A review of the past and present of the smart home industry

If you want to quickly learn about a city,

Well, I suggest you go to the local museum.

That is the eye of a city, through it,

You can see the soul of the city.

Smart home

it's here,

You can see the past,

Can witness now,

You can also think about the future.

Here, there is protection, inheritance, innovation, and communication.

The museum is like a soul collector and it contains a collection of historical souls.

The smart home industry is like a bottomless ocean

Although you can only see a corner, you can see it in the future.

The alarm clock in the living room drips loudly. "It's 7 o'clock! It's time to get up! It's time to get up! It's seven o'clock." The sound is loud, for fear no one would do it. In the morning, the room was empty and the alarm clock continued to cry. "7:00 9:00! Breakfast time! 7:09!"

"At 9:15," the alarm sang, "Big Cleaning." Many robotic mice quickly spun out of small holes in the wall. Soon, all the plastic and metal in the house were covered with this kind of little cleaner. They squatted close to the chair, turning the tentacles to knead the fluff that fell from the carpet and gently sucked away the dust hidden in the crevice. Then, as mysterious aggressors, they rushed back to the previous hole. Their light red eyes were extinguished and the house was completely refreshed.

This is the smart home scene depicted by the famous science fiction writer Ray Bradbury in "August 2026: Drizzle is coming" in 1950. Now it seems that it can indeed be one of the treasures in the "SmartHome Museum". .

The earliest article in the world to write smart home?

In 1939, Popular Mechanics magazine published an article entitled The Electronic Home of the Future. The author of the article is George H. Bucher, president of Westinghouse Electric, and describes the future of smart homes.

At the time, Westinghouse invented the first generation of microwave ovens. Bucher felt that microwave technology was smart home technology. In addition to the high-temperature sterilization of household washing machines, Bucher also felt that it was a smart home technology and it was a must for future families. Televisions, automatic irons, dishwashers, air conditioners that can be heated, fluorescent lights, air purifiers, water heaters, vacuum cleaners... People of that era gradually came to recognize these appliances again.

What is the world's first home appliance?

In the first decade of the beginning of the last century, the concept of household appliances began to appear because people began to grasp electrical energy and began to use it in large areas. Various devices began to try to live. At that time, charged devices were called “smart The smart device, smart, can also be understood as smart, which means that people at the time tried to call live home devices smart devices. This idea continued until 1965, when the first smart home control console was Invented.

"Echo" 50 years of love, smart home is bound to rise again

In 1965, the world's first smart home control system was born. It was called Echo IV. Please bear in mind this name. The inventor was James Sutherland, an engineer at Westinghouse Electric Company. Because of the huge size of electronic components, the space occupied by Echo IV is very large. The entire house is surrounded by machines rather than houses.

In fact, the man-machine interface of Echo IV is IBM's Selectric typewriter. Echo's full name in English is Electronic Computing Home Operator, and IV is Roman number four.

In 2015, Amazon's Echo intelligent voice speaker began to enter the field of smart home, a full 50 years, we also remembered the name Echo, please bear in mind the English meaning behind the Electronic Computing Home Operator, Chinese home controller for electronic computers, Echo name Love continues to be grateful to the rise of smart home again

Milestones in the Smart Home Sector from 1915 to 2015

1915-1920: The World's First Smart Home Advertising

With electricity entering millions of households, home appliances began to enter the lives of people. At that time, people said that household appliances were smart products. Then the world’s first smart home advertisement was born in the United States, and the prelude to home Internet was opened.

1939: The world's first smart home academic paper

President of Westinghouse Electric in the "Popular Machinery" magazine published a six-page smart home academic discussion, the prospect of smart home and more hope in the development of electricity, but also for the birth of the X10 technology later provided ideas.

1966: The world's first smart home console

The world’s first smart home central control host was born, named Echo IV, which can calculate shopping lists, control home temperatures, and turn on and off appliances. The disadvantage is that it is too large and leaky, but nothing prevents Echo IV from loading the history of smart homes. .

