In 2026, Huawei will set off a storm of change in the smart home field.
In the past, when Volkswagen mentioned Huawei’s terminal products, it focused more on the two major categories of smartphones and new energy vehicles.
However, recently, a number of Hongmeng ecological home appliances and home hardware have been unveiled on the same stage, marking that Huawei has officially accelerated the implementation of Hongmeng Smart Home. Relying on the Hongmeng distributed system to break through cross-brand equipment barriers, the development logic of the entire smart home industry has changed accordingly, and a new whole-house IoT landscape is gradually taking shape.
1. Products are unveiled together, and all categories are completed to improve the hardware layout of Hongmeng Smart Home
The products unveiled this time cover the large and small household appliances, security, sensing, and control equipment needed for the living of the whole house. They implement a comprehensive layout from large appliances to small smart accessories, and make up for the shortcomings of Hongmeng Smart Home hardware.
The large home appliance segment includes smart screens, variable frequency air conditioners, built-in refrigerators, washing and drying machines, etc. The hardware is pre-installed with the underlying modules of Hongmeng system, which is no longer the use attribute of a single appliance; small supporting products include smart switches, door and window sensors, human body sensors, smart door locks, sweeping robots, smart speakers, etc.
Different from traditional single-product smart home appliances, these devices come with the Hongmeng Internet protocol and do not need to install additional gateway accessories.
In the same home environment, after all hardware is powered on and connected to the network, they can automatically discover each other and quickly network, saving users the tedious pairing and debugging steps.
It is easy to see from the product layout that Huawei no longer focuses on a single category, but relies on all categories of hardware to build a complete home hardware ecosystem and lay the hardware foundation for whole-house interconnection.
2. Hongmeng distributed core breaks the industry’s years of equipment isolation problem
Traditional smart homes have long had a common problem: different brands of home appliance protocols are incompatible with each other, and refrigerators, air conditioners, and lighting are controlled by different APPs. The devices cannot be linked together. Although they appear to be intelligent, the actual use is severely fragmented. This is also the core reason why many users install smart devices throughout the house and leave them idle.
Hongmeng Smart Home relies on distributed soft bus technology to break through device restrictions from the bottom of the system. Whether it is Huawei’s own hardware or third-party brand home appliances connected to the Hongmeng ecosystem, they can be included in the same management and control system.
Automation scenes can be customized for daily use: after opening the door and unlocking the smart door lock, the entrance lights will automatically turn on, and the living room air conditioner will be adjusted to the appropriate temperature in advance; at night, human body sensors will recognize night movements, and the small hallway lights will gradually light up; when leaving home, the one-click mode will turn off the power to the entire house, turn off the air conditioner, and automatically lock the doors and windows.
All linkage instructions are calculated on the local device without relying on the cloud server, and the automation logic can still run as usual in an offline environment.
Compared with traditional smart home solutions that rely on cloud linkage, local computing power dispatching responds faster, reduces security risks caused by uploading private data, and optimizes the whole-house smart experience from the usage level.
3. The industrial chain is undergoing adjustment, and the direction of smart home competition has changed
Huawei has fully launched Hongmeng Smart Home, which directly drives the adjustment of the entire upstream and downstream smart home industry chain. The industry competition has gradually shifted from a single product cost-effectiveness competition to a competition in ecological interconnection capabilities.
Upstream component manufacturers have begun targeted research and development of main control chips, sensing modules, and power accessories adapted to the Harmony protocol, optimizing hardware specifications around interconnection needs. Midstream white appliance and small home appliance brands have accelerated their access to the Harmony ecosystem. More and more traditional home appliance brands have chosen to pre-install Harmony interconnection modules, abandoning self-developed closed intelligent systems to reduce brand R&D costs.
The offline home decoration and whole-house customization industry has changed accordingly. In the past, decoration only focused on the style and power consumption of home appliances. Nowadays, home decoration design will reserve intelligent wiring and central control installation positions. Whole-house smart decoration has gradually become a mainstream optional item in home decoration. Offline home appliance stores have also added Hongmeng whole-house smart experience areas, shifting from selling single appliances to selling complete solutions.
The entire industry has moved away from the old model of scattered development of single products and moved towards systematic and integrated whole-house solutions, and the market structure has been steadily restructured.
4. Actual measurement comparison: There is an obvious difference in the experience between Hongmeng Smart Home and traditional smart home.
Based on the actual measurement data between offline experiences, the difference between the two smart home solutions at the practical level is intuitive.
Traditional complete sets of smart home appliances: To change air conditioners of different brands, you need to download a new APP. If you want to set up a door-opening linkage air conditioner, you need to purchase an additional third-party gateway. The debugging steps are cumbersome, making it difficult for the elderly to get started. All automated functions will immediately fail when the network is disconnected.
Hongmeng Smart Home’s complete solution: All devices are unified and controlled in the Huawei Smart Life APP or the whole-house central control screen. When new home appliances are added, a pop-up window will automatically connect to the network. The elderly can control the whole-house equipment through voice and central control touch screen, and local linkage will not be affected when the network is disconnected.
At this stage, the entire set of Hongmeng Smart Home is divided into different gear plans. The entry-level model mainly focuses on lights, door locks, and small sensor components to meet the automation needs; the mid-to-high-end model is equipped with a full set of major appliances + whole-house central control to achieve intelligent linkage in all scenarios, and can be adapted to various types of apartments such as renting, just-need home decoration, and large flat floors.
However, the current cost of a complete set of high-end whole-house smart devices is relatively high, and the cost-effectiveness of just-in-demand starter kits is gradually declining. In a short period of time, high-end complete solutions and entry-level single-product solutions will coexist for a long time.
5. Prediction of future development, Hongmeng accelerates the popularization of the Internet of Things for civilians
Relying on the centralized implementation of products and the continuous expansion of the ecosystem, Hongmeng Smart Home will present three clear development directions in the next two to three years.
First, ecological brands continue to expand. A large number of affordable white appliances and small home appliances are gradually connected to Hongmeng. Ordinary small home appliances worth 100 yuan can also be connected to the Internet. The entry threshold for smart homes continues to decrease.
Second, to open up the cross-device ecology, Hongmeng Smart Home is linked to Huawei mobile phones, tablets, and wearable devices. You can remotely check the security status of your home while you are out. The watch will automatically trigger home mode when it senses home, achieving seamless connection between home and mobile devices.
Third, AI is deeply integrated into whole-house intelligence. Relying on end-side AI computing power, the system automatically optimizes temperature control and power consumption logic based on the user’s schedule and usage habits, changing from manually setting scenes to autonomously adapting to living needs.
Looking at the entire Internet of Things industry, the home scene is the largest field for the implementation of the civilian Internet of Things. The large-scale implementation of Hongmeng Smart Home marks the formal implementation of the civilian Internet of Things from concept to the daily lives of ordinary people.
Summary: A number of products have been launched together, which means that Huawei’s Hongmeng Smart Home layout has entered a mature stage of implementation.
Relying on the interconnection advantages of the Hongmeng system, it has solved the industry pain points of non-interoperability of smart home devices for many years, forcing the entire industry chain to upgrade and transform.
Although at this stage, a complete set of high-end whole-house intelligence has not yet been popularized by all people, as the ecosystem improves and hardware costs decrease, intelligent home decoration will gradually become standard equipment for new homes. The new era of whole-house interconnection led by Hongmeng has officially begun.
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