With the advancement of society and the economy, people's expectations for home quality continue to rise, driving a growing demand for smart home solutions. Favorable conditions have fueled the growth of the smart home sector, leading to a significant increase in the number of smart home appliances. As we look ahead to a future with billions of connected devices, NB-IoT is emerging as a key trendsetter in today's technological landscape. It offers extensive coverage, massive connectivity, low power consumption, and cost-effective networking solutions for the Internet of Things.
Recently, Haier unveiled NB-UHomekit, the industry’s first NB-IoT solution, which spans all technical standards from the foundational layers to upper-level services. This offering provides the most comprehensive NB-IoT smart home standard framework to date. Within this framework, Haier maintains an open approach, inviting chipmakers, module providers, equipment manufacturers, and telecom operators to collaborate deeply. Together, they are fostering the integration of NB-IoT with smart homes, creating a new ecosystem and business model.
As a leader in the smart living sector during the IoT era, Haier has progressively evolved from catering to individual customer needs to addressing broader community demands. It’s clear that Haier Group is pioneering transformative approaches under its "One-on-One" business model. The company has made groundbreaking advancements in the future of home appliances, smart homes, and the IoT space. In 2014, Haier launched the world’s first fully open, compatible, and interactive smart living platform, U+, which serves as an open platform for smart living. Built on the U+ IoT platform, the U+ interactive platform, and the U+ ecosystem platform, the company aims to lead the smart home revolution in the IoT era. Always focused on user needs, Haier builds user communities, promotes home networking, and fosters interactions. By creating an open platform, product, and ecosystem service combination that delivers scene-based business models, Haier provides users with ecosystem services like kitchen cooking, bathroom care, living, placement, and entertainment, ensuring a superior smart living experience.
The U+ IoT Platform Empowers Enterprise IoT Transformation
Haier U+ boasts the industry’s fastest IoT device access solution. Whether for U+ platform products or external developer products, U+ interconnects them to achieve the fastest access beyond any industry standard.
On June 27 of this year, Haier U+ released its U+ Cloud Core Solution for smart home IoT. As part of Haier U+'s smart home IoT object cloud solution, it includes "U+ Things Lianyun 1x3" and the "Intelligent Family IoT Chip." "U+ Things Lianyun 1x3" serves as the system software layer, with UHomeOS as its core, integrating U+ Cloud Alliance, U+ Cloud Computing, and U+ Cloud Intelligence into three major platforms. The Haier Smart Family IoT Chip, as the chip hardware layer, covers both solutions and intelligent solutions. Combined with Shanghai Seoul U+ Cloud Core, which maintains an open attitude to build a developer community, it offers enterprise-level users services such as content, technology, and funding. Haier Cloud Core integrates hardware, software, and ecosystem services through hardware and software integration solutions, bringing together all resources to assist traditional enterprises in quickly entering the market and achieving manufacturing upgrades. U+ Cloud Core leads the industry with its fivefold object protection, short access cycles, rapid product development, and tailored advantages, empowering the manufacturing industry and small-to-medium-sized startups to facilitate IoT upgrades and accelerate product commercialization. It builds the U+ Wisdom Ecology to create the best eco-experience in the smart life cycle and realize the promotion and application of the Wi-Fi smart home scale.
The U+ Interactive Platform Leads the Era of Intelligent Full-Scene Interaction
On November 24, 2016, Haier launched the first UHomeOS, a custom ecosystem operating system for smart homes in the IoT era, achieving a "zero breakthrough" for smart home operating systems in the IoT age. It became the world’s first smart home operating system, providing users with a unified experience. Intelligent home appliances deliver family life services, fundamentally igniting the user’s smart life scenarios. Haier UHomeOS is open. Focused on the core industries of Haier’s smart home appliances, it enables access to smart home devices from various industries through the UHomeOS system, achieving industry-wide information exchange and data sharing. All-party data can be fully compatible, breaking down information silos. This aggregation of big data allows home appliances to better understand and adapt to user needs. Resource partners collaborate to provide users with precise services, creating a smart home ecosystem that meets user values. For the entire industry, UHomeOS has completely overhauled the traditional home appliance industry’s business model, promoting the transition of new appliances from "hardware manufacturing" to "hardware + software + services."
In March of this year, at the China Household Electrical Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE), the "Oscar" of the home appliance industry, Haier released the world’s first set of interconnected smart home appliances and presented the first batch of 161 life scenarios. This marked the opening of the era of full-scene intelligent interaction in smart homes.
The U+ Ecosystem Platform Increases Value Through Industry Resources
Haier U+ focuses on the ecosystem platform strategy, continuously enhancing its capabilities, empowering small and micro organizations, and promoting the ecological prosperity and value-added of scenes. It builds a smart scene ecosystem, attracting more partners to join and realizing sustainable and collaborative ecosystem value-added. True openness that enables mutual benefit is a prerequisite for empowerment. Haier U+ builds an open, smart home industry-led ecosystem resource platform that empowers enterprises. It provides specific products and services for non-intelligent hardware manufacturers and small and medium-sized startups, covering the connection layer, development layer, and application layer. This enables enterprises to implement one-stop access to the IoT and achieve intelligent product upgrades, designing scenario linkage solutions. For small and medium-sized organizations, Haier U+ smart ecosystem resources are introduced once, allowing quick access and low costs. For resource-based parties, efficient access to the smart home industry accelerates brand communication and increases resource revenue. For users, through the one-stop closed-loop smart home ecosystem resource service of the Haier ecosystem resource platform, users' lives become more convenient, their experience is enhanced, and they receive the best smart living experience. In the future, various resources will be freely combined around user needs on an open platform to meet the most differentiated user needs.
For Haier’s smart home exploration, an open ecosystem platform strategy is an inevitable and natural path. In an open environment, relying on the innovative capabilities and technical support of the U+ platform, Haier has become a leader in the smart home industry in the IoT era. Haier continuously builds and enriches the ecology of smart scenes, synergizes with industry resources, and constructs the ecosystem of the IoT smart home industry. It leads the future of the IoT and empowers the smart home industry, becoming an industry benchmark.
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