“Because of the promotion of Internet vendors such as Ali and Xiaomi, it is expected that the smart home terminal equipment in China will usher in a blow-out period in 2019.†During the recent CES ASIA 2018 exhibition, Zhou Wei, general manager of Silicon Labs China, predicted that . This point we can feel at the CES ASIA 2018 exhibition site, whether it is traditional home appliance manufacturers, Internet giants, or a number of emerging smart technology upstart in recent years, bringing a wide range of smart home products, from the entrance door to the living room, Restaurant, kitchen, bedroom, full set of smart products can make a family from the inside to the outside to create a full sense of technology. If the exhibits at the exhibition usually still make people feel a sense of distance, then in the reality of our lives, smart door locks do appear in more and more communities that emphasize quality, smart speakers, smart sockets, smart TVs, smart air conditioners. And other devices have begun to appear in more families. It can be said that the smart home market seems to have finally come to a large-scale commercialization time point after market cultivation in the previous years. Zhou Wei (Right), General Manager of Silicon Labs China (right) and Chen Xiongji, Senior Market Manager, Asia Pacific, Silicon Labs (left) As a consumer market, the data shows that by 2022, the global smart home equipment can reach a market size of 940 million units. The compound annual growth rate during this period is 18%, although it cannot be compared with smartphones on the order of magnitude. But it should not be overlooked. The growth of smart home devices brought about an increase in demand for chip products including sensors, wireless connectivity, and processors. For Silicon Labs, which has positioned the company as an IoT system service provider for the past ten years, there is undoubtedly much room for growth. Chen Xiongji, Silicon Valley's senior market manager for the Asia-Pacific region, mentioned that smart home ushered in a period of rapid growth. The reasons behind this include: 1. There is a phenomenon-level product on the market, including smart speakers. The voice assistant has enabled the smart home to find an entry point; 2. The communication between the smart devices is simpler and smarter in terms of operation, and the user experience is better; 3. More demand for indoor application scenarios arises, including indoor positioning And logistics tracking, etc.; 4. There are many kinds of ecosystems in the market, including Amazon, Apple, domestic millet, Ali, etc. The market is in a stage of diversity. The addition of the Internet has also promoted the scale and market of intelligent terminal equipment. Change. How to choose from a variety of wireless connection protocols Zhou Hao said that for the IoT market, Silicon Labs can provide solution support from sensors, wireless connectivity to processors. Through the recent acquisition of Z-Wave, Silicon Labs has a complete product line of wireless connection technologies in LANs that can cover WiFi, Thread, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Mesh, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and proprietary protocols. Class standards. Chen Xiongji introduced that Z-Wave wireless connection protocol features include simplicity, security, and interoperability. The simple process of device pairing is very simple. SmartStart technology enables automatic wireless installation. Security is a built-in enforcement security technology. The security of communications can be guaranteed. Interoperability is the biggest advantage of Z-Wave, that is, it is fully compatible with all other wireless connection protocols. At present, Z-Wave has 2,400 certified interoperable products worldwide. And get the support of 700 companies. Z-Wave Smart-Start Solution Demonstrated at Silicon Labs Z-Wave has a very good market base in the smart home market in Europe and the United States because of its well-compatibility technical features and the promotion of operators. Currently, Silicon Labs hopes to promote this technology to the Chinese market. This leads to an ecological problem. To find opportunities in the local market that already has multiple wireless connectivity protocols, I think Silicon Labs should have a lot to do. Referring to the trend of wireless connection technologies for smart homes, Chen Xiongji said that in this field, as more and more terminal equipment nodes are involved in communication, the requirements for coverage distance and range are constantly increasing, which makes the network Wireless connection technology has become a trend. The latest Bluetooth Mesh technology will have a large market space. In the past, because of the higher power consumption, WiFi technology is rarely used in battery-powered smart terminals. Silicon Labs has achieved low levels through independent research and development. Power consumption, high-bandwidth WiFi chip products, emission power consumption as low as 138mA (usually products are usually 250 ~ 300mA), receive power consumption is only 48mA, can provide chips, modules, application scenarios