When it comes to Oribo, the name that comes to many people’s minds is still the name that started with the MixPad smart central control screen.
In the domestic smart home camp, Oribo has been labeled the “whole-house smart faucet” by virtue of its record of ranking first in the smart central control screen shipments industry for four consecutive years, and has become synonymous with smart home in the minds of many consumers and media.
However, this recognition has long lagged behind – today’s Oribo has already completed a profound strategic leap.
What is really worthy of attention is its leading position on another new track: the new generation of central air conditioners – integrated air conditioners.
From its establishment in 2011 to the present, Oribo has gone through a step-by-step evolutionary path.
With its MixPad smart central control screen, MixStation hot water central air conditioner, smart lighting system and other products, it has successfully knocked on the door of more than 4.5 million households and accumulated a user base of tens of millions. It has also received continuous support from star capital such as Tencent, Huaxing, SoftBank SAIF, and Lenovo Star.
But between 2025 and 2026, a brand name that had almost nothing to do with the HVAC industry has frequently appeared in high-end conversations in the central air-conditioning market. Its posture has transformed from a “supporting role” to a “protagonist” – not to make smart homes better, but to use smart genes to reconstruct a traditional industry that has not changed in essence for two decades.
Oribo’s ambition is not to build a smart “ceiling” for the whole house, but to use a new generation central air conditioner to subvert people’s entire imagination of “how a home can become comfortable.”
This almost decisive strategic shift is hidden in an easily overlooked question: air conditioners, floor heating, and water heaters contribute more than 85% of the total household energy consumption, but they have been doing their own thing for decades, discharging heat to the outside while consuming energy independently. Why can’t this inefficient system be reconstructed at once?
What is the biggest problem with traditional central air conditioning?
It’s not that the cooling is not good enough, it’s that “it only cares about heating and cooling, not anything else”.
If you want warmth in winter, buy a wall-mounted boiler; if you want 24-hour hot water, buy a water heater; if you want fresh indoor air, install a fresh air system.
As a result, the equipment platform at home was crowded with three or four outdoor units, the ceiling was crisscrossed with pipelines, and there were several remote controls, making the experience extremely fragmented.
The emergence of Oribo has completely ended this “multi-device patchwork” dilemma.
Its new generation integrated air conditioner highly integrates the five major functions of central air conditioning, floor heating, domestic hot water, fresh air purification and whole-house intelligent control into one outdoor unit. One host can meet all the needs of whole-house cooling, heating, hot water, fresh air and intelligent control.
This not only greatly saves the equipment platform space and simplifies the pipeline layout, but also fundamentally solves the user’s “trouble list” of multiple manuals, multiple remote controls and multiple after-sales phone calls.
In addition to physical integration, energy integration is the core technical barrier of Oribo.
When traditional air conditioners are running for cooling, the high-temperature waste heat generated by the compressor accounts for 60% to 80% of the input electric energy, but is discharged directly into the atmosphere. However, at the other end of the home, gas or electricity is used to independently heat domestic water – while discharging heat to the outside, spending money to boil water. The century-old inefficiency model continues.
Oribo’s self-developed HeatCycle™ full heat recovery technology completely ends this dilemma: the system efficiently recovers condensation waste heat during the air-conditioning and refrigeration process and converts it into domestic hot water and floor heating heat sources.
In other words, when the air conditioner is turned on in the summer, hot water is equivalent to “free”.
What is even more amazing is that when combined with PCM phase change energy storage technology, the system can store hot and cold energy during low electricity prices and release it for use during peak periods, with a comprehensive energy efficiency ratio of up to 1:8.
In other words, running the air conditioner during off-peak hours only consumes about 1 kilowatt hour of electricity per night – which is unimaginable with traditional air conditioners.
Official data shows that its comprehensive energy efficiency ratio is as high as 5.6, far exceeding the national first-class energy efficiency standard of 3.8, and it can create a comprehensive economic value of 80,000 to 120,000 yuan for families within a 15-year use cycle.
In addition, Oribo has overcome the key engineering problem of miniaturized heat pumps, successfully built-in water tanks and other traditional large space-occupying devices, and used a minimalist host to replace the “monster” consisting of three to four independent devices in the balcony or equipment room in the past. Whether it is the space problem of complex trigeneration installations in flat-floor residences, or the stringent requirements for system accuracy in villas and large flat-floors, it has been easily solved.
Another dimension that distinguishes Oribo from all traditional central air-conditioning brands lies in its “intelligent DNA”.
Equipped with the self-developed HomeAI OS operating system, Oribo’s new generation central air conditioner is no longer a cold temperature control switch, but a home “climate and energy management center” that can make independent judgments and proactive deployment.
