Chapter 113: The Arrival of the Smart Home Era
As soon as Wu Hao's Weibo came out, it was quickly watched by netizens, some praised and praised, and naturally some criticized and attacked.
However, none of this is important to Wu Hao and them, as long as the sales of their intelligent voice assistant are still hot.
According to the latest statistics of the sales department, the total sales of their intelligent voice assistant have reached 2 million units. And it is still growing rapidly, and the rate of growth continues to increase, and it seems that it was affected by this incident.
The sales volume of related auxiliary equipment has also exceeded 300,000 pieces, and it is also growing rapidly. Household appliance brands have seen the market potential in this area and have come to cooperate with them.
For example, they cooperated with a well-known domestic refrigerator brand 'Rongsheng' group to successfully realize the data interconnection and related functional control of refrigerators.
The intelligent voice control of the refrigerator is actually very frustrating, nothing more than temperature regulation, humidity maintenance or defrosting and other functions. I don't usually use it, but I will use it in a specific period, after all, who has nothing to do with adjusting the refrigerator. Therefore, this function is just a chew to realize the intelligent management of household appliances.
Of course, it also provides some convenience, such as the intelligent voice assistant can adjust the working status of the refrigerator according to the different outside temperatures or different seasons, and users can also use the relaxation of voice to control and adjust the refrigerator and so on.
What makes Wu Hao more optimistic or more practical is that the real-time data display of the refrigerator shows that this is definitely of great use to users.
The most important of these is the internal space and cargo management of the refrigerator, through the internal sensors of the refrigerator, the user can know the food consumption in the refrigerator in real time, so that it can be replenished in time.
In addition, there are many other home appliances that also want to take advantage of this smart home appliance ride, and they have sought to cooperate with Wu Hao and them, so as to launch their own smart home appliances. Such as range hoods, electric ovens, rice cookers, smart toilets, lamps, humidifiers, air purifiers and so on.
Of course, Wu Hao is also very cautious in this regard, and they choose those big brands with reliable quality and certain strength. Only after passing the relevant product quality inspection and the relevant matching control function tests will they authorize the labelling of the relevant electrical production.
In fact, it is a set of comprehensive control standards for smart home appliances formulated by Wu Hao, which stipulates the quality of home appliances, control methods, and related operating status and other detailed data.
Only smart home appliances that have been certified by them will be able to obtain the relevant electronic certificates, which will allow them to connect with the 'smart home control mid-end'.
When your product is good and big enough, then other products or related products will also refer to your standards.
At present, in terms of smart home, Wu Hao and they are far ahead. If other companies want to take this ride, they must cooperate with them and open up relevant cooperation and docking channels.
The reason for doing this is that they also want to gradually regulate the market. Many small brands or copycat products will also launch corresponding functions in order to rub off on your popularity, and then connect with the mid-end of your smart home control.
However, intelligent voice assistants often have problems when they are controlled, and there may even be security incidents.
With the hot sales of their smart home control mid-range, there have been four or five such accidents now. Through on-site surveys and user feedback, these are caused by the quality of these cheap products.
That's why they had to urgently push relevant patches to identify and reject access to these products to avoid similar accidents, which is also for the personal safety of users.
But this has caused dissatisfaction among some users and home appliance manufacturers, thinking that Wu Hao is completely discriminatory by doing so, and taking the opportunity to harvest these small brands of wool and so on.
In this regard, Wu Hao and they also made relevant explanations and explanations, but there are still people who are dissatisfied.
However, their measure has been supported by regular home appliance manufacturers, these low-end copycat products, the quality is very poor, and accidents are prone to occur.
These unscrupulous businessmen use this cheap product to seize the market and disrupt the entire market order, and the regular home appliance manufacturers can be said to hate it to the core.
Wu Hao's measure can greatly curb the wanton development of these products and maintain the normal operation of the market.
Of course, the consensus on this issue cannot erase the huge differences between them and these major appliance manufacturers in the negotiations.
In fact, it is nothing more than a batch of interests, Wu Hao and they naturally have their own persistence, and these manufacturers also have their own plans.
Therefore, there will inevitably be disagreements in this area during the negotiations, but in Wu Hao's opinion, these are temporary, and in the current form, they will agree sooner or later.
Although there was such an intelligent voice system integrating home appliances before Wu Hao and them, after them, some well-known technology companies have also launched their own intelligent voice assistants and smart homes, in an attempt to seize this huge market.
But the performance of these devices is much worse than Wu Hao's products without exception, and if nothing else, it is comparable to the voice broadcast of real people, and these companies are fine.
In addition, the relatively low price and good user experience made this product quickly popular, and has sold two million units, so that they are basically formed in the market.
Unless there are new, more advanced or comparable technical products come out, they will not be able to shake their market position in the field of intelligent voice.
These home appliance manufacturers also understand that the advent and rapid coverage of Wu Hao's smart voice products will represent the arrival of the era of smart home appliances. At this time, whoever can seize the opportunity will be able to obtain greater benefits.
Therefore, we must reach cooperation with Wu Hao as soon as possible, otherwise if it is preempted by other peers, it may lose its competitiveness in the smart home appliance market.
For Wu Hao, the cooperation with these home appliance manufacturers will further stabilize their position in the field of smart home and even intelligent voice assistants.
In this way, even if the same or leading technology does appear in the future, then they can take advantage of the huge market advantage to be invincible.
Of course, this is impossible, unless there is another lucky person like him in the world. According to Wu Hao's estimate, this is probably less likely than the probability of Mars hitting the earth.
Moreover, this is just a product of his foundation and accumulation of funds to build a team, and there are more things in his mind waiting for him to develop.