Expanding high-quality supply to meet the consumer demands of different groups will help boost consumption.
Currently, the home appliance industry is in a critical stage of leapfrogging from “single product intelligence” to “whole-house active intelligence”.
However, problems such as operating system fragmentation and lack of interconnection standards still exist, becoming important bottlenecks restricting the high-quality development of the industry.
Zhong Zheng, deputy to the National People’s Congress and vice president and chief financial officer of Midea Group Co., Ltd., believes that promoting the establishment of national-level smart home interconnection standards is a practical need to solve the pain points of industry development and improve consumer experience. It is also a key measure to integrate the domestic industrial ecology, gather technological synergy, and transform the advantages of independent innovation into winning trends in industrial development.
In the current smart home market, due to the lack of unified standards, it is difficult to achieve effective interconnection between smart devices of various brands.
Consumers often encounter compatibility issues when purchasing and using smart devices, which not only affects the consumer experience, but also limits the further development of the smart home market.
For example, consumers may have purchased smart home appliances from different brands, but these home appliances cannot communicate and work together effectively, resulting in the inability to fully utilize the functions of the smart home.
Representative Zhong Zheng said that it is necessary to speed up the formulation and implementation of national standards for smart home interconnection and clarify core technical specifications such as device discovery, connection, control, data model, and security protection.
This will help standardize the smart home market, improve product quality and safety, and provide consumers with better products and services.
It is recommended that leading companies play a leading role and encourage leading home appliance and smart home companies to promote ecological co-construction among companies and break down brand barriers.
Through cooperation and resource sharing between enterprises, complementary and collaborative development of technologies can be achieved, and the innovation and development of the smart home industry can be accelerated.
For example, companies of different brands can jointly develop and promote unified interconnection standards so that consumers can use smart devices of different brands more conveniently.
In addition, it is recommended to carry out large-scale application demonstrations, combine the implementation of smart home interconnection standards with the construction of smart communities, affordable housing, elderly care institutions, smart home industrial parks and other projects, and create a number of characteristic demonstration projects such as whole-house intelligence, active energy saving, and elderly care, so as to promote the further improvement and popularization of standards based on market demand.
Through these demonstration projects, more consumers can understand and experience the advantages of smart homes, thereby increasing consumers’ awareness and acceptance of smart homes and further promoting the development of the smart home market.
In short, establishing national-level smart home interconnection standards is of great significance to promoting the high-quality development of the smart home industry.
Only by formulating unified standards, strengthening cooperation between enterprises, and carrying out large-scale application demonstrations can we solve the current problems in the smart home industry, improve consumer experience, and promote the prosperity and development of the smart home market.