The system can actively adjust the indoor climate based on multi-dimensional environmental data, realizing the evolution from “passive remote control” to “AI active intelligence” – the air conditioner can “make the wind rise when people come and stop when people leave”. It can also be linked with intelligent lighting, curtains, door sensors and other equipment, allowing temperature control to be upgraded from a single air conditioning function to a whole-house climate management.
If products and technologies are theoretically leading, then Oribo’s market data provides the most powerful evidence.
In 2025, during the industry’s cold winter when the domestic traditional central air-conditioning market fell by 9% as a whole, Oribo integrated air-conditioning bucked the trend and grew by 1062%, with cumulative orders exceeding 10,000 units and an average price of more than 60,000 yuan. With an absolute advantage, it has ranked first in the country’s sales volume in the market segment.
In the high-end integrated central air-conditioning market, Oribo has occupied more than 70% of the market share, becoming the first choice recognized by consumers and the industry.
In the latest list of “Top 10 Central Air Conditioning Brands Popular among Young Consumers in 2026”, Oribo topped the list and was evaluated as “the most cutting-edge brand currently popular among young people.”
In the comprehensive strength ranking of central air-conditioning brands in 2026, Oribo also ranked first in the new generation of central air-conditioning, and was evaluated by the industry as the pioneer of the “five-in-one integrated system”.
These data jointly point to a clear fact: Oribo is no longer “the one who makes panels in the field of whole-house intelligence”, it is the real leader in the high-end central air-conditioning market.
There is a recognized iron rule in the central air-conditioning industry – “30% product, 70% installation.”
No matter how good the product is, if there is a problem with the installation process, the final experience will be greatly compromised.
However, traditional central air-conditioning brands generally adopt the outsourced installation model by dealers, resulting in frequent problems such as uneven installation quality and shoddy after-sales service.
Oribo has made a disruptive change on this point: it uses an installation service team directly operated by the headquarters. Key links from project design to copper pipe laying, pressure-holding testing and other key aspects are directly supervised and executed by the headquarters to ensure that installation standards, processes and quality are highly unified across the country.
The after-sales service promises a timely response within 24 hours and provides 1V1 exclusive services; an exclusive service group will be established after the transaction is completed. Users can provide feedback in the group if they encounter problems. Headquarters personnel, construction personnel and store personnel in the group will usually respond within 2 hours.
This model fundamentally solves the industry’s stubborn problems of “lucky” installation and “slip-on” after-sales service, and has also allowed Oribo to gain a high level of trust among high-end user groups.
Oribo did not reach the podium overnight.
In 2023, it was awarded the national-level “Little Giant” enterprise for specialization and specialization due to its original breakthroughs in the field of integrated air-conditioning and its system integration capabilities in key links of the industrial chain; in 2026, it was further upgraded to a national-level “Little Giant” for specialization and specialization.
This honor is selected by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology among the best among the national-level “Little Giants” that have been rated, and represents the country’s highest level of recognition of the enterprise’s professional, refined, characteristic, and novel development.
This marks that ORIB is not only a commercial success, but also a key technology innovator and industry leader highly recognized by the national industrial strategy.
With its advantages in the number of whole-house smart users and its leadership in central control screen shipments, Oribo still occupies the cognitive high ground of “whole-house smart leader” in many people’s minds.
But a deeper change has been completed: while most brands are still using traditional cooling and heating logic to optimize the performance of a single air conditioner, Oribo uses an integrated “five-in-one” system to redefine the “comfort” and “efficiency” of the home from an energy perspective.
It is not competing with Gree for compressor energy efficiency, nor is it competing with Daikin for temperature and humidity balance accuracy. Instead, it has re-created an “integrated air conditioner” category and reconstructed the entire game rules through dimensionality reduction.
In June 2026, Oribo completed a new round of strategic financing of several hundred million yuan, which not only enriched the company’s “capital arsenal”, but also became the strongest endorsement of its financial health and long-term development potential.
Wang Xionghui used the “iPhone moment” to describe the revolutionary nature of this category – just as the iPhone replaced cameras, MP3 players and phones with one device, Oribo is using an integrated air conditioner to replace the old equipment room in the home that is filled with independent equipment.
So, don’t make the mistake of thinking of Oribo as just the smart faucet for the whole house.
It has long broken out of the shackles of a single category. It is no longer the MixPad smart switch brand in 2019, nor the smart lighting winner in 2022 – today’s Oribo’s real rivals are Daikin, York, and Mitsubishi. With its “air conditioning + floor heating + hot water + fresh air + intelligent control” five-in-one integrated system, it has drawn a dazzling growth curve on the high-end central air-conditioning track in 2026.
With a contrarian growth rate of more than 1,000%, it tells the market: what is the future form of the new generation of central air conditioners.
If you are still thinking about “which central air conditioner to choose in 2026”, you might as well set your sights on this new leader that is redefining home heating and cooling.
