Ten major events in the smart home industry in 2016
HC Security Network News time flies, wall calendars and turn to the last page, the 2016 comes to a close. Throughout the year, the smart home sector has been moving, and it has had a profound impact on the smart home industry, whether at the policy, technology or market level.
Ten major events in the smart home industry in 2016
Time flies, the wall calendar is turned to the last page, and 2016 is coming to an end. Throughout the year, the smart home sector has been moving, and it has had a profound impact on the smart home industry, whether at the policy, technology or market level. So, what are the major events in the smart home industry during the year? Let's take a look at it together.
I. Haier's 5.4 billion US dollar acquisition of GE appliance business
On January 15, 2016, Haier Group and General Electric signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the United States. The two parties will cooperate on a global scale to jointly enhance their competitiveness in the fields of industrial Internet, medical and advanced manufacturing. Qingdao Haier Co., Ltd., which is 41% owned by Haier Holdings, issued an announcement to purchase home appliance business from GE in cash, with a transaction amount of US$5.4 billion.
Haier's cooperation with GE is on the one hand, through the acquisition of world-class brands and its mature product technology, to integrate global R&D resources, research and development of the most competitive products, and enhance brand premium; on the other hand, it is to see In the new software operating platform Predix powered by GE. Predix is ​​a sensor, device, cloud-based source data and open communication framework that enables people to load new applications to analyze, predict, diagnose and improve the efficiency of existing industrial machines. On November 24th, Haier released Haier UHomeOS, the first ecological operating system customized for smart homes. I wonder if it will benefit from this?
Second, the national 315 party, smart home security is valued
The security issue of smart homes is about the immediate interests of users. At this year's CCTV 315 party, the show spearheaded directly to smart home products, and its security issues were highlighted.
In the program, hackers can use security vulnerabilities to invade the smart home system. The smart devices at home can be controlled by hackers, and there are device security and user privacy privacy vulnerabilities. There are two vulnerabilities in the smart field. First, most of the intelligent hardware is connected through the WiFi, which provides a channel for the hacker to invade the device. Second, the security hardware system generally has security vulnerabilities, and the hacker can exploit the vulnerability to seize the control of the hardware. This is the first time at the 315th party to focus on the security issues in the smart field, and smart home security is valued.
Third, the United States' 53.7 billion yen acquisition of Toshiba White
On March 17, Midea Group announced that it had reached a memorandum of understanding with Toshiba Corporation (hereinafter referred to as Toshiba) on the acquisition of its white goods business and obtained a controlling stake in Toshiba's white goods business through acquisition. With Haier's acquisition of GE's home appliance business and Midea's acquisition of Toshiba's white-light business, the global "white-and-white" model has been basically established.
Midea did not stop here. On the afternoon of August 8, Midea Group announced that as of August 4, 2016, the KUKA acquisition that lasted for several months finally reached the dust, and the United States finally held the issued share capital of KUKA Group. The ratio is 94.55%. Then, the United States has successively reached strategic cooperation with the two giants, Huawei and Ali. 2016 can be said to be a year of great speed and arrogance.
Fourth, Xiaomi released smart home brand mijia
Since the end of 2014, Xiaomi has launched related equipment in the field of smart home. On March 29 this year, Xiaomi officially held a press conference to release a new brand of Xiaomi smart home, Mijia.
Many of the millet eco-chain companies are involved in the smart home field. The “Mijia†brand was officially launched, carrying Xiaomi’s smart family strategy. Xiaomi hopes to continue to incubate more innovative enterprises and expand its ecological chain through the successful operation mode of Xiaomi mobile phone. At the same time, it will continue to break through the bondage of Xiaomi mode and gain better development space.
However, after several years of rapid expansion, the Xiaomi ecological chain has been breeding extremely complex, and its eco-chain enterprise products are inconsistent, frequently exploding scandals such as “plagiarism†and “falsificationâ€, and the brand image of Xiaomi. Xiaomi hopes to take advantage of the difference between Xiaomi and the eco-chain enterprise to maintain the brand image. It seems that the results are good. In 2016, Mijia's new sweeping robots and air purifiers were widely acclaimed; Xiaomi's own TV new product Xiaomi TV 3s introduced artificial intelligence technology for the first time, which is also favored by consumers. Although Xiaomi has been unable to ride the dust in the mobile phone field, it seems that Xiaomi has found a new way.
Five, Google released GoogleHome
At 1 am on May 19, the 2016 Google I/O Developers Conference kicked off at the Shoreline Ampitheatre Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, at Google's headquarters. At the conference, Google launched the new GoogleHome smart speaker.
Appearance, GoogleHome is similar to our common smart home box, which can be designed according to different environments and looks very beautiful.
Functionally, with voice control, GoogleHome can connect your lights, thermostats, etc., and become the control center of the home. It is very easy to use with Google Assistant.
According to the latest report released by consumer intelligence research institute CIRP (ConsumerIntelligenceResearchPartners), as of November 21, 2016, the Echo series has sold 5.1 million units in the United States, which seems to confirm that Google's choice of smart speakers is very sensible. However, as a latecomer, GoogleHome is still inferior to Amazon Echo in many conveniences. Can Google achieve anti-over in the future? We will wait and see!
