The Internet is eroding the traditional world bit by bit, starting from computers, mobile phones, televisions, cars, and now it's home. Smart home is not a new concept. As early as before the Internet, there were already intelligent buildings, intelligent security and intelligent buildings. The world's first smart building can be traced back to the United States in 1984, and smart home has been widely used for many years, including China.

Last year, Alibaba and Media announced strategic cooperation to build an open platform for the Internet of Things based on Alibaba cloud computing, and released the first intelligent air conditioning for the Internet of Things.

Previously, IoT applications and individual users are transparent to each other. Personal users are completely unaware of the convenience of the IoT. In the past, smart home focused on lighting remote control, electrical remote control and electric curtain control. This is more of an industry plan. The direct customers are enterprises or governments, not families or individuals.  

Enterprise customers consider economic benefits, using SIM instead of meter reader to transfer meter readings, power saving through intelligent lighting control and so on. Now smart home has entered the "user era". Users pay for products. User-oriented thinking needs functions, costs, experience and marketing to go hand in hand. This is what Internet companies are good at.  

Smart home makes human life better. The comfort and convenience it brings is probably beyond our imagination. Steve Jobs reinvents mobile phones and smart home will eventually reinvent "home" and bring a new lifestyle. Internet giants have the advantages of technology research and development, economic capacity, resource integration and so on. After joining the smart home industry, the ignition point has come ahead of schedule.