[Office Partner Information Center] Compared to Bill Gates's vision of future smart life in The Road to the Future more than 20 years ago, smart home is still thinking about it. We still can't achieve the ideal scene of home appliance one-on-one linkage and virtual service standby in real time. But on the other hand, the enthusiasm of industry practitioners has been accelerating the breakthrough of the spiral of the industry for the bottleneck of the whole industry, and firmly believes that the continuous accumulation of breakthroughs can finally open the door of the smart home, and finally have a carnival. A feast of collective participation by industry participants. Where is the next breakthrough? The smart home industry has never lacked the speculators who took the wind and the waves. In recent years, there have been few cases of "pseudo-wind" pits. Google recently attributed Nest to the Internet of Things department, and it is also a reflection of the start-up company Nest, which acquired two products with only a thermostat controller and a smoke alarm. Therefore, Xiao Bian can't help but smash a sentence, and the new comers and smart home keepers who are eager to do so need to be quiet! The calm judgment of various "winds" and the objective analysis of future trends can become the key to stand out among many participants. So the question is: Who will be the next breakthrough in smart home? Smart hardware? Control System? Low-power WAN? Let's look for the answer from the recent fire of Amazon Echo & virtual assistant Alexa. Some time ago, Sonos and Amazon Echo two major competitors shook hands, Echo will be able to control the Sonos audio. "The strongest opponent is the best teammate", a piece of good news in the technology circle, CP feels full. Amazon Echo has also expanded its own hardware and software ecosystem, in one fell swoop. Following Sonos, Amazon has negotiated products with LG and Lenovo to open up agreements with each other and want to continue to expand its ecological breadth. Alexa Voice Assistant is expected to enter the PC platform soon. In November, OMATE launched the first robot Yumi with Android 5.1 custom version system, and integrated Amazon Alexa voice assistant control system. In October, Amazon CEO said at the Vanity Fair's new enterprise summit that the medical industry will be a major area of ​​disruption by machine learning and artificial intelligence technology, and the wisdom of Alexa and Echo will make a difference. In September, Hyundai Group announced its access to Amazon's Alexa service. Its luxury car brand Genesis will take the lead in using its Alexa voice-activated device to remotely control multiple functions of its car in its car networking related software Blue Link. In August, BMW BMW Connected announced the integration of Amazon Alexa voice assistant, Alexa voice control in the field of car networking and took the next general. It is undeniable that in the field of voice control, Amazon Alexa has been leading for a long time. Although Siri has caused a new trend, Google Now and Cortana have also achieved certain popularity on mobile and PC. In addition, Samsung recently planned to enter the field of voice control and acquired Viv Labs, the father of Siri, who is experienced in the AI ​​field. It was only that they were closed or cold, and they failed to meet the actual needs of the landing stage, which gave the late Alexa a chance to live. With the trend of Echo, we continue to expand cooperation with hardware and cloud platforms, and become the "dark horse" to redefine the rules of the game. It can be said that after Amazon launched Echo strategically, voice interaction has almost been reduced to an entry-level configuration. If you don't have a voice control, you are embarrassed to say that you are doing smart home. This is self-evident for the industry's shuffling and integration. In the past few years, the entrance to the smart home has never stopped, and every time there will be a new product, a new application, changing people's expectations of the possibility of interaction. From the mobile phone APP control to the machine interactive interface era, we are gradually approaching the ultimate vision of “all the equipment in the homeâ€. However, at this stage, "intention control" is still floating in the laboratory stage, so the last meter leading to the smart home bliss world is temporarily transitioned by voice control. Cross-border wisdom behind the Echo fire Alexa's core product Echo is a small central control, of course you can also call it universal remote control. With the increasing number of accesses, Echo will become a multi-dimensional software and hardware ecosystem. It takes over the entrance of the smart home, which has greatly promoted the rationalization and expansion of the entire industry. There are many players in speech recognition technology. Why is Amazon Echo only jumping into a network? What is the accident and inevitability behind the Echo fire? 1. Team up with cloud platform to open Echo Skills There were good people who dismissed Echo violence and found that there was nothing but a few speakers, a microphone and a micro computer. This made Alexa's cleverness seem cheating. These things are too grounded, and I don’t see how much smarter than Microsoft Xiao Bing and Ali Xiaozhi. So, who is behind the Alexa pre-installed in Echo? First, Amazon gave Alexa a smart brain in the cloud. As the Echo access scene becomes more and more complicated, Amazon cleverly avoids the taboo of “no matter how close it is,†but chooses to open the voice recognition core Alexa to the access