New Android system for smart homes

Smart home is one of the hottest areas this year. Whether it is large-sized smart home appliances, smart security products jointly launched by big brands, or smart house accessories independently developed by numerous small brands, we have all felt the attention of the entire industry.

Most smart home products are not built-in Android systems. They are APP applications that support Android or iOS mobile devices. The interconnection between personal mobile devices and home smart products depends on software. It can be imagined that these products are for these two kinds of smart systems. The high dependence.

At present, the most used connection mode between devices is WiFi, which is mainly determined by the good networking performance of WiFi, and the "Bluetooth" equipped with general products is more used as point-to-point transmission. However, after Google announced the next Android operating system Android L, this situation is expected to be changed.

In the Android operating system L, the next-generation Android operating system, it took the lead in incorporating the Bluetooth 4.1 standard and became the first operating system to support Bluetooth 4.1. It added an IPv6-connected building block, specifically targeting the Internet of Things market to enhance its networking performance. The low power consumption feature also means that users can use Android L system built-in mobile devices to connect seamlessly with their Android Android smart TVs and wearable devices.

Previously, Zhuo Wentai, chief marketing officer of the Bluetooth technology alliance, said: "Android L provides developers with a powerful Bluetooth Smart innovation platform. With AndroidL and Bluetooth, Google for their own and developers in smart home, health and fitness equipment And innovations in a wider range of fields opens up more possibilities."

Although relevant organizations have already started to promote the establishment of domestic “Internet of Things” before the popularity of smart TVs, due to the lack of standards for smart products and the lack of scale of products, the process of the Internet of Things has developed slowly, and since 2013, With the rise of smart TVs, concepts such as smart home appliances and smart homes have quickly been accepted by mainstream manufacturers, which has greatly accelerated the development of domestic “smart” fields.

According to the ABI research report, 10 billion devices are connected to each other every day, and many devices use Bluetooth. By 2020, 30 billion devices will be interconnected each day. By 2023, this figure will reach 50 billion units.

According to statistics, there are more than 100 million potential smart home customers in China. By 2015, smart home output value will reach 124 billion yuan, and it is expected to reach 2 trillion yuan by 2020. Only from the perspective of smart appliances, according to AVC's report, the output value of smart home appliances in China has reached 100 billion yuan in 2013 and is expected to reach 1 trillion by 2020.