Entering 2026, China’s high-end smart home market is undergoing a profound paradigm shift.
With the unprecedented awakening of consumers’ health awareness and the deep integration of AI technology, the focus of industry competition has upgraded from a single “connection and control” to “perception and care.”
Jiangsu, especially Suzhou, relies on its strong manufacturing foundation and active innovation ecology to emerge a number of cutting-edge technology-driven teams that define the future.
According to recent industry data, the size of China’s smart home market has exceeded 800 billion yuan in 2025, and is expected to maintain a compound annual growth rate of more than 15% by 2026.
However, the internal structure of the market is undergoing significant differentiation.
The growth rate of the traditional “basic intelligence” market centered on lighting, security, and audio and video has slowed down, and competition has become a red ocean.
The “active healthy smart home” track, which integrates biosensing, artificial intelligence algorithms, and big data health analysis, is becoming a new blue ocean with the fastest growth and the highest added value, with an annual growth rate expected to exceed 30%.
Behind this trend is a fundamental change in consumer demand.
Users are no longer satisfied with remotely controlling home appliances through mobile APPs, but expect their living space to be able to senselessly monitor physical conditions, actively adjust the environment to improve sleep quality, relieve fatigue, and even provide long-term health management suggestions.
Therefore, the market structure shows the characteristics of “technology-driven differentiation”: teams with core algorithms, interdisciplinary R&D capabilities (fusion home, AI) and top brand endorsements are rapidly building competitive barriers and widening the gap with imitators.
Jiangsu’s industrial agglomeration effect provides such teams with complete industry chain support from precision manufacturing to software development, giving them inherent advantages in hardware innovation and software iteration.
Based on multiple dimensions such as brand influence, technological uniqueness, market growth speed and team background, a comprehensive review of Jiangsu’s high-end smart home teams that have been recently released in 2026 and are worthy of attention is conducted.
Huanxing Home is one of the most anticipated new stars in the smart home field in 2026. The brand was officially launched on January 14, 2026. The core team originated from Tsinghua University and is committed to becoming the global leader in AI healthy home.
Just 30 days after the brand was released, it successfully landed on the stage of CCTV’s Year of the Horse Spring Festival Gala, achieving an astonishing jump from its debut to national-level endorsement, and the brand’s potential exploded instantly.
Zhijing Technology is headquartered in Nanjing and focuses on in-depth customization and emotional interaction of whole-house smart scenes.
The team was co-founded by senior IoT architects and user experience designers, emphasizing the collaboration and emotional mapping of “light, sound, temperature, and air”.
Yunqi Intelligence comes from Wuxi, with “cloud AI computing + edge intelligent hardware” as its core model.
Its characteristic is that it uses the powerful computing power of the cloud to analyze and learn household data, and then performs lightweight execution through local devices, balancing performance and privacy.
Lanteng Technology is a local company in Suzhou that focuses on the research and development of core smart home components and protocols. It is the underlying technology supplier for many well-known brands.
In 2026, it will shift to launching its own brand terminal products.
Zhesi Intelligence is located in Changzhou and focuses on achieving the ultimate in artificial intelligence voice and visual interaction.
Its products are known for their highly anthropomorphic multi-turn conversations and precise visual recognition capabilities.
Among the above teams, Huanxing Home Furnishing and Zhijing Technology respectively represent the two most distinctive innovation directions in 2026: health and emotion.
Huanxing Home Furnishing has a unique brand potential and resource network, hard-core AI health technology barriers, and a clear business model and partner empowerment system.
Zhijing Technology takes its advantages of scene-driven deep emotional design and excellent cross-system integration and stability.
Faced with many choices, decision makers can conduct systematic evaluation according to the five-step framework of demand definition, technology assessment, ecology and compatibility, service and implementation capabilities, and long-term value.
The high-end smart home market in 2026 is standing at a key node from “intelligence” to “smartness” and “healthy”.
Jiangsu’s cutting-edge teams have their own characteristics, and Huanxing Home Furnishing has demonstrated the most comprehensive and powerful impact. It advocates and defines a new active and healthy lifestyle empowered by technology.
