Smart router home entry scramble

The three routers of the smart router are pole routing and listen to this "specialist faction." Second, hardware giants like Xiaomi, and third, Baidu (172.34, 5.92, 3.56%), and 360 Internet giants.

Have you ever imagined everything in a remote manipulator? Before you go home, adjust the air conditioning temperature, the water heater starts to work, and the coffee machine starts to prepare for you. This seemingly unattractive dream is getting closer and closer to us. The era of smart home is approaching.

On June 3, Apple (645.57, -1.88, -0.27%) held the 2014 Global Developers Conference and announced the launch of HomeKit, a smart home management platform. Haier Group has become the only major manufacturer selected for its cooperation. The smart home will be combined with Apple's voice system siri to perform remote smart terminal device operations.

In addition to Apple, developers in the domestic smart home market are also eager to try. From smart router vendors to traditional home appliance manufacturers, they are constantly developing new intelligent products for this great change.

The capital does not lag behind, only to look at the intelligent router, behind the polar route is Jiyuan Capital and innovation workshops, hearing technology has Thunder, Chengdu high investment support.

Smart routers created in China On May 8, 2014, Polar Routes and China Telecom (49.73, 0.23, 0.46%) launched the world's first carrier-grade intelligent router, becoming the first company in the industry to cooperate with operators to release intelligence. The company of the router.

“Our cloud platforms and open systems are relatively mature and powerful, and operators are relatively recognized. They have limited original terminals and need terminals that can have powerful functions locally, helping them to exert their control and differentiation capabilities. "Wang Chuyun introduced that cooperation with operators can achieve 4 + X mode, 4 trillion is the basic bandwidth, X is based on user needs for differentiated and customized services.

For example, users need to download high-speed video or watch high-definition video. They can purchase corresponding service packages (plug-ins in routers) from operators, and then use these services to become 20 megabits of bandwidth.

On March 26, 2013, Pole Circuit released the "Zebo" engineering machine, which is also regarded as the world's first intelligent router. Its founder, Wang Chuyun, was very excited about this. "We are created in China, not made in China or in Chinese cottages."

The pole routing team was established as early as November 2011. “I was working on a microblogging (18.54, -0.42, -2.22%) related project in 2011, the network of the office building was monopolized by an operator, and the quality was not very good. In order to solve the Internet problem, various ways are I thought about it. I discovered that after the router was rebuilt, I could insert a 3G network card and then share the network again. So I bought 3 routers to make changes.” Wang Chuyun told the Money Weekly reporter. Since then, Wang Chuyun has discovered that routers can do a lot of things and started thinking about putting various services on the Internet into routers.

In the following 2012 and 2013, the polar router's smart router continued to debug. After the launch of "extremely rampant" in 2013, "intelligence" was once again receiving attention. Millet, 360, etc. also began to march to smart routers.

At present, Pole Routing has introduced three routers: Extreme, Extreme S, and Extreme. Since the release of the first product in 2013, the number of routers shipped in pole routes has exceeded 600,000 units. According to Wang Chuyun, it is the largest intelligent router company in the industry.

On October 11, 2013, Polar Route announced that it had obtained a Series A financing of tens of millions of U.S. dollars from two institutions, Jiyuan Capital and Innovation Factory. This is the second Internet hardware company after Xiaomi to get tens of millions of financing.

Just like Hearing Technology, Extreme Routing is also building a cloud platform. Wang Chuyun said, “The intelligence proposed by Pole Routing is a trinity. That is, the channel of the smart platform and the cloud platform, plus the mobile phone APP.” The pole of the Pole Routing is an open platform where developers can develop corresponding plug-ins. Let developers create more value for users.

When Wang Chuyun started to be a router, he had already imagined the situation of the router for several years in the future. “The original router was a packet-forwarding device and it has now become a way for users to imagine more convenient smart devices on their own.” However, the current router is still very primitive to Wang Chuyun and his team. The primary stage.

"The future smart router is a PC with storage, CPU, and hard disk. At the same time, it is a low-power, high-performance data center, not only to accelerate the role, but also the role of data distribution and home data control. In addition, there are social effects, such as the synchronization of photos on your mobile phone to the router, and synchronization to the parent's home router. Such sharing will be very fast. There will be many possibilities in smart homes in the future, such as According to your GPS location, switch home appliances, etc."

At present, companies that launch smart routers in the market can be roughly divided into three groups. One is the polar route, hearing technology this "specializes" type company, the second is the hardware company such as Xiaomi company, the third is Baidu, 360 and other such Internet giants.

Xiaomi's router was launched on April 23 this year. It is the first hardware product led by its co-founder and vice president Huang Jiangji. Like most smart routers, Xiaomi's routers also have TV browsing, remote download, and synchronization. Its biggest feature is to connect Toshiba 1TB hard drive, so the higher price, 699 yuan.

360 security routes naturally play the "security card." Its important functions, first of all, security scanning and giving security levels, star rating, similar to the boot speed rating; in addition there are four major security features, flood control network, anti-theft number, DNS anti-hijacking, malicious website interception.

Little route is one of the three-piece hardware that Baidu introduced on September 12, 2013. Small route can transfer cloud data arbitrarily. Users can bind Baidu account to realize remote multi-device simple operation.

However, according to Wang Chuyun, the smart router industry has not yet reached the competition. The entry threshold for routers in this industry is still quite high.

Wang Chuyun said that the router has two variables.

One variable is the wired network port of the access device. It may be ADSL in the home, or it may be a broadband access or other network device in the cell. There is no uniform standard.

Another variable is the access of wireless devices. Wireless devices are diverse, such as mobile phones, iPads, etc. Wireless itself is an environment that is prone to interference and uncertainty, especially since the signals around life are extremely large. Interference, this will make users feel that the network is very unstable. "We can't reform this protocol and standard. We can only bypass it. For example, we can tell users to switch channels by using 'wifi traffic'. Now we are also studying better mechanisms to deal with it." Wang Chuyun said.