The smart home appliance industry is on fire, and industry leaders have entered the market one after another

At present, bigwigs from all walks of life have begun to deploy the smart home industry, such as traditional home appliance manufacturers, Internet giant BAT, iQiyi LeTV and other video websites, the Big Three operators, and mobile phone manufacturers have all begun to deploy the smart home industry. In the future, there is huge room for the development of smart home appliances. It is nothing new for the mobile phone industry to enter the field of smart home appliances. Before, Xiaomi, the mainstream terminal brand in the mobile phone industry, has already entered the field of smart home appliances. According to the second quarter financial report released by Xiaomi, In the Internet of Things and smart home appliance business, it has achieved more than 10 billion in revenue. The traditional home appliance industry is in transition, and the traditional intelligent upgrade is the general direction of the future development of the home appliance industry. According to reports, the smart home industry will form a huge market of up to trillions in the future. In addition to Xiaomi, Apple, Samsung, vivo, oppo, Huawei and other bigwigs have laid out the field of smart home appliances, trying to occupy a place in this big market in the future. But today I mainly talk about Xiaomi and Huawei. Xiaomi, one of the best companies in smart home appliances in the mobile phone world In the second quarter of this year, the revenue reached 10.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of 401%. At present, it is firmly in the first camp of smart home. Xiaomi is currently the world's largest IoT platform service provider, and the number of devices connected to the Xiaomi IoT platform has exceeded 100 million. The sales volume of Xiaomi TV is relatively large. According to the data of Yikang, a domestic research organization: in the sales of TVs nationwide in the second quarter, the sales volume of Xiaomi TV ranked first. Huawei, a dark horse in the smart home appliance industry In March 2018, Huawei officially announced its smart home goals and vision, hoping to surpass Xiaomi and become the industry's number one within three years. At present, in the field of smart home, Huawei has partners with more than 150 manufacturers and has launched more than 400 products. In fact, as early as before, it was rumored that Huawei would enter the smart home appliance industry. At present, Huawei has established a color TV business research and development team, which is responsible for the research and development and manufacturing of Huawei color TVs. Huawei's Honor brand will launch the Honor TV, aiming to be the first in domestic sales. Not just TVs, Huawei intends to enter the field of smart home appliances in an all-round way. On August 28, Huawei launched the Huawei Smart Choice brand and its 3 lighting products at the Shenzhen Bantian Base, and established the Ark Lab, which will be responsible for the brand’s smart products. Exploration in the field of home appliances and the Internet of Things. At the same time as the unveiling of the research center, Huawei Zhixuan released its first batch of smart home appliances-three smart lighting devices. The Huawei Ark Lab is located in Bantian Base, Shenzhen. The lab covers 1,000 square meters and includes four areas: single product incubation, scene innovation, store display, and home experience. In terms of IoT, Huawei has built its own IoT home brand HiLink, which currently covers more than 500 products, has reached cooperation with more than 150 manufacturers, and has more than 20 million users. Now, with the launch of Huawei Smart Brand and the establishment of Ark Lab, Huawei Smart Home has ushered in the second phase of 'focusing on breakthroughs in ecological prosperity'. After the first stage of relatively macro development, Huawei began to focus on breaking through the problems existing in the smart home platform and truly create value for ecological partners. This move may become a new starting point for Huawei's smart home business. In the future, Huawei hopes to use intelligent routing to build a 'hub' of home equipment IoT through the 'core-device-cloud' collaboration.