On May 28, 2026, the 2026 Smart Home Service Summit·Shanghai Station with the theme of “Multi-dimensional Breakthrough·Global Growth” was held grandly at the Novotel Shanghai Jiantao Hotel.
The summit attracted the participation of many industry insiders to discuss the development trends and innovation models of the smart home industry.
Shi Qihao, head of CSHIA Entrepreneurship Camp Shanghai Learning Center and partner of Space Partners, shared the theme “New Blue Ocean: The Implementation Logic of Lightweight Intelligent Systems in B-side Projects”.
Shi Qihao said that the current C-side competition in the smart home market is becoming saturated, and the B-side has become a new growth engine.
The B-end market covers six major fields: smart buildings, real estate, hotels, offices, health care, and commerce. Not only is the market size huge, but the demand for renovation is also very strong.
B-side business has the characteristics of long decision-making link, long service cycle and high customer price. Its core lies in professional services and system integration, which opens up a high-value growth track for integrators.
Relying on six major tooling scenarios, lightweight intelligent solutions accurately solve the industry’s pain points and release market potential.
In the field of smart buildings, we focus on end-of-line management and control and zero-carbon transformation, using wireless solutions to adapt to new and old buildings; in smart real estate, we open up delivery gaps to realize account transfer and incremental mining; smart hotels focus on reducing energy consumption and manpower, and promote a light transformation operation and maintenance model; smart offices focus on non-sense energy conservation and are suitable for diverse office scenarios; smart health care meets the needs of the elderly, customizing home community institutional solutions; commercial scenarios focus on atmosphere economy and unattended services, covering multiple subdivisions.
In addition, tools such as Aqara Studio enable low-code development, greatly improving the implementation efficiency of integrators.
The innovative space partnership model builds a win-win ecosystem of C-side capabilities × B-side resources.
B-side integrators hold project resources, but operations are heavy; C-side service providers are good at ecological integration and experience optimization. The two complement each other’s shortcomings and synergize.
Through personnel, light assets, and collaboration to share profits, existing projects can be revitalized, incremental markets can be expanded, and scale growth can be achieved without heavy investment.
This model provides integrators with a new business logic, helping them break through growth bottlenecks, delve into the B-side blue ocean, exchange stock for increment, and exchange collaboration for scale, and promote the smart home industry to move towards a broader development space.
At the same time as the conference, exciting activities such as the “CSHIA Entrepreneurship Camp Service Capacity Seminar” were also successfully held.
At the summit, companies such as Mailian, Drake, Zaozuo, Xiangxiang, Tanjia, Yichao, ICLICK, BESTJOY, Xinguang Intelligence and other companies brought concentrated displays of the latest innovative products and solutions, attracting the audience to stop and watch and experience.
These innovative products and solutions demonstrate the latest technology and development direction of the smart home industry, injecting new vitality into the development of the industry.
The successful holding of this summit provides a platform for communication and cooperation for the development of the smart home industry, helping to promote innovation and development in the industry.
With the continuous development of the B-end market and the emergence of innovative models, the smart home industry is expected to usher in broader development prospects.
