Shortly before the end of the CES meeting, the new technology and are not even worth mentioning, booth Amazon Alexa but out of the limelight, which gives people a feeling Home Furnishing will become a new growth point. AWE 2017 is about to begin, as one of the largest consumer electronics show, it may not be so strong a sense of the future, but our life more closely, because here most of the products you can buy within one or two years. So AWE 2017 has become an important window for us to observe the home industry.
This year AWE will be held at Shanghai New International Expo Center, exhibition area reached 120 thousand square meters, compared with last year rose by 40%, from W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, E1, E2, N1, composed of 8 pavilions, involving black and white appliances, kitchen appliances, Home Furnishing 13 product lines. In addition to the corresponding home appliance manufacturers in their booth display of household electrical appliances, the exhibition is also set up in the E2 Museum Home Exhibition, to showcase the home program and platform.
In 2015, home appliance products access to the Internet the peak year, TV, refrigerator, even hoods have begun to increase the network function of AWE 2016 on the theme "Internet plus, my home"; and in the past year, manufacturers began to think more about the home appliance network can do what hardware software data algorithm to more fully combined, so this year AWE''s theme is "the wisdom of life, all in AWE".
Traditional home electrification
Home appliances has been a very mature industry, product innovation to improve the main type, the overall profit margin is low. In the context of consumer upgrades, many household electrical appliance enterprises are turning into an important strategy for the future. Traditional household electrical appliance enterprises have a strong channel and perfect product community, so they are more likely to enter the home user''s home products, the user needs will be more accurate grasp.
Large screen Samsung AWE 2016 refrigerator is one of the most dazzling products, it has a 21.5 inch touch screen, the refrigerator has a high-definition camera, can monitor the ingredients, to facilitate the management of food, can also be directly online in the refrigerator to buy food. This screen can also synchronize the contents of the home TV, so that the cooking process has not become so boring.
After more than a year of development, SIEMENS''s home Internet is also increasingly mature, in the last year, a line of experience activities, the experience of the field experience a full set of home networking equipment is how to work. In the oven, for example, as long as the menu is sent to the machine, the system will set the most appropriate mode and temperature, as long as the corresponding ingredients into the oven, you can complete cooking.
In last year''s AWE, Haier has almost an entire hall, released the U+ ecosystem''s ultimate, including delicacy ecosystem, ecosystem, ecosystem care air, water ecosystem and so on. Haier in 2014 began the layout of the wisdom of life ecological platform construction, and launched a U+ intelligent life open platform, which covers the entire home solutions. Through this system, the user just 12 seconds can be achieved with all home terminal cross brand, cross product interoperability. At the same time it is an open platform, any product can be added.
In 2016, Haier launched a new U+ platform upgrade, the wisdom of life strategy 2, Microsoft released U+ Smart Life brain, adopted a new technology of speech recognition, image recognition and so on, from the connected appliances to provide services to users through the manual, this is a qualitative leap.
The traditional home appliance manufacturers Home Furnishing products starting from the appliance itself, for the addition of operating system and network function, or directly relying on its huge product group to build an open platform, but they initially may not very practical, if the use of these new hardware to provide users with better services will become an important topic this year the.
Robot into the family
In the 2016 Spring Festival Gala, and required Alpha robot stunning the audience, the robot to the ordinary consumer perspective. Although the artificial and the robot is not the same concept, but the popularity of artificial concept also played a certain role in the education of the robot. Cleaning robot headed by the sweeping robot began to get rid of the "intellectual" hat. Although there is a certain distance from the overall outbreak of the home robot, but in various segments, manufacturers are working hard.