The smart home industry does not lack concepts, but it lacks implementation.
In the past ten years, similar plots have been repeated on this track: manufacturers launched one connected product after another, and consumers excitedly tied light bulbs, sockets, and speakers into the same app, and then discovered that so-called intelligence essentially means issuing instructions and executing the device themselves. This has reduced the “smart system” of too many homes to just a few lights on the wall that can be turned on and off with mobile phones.
The signal of a turning point appeared when Huawei officially launched the comprehensively upgraded Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home “1+3+N” solution at the HUAWEI nova 16 series and full-scenario new product launch conference, connecting the Xiaoyi Claw intelligent body to the home brain.
Immediately afterwards, at the Huawei Developer Conference HDC 2026, which opened on June 12, we learned the full picture in detail.
Behind the “Four Consecutive Wins of Fine Decoration”: Stability is the undervalued ticket to smart home
At the press conference, Huawei revealed that its Hongmeng Smart Home had “the largest market share in fine furnishings for four consecutive years.” Many people’s first reaction was that Huawei has strong channel capabilities and brand potential.
These are of course important. Huawei has indeed reached in-depth strategic cooperation with leading real estate companies such as Vanke and Poly. High-end real estate companies have become a priority in joining hands with Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home.
But if you only look at channels, you miss what developers are really willing to bet on: systematic stability.
If the whole house’s smart intelligence is not stable enough or has problems, it means that the door lock cannot be opened, the lights are not on, and the air conditioner is out of control when you return home. This directly affects the sense of security in your home.
Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home PLC wired connection has replaced a large number of wireless solutions that rely on WiFi/Zigbee, with a nominal communication success rate of 99.99%.
For real estate developers, the after-sales complaint rate after delivery is the real life and death line, and the PLC solution is essentially using a “quasi-industrial-grade” idea to build home IoT.
In other words, “No. 1 in fine decoration” is not only a market achievement, but also a natural result of mature engineering capabilities and service systems. The service network of 350+ stores, 5,000+ certified engineers, and 7×24-hour hotline across the country is the confidence that allows “whole-house intelligence” to be delivered in batches instead of manually building machines.
This is precisely the invisible barrier that a large number of players who only sell single products cannot overcome.
The renewed essence of “1+3+N”: Let the home upgrade from “listening to instructions” to “making judgments”
The skeleton of this upgrade is still the classic “1+3+N” architecture of Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home, but its connotation has undergone qualitative changes:
“1” refers to the intelligent connection center and computing brain of the whole house. It is more capable of proactive thinking due to the access to Xiaoyi Claw, and can cover the entire matrix of front-mounted/post-mounted smart hosts, so that different apartment types have corresponding computing power bases; “3” refers to the three major interaction methods of voice, touch and non-sensory, realizing
Comprehensive intelligent innovation: Voice interaction relies on “Xiaoyi Butler 6.0” to achieve deep semantic understanding and 3D position control of lights. It can understand spoken instructions, and after debugging, it can identify the location of lamps and other equipment based on the real three-dimensional space of the home; touch interaction covers the entire world through a smart panel that integrates aesthetics and functionality.
scene; non-sensory interaction relies on AI super-sensing sensors and AI-assisted health and wellness sensors to achieve active services such as “lights on when people come, lights off when people leave” and fall alarms; “N” covers ten subsystems such as lighting, sunshade, security, heating and cooling fresh air, and rich Hongmeng Intelligent Connected products to build a smart life experience covering all scenarios.
But what really makes this upgrade different from the previous “more devices, faster connections” narrative is the access of Xiaoyi Claw.
Xiaoyi Claw is essentially a terminal-side Claw-like agent. It is more like the more flexible “hands and feet” of Xiaoyi. It is an AI general housekeeper who can work, coordinate, and learn in the home space.
For example, a user says, “My child is going to climb a mountain at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. Please help me wake him up properly.”
Xiaoyi Claw will independently plan the alarm time, and at the same time gently turn on the bedroom lights, slowly lift the smart bed, and slowly open the curtains.
