Wall Smart Gateway: What is the new direction of smart home products?

HC Security Network's intelligent gateway is to realize intelligent home system control center, gathering system information through it, the information input, information output, centralized control, remote control, joint control and other functions.

The intelligent gateway is a system control center that realizes home intelligence, and realizes functions such as system information collection, information input, information output, centralized control, remote control, and linkage control.

With intelligent gateway, it can connect with home devices and smart terminal devices. When watching TV, controlling air conditioners or opening curtains, or when monitoring by camera at home, it can be remotely controlled. The smart gateway seems to be intelligent in the home. It plays an important role in the central role of connection and control. It is considered to be the focus of smart home scuffles and has become the focus of market competition for telecom operators, Internet companies and some core home appliance manufacturers.

The smart gateways currently available on the market are mostly external. According to the company data, the wall smart gateway decoration effect will be better than the external smart gateway. When installing home, it will be installed synchronously with the switch socket.

The control distance of the wall intelligent gateway is about 150 meters, and the wall is measured 15 meters apart. It is allowed to relay through the wireless router. Therefore, as long as there is a wireless control switch within 15 meters of a wall of 150 meters, it can continue. Extended control distance. Multiple gateways can be installed in the same home, and products under multiple gateways can be controlled in the same APP.

The external intelligent gateway products are not uniform in design. The wall intelligent gateway is the same as the switch, socket, WI-FI and other panels. The size is uniform and the appearance is uniform. There will be no faults caused by external factors such as collision and extrusion. The problem is that the installation is also very simple, becoming a hardware weapon for home intelligence. However, for ordinary intelligent hardware players and users of single-family apartments, there is less demand for wall-mounted.

In fact, the smart gateway is only a part of the smart home system. The sockets and switches can be the entrance of the smart home into the home. The core is whether it can solve the daily needs of the users. The needs of each person are different and meet the needs of different users. What is needed is a complete smart home solution.

Just like the switch socket configuration, the living room has to install several plugs, a few bedrooms, where to install switches, the location of the switch, etc., if you are not thoughtful, there will be no socket or insufficient socket, etc. Troublesome situation.

Li Li, deputy director of the Institute of Communication Technology and Standards at the China Information and Communication Research Institute, said that networking has become one of the essential elements of smart home products, while Wi-Fi is the main home networking technology used, occupying home network centers and traffic. Entrance status. Intelligent gateways play an important role in the new round of smart family disputes.

According to thousands of people, China Mobile has completed the development of the intelligent gateway series in the first half of 2016. Currently, it is conducting intelligent gateway intercommunication testing, and it is expected to collect in the second half of the year. Currently, laboratory testing has started in early June and is expected to take two months. The test content mainly includes: traditional gateway function test, intelligent gateway new function test, provincial platform test and other traditional home gateway function tests, which provide guarantee for value-added services in the smart home field in the future.

For operators like China Mobile, the intelligent gateway is a value-added service hub, which can play three roles: First, the core of business management. An open platform is available for dynamic loading of plugins. Second, intelligent management. The intelligent management platform provides business plugins. Third, management extends the business based on plug-ins.

Router-centric, all kinds of smart home devices are connected with them and managed through a unified interface. Router vendors provide APIs and even modules for use by smart home vendors. Promoting the smart home industry with intelligent routers as the center requires a huge industrial chain integration capability, and operators need to create smart home services through new intelligent gateways.

Conclusion:

Although the emergence of in-wall smart gateway products seems to have only changed the appearance, there is little breakthrough in actual functions and technologies, but it has a mitigating effect on the similar phenomenon of the smart home market, and can also serve more different users. The group provides personalized services. However, the stability and compatibility of the in-wall intelligent gateway is believed to be a major difficulty in enterprise R&D.

Editor in charge: Tian Wenjie