Realizing Whole House Intelligence

Whole house intelligence, just a few stickers?

With the arrival of the intelligent era, intelligent products gradually spread to all areas of life, the concept of “whole-house intelligence” is also on the rise.

China's whole-house intelligence industry research white paper shows that in 2021, 60.7% of users have a whole-house intelligent life needs.

More than 30 years ago, Bill Gates spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create a whole-house intelligence mansion, which can sense personal preferences and location to intelligently adjust the indoor temperature, lighting, music and so on.

In many people's minds, smart life is always linked to high cost; but the boss found that the recent crazy circle of “NFC chip stickers” in the mouth of the grass blogger can achieve similar “whole house smart” effect, but its cost can be as low as a few dollars.

Such a whole-house intelligence is reliable?

Whole-house intelligence flat replacement, really fragrant

in some kind of grass platform, “NFC chip paste realize whole-house intelligence” grass content all over the place.

The blogger's demonstration, touch a touch to turn on the lights, open the computer, control home appliances are considered basic operations; different scenes, its function is more varied:

affixed to the car, with a touch of the phone, immediately start the navigation to take you home;

affixed to the doorstep of the home, home cell phone a sweep, will automatically send information to the family, report peace;

affixed to the water cup, to help you record the amount of daily water consumption, caffeine intake;

With it, the home has a guest visit, the phone swept through the sticker can be password-free Wifi connection. With it, home guests visit, with a cell phone sweep through the sticker can be free of password connection Wifi;

Even the basket of sundries can become intelligent, cell phone close to the sticker to know what is loaded inside;

There are even NFC chip stickers to make a black-tech wall of music, cell phone on the wall of the wall can be played to listen to the music of a slide ......

So powerful stickers, who can believe that it only a few dollars?

In the e-commerce platform search, the highest-selling NFC chip stickers, a single price of 5.6 yuan, and in accordance with the “price ascending order” arrangement, the cheapest only 0.36 yuan.

When the low-cost hit high-tech, NFC chip stickers of the heat soared 69%, on the list of related products more than 2,000, for merchants to bring a new type of wealth code.

In Sweden, a company has seized this business opportunity, developed a grain of rice size, can be implanted in the human body of the NFC chip, and 5,000 people have chosen to implant this device in their bodies.

After implantation, it is equivalent to have a body of “smart keys”, “electronic wallet”, no need for smart phones, wave your hand can open the door, pay orders, show tickets and so on.

And this chip not only supports the use of at least 25 years in the body, but also can be disassembled or replaced at any time.

It is understood that the company has received orders from the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, Spain and other countries, the future NFC chip may also be used in the field of telemedicine.

At this point and then look back, we can buy a few dollars on the NFC chip sticker, indeed "really fragrant.

NFC chip stickers of the past and present life

In fact, it seems that the “sense of the future” full of NFC chips, 20 years ago has appeared.

NFC's full name is Near Field Communication, is a company initiated by Philips, Nokia, Sony and other manufacturers to jointly promote a wireless technology, by the non-contact radio frequency identification (RFID) and interoperability technology integration evolved.

On a single chip, the combination of inductive readers, inductive cards and point-to-point functions can be recognized and exchanged data with compatible devices within a short distance.

At that time, the manufacturers' plan was to gradually put NFC chips into cell phones, cameras, computers and other devices to bring consumers a more convenient information exchange experience.

So, in 2003, reserved NFC interface Nokia 3220 came out; in 2006, Nokia in Xiamen recruited a hundred volunteers to experience its NFC service, the world's first NFC cell phone was born.

With the support of NFC, the cell phone has become a smart payment terminal, which can be used as access card and ticket.

In terms of NFC stickers, the “big brother”, it has to be Samsung.

In 2012, Samsung launched an NFC sticker called TecTiles, priced at $14.99/5 pieces.

With the original intention of “let more users understand NFC”, Samsung developed a special application and continued to update iteration, so that TecTiles than NXP and other companies to launch a similar product is more perfect, and even has a variety of functions with the current comparable to the same - - automatic alarm setting, text messaging, navigation, payment, Wifi, music, etc.. -automatically set alarms, send text messages, navigate, make payments, connect to Wifi, play music, and more.

But at the time, spend 3 dollars to buy a sticker, for most consumers is not cost-effective, this NFC sticker did not create a miracle, but manufacturers are still optimistic about the prospects for the application of NFC.

The next few years, the major cell phone manufacturers have launched their own NFC labeling, Sony, OPPO, millet, Meizu, although they are involved in it, but always lukewarm.

It was not until 2019 that iOS 13 opened up the NFC function and began to support the reading of NFC tags that NFC tags really came into the public's view. NFC tags with shortcut commands and HomeKit have given some people an early taste of smart life.

Today, in 2022, against the backdrop of growing demand for smartness, NFC chip stickers are once again being seen by ordinary consumers thanks to the momentum created by major social platforms.

From the social platform complicated sticker play, to the high search heat of the e-commerce platform, and then again and again was crowned with the label of “whole-house intelligent flat replacement”....... Through the flow to see inevitably make people question: “whole-house intelligence” only rely on NFC chip sticker really work?

03 The so-called affordable alternative, difficult to really replace

Open the various tutorials, you will find: the birth of a “smart” sticker, not as simple as imagined.

It requires NFC-enabled smart phones and other mobile devices as a terminal, with the help of relevant software for a series of settings, in the chip to write the function corresponding to the instructions.

And only when the terminal device is close to the NFC chip sticker, it is possible to read through the terminal read-write has been written to the instructions and trigger the corresponding program, so that it is in accordance with the preset “automatic” operation.

In other words, the NFC chip sticker itself may not be “smart”, it is the people who wrote the programmed instructions to make it look “smart”. And those because of the NFC chip sticker “become smart” home, but also just a sticker items, and no other essential changes.

Instead of saying that “NFC brings whole-house intelligence”, it is better to say that we stand on the shoulders of technology, relying on wisdom to create a smart life for themselves.

And NFC chip sticker mode of operation is very different, the real “whole house intelligence” is an invisible life butler, which can integrate various technologies, systematic centralized management of home equipment in the house, to achieve human interaction with the scene.

Whole-house intelligence from the moment you press the smart door lock, enter the door began - the entrance lights automatically light up, smart speakers a “welcome home” to soothe the day's fatigue, the air conditioning is automatically adjusted to the appropriate temperature, the lights follow the footsteps gradually lit, curtains slowly opened. Slowly pull open, the TV set is turned on to play your favorite programs ......

Small enough to automatically connect and disconnect the socket, large enough to be able to voice control to change various forms of mattresses, a smart home through the linkage and integration of technology to create a whole house of intelligence.

Therefore, at present, it is not realistic to rely on a few dollars of NFC chip stickers to achieve such an effect.

It allows us to experience the fun of “intelligent life” at a low price, is not a good thing, do you think?