibilities of smart life are waiting for thousands of households, cities and industries to discover together.
