Artificial intelligence technology is a hot spot at present, and it is also the strategy of our country. In fact, artificial intelligence has been hot for many years. Artificial intelligence originated in the 1960s, when a group of American scholars held a meeting to simulate human intelligence with computers, which pioneered the development of artificial intelligence. At the beginning of the research, artificial intelligence was given a lot of hope. These scholars were extremely excited and various schools invested a lot of manpower and material resources. In fact, the results of the study are not as good as everyone thinks.
The development history of artificial intelligence
We know that the development of artificial intelligence technology depends on the progress of computer technology. In the 1970s and 1980s, personal computers and large computers began to develop, and the storage technology and operation speed of computers increased significantly. Especially with the continuous development of integrated circuits, it has promoted the rapid technological progress of the whole computer industry. With such hardware support, artificial intelligence technology made another big leap in the 1980s, mainly due to the storage capacity and computing power of computers.
At that time, the idea of scientists was to save all the knowledge in a certain field on hard disk or electronic media. The problem is how to use the fast computing power of the computer to quickly search for the solution to the problem. This thing was named expert system at that time. Expert system is expected to be an omniscient and knowledgeable device in a certain field. So the expert system was on fire for a while. At that time, China developed many expert systems, such as weather forecasting expert system, fishery, ocean and forestry expert system. These systems matched the computing power at that time. But looking back, the application of these systems is not as good as expected.
So in the 1980 s, artificial intelligence failed to catch fire because everyone found that the input-output ratio and the ability to solve practical problems were too low. So for a while, artificial intelligence research experts were regarded as defrauding research funds. For a time, the industry was ridiculed. The only function of artificial intelligence research is to make many doctors publish papers, which makes little contribution to the national economy.
When the time axis is adjusted to the beginning of this century, with the development of internet technology and the improvement of computer ability, many new artificial intelligence theories appear constantly, which greatly improves the ability of artificial intelligence to solve practical problems. Here I have to mention a representative event, the showdown between Alphago and Go player Ke Jie, and finally artificial intelligence defeated human beings. One of the deep learning technologies involved in Alphago is the deep neural network. There are two powerful deep neural networks in AlphaGo: the strategy network is used to select the next move and the value network is used to evaluate the overall situation of the chessboard. AlphaGo is a beautiful application of artificial intelligence technology. It is better to say that human wisdom has defeated itself than that machines have defeated human beings. At present, artificial intelligence is widely used in speech recognition, computer vision, bioinformatics, natural language processing, recommendation system, robots and many other aspects.
Today, artificial intelligence can heat up, mainly because of the technology itself, but because of its social influence. Objective Artificial intelligence has gradually replaced some functions of people in many positions, and also triggered some revolutions. For example, people often receive calls from robots and automatically interact with customers. There are also some news articles we have seen, all written by artificial intelligence, which have replaced many editors' work. Therefore, the introduction of artificial intelligence in the field of smart home is not a marketing gimmick, but a real promotion to the development of smart home.
What role can artificial intelligence play in the field of smart home?
In terms of speech recognition technology, since 2065 438+06 CSHIA cooperated with Iflytek to build a speech database, robots based on speech recognition began to be popularized in China, followed by smart speakers. Nowadays, the operation of smart home system no longer depends on panels and apps, but only needs an instruction such as turning on and off lights. If semantics are added, functions will be automatically matched only when keywords are involved. Now this kind of robot and voice speaker products have been on the market.
In terms of images, the most frequently used product is face recognition. Especially in the field of smart home, some enterprises now combine face recognition with smart door locks. In the field of wireless city, face recognition is combined with visual intercom and gateway system. , has been widely used now.
Data such as health data. Some data are collected by sensors and then sent to artificial intelligence system to judge, diagnose and manage a certain disease. Now, this method is used sporadically in smart homes in many communities.
These are some artificial intelligence technologies that have been used in the field of smart home. In the future, how can artificial intelligence technology help people live a better life? I think it may not only be technology-driven, but also need to plan artificial intelligence technology from the demand side, which is the real pain point of people. For example, CSHIA is currently working on a group based on the old-age community. We have identified the application of artificial intelligence in providing for the aged and the pain points to be solved.
First, the physiological compensation for the elderly, because the sight, hearing and touch of the elderly have deteriorated. Through the functions of perception, image and sound, the eyesight of the elderly is as good as that of the hearing young people;
The second is the psychological comfort of the elderly. At present, we mainly discuss from the following aspects:
1. Accompanied by old people, people always like to recall the past when they are old, but young people don't want to listen. Robots can communicate with them and realize their sharing wishes.
2. Old people and their children, old colleagues and friends can easily make fast video calls and use artificial intelligence technology to establish effective connections.
3. Health management. As we all know, the health status of the elderly is gradually declining, so how to manage it to delay the aging of the body? Solutions include reminding to take medicine, monitoring physiological indicators, healthy life management and so on. Therefore, artificial intelligence can start from these aspects, approach the old-age community, and solve the pain points of the elderly.
Artificial intelligence is not only used in the field of old-age care, but also can be extended to the field of children, combining the needs of children. Therefore, artificial intelligence technology must combine specific application scenarios and pain points to solve practical problems, and at these pain points and demand levels, it will combine many products, hardware and smart home systems to form product linkage and even system solutions.
How do smart home integrators cope with the development of artificial intelligence?
Integrators are often worried that artificial intelligence technology has produced many new products, which are different from those done before and will not be integrated, forming a certain threshold. In fact, don't worry too much, because the smarter things are, the more convenient they are to operate. Like mobile phones and many consumer electronics products, it will be well integrated into smart home systems.
The development of artificial intelligence will make some changes in the whole smart home industry, mainly focusing on marketing methods. At present, the smart home market is mainly villas, real estate, hotels and tooling. But with the development of artificial intelligence technology, it will promote the consumption upgrade of ordinary consumers. When this crowd expands, how to promote and install new products for these ordinary people and consumers has become a new problem.
Therefore, new marketing and sales strategies will be derived from the market, such as new retail. The new retail will transform integrators from personalized customizers to smart home service providers. The business scope will be greatly improved, and it will also promote the development of smart homes. But how will the market change in the future? How will the product form change in the future? Further verification is needed later. In a word, the development of smart home is constantly promoted by new technologies, and consumers, integrators and equipment manufacturers will benefit from it and get what they need.
How do smart home integrators cope with the application and landing of new technologies? For more exciting ideas and knowledge sharing, please pay attention to August 14- 16, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 20 19 CSHIA Smart Home Integration Service Entrepreneurship Camp Shanghai Station!