Smart Home is becoming hotter and hotter, and from the control way aspect, development of smart home could be devided into three stages:
1)first stage: control from mobile phone or tablet
For most products, control from mobile phone or not is not the most important icon to show the device is smart or not. Henrik Holen (CEO of Viva Labs) ever said, satisfied smart home products should follow four rules: donai it request end usersaii interaction, let end user to be the host, improve products, and solve trouble for end users.
Not request end userai is interaction is the most important point. Interaction is a small part of smart home products, and most of the time, smart home products should work behind the scenes to help people make life more comfortable.
Some manufacturers make mobile phone to be a must of smart home products. This will bring trouble to life instead of smart and convenience. For example, people could control curtain, lamps from bed if they could be controlled by mobile phone. But if them could only be controlled by mobile phone, they will not be opened without mobile phone. And this will cause trouble.
2) second stage: combo of multi control ways
There should be many ways to control smart home products: control from mobile phone, touch responsive, voice control, gesture control, etc.. Touch responsive is wildly used in washing machine and some other home appliances, voice control is used in smart TV, gesture is used in cup, air conditioner, etc..
At present, there are many control ways but different control ways are used in different products, and could not mixed to be used in same products. But we believe, products could be controlled in multi ways—-by mobile, by touch, just like the smart music lamp from Smart Tiger.
A research showed, people who are willing to control home appliance via mobile phone are up to 28.87%, voice control is 28.44%.
3) third stage: future
No matter control by mobile phone, or combo of multi control ways, at present, itai is people control the products. In future, the ideal smart home products should be which could feel menai is status and automatically take the correct operation accordingly.
For example, bed feel people is sweating, and talk to air conditioner, then air conditioner turn on automatically, and keep the right temperature.
Moreover, smart home appliance could learn peopleai is habits and take the right action accordingly to make life be more convenient. This is what we are expected in future.
And to achive this convenience, we should think about how to remember the ID safety. It should be a smart band? Camera? Or, what else?