1967: World's First Smart Kitchen Product 1970s

Honeywell Honeywell invented the world's first smart kitchen computer that can store recipes.

1970s: The birth of the world's first smart home communication technology

X10, also known as the power carrier, can transmit control signals through the home power line. Because the system relies on power lines, it is vulnerable to electronic interference.

1984: The official development of the first seed of smart home

The American Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the largest non-profit, non-governmental industry association in the United States, set up a special team to study smart home technologies and designs and sow seeds for the development of smart homes.

1984: World's first smart building built

In 1984, the world’s first smart building was a city square in Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. It was a 38-story office building. It used to have a better construction equipment system, for example, earlier. The use of digital program-controlled switches; the centralized use of office automation machines; setting up computing centers; automatic monitoring of fire and security, etc., opened the era of intelligent architecture.

1990: Disney Creates the World's First Smart Home Theme Movie

In 1990, smart home began to enter the popular culture. Smart House is the world's first smart home-themed movie. Before the 1980s, back to the future 2 also included a part of the smart home.

1997: The world's first smart home luxury home built

In 1997, Bill. Gates's mansion was finally built. His mansion is built entirely in accordance with the concept of smart homes. Not only does it have a dedicated line for high-speed Internet access, but all doors, windows, lamps, and appliances can be controlled by computers, and a high-performance server serves as the back office for managing the entire system.

2010: The birth of the world's first home smart product

The iPod designer Tony Fadell designed the Nest. The internal intelligent learning system upgraded the traditional home automation system. Tony Fadell felt that the current smart home product system was too “heavy” and the new product form needed to be changed. So he and the team invented Nest. .

2012: The World's Most Successful Smart Home Crowdfunding

SmartThings Smart Home Wireless Kit raised a total of US$1.2 million on Kickstarter to break the crowdfunding record for smart home products. SmartThings successfully shipped 1W products in 2013.

2013: Smart Home Products Occupy CES Exhibition Stage for the First Time

Belkin Belkin's Wemo wireless intelligent switches and smart sockets were unveiled at the 2013 CES show and won worldwide attention, remote control, and bring their own APPs, and they have already combined IFTTT to open up interconnections between different standard products.

2013: The world's first smart home lab Lab of Things

Microsoft has always been a pioneer of contemporary smart homes. From Bill Gates's Smart Home to Bill Gates' "The Way of the Future" to Microsoft's Venus Project, Microsoft has the most efforts in the field of smart homes. Microsoft has set up a smart home lab to lay out the future smart home market.

2013: The World's First Smart Home Internetworking Alliance

The Linux Foundation initiated the establishment of the Allseen Alliance and is committed to the interconnection of smart homes. Participating companies include LG, Panasonic, and Qualcomm.

Early 2014: The first year of smart appliances

LG exhibited many smart home appliance products at the CES show at the beginning of the year. It sent text messages to view the contents of the refrigerator and the era of home appliances interconnection.

January 2014: The World's Largest Smart Home Acquisition

Nest was acquired by Google for $3.2 billion and became the largest acquisition in the smart home sector. In the second half of the year, Samsung acquired SmartThings for $200 million, and it looked like giants saw the prospect of smart home wireless systems.

2014: The birth of Super App

Quirky released the product Wink, which integrates many well-known smart home products into one APP. The Super App was born. But Quirky bankrupted last year

2014: The world's largest technology company layout smart home

Apple released the HomeKit platform with the intention of integrating smart home products.

2014: The birth of the world’s best-selling smart home product

In the past two years, Echo, the best-selling smart home hardware, was born. The smart home entrance floor was controlled by smart speakers. Echo has already entered homes of millions of households and is considered by Google’s Google Home as a competitor.

2015: In the first year of smart home hardware outbreak, countless smart home products have begun to explode at CES.

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