Six, NestCEO announced its resignation
In 2014, it was acquired by Google for a high price of 3.2 billion US dollars, making Nest a leader in the smart home industry. However, in the following period, the performance of Nest, which was given independent management rights, was not satisfactory: externally, its tepid product line and performance had attracted many criticisms from Google; internally, Fadell repeatedly Accused of managing rough and chaotic, executive resignation has become almost commonplace.
Since its acquisition by Google in 2014, Nest's performance has never met expectations. In 2015, for example, the revenue of $340 million was much lower than the goal set by Nest before the acquisition of Dropcam. The latter CEO, Greg Duffy, publicly stated that he was very remorseful for selling the company to Nest, and the main reason for this problem was that Nest’s leadership and management were “frustratedâ€.
On June 3, 2016, NestCEOFadell announced its resignation through Twitter and announced that he would resign as the CEO of Nest, but will remain at Google and continue to serve as an advisor to Alphabet CEO Larry Page.
In September, foreign media reported that Alphabet (also known as Google's parent company) will reorganize NestLabs, the smart home division that produces thermostats and smoke detectors, and will become a part of Google's IoT sector in the future. The star ended up stunned.
Seven, Apple launched HomeAPP
At 10 o'clock on the morning of June 13, the Apple WWDC2016 Global Developers Conference opened on time. At the conference, Apple released the Smart Home APP application home.
As early as Apple's Global Developers Conference in 2014, Apple released HomeKit, a smart home application platform for global intelligent hardware developers. Developers based on HomeKit's open source protocol to develop and adapt Apple's HomeKit smart home platform. A smart home device that allows users to control smart hardware such as lights and curtains through mobile phones and tablets.
The release of HomeKit has had a major impact on the development of smart homes, but Apple seems to have been unsatisfied with this application, once put it on hold. After two years, Apple's layout of the smart home field has finally ushered in significant progress. The update of iOS10 turns the smart home platform HomeKit into a real-life smart home software application Home, which is a unified management home for all intelligence. Software terminal for home equipment.
Eight, LeTV bought $2 billion in Vizio
In the early morning of July 27, at 11 am local time in San Francisco, LeTV announced in the United States that it would acquire Vizio, the first TV brand in the United States, for 2 billion yuan. At this point, the media tracked the multi-day Vizio acquisition war.
After the acquisition, Vizio will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of LeTV Holdings. Through Vizio's market, LeTV will become the second largest LCD TV manufacturer in the North American market after Samsung. The alliance between the two companies has also made LeTV a dominant brand in both the mainstream TV markets in China and the United States.
After the news came out, there was a media questioning that LeTV’s move was too eager to swallow the evil fruit, and did not want to say a word. In just a few months, LeTV was caught in a capital chain crisis. Jia Yueting slammed on the brakes. The company laid off a large number of employees, and the outside world questioned the voice constantly. When I was thinking about the infinite scenery, I couldn’t help but feel that this was a moment.
IX. "Special Action for Innovation and Development of Intelligent Hardware Industry" was issued
On September 21, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission officially issued the "Special Action for Innovation and Development of Intelligent Hardware Industry (2016-2018)", which clearly defined the action targets for this stage:
1. By 2018, China's smart hardware global market share exceeds 30%, and the industrial scale exceeds 500 billion yuan.
2. Obtained significant breakthroughs in key technologies such as low-power lightweight system design, low-power wide-area intelligent object, virtual reality, intelligent human-computer interaction, high-performance motion and attitude control, and cultivated a group of industry-leading listed companies. .
3. The participation, contribution and influence in the international mainstream ecology have significantly improved, and overseas patents account for more than 10%.
4. Established three supporting platforms for standard development, product and application testing, and industrial supply capability monitoring. Intelligent hardware standardization and public service capabilities have reached the international advanced level.
5. Layout a number of high-level innovation platforms with advanced technology, outstanding features and complementary advantages, and the ability to support innovation and innovation has been significantly improved.
6. Intelligent industrial sensors, intelligent PLCs, intelligent unmanned systems and other industrial-grade intelligent hardware products form scale demonstrations, driving production efficiency up more than 20%.
7. Form a number of industrial application solutions that can be replicated and promoted, and the industry will benefit people and benefit the people.
X. Dong Mingzhu was removed from the chairman of Gree Group
On November 11, according to the confirmation of Zhuhai SASAC, Dong Mingzhu no longer serves in Gree Group. In the future, he is only the chairman and president and legal representative of Gree Electric. As soon as the news came out, the industry was in turmoil, and various analyses of Dong Mingzhu’s “dismissal of the inside story†came to the fore.
Soon, on the evening of November 24, Gree Electric announced: "From December 2016, on the basis of the existing monthly salary, Gree Electric will increase the monthly salary for all employees who have been employed for three months. Yuan." This is regarded as a counterattack by Dong Mingzhu.
After a wave of unrest, from November 17 to 28, Gree Electric's share price rose by 27%, and the turnover rate reached 32%. On November 28th, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange issued a Letter of Concern to Gree asking it to check related matters. On December 1st, Gree Electric responded that from November 17th to 28th, Qianhai Life Insurance purchased a large number of shares of the company, and its shareholding ratio increased from 0.99% at the end of the third quarter of 2016 to 4.13%. The sixth largest shareholder rose to the third largest shareholder. The industry can't help but worry that Gree will encounter the "barbarians" invasion, and Dong Mingzhu may repeat the mistakes of Wang Shi. Although so far, everyone's concerns have not become a reality, but after a series of turmoil, the future will undoubtedly increase more uncertainty.
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