side, with the resources of developers and platforms. Ability to improve product lines and service scenarios. As early as the middle of the year, Yunzhiyi IoT platform was interconnected with Amazon Echo through cloud docking, becoming the first cloud platform service provider in the country to complete the connection with Amazon Echo's voice control system. This cooperation will greatly enhance Yunzhiyi's ability to improve the smart home control and the new blood for developers of Echo. For the cloud intelligence and easy platform, Echo brought the small expert Alexa to the Xlink IoT Platform, and Yun Zhiyi, who is mainly in the consumer physics field, seems to have added a set of ears, mouths and brains that can be heard and thought. The platform can be based on Echo's Skills, which can help smart devices achieve lighting, temperature control, wearable devices, and even inter-building lighting, security, and other community and business service devices to achieve centralized control. Under Echo's order, a linkage was formed. At the same time, through the docking with Amazon Echo, it can also help domestic manufacturers to interact with more overseas manufacturers and further explore overseas markets. Second, of course, the benefits of equipment interaction are urgently needed. So "C by GE" on the platform of Yunzhi Yiwulian quickly responded to the market and made the two pairs of budding light bulbs more obedient: “C by GE†is a complete set of smart lighting Lianyun solutions customized by GE for GE. It consists of two C Sleep bulbs and two C Life bulbs, which can realize various lighting scenes through cloud intelligent control. For example, C Sleep creates different scenes such as wake-up and sleep aid by simulating sunlight, refreshing and warm amber light. The newly released C by GE version adds Alexa voice interaction to the control layer for added convenience. Of course, it can be predicted that other than the GE, other practitioners in the platform will not stand by. Third, this move will help Yunzhi Yiwulian platform to further expand the access ecology. Amazon's Alexa's "platform bonus" will bring more opportunities for cloud smart and international smart home players to communicate. Enhance international influence and service capabilities of international manufacturers. Xlink IoT Platform, the cloud platform of the Zhizhi Yiwulian platform, is the first cloud platform in China to connect with Alexa services. It has already harvested the olive branch of international players. Yunzhiyi is building a third-party Internet gateway on the cloud platform. Alexa is one of the capabilities, including Siri, IFTTT, etc. The purpose is to enable enterprise customers on the platform to choose according to the market and quickly configure to achieve multiple capabilities and Device interconnection. In addition, Yunzhiyi is also constantly improving its data mining and artificial intelligence. Different from language recognition, Yunzhiyi's artificial intelligence looks at the value of the scene, such as automatic learning of equipment behavior, fault formation and behavior prediction, and tactically also counteracts to promote more interactive human voice interaction. Since Amazon announced the opening of the Alexa platform, more than 1w+ developers have registered and Echo plans to enter 10 million homes. As the types and number of devices connected to the cloud platform increase, the transition from home devices to PC devices is also a cross-border attempt. The mainstream voice control on the PC side is Microsoft Cortana, and the general usage rate is low. If Alexa can capture the favor of Chinese hardware manufacturers and consumers in the smart home field, the relationship between the two sides will inevitably change. This adds a strong stack of chips to the PC side that Alexa is trying to win. The result of cross-border cooperation is often 1+1>2. Nowadays, the voice interaction technology has matured, and the upgrade battle of smart homes is the battle between ecology and platform. 2. Provide new ideas for the pain points of smart homes Intelligent voice technology includes identification and interaction, and incorporates a variety of sophisticated techniques of artificial intelligence. It is the lowest cost control method so far. Naturally, it should be used in more interactive scenarios: not only let smart items get rid of the uncertainty of the protocol standards, but also hope to get out of the traditional "smart home" main battlefield in the traditional sense, across the circle and more IoT platforms. Linkage. For example, Alexa's access to the Internet of Vehicles platform gives Echo the ability to work in different sectors. Over time, the boundaries between the Internet of Vehicles platform and the home cloud platform will become increasingly blurred, and the concepts and connotations will be more full. What do we need above voice interaction? Voice interaction technology has become "mature", but semantic recognition is always not smart enough. Is it waiting for artificial intelligence to add redemption or to find new ways to interact? In addition, human-computer interaction requires a central control device, not just a mouth. So what we really need is Alexa, not Echo. In other words, speech recognition is not the most ideal way to interact, or objectively speaking, far from it. Future voice interactions will be replaced by a smarter, simpler, and more humane interaction. Adult Hair Clippers,Electric Hair Trimmer,Rechargeable Hair Clipper,Waterproof Hair Cutter Ningbo Beilun Xuanfeng Molding Co., Ltd. , https://www.schelfern.com