Today, the artifact we want to share with you is called "Touchcloud Love Routing", an intelligent router product focusing on "child safety".

Figure: Overview of Airou's work

In the end, it's just a router, not high-tech, nor much playability. As an extremely common and durable household network essential product, if it is not "broken", it is really difficult for people to have the intention to replace the forgotten product in the corner. However, with the arrival of the smart home boom, routers seem to have become the data and control center of families, making many Internet companies start to scramble for the router market as they compete for the entrance of mobile phones. Xiaomi three hundred and sixty The addition of LeEco has pushed the "intelligent routing" to a new height of competing for performance, price and playing methods. It has made the marketing of routers a real need. These days, if you don't replace the old routing, you are ashamed to say you are a technologist.

So why should the new generation router replace the traditional router? Below and yinbro Discuss together:

Figure: Airou's design appearance

Figure: Dual rotatable antenna design

1. Face first: many science and technology have developed very mature, even in the bottleneck period. In this case, the breakthrough of each competition lies in many details, and appearance is the most important aspect. On the whole, users' strictness on appearance has increased significantly, so mobile phone manufacturers are forced to pursue borderless crazily. As the core product of smart home, the importance of face value is self-evident. Traditional routers are also designed, so it is wrong to say "ugly". To sum up, it is probably the aesthetic requirements of the new generation.

The new generation of routers are generally petite and thin, mostly using mirror or colorful plastic, or even directly using metal panels, which makes them more scientific and comfortable to use.

1. Operation: Strictly speaking, 192.168.0.1 It has become history, and the configuration of the new generation of routers is simpler. "Let girls learn to install routers" is the slogan of many manufacturers. Directly enter the alphabetic domain name such as wiair .cc You can jump to the simple and user-friendly setting interface. The unfathomable speed limit, blackout, density change and even bridging functions of traditional routers are very intuitive in intelligent routing, not only for girls, but also for seniors and children.

2. Said function: This is the biggest highlight of the new generation of routers, and also the biggest reason for people to update. The new generation router has become a "computer". It has its own computing power and operating system, can update firmware, and even install applications. When your router can download video remotely, control household lamps, curtains, lamps, and record the network usage of all networked devices, it is no longer the router you know. These seemingly sci-fi scenes have now slowly landed into real life.

Figure: Network security of key children

The general environment is like this, and the router is being upgraded. But with so many popular router products and a startup company less than a year old, what can it bring to the Jianghu?

Frankly, the mixed evaluation people don't like the products of entrepreneurial teams, because most products have problems in stability and practicality. The reviewer hopes to experience and share new toys with everyone, and find some defects in the use process to help the manufacturer improve together. If the product is too immature, or even "can't be used", the reviewer will feel a headache. If you tell the truth and disclose the defects bit by bit, it is no different from the online sprayer; If you take care of the entrepreneurs' face, you will have to bear the name of "Water Army".

Figure: Multi level indicator on the front

At the beginning, I was not optimistic about start-ups doing old "routers". But after getting the product and actually using it, yinbro I can responsibly tell every reader that this cloud touch love route is great!

Figure: Overall size is too large

Figure: It is equipped with a special power adapter, which is small and does not occupy the board

Figure: Three LAN outlets on the back

Figure: Heat dissipation perforated base

After all, it's just a router. It's not interesting to talk more about it. Let's talk about different places!

• Super Network Management

Love Route is a network product that focuses on "caring for children". The most powerful part is its network management function. After registering an account and binding the router, the administrator can supervise the online details of all connected devices. It's not a big deal, is it? However, the meticulous level of management is shocking!

As shown in the figure:

Figure: AliCloud nearly crazy precise network management

It can be seen that the software can be detailed to view each specific device APP ， At this time, the administrator can make diversified settings for all applications. To put it bluntly, it can kill you remotely LOL The network allows you to drop the line without being aware of it. For adults, this is a boring joke, but for parents to monitor children, this is a big killer. Set reminders for some applications, such as games, so that the router can monitor children's Internet access from the root of the network.

In addition, Airou will store all the recorded data into the cloud space to record every bit of children's Internet access.

Figure: Of course, you need to register and bind an account before using

• Intelligent routing + Cloud Routing

Intelligence does not explain too much, and the concept of "cloud" should be explained. This is a binding account Routers that synchronize routing data and control to the cloud and can be remotely managed. That is to say, users can view the use of routers at home through any Internet network thousands of miles away to achieve the above super management.

• other

Intelligent routing functions such as intelligent speed limit, malicious and spam website filtering, window wall mode and so on, are not too novel. The overall feeling of Airou is very mature, and its functions and stability are very good, which can be regarded as a model for entrepreneurial teams.

Figure: Use of QoS intelligent speed limit function

Nothing says perfect.

• Privacy security: The convenient and powerful management and recording function of AliCloud Routing provides users with rich play methods, but on the other hand, it collects a large amount of private data, twenty-four It is really frightening to monitor the application level for hours. Network equipment has always been a sensitive area, ranging from Huawei ZTE's large equipment being blocked in the United States to home network routers hijacking requests and uploading user data. Objectively speaking, such privacy protection and data security are mostly constrained by the professional ethics of manufacturers.

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• Hardware stability: Routers are definitely positioned to be durable, and they are planned to be used for at least three years and five years. It works all the time in its life and belongs to a real holiday without rest. This special work requires high reliability of components, which is why most consumers will give priority to old brands when purchasing routers. Although the temperature of the router is normal during the short and medium term trials, and there is no disconnection or disconnection reported by some users, this does not eliminate concerns about product life and stability. Of course, these are the dilemmas that the Forces nouvelles must face, and time will tell.
           

• Intelligent speed limit: AliCloud provides the intelligent speed limit function, but this "intelligence" is not intelligent enough. In essence, it is also sharing the network equally. By limiting the speed to the actual number of speed measuring/connecting devices, the speed limiting function is achieved to ensure that all users can use the network normally. This practice is undoubtedly mainstream and correct. But will there be a better way to solve the problem of network speed? Sharing bandwidth is actually a way of wasting resources. As we all know, in most cases, the network utilization rate of devices is not full load, and only when downloading, watching videos and other operations will "fire". hypothesis 10M Bandwidth, five devices are connected, and each device is alive and unique 2M Bandwidth. However, four devices only chat on WeChat and surf microblog, and only one device downloads movies, which limits the occupancy of the entire network system 20% . Since it is an intelligent routing device, why not consider a more efficient speed limiting algorithm? For example, each device can reach the average speed first, but when it is idle, the bandwidth can be distributed to other devices. Here you can set a lock time to ensure smooth transition. Whether it is feasible and how to complete it will require developers to use their brains.

Summary:

Solid workmanship, stable performance and reasonable pricing.

The problem of children's Internet access is a common worry for all parents, and love routing is a child's network security artifact that can not be ignored in the market!