On May 25, 2026, ABB and Yeelight officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Qingdao. This move marks that the two parties will carry out systematic cooperation in areas such as channel collaboration, product development, and technological innovation to jointly develop the smart home market.
Channel and market collaboration is an important part of this cooperation.
ABB has a mature sales service system and high-end brand influence in the global market, while Yeelight has strong advantages in the local consumer market, designer channels and smart home retail ecosystem.
It is reported that ABB will collaborate with E-Lai on its sales channel network to continue to improve the coverage of ABB’s home electrical products in the smart home market.
At the same time, the two parties will deepen collaboration in technology research and development and manufacturing, combine global resources and local innovation capabilities, complement each other’s advantages, and jointly promote the application of smart home solutions in high-end residences, smart buildings and commercial spaces.
Zou Enchang, Senior Vice President of ABB Electrical China and Head of the Smart Building China Business Unit, said: “E-Lai has excellent innovation capabilities and market influence in the smart home field. We are pleased to reach a strategic cooperation to jointly bring richer and smarter home electrical solutions to consumers, so that technology can truly serve life.”
E-Lai Chairman Jiang Zhaoning said: “In the field of smart lighting, E-Lai has proven that the ‘beauty of technological lighting’ can completely change the way Chinese families live.
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Together with ABB today, we have added another high-end puzzle piece – using ABB’s world-leading electrical technology and smart home innovation R&D capabilities to bring E-Lai’s smart home aesthetics to a new dimension, truly defining the ultimate experience of ‘full-sensory intelligence’ for users.”
ABB has more than 140 years of technology accumulation and has been deeply involved in the field of home appliances for more than a century. With its innovative technology, aesthetic design and reliable quality, it is widely used in smart building scenarios such as high-end residences and hotels around the world.
As the world’s second largest market, China has become the core strategic position of the ABB Group, and its complete business layout covering R&D, manufacturing, sales and engineering services is increasingly improving.
In March 2025, ABB completed the acquisition of Siemens’ switch and socket business in China, further strengthening its product and channel advantages in the smart home market in China and Southeast Asia.
Yeelight was founded in 2012 and is deeply involved in the fields of smart lighting and IoT. It is a world-renowned smart home company.
As of now, E-Lay has more than 20 million users worldwide, its products cover more than 200 countries and regions, and global shipments exceed 90 million units. It has won a total of 48 international design awards such as the German Red Dot Award, iF Award, G-Mark, and American IDEA. It has more than 1,300 intellectual property patents, participated in the formulation of multiple industry standards, and created high-quality whole-house intelligent solutions for users with open ecological and spatial aesthetic design.
This cooperation is a deep integration of the global electrical industry system and China’s intelligent technology power, and it is also an efficient complementation of the two major advantageous resources.
ABB has global technological heritage, high-end brand influence and mature channel system; Yilai has significant advantages in intelligent lighting, AI interaction, IoT ecology and local retail and designer channels.
The two parties will collaborate in depth at the R&D, manufacturing, channel and brand levels to enhance ABB’s market coverage of home electrical products and inject new momentum in technological innovation and smart manufacturing into the industry.
Currently, smart homes are transitioning from the “connected era” to the “intelligent era”, and spatial intelligence has become the core direction of industrial competition.
It is no longer possible for a single enterprise to cope with complex technical challenges and upgraded user needs, and jointly building an open ecosystem has become an industry consensus.
In the future, ABB and E-Lai will continue to deepen their cooperation, focusing on system integration, product co-creation, ecological interconnection and market implementation, working together to create a smarter and more humane future home life, helping modern buildings to upgrade to more convenient, energy-saving, safer and more comfortable, and jointly building a new smart ecosystem for the whole house.
