Is your home smart enough?

With the continuous development of network technology, information, digitization and intelligence have gradually penetrated into every aspect of people's lives. As the most basic and closest group unit in social life, the family has also received more and more attention in its intelligence.

Smart gateway is the core of smart home

The intelligence of the home is based on the user experience. It is designed to allow users to enjoy smart applications like breathing air in a home environment. The basis is home terminal products. The home gateway not only becomes the hub for connecting inside and outside, but also the most important control center for the entire home network. Therefore, the intelligent home gateway has also become a necessary condition for implementing smart homes.

The rapid rise of smart consumer electronics has led to competition for control over users between smart devices. At present, Internet companies have occupied the positions of smart TVs, smart phones, and smart routers. They are also eyeing the blue-chip market of smart homes and are speeding up the intelligent layout of other home devices. TV has long been the core endpoint of home media entertainment services. Its successor, Smart TV, also fits the habit of using TV as a living room entertainment center. Smartphones are riding on the wave of technological development in mobile communications 4G/5G. With the high penetration of users, they are gradually tapping into the home intelligence entry field. But whether it is a smart TV, a smart phone, or a smart router in the competition of home information entrance, its core idea is to seek alternatives based on the integration of software and hardware capabilities. However, it turns out that any attempt to bind users through high-level hardware capabilities will be difficult to effect for a long time as technology advances.

In contrast, operational service providers use smart gateways as an entry point into the smart home market, and are more sensible based on the concept of software capabilities to improve operational efficiency and increase user stickiness. Return the dominance of the smart terminal to the end user, abandon the hardware burden, focus the technology investment on the manageable and controllable operation and maintenance capabilities, and combine the existing large user base of operators, perfect sales channels, and flexible broadband packages. Combined with the advantages of pipelines, operators have already taken the initiative in competing with Internet giants in the field of smart homes.

Smart "Smart" Smart Gateway Fine-Run Home Network

The application of network capabilities is the biggest differentiated competitiveness of intelligent gateways and other intelligent portal solutions. The unique application that highlights “network capabilities” will be a magic weapon for operators. Innovative service scenarios such as dynamic bandwidth adjustment with intelligent gateways and directed pipeline acceleration based on service types bring a new experience to users, and also impose higher requirements on operators' network support capabilities.

In addition, the smart gateway is also a transition between the operator's "cloud" service platform and multiple smart terminals for home users, or it can be said to be a family's "private cloud": On the one hand, the home gateway acts as an operator in the home environment. Deploying endpoints can provide flexible media service output. On the other hand, home gateways can distribute services to multiple smart terminals at home.

In addition to the improvement of network capabilities, the innovation of smart gateways is also reflected in management and operation and maintenance. It turns home networks into visual, manageable, perceivable and real-time feedback networks, and makes the management of the entire network simple and easy to control. The form of the App interface is directly delivered to the user. It is an ideal mode of operation. The smart gateway will be the basis and enabling carrier for all business applications in the smart home, and it is the management and control center of the entire home network, and it is the key node to enhance the user experience.