include remote control, buttons, webcam And other products, this allows WiFi this wireless connection can enter more intelligent terminals, but also meet the trend of low-speed products can also achieve high-speed wireless connection technology to achieve network communications; and because of different application scenarios, a single wireless connection agreement Time can no longer meet the needs of product design, dynamic multi-protocol wireless connectivity products is also an important product In this regard, Chen Xiongji said that Silicon Labs provides a unified hardware and software platform. With hardware platform resources and memory space support, customers can upgrade from traditional single protocols to multi-radio protocol products through software upgrades. . When the non-network reporter asked, in the case of a variety of wireless connection protocols coexisting, different protocols are applied to different application scenarios, and how the developer specifically chooses, Chen Xiongji introduced, from a commercial point of view, developers first To consider the ecosystems that our products want to use, based on the existing major ecosystems in the market, including Amazon, Google, Apple, etc., developers want to communicate with which vendor's products, we must choose the corresponding in the development Communication protocol; and from a technical point of view, taking lighting as an example, Zigbee, Bluetooth Mesh and Thread, from the physical layer, network layer and application layer are relatively complete, but there are still differences, Thread has parasitic IP support, Zigbee has a more complete The application layer definition of smart home, Bluetooth Mesh has Bluetooth brand reputation and market acceptance, smart devices can also communicate through Mesh nodes. Developers can choose according to different product needs and technical characteristics. The opportunity of the Chinese market, how Silicon Labs approached from an ecological perspective Silicon Labs is no exception when more and more chip manufacturers regard the Chinese market as a strategic location. According to Zhou Yi, last year Silicon Labs began to increase investment in the Chinese market, complete staff additions, and expand the size of the Shanghai office. Relocating the AE Center in the Asia-Pacific region of the clock chip to Shanghai and integrating the channels of domestic agents, retaining 6 dedicated agents, and more investments are planned and discussed. The undoubted point is Silicon. Labs is optimistic about the development opportunities in the domestic smart home and internet of things market. Bluetooth Mesh solution, which can realize communication between Tmall Genie and smart light, because the current version of Tmall Genie does not have Bluetooth Mesh function, Silicon Labs realizes the communication between Tmall Genie and smart light through hardware development. Tmall Elves have a better user experience In terms of ecological construction in the domestic market, Zhou Hao said that based on the characteristics of the Chinese market, Silicon Labs will provide more forward-looking support and services for local customers from a technology perspective. Taking the wireless connection market as an example, Silicon Labs considered the application scenario of the smart door lock market when Zigbee+Bluetooth's single-chip solution was first introduced, and in the recent cooperation with local manufacturers, this product will be increasingly More commercial real estate and residential use, because high-tech elements will gradually become a standard; In addition, because the domestic adoption of wireless connection agreements does not form a good unity and ecology, in a variety of wireless connection protocol equipment can not be very In the case of good communication, Silicon Labs develops and provides a gateway reference design to help solve the communication problems between these intelligent terminal products, such as the communication between Tmall Genie and more smart home products. Different smart products have a better user experience and promote the development of the entire smart home market. "Silicon Labs has provided customers with the widest range of wireless connectivity products through our own development and acquisition. We have unique technical advantages in the reliability of mesh network technology. We have more than 20 years of experience in RF development; we also have full autonomy. The R&D software platform provides users with a stable and unified development environment, especially in the dynamic multi-protocol operating platform, providing users with flexible design, users can fine-tune the system, and we have a leading low-power product portfolio In the development of smart home blowout in 2019, Silicon Labs' products and technologies will help more local customers achieve large-scale commercial use and achieve success," Chen Xiongji finally stressed. Ceramic Energy Saving Formers,Nitrile Energy Saving Formers,Pvc Energy Saving Formers,Surgical Energy Saving Formers ZIBO HAOXIANG CERAMICS TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD. , https://www.haoxiangceramics.com