In 2026, whole-house intelligence should be a powerful tool to improve the quality of life, but many people find it difficult to use after installing it.
Recently, when renovating a house, some people planned to install whole-house intelligence in one step. After in-depth research, they discovered that whole-house intelligence is not a simple matter of “buying a few smart appliances”, but a complex system project.
After installing whole-house intelligence, many people were very excited at first. It has functions such as lighting automation, voice control, scene linkage, etc. It feels very futuristic.
However, half a year later, most people are back to where they started. They use switches to turn on lights, remote controls for air conditioners, and manually pull curtains. “Smart scenes” are rarely used anymore.
Is this because the device is not smart enough, or have we misunderstood “whole-house intelligence” from the beginning?
In-depth research found that the intelligence in many people’s homes is “pieced together”. Equipment such as lights, air conditioners, and curtains come from different brands. Each time a device is controlled, an APP must be opened. As a result, the surface is a smart home, but the actual equipment works independently without coordination. This is a pain point in the smart home industry, as everyone lacks systematic thinking.
However, Midea launched the “Midea Meixiangjia” whole-house smart appliance system at the beginning of this year.
It is different from many traditional brands. It does not add functions and linkages to individual products, but covers the core system of the home, reconnecting air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines and other systems to achieve true intelligent interaction.
The whole-house intelligent logic of Midea Meixiangjia is to first understand people and then uniformly schedule equipment.
It first considers a person’s life trajectory at home from morning to night, understands the user’s life scene, such as going home, cooking, sleeping, bathing, etc., and allows the corresponding device to automatically cooperate.
It solves the small links in life that are easily interrupted and consumes energy, and leaves the manual operation steps to the system to complete automatically. Users only need to use the Midea Meiju APP or say something to the central control screen to complete the operation.
At the same time, it emphasizes the active collaboration of home appliances throughout the house. When a person enters a certain life scene, the equipment will be mobilized in a unified manner, automatically monitoring the person’s status and adjusting the equipment.
Take the scene of going home as an example. In the past, when you went home, you had to turn on the lights, air conditioner, etc., like “restarting a system.”
In Midea’s Meixiangjia, the lights automatically turn on when the door is opened, the air conditioner adjusts the temperature, the air purifier works, the hot water system preheats, and the camera enters privacy mode.
It can also switch life scenes according to different needs, such as guest mode, movie viewing mode, etc.
In the sleeping scene, many people do not sleep well because of changes in the environment, and Midea’s Meixiangjia can continuously adapt the environment to people’s sleeping status.
When you say “Xiaomei Xiaomei, I’m going to sleep”, it will enter a complete sleep scheduling process, including sleep preparation and deep sleep maintenance stages, and automatically adjust lights, temperature, humidity, etc.
In the kitchen scene, the cook has to deal with multi-threaded tasks and is easily confused.
After Midea Meixiangjia enters the kitchen state, lights, range hoods, stoves, etc. are automatically prepared, and the refrigerator can also give recipe suggestions based on existing ingredients.
When taking a bath, Midea Meixiangjia can adjust the water temperature in advance, preheat the bathroom, defog the mirror, and improve the bathing water quality.
When washing clothes, it can recommend washing and care procedures based on information such as the fabric of the clothes, remind you to dry them after washing, and can also arrange drying or drying according to weather conditions.
When these scenes are connected together, Midea Meixiangjia can “understand the intention” and combine multiple actions into a scene.
Really good intelligence is not about allowing users to control more things, but about reducing burdens and allowing families to begin to understand people. Everything can be done with just “Xiao Mei Xiao Mei”.
