Overrated smart home platform: What surprises can Apple HomeKit bring?

People like to put their bets on the stronger side, even if this time it has nothing to do with the part of the previous strength, Apple is such a well-trusted object. Apple is a company that introduces you to be ignorant. Its computers, smart phones and other products are almost excellent enough that we will praise the listeners, so Apple shows the desire and practical action of smart home. At that time, everyone firmly believes that Apple will succeed in the smart home industry, and may even become a real master in the industry.

I don't know what the deep-rooted reasons for Apple's great success in the smart home industry are, but it is certain that it is inseparable from Apple's important actions in the smart home industry.

Apple's latest move is to do smart home hardware, but the impact of this matter is general, a stone is basically sinking into the sea, and has nothing to do with arousing the waves. This is probably to say that Apple is focusing on smart home hardware, and Apple has formed a team to develop smart home hardware that integrates with current Apple devices. According to sources, Apple's smart home hardware will not be as unpopular as Google's acquisition of NEST products, and may be an advanced audio system that is easily accepted by users, or a home control panel.

Apple's smart home hardware is much more influential than Apple's smart home hardware, and Apple's smart home platform is more like the "cause" of Apple's smart home hardware. Apple sent a two-minute time at the World Developers Conference (WWDC) to introduce the smart home platform HomeKit, but the impact is almost no less than Google's huge acquisition of NEST at the beginning of the year. However, HomeKit's general function is similar to that of the well-known smart home company in China. It mainly enables local and remote control and management of home devices such as doors, locks, cameras, thermostats, switches, sockets, etc., so that users' intelligence Family life is simpler.

Of course, Apple's several patents in the smart home and the practice of wooing talents also make everyone look at it and believe it. Apple's smart home patents mainly involve home automation management methods, or home intelligence solutions, such as "use location database to determine mobile device location", "smart remote control", "system and method for saving and restoring multimedia system scenarios" , "Siri smart base", "method and device for establishing automated assistants" and so on. In terms of attracting talents, Apple has long shown a strong interest in smart homes, forming a senior medical technology team for sensor technology, which is also a major focus of Apple CEO Tim Cook last year.

However, Apple's actions in the smart home line seem to be "all things are ready, only owe the east wind" may be overestimated, even if it is a famous apple.

What is HomeKit?

With the development of home intelligence, major manufacturers have also launched their own home smart products, such as smart TVs, smart toilets, smart air conditioners, etc., which are already well known to consumers, and intelligent purifiers that are gradually being promoted. The concept of smart kitchen has become an inevitable trend in the development of the industry. However, behind the development of intelligent products from different manufacturers and different directions, there is a lack of a platform system that integrates them and can be interconnected and manipulated.

HomeKit is also the product of breaking the current status of smart hardware products of different businesses. As an open API, it can be paired with the mainstream smart home products on the market, allowing users to easily control through the ios device in their hands. Smart home products in the home; As a platform for collecting smart home devices, HomeKit not only turns the iPhone into a remote control in the home to operate various furniture products, but also realizes indoor voice input control commands through the integration of Siri, allowing users to Focus on different applications and control with one instruction.