What can AI technology bring? What can I change?

"The Mirror Mirror tells me who is the most beautiful woman in the world?" This seems to be only a fantasy scene that appears in fairy tales. Under the magic of technology, it has become a reality at your fingertips.

Get up and step on the smart scale, the mirror in the bathroom will automatically display the skin's moisture content, body fat rate, skeletal muscle rate, protein, to understand today's weather conditions, gently touch the mirror, weather forecast, PM2.5 Information such as content and dressing index is immediately visible; after washing the clothes, the drying rack behind the machine automatically drops to the best position for the owner to properly clothes; when you forget to close the window, the window will automatically close once it rains...

In the Smart Home Experience Center of the Anhui Branch of the China Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute, the reporter saw that the traditional home has become more intelligent, healthy, comfortable and safe through the "communication" of the "family brain".

"From smart home to smart home, AI is subverting the competitive landscape of the entire home industry. For China's home appliance industry, opportunities and risks are now coexisting!" said Liu Ting, president of China Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute.

Along with the global wave of industrial transfer, China has become a major exporter of home appliances and a major global supplier. China's home appliances are not only exported to developing countries such as Southeast Asia, but also exported to the United States, Europe and other developed countries. In 2016, the total sales volume of air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines in China accounted for 44%, 36% and 31% respectively.

Experts pointed out that in the development of smart homes, China and the international advanced countries are at the same level, and even in some areas are still in the lead. With the rapid development of AI technology and the improvement of computer deep learning ability, the people's pursuit of high-level home life is constantly improving, and it is expected to detonate the development of the smart home industry. The industry estimates that by 2020, China's smart home appliance sales revenue will exceed 100 billion yuan, reaching 101.5 billion yuan.

Guo Yongxin, deputy secretary-general of the China National Light Industry Council, believes that although the smart home industry has broad prospects, the risks and challenges facing the development of the industry cannot be ignored. From smart to smart home, the current home industry still lacks the overall intelligent collaboration, which directly leads to the low level of “intelligence” of smart home appliances, which makes it difficult to improve the user experience.

The lack of uniform industry standards or national standards has led to the closure of smart home appliances systems, the incompatibility between brands of products, and the inability to achieve synergy between home appliances has become a "pain point" in the process of smart homes.

In the era of "everything interconnected" where hacker technology is everywhere, smart home appliances are connected to the Internet. How to solve network security, user information security, and how to protect personal privacy? These have brought severe technical and ethical tests to the development of smart homes. Just as Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out at the Hefei Internet Conference recently that cybersecurity is a long-term and difficult task. Security issues are just like the development, and they are also the "hard truth" that needs urgent attention.

At present, high competitiveness, high concentration, high technical barriers, and insufficient product innovation capabilities have become new problems in the development of China's home appliance industry. Guo Yongxing said that with the iterative development of the industry, industry reshuffle is inevitable. The non-price competition method represented by technological innovation, quality and service will become the “handcuffs” for home appliance enterprises to seize the commanding heights of the industry.

Experts pointed out that with the development of artificial intelligence, Internet of Things technology, and big data cloud computing, the future smart home industry will have a trend of cross-border integration and development. For enterprises, to understand the trend of industry changes, adjust development strategies in time, adapt to the development law of the Internet economy, and compete from competition to competition, in order to be invincible in the fierce competition in the industry. (Source: Economic Information Daily)

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