Users talk about life needs without clear instructions, but Xiaoyi Claw can think about, dismantle, and complete the whole house actions.
Moreover, Xiaoyi Claw will continue to learn the family’s work and rest rhythms, temperature preferences, and lighting usage patterns to form an “exclusive model for each household”, moving from static scenes to dynamic adaptation.
This is a key step in the transition of whole-house intelligence from L1-level remote control + scene linkage to L2-level perception-driven active services.
It is worth noting that Huawei emphasizes that Xiaoyi Claw is the first terminal manufacturer’s Claw intelligent agent to obtain the authoritative security certification of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Data processing is mainly local and privacy is controllable.
In the family scene, “smart” must be “trustworthy” as a premise. This bottom line is precisely the area in the industry that is most easily blurred in AI narratives.
Three-layer ecological closed loop: 3200 +
Brands jointly build a new pattern of open and symbiotic industries
If technology is the engine, then ecology is the highway for Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home to gallop into the market.
Huawei’s Hongmeng Smart Home achieves comprehensive coverage of ecological products through the triple ecological layout of “Huawei self-research + Hongmeng Smart Selection + Hongmeng Smart Connect”: self-developed products build a core hub, Hongmeng Smart Selection joins high-quality partners to create benchmark products, and Hongmeng Smart Connect opens up access to more than 3,200 brands and more than 400 categories, forming an ecosystem of “open symbiosis and complementary advantages”.
This model breaks the chaos of ecological isolation and mutual incompatibility in the industry, and promotes the interconnection of ecological products to become an industry consensus.
For partners, accessing the Hongmeng ecosystem can not only share technology but also reduce R&D costs.
This time, ecological products are “searchable and searchable” through the Smart Life App, which greatly lowers the threshold for users to obtain ecological equipment and reduces market costs for partners.
This “experience closed loop + business closed loop” model will attract more ecological partners to join in, forming a positive cycle of “more devices – better experience – more users”, and the ecological aggregation effect will become increasingly obvious.
DIY as you wish: from high-end fine decoration to universal benefits
The industry often says that smart homes are difficult to popularize because they are “too expensive”.
But this is only half true.
There are three real obstacles: the high cost of early wiring modifications, the inability to put together equipment from different brands, and the inability to use it after installation.
Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home has launched a hierarchical DIY customization solution that can be entered into at a low cost.
The starting price of RMB 5,999 for a two-bedroom, one-living room DIY is not “extremely cheap” in an absolute sense, but for a set of core high-frequency living spaces such as living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. that is operable, has a central linkage logic, and is a systematic solution rather than a piecemeal item, it does push the threshold to the range where an ordinary family is willing to “give it a try.”
Of course, the implementation effect ultimately depends on offline delivery capabilities. No matter how simple DIY is, it cannot avoid practical problems such as “Is the apartment suitable for my home?” “Where to install the sensor?” and “How to set up the linkage logic.”
This is why Huawei emphasizes five major processes, certified engineers, and full-link digital supervision on the service side, because DIY does not mean “you can do it yourself.” On the contrary, it requires standardized services.
The next step in the intelligentization of space is not about who can “connect” better, but who understands “living” better
People, cars, and homes are the three core themes of intelligence that are often mentioned in the field of consumer technology. Every year, HDC will focus on the evolution of smart homes and whole-house intelligence. In recent years, the biggest feeling is that the narrative line of the smart home industry is shifting from “connecting everything” to “letting space actively understand people.”
Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home relies on advanced AI interaction, Hongmeng Smart Connect and open ecology to create an ideal living experience integrating high-end, wisdom, health and reliability, bringing users a smart home that can think, understand emotions and can grow.
The well-priced DIY solutions covering local scenes and whole-house smart renovations not only lower the threshold for smart modifications, but also allow users to easily experience the convenience and fun of smart life.
When people start to learn to think proactively, users’ definition of “intelligence” will not return to the past.
And whoever can deliver this experience to ordinary people’s homes stably and at scale will truly win the battle for space intelligence in the next decade.
This upgrade plan of Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home can be said to provide the industry with a benchmark case of “spatial active service”.
