How hot is the concept of smart home? You must have heard and seen. Smart home products are gradually subverting the traditional home concepts and models, whether it is a traditional home manufacturers or cross-border Internet gurus are desperately trying to "smart" this circle.
On the smart home, security, home appliances, furniture and other products then hot up, but whether these products really represents a smart home, seemingly the word difference, in fact, there is a world of difference.
What is smart furniture
1. Definition of smart furniture
Smart Furniture (SmartFurniture) refers to the use of modern computer technology, sensor technology, embedded technology, automation technology, communications technology, multimedia technology, display technology to transform traditional furniture, functionality expansion, in the original basic use of the premise, so that it has the ability to use the original basic attributes, and to make it a smart home. Under the premise of the original basic use of attributes, so that it has recognition, health monitoring, monitoring, human-computer interaction, display, communication and other functions of the product. Intelligent furniture is not the same as the smart home (SmartHome), it is a part of the smart home, belongs to the furniture intelligent part.
2. The development of smart furniture
Smart furniture is part of the smart home, smart furniture is accompanied by the development of smart home and the development of the developed countries in Europe and the United States is more popular, many products have been sold in the store, such as smart beds, smart coffee table, smart shoe cabinets and so on. With the improvement of people's living standards, the pursuit of quality of life is also more urgent, the demand for the promotion of this industry has been rapid development, especially in the medical and health monitoring products - smart bed. Although most of the smart furniture is geared towards high-end users and is relatively expensive, it is expected to enter the homes of ordinary people in the future as the cost is reduced.
3. What are the smart furniture products
Based on the function of smart furniture is mainly divided into the following categories:
Smart bed
Smart coffee table
Smart mattress
Intelligent TV cabinet
Smart wardrobe
Smart shoe cabinet
Smart fireplace
Smart Home
Difference between Smart Home and Smart Furniture
1. From the concept
Smart furniture is based on modern fashion furniture, the combination of intelligence, electronic intelligence, mechanical intelligence, and IOT intelligence is cleverly integrated into the furniture products, so that the furniture is intelligent, internationalized, and fashionable, and make home life more convenient and comfortable. Smart home is a residential platform, the use of integrated wiring technology, network communication technology, security technology, automatic control technology, audio and video technology will be home life related facilities integration, building efficient residential facilities and family schedule affairs management system, enhance home security, convenience, comfort, art, and realize the environmental protection and energy saving living environment.
2. From the entity
Intelligent furniture is the intelligence on the basis of traditional furniture, mainly including electronic, mechanical, and IOT three technical ways. Electronic intelligence refers to today's cutting-edge electronic technology products implanted in the furniture; mechanical intelligence is the integration of mechatronics accessories and furniture body with the touch, light press and other actions to achieve the opening of the furniture door, drawer; intelligent furniture to the network center of the intelligent TV cabinet, the data center as the core, the use of mobile devices embedded in the independent research and development of the APP, the use of WIFI transmission protocols, bluetooth transmission protocols Command set transmission and data exchange, to terminal IC embedded WIFI, Bluetooth control protocol to realize the wireless control function of the furniture. And smart home is a system that integrates various devices at home such as lighting, doors and windows, home appliances, security and so on through new technologies such as Internet of Things.
3. From the composition
Smart furniture mainly includes intelligent common furniture items. For example, smart sofas, smart storage cabinets, smart shoe cabinets, smart seats, smart dining tables, smart combination coffee table, smart dishwashers, smart TV cabinets and other smart furniture items. It is worth mentioning that smart furniture, although mostly refers to a single product, but in the form of dimensions, the combination of modes is no longer the furniture manufacturer said, the user through the furniture function split, unitized processing, can be re-combined. The smart home is not a single intelligent product, but an intelligent system, intelligent gateway and a variety of sensors, controllers and other equipment is the basic components of the smart home, smart furniture, smart home appliances and other home equipment is the smart home control and management of the counterpart. The more outstanding smart home system on the market is the IOT Sensing's smart home into a system platform, and currently Samsung and other home appliance vendors have also begun to shift from smart home appliances to smart home systems.
Smart coffee table that can be charged by mobile phone
4. From the functional point of view
Smart furniture can realize the following functions: enable users to conveniently exchange data, transmission, audio and video playback through cell phones, tablets, etc.; realize the adjustment of LED lighting, turn on or turn off through a simple touch; realize the light turn on, turn off, disinfection and other functions through the simple opening and closing of the door action; Realize the opening of furniture doors and drawers through touch, light press and other actions. Smart home can realize the control of smart furniture, in function with a variety of functions of smart furniture, mainly to provide home appliance control, lighting control, curtain control, remote control, indoor and outdoor remote control, anti-theft alarm, environmental monitoring and other means. Smart home will allow users to have a more convenient means to manage home equipment, such as through the home touch screen, wireless remote control, cell phones, the Internet or voice recognition to control home equipment, and more can perform scene and timing control, so that multiple devices to form a linkage.
Summary: Although smart furniture and smart home are to improve the quality of home life for the purpose of making the home environment more comfortable, more convenient, but the two are not to be confused. Intelligent furniture is the main traditional furniture on the basis of intelligent, and intelligent home is intelligent furniture, intelligent home appliances, intelligent lighting and other various devices to control and manage the system, from the composition and function than intelligent furniture, wider range, stronger role, so you can not simply equate the intelligent furniture with intelligent home intelligent home with the use of pioneering customers, and ahead of the concept of a complete display to everyone! Smart home system, easy to operate, and all the people independent DIY.