Smart homes have been popularized for many years, but the speed of entering ordinary people’s homes is far slower than expected.
The core contradiction is that the industry is accustomed to using “how powerful the technology is” to impress users, but what users really care about is “how much better life can be, and at what cost.”
On June 1, Huawei Hongmeng Smart Home announced a comprehensive refresh of the “1+3+N” solution at the HUAWEI nova 16 series and full-scenario new product launch conference.
What is noteworthy about this upgrade is not the parameter improvement, but its attempt to translate technical capabilities into daily language that users can understand and reach – changing the home from “obeying orders” to “active care”, while changing the price from “unaffordable” to “matching as you please”.
When these two problems are overcome and whole-house intelligence enters thousands of households, it will no longer be empty talk.
Let the home “learn” to think proactively
In the past, the experience ceiling of smart home was very clear: the user is the “commander” and the device is the “executor”. You say something and it moves.
The core breakthrough of Huawei’s Hongmeng Smart Home upgrade is to flip this relationship.
The comprehensive access to Xiaoyi Claw allows the system to not only understand and think, but also actively perform complex tasks across devices and scenarios.
The user casually said, “My child is climbing a mountain at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, help me wake him up properly” – without specifying what time to turn on the lights or which devices to link, Xiaoyi Claw will disassemble the complete solution by itself: gradually brightening the lights, slowly raising the smart bed, slowly opening the curtains, and the entire wake-up process will be automatically completed before 10 o’clock.
What users talk about is life needs, and what it delivers is whole-house collaboration. This is the true weight of the word “active”.
The same logic can be applied to every detail of daily life.
The family briefing allows users to ask “What’s abnormal at home this week” like a chat, and the system will summarize abnormal data on security and equipment and report it proactively.
The message on the door lock can identify the identities of different family members. If your child unlocks the door after school and pushes the door home, if the identity of the family member is recognized, the exclusive message you left for him in the morning will be played.
When you are on a business trip and ask “How is the cat at home?” the system will summarize the feeder data and activity tracks and respond proactively. It can also automatically adjust the air conditioner when the temperature is abnormal.
What allows these abilities to continue to evolve is Xiaoyi Claw’s learning mechanism.
It is not a set of programs that will be fixed once it is set up. Instead, it will silently observe the family’s daily routine and automatically adjust the device to match these habits. The more you use it, the better it will become.
It is worth mentioning that Xiaoyi’s Claw is also the first terminal manufacturer’s Claw intelligent agent to obtain the authoritative security certification of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. It is smart and has controllable privacy.
The innovation in interaction methods provides a landing touch point for “active service”.
At the voice level, the in-depth semantic understanding of “Xiaoyi Butler 6.0” eliminates the need for users to recite instructions. With just one sentence, “I want to read a book for a while,” lights, curtains, and fresh air will automatically coordinate.
At the touch level, devices such as the smart central control screen S2 and the smart central control screen MINI can turn on or switch scene functions with one click anytime and anywhere, covering every corner of the home.
The non-sensory interaction goes one step further – the AI super-sensing sensor realizes “lights turn on when people come and turn off when people leave”. When you get up at night and put your feet on the ground, the light strips automatically light up with soft light; AI-assisted health and wellness sensors can sense the status of the elderly without taking pictures, and push alerts immediately when accidents such as falls or falling out of bed occur.
Technology here no longer plays the role of a cold tool, but an “invisible” family member.
Of course, Xiaoyi Claw’s ability to schedule equipment throughout the house ultimately depends on a rich and reliable ecosystem.
This is the value of Huawei’s three-layer ecological layout of Hongmeng Smart Home – three-layer collaboration of Hongmeng Intelligent Connect, Hongmeng Smart Selection, and self-developed products. Currently, it has access to more than 3,200 brands and more than 400 categories.
After these products are connected to Xiaoyi Claw’s scheduling system, they become a collaborative network that can “talk” to each other – the thickness of the ecosystem determines the depth of experience. This is the watershed that distinguishes whole-house intelligence from single-product intelligence.
Good experience is not only in the model room
After the experience is achieved, a more realistic question arises: Is such a home accessible to ordinary people?
Smart homes have been popularized for many years but have never been able to break through the circle. The price threshold and the installation threshold are two big mountains that cannot be avoided.
In the past, a whole-house smart solution cost tens of thousands of yuan, and had to be planned during the decoration stage. It was almost impossible for families who had already moved in to get started.
Huawei’s Hongmeng Smart Home has a very clear idea for solving the problem this time: transforming smart homes from “complete delivery” to “expansion by people and gradual expansion”.
The well-priced DIY solution covers local scenes and whole-house intelligent renovation, allowing users to DIY at will.
The smart children’s room includes smart items such as air-conditioning companions, AI speakers, smart desk lamps, etc. It supports users to DIY at will, creating an eye-protecting and focused learning environment and a constant temperature and oxygen-rich sleeping environment for children.
There is no need to tear down walls and wire wiring, and users can complete the renovation and upgrade at home.
For users who want to get it right in one step, the whole-house plan with two bedrooms and one living room starts from 5,999 yuan, covering core spaces such as the living room, bedroom, and bathroom, and realizing practical functions such as voice temperature control, safety monitoring, and air quality linkage.
A wide range of Hongmeng Smart Connect products can be searched in the Smart Life App, and some products can be purchased directly by jumping to the e-commerce page. Users can search and place orders according to their own needs.
In the past, when building a smart home, you had to go offline repeatedly from plan selection to installation. Now, if you search for “bedroom” in the app, the system will recommend matching packages and place an order with one click.
This reconstruction of consumption links itself is breaking down barriers – users do not need to be technical experts first, they only need to know what problems they want to solve.
Translating technology with sincerity is truly inclusive
The logic of Huawei’s Hongmeng Smart Home upgrade is very simple: hide complex technologies at the bottom of the system and expose simple choices to users.
It has ranked first in the market share of finely decorated houses for four consecutive years. This achievement itself is a footnote – users’ choices are always the most honest.
When smart homes are no longer exhibits in model rooms, but fly into the daily lives of ordinary people, “full ecology, AI evolution” has truly come to fruition.
And “any choice, good price” is the greatest sincerity in realizing this kind of inclusiveness – letting technology bend to life and serve every home.
