At Huawei’s full-scenario new product launch conference on June 1, Hongmeng Smart Home completed a comprehensive refresh of the “1+3+N” solution. The core change is that Xiaoyi Claw is connected to the home brain, allowing whole-house intelligence to change from “people looking for devices” to “device active services.”
This incident may seem like a routine product upgrade, but in fact it is a turning point in the whole-house intelligence industry. The ten-year narrative of “connection is king” may really have to be rewritten.
In the past ten years, the core logic of the development of whole-house intelligence has always been “connecting devices to the Internet.”
Whether it is voice control or remote operation, it is essentially a passive mode of “human beings give instructions and the device executes them”.
To use smart home well, users need to remember the fixed command format, adapt to the interaction logic of the device, and accept fragmented linkage between devices of different brands.
Many users who have installed whole-house smart devices are still accustomed to turning the lights on and off manually, because shouting instructions every time is more troublesome than manual operation.
The ultimate goal of smart home should be to allow users not to feel the existence of “smartness”, but to enjoy the convenience of smartness everywhere.
This upgrade of Hongmeng Smart Home just solves the pain points that have not been solved in the industry for ten years, returning the ability to think proactively to the system, allowing the device to adapt to the user.
Many people only remember that “Xiaoyi Claw has five core capabilities”, but do not understand the changes in the technical logic behind it.
A key step in this upgrade is to bring the AI capabilities of large cloud models to local home brains.
Xiaoyi’s Claw is the first terminal manufacturer’s Claw-type intelligent agent to obtain authoritative security certification from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. It can complete cross-device task disassembly and autonomous scheduling locally.
For example, if a user says, “My child is going to climb a mountain at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, help me wake him up properly.” Traditional smart homes will only set alarm clocks, but Xiaoyi Claw will automatically disassemble the process, plan the time in advance, and gently turn on the lights, lift the smart bed, and open the curtains in sequence, without the need for manual settings.
Xiaoyi Claw can also independently learn the living habits of the whole family, remember the time when children get up to do homework, the family’s preferred lighting brightness and air-conditioning temperature, and actively adjust it.
For families with pets, it can realize pet location identification, status summary, automatically turn on the air conditioner when the temperature is abnormal, and remotely trigger the feeder to add food.
This change turns the entire home into an organic whole that can think and learn.
For ordinary users to truly make good use of smart homes, interactive and ecological supporting upgrades are indispensable.
Hongmeng Smart Home has completed systematic evolution around the three major interactions of voice, touch, and senseless.
In terms of voice interaction, Xiaoyi Butler 6.0 supports deep semantic understanding, can accurately control lights, and also supports whisper mode; touch interaction covers all scenes to meet different operating habits; senseless interaction has been strengthened to achieve “lights turn on when people come and turn off when people leave”. In health care scenes, it can sense sleep status, identify abnormal falls and provide reminders.
At the ecological level, Hongmeng Smart Home has access to 3,200+ brands and 400+ categories, covering all home scenarios.
The DIY smart renovation plan released this time has lowered the industry threshold. The two-bedroom and one-living room plan starts from as low as 5,999 yuan, and ordinary families can easily afford to install smart homes throughout the house.
Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home has occupied the first place in the market share of finely decorated housing for four consecutive years, and has in-depth cooperation with leading real estate companies such as Vanke and Poly.
In the To C market, the threshold is lowered through DIY inclusive solutions to achieve full link coverage from the B end to the C end.
At the service level, Hongmeng Smart Home provides 7×24 hotline response, 2-hour response, and door-to-door service within 3 days. It has 350+ stores and 5,000+ certified engineers across the country, and supports 1-year warranty and permanent free software upgrades.
From an industry perspective, this upgrade of Hongmeng Smart Home has restructured the competitive dimension of whole-house intelligence.
In the past, we focused on the cost performance of individual products, the number of connection agreements, and high-end market share. Now we focus on overall proactive service capabilities, AI proactive decision-making experience, and mass market penetration speed.
This dimensional switching will accelerate the differentiation and integration of the industry, and those players who are still stuck in “the number of connections” will face pressure.
The renewal of Huawei’s Hongmeng Smart Home has pointed out the direction for the entire industry in the next decade: from “passive connection” to “active service”, from “tools” to “understanding your living space”.
In the future, more players will follow this direction, and ordinary people will be able to use truly useful whole-house intelligence faster.
