ZigBee, a short-range wireless communication technology, is being adopted by many companies that use smart home gimmicks, whether it is Xiaomi's smart home kit or a traditional big company like Haier and ZTE. ZigBee technology is also considered to be one of the most likely to change the communication technology we live in now like WiFi and Bluetooth, but now it is not as good as its promotion. Recently, Zhizhi and the representative of the ZigBee chip field from the Dutch GreenPeak company CEOCoesLinks held a dialogue to discuss in detail the opportunities and current difficulties of ZigBee technology. CeesLinks was one of the important promoters of the popularity of WiFi technology. I met with me in 1998 when I went to Apple to introduce Jobs to WiFi technology and promote the WaveLan products of his company. After half a year, Jobs Decided to apply WiFi technology to the Apple iBook, opening up the history of the popularity of WiFi technology. Therefore, CeesLinks has repeatedly emphasized to me that the acceptance of ZigBee is not so high. Just like the WiFi technology of the year, as long as the time is ripe, it must become indispensable in people's lives just like WiFi. GreenPeak, the company founded and CEO of CeesLinks, currently provides ZigBee-related chips and technologies. According to him, the company’s ZigBee chip has reached 1 million units per week, which is a large number, and TI, NXP Like chip companies, it is one of the main players in this field. 1. Technical advantages. Let the technology layman introduce ZigBee to understand that ZigBee is a technology that allows some devices, especially sensors, to access the Internet. Unlike WiFi, the power consumption is lower, the real-time online, the same gateway access is huge, the most typical The application is an intelligent hardware terminal such as a door magnet and a smart light bulb, which all access the home through the ZigBee protocol and access the network. 2. Quantity and scale. Unlike our commonly used PCs, laptops, and mobile phones, if many small devices in the home, such as human sensors, temperature and humidity sensors, etc., are connected to the Internet through ZigBee, it will be a huge number. CeesLinks gave me an example. There are 300 million households in the world accessing the Internet. If each family accesses 10 devices, it is a multi-billion-scale device, and the demand for ZigBee chips is huge. 3, the opportunity brought by the mobile phone tablet. Smart home concepts, including products such as door magnets, have not been fresh for a long time, and why have they been fired recently. I agree with a point of view from CeesLinks. He believes that smartphones or tablets are now the control panel for the entire smart home. In the past, the cost of building a smart home system was very high. Because there is no such thing as a tablet or a smartphone, we have to build a computer system to manage the home. The cost is naturally high. At the same time, based on the application on mobile phones and tablets, these incoming sensors can be made smarter and smarter. 4, lower prices. Also because of the maturity of mobile phones and tablets, the cost of smart home solutions has also become much lower. In discussions with CeesLinks, he mentioned that they expect the cost of smart homes to be no more than the price of a mobile phone, about $500. The cost of this need is that the cost of each terminal access does not exceed $5, which is $500 to enable access to 100 devices in the home. What is the current price? The cost of a smart home in the United States is basically $10,000. Through the question of Zhizhi and CeesLinks, you can see some analysis of the bottlenecks related to ZigBee technology. In fact, it comes down to one sentence. What is the use? Why do users need to use it? How to make users use it? 1, smart things: smart furniture is not the connection between equipment and equipment but service, who will provide the service? CeesLinks: It is mainly the manufacturers that connect with consumers, such as the operators that cooperate with us. They work with us to make standards and promote them. Posts and Telecommunications, China Unicom, China Mobile, etc. are all. At the same time, retailers and Internet companies like Baidu and Xiaomi are now pushing smart homes. Under such a trend, we find more new forms of service. 2, smart things: now smart home service is not a special standard system or service, unlike smart phones, the core functions we may use are the same, how to solve this problem? CeesLinks: This is indeed the case at first, I agree with you. At first, there must be a lot of flowers, and there are some things to do. Some do this and some do it. Slowly, there may be industrial convergence. For example, there are several sensors in my home, some are temperature measurement, some are anti-theft, some are Turn off the lights, then you will think, why do I install so many sensors instead of using a single sensor to solve all the problems? Slowly this function is brought together on the same sensor, and then the service will slowly be standard. 3, smart things: smart home solutions, there are many companies in China are pushing this, but always feel that users are difficult to accept, why? CeesLinks: Give an example to you. We invented WIFI in 1991. We feel very good but no one wants to use it. By 1999, WiFi was used in Apple notebooks. After that, many big companies followed suit. IBM also began to think that this thing would completely change the industry. Later, Lenovo, Sony, and Acer also started to use it. You have to ask me exactly when the smart home will mature. I can't say it, but I know that this market must have a mature period. Once it matures, this thing will happen one day. If it breaks out, it will be more comfortable, safer and more efficient. Cheaper, all the benefits will be used immediately. 4, smart things: So far, how many years has ZigBee been promoted? CeesLinks: It has been nearly a decade. 5, smart things: Many companies are also doing standard design similar to HomeKit, how is the ZigBee protocol chaotic situation broken? CeesLinks: Now all companies want to build their own standards, but in this era, I don't think it is wise to do this. Because there are many competitions, consumers will feel confused and not conducive to the promotion of the whole thing. 6, smart things: in the European and American markets, the final payment for smart home services, is the individual, or the elderly service agencies, or the government to pay? CeesLinks: The government's position is clear, that is, it will stimulate the development of this market by issuing many policies, but it will rarely pay for this stuff because it is mainly collected by the government in Europe, and then the money is collected. Completely returned to the people. The purpose of the government is to cultivate this market and let the market manage itself. 7. Smart things: What are the key application scenarios that are most likely to be popularized in various scenarios of smart homes? CeesLinks: There are two scenarios, one is point-to-point control. For example, the remote control on the phone can automatically turn off the light. The second is the scene we just talked about, like old-age care and baby care. There is a set of sensors and an entire service plan throughout the home. In the future, these two roads may eventually encounter a piece. After all, if the car doesn't want to open, you can change it again, but it is unlikely that the whole house will be thrown away in order to install the smart home. The smart home is likely to be a little bit changed. from. The core message from the communication with CeesLinks is that the current shipments of ZigBee chips are actually very impressive. Moreover, on the one hand, China has become the production and assembly center of ZigBee chips, and at the same time, in the final step of popularization for consumers, Chinese manufacturers are also very active. As for the questions we have repeatedly mentioned, when can the service really be used? Who would be willing to pay for these things? 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July 23, 2024