Foreword - How to hit the pain points of users

In 2015, the scientific and technological community sought to subvert in innovation. All kinds of intelligent hardware products constantly hit the eyes of users. Users are eager to see more and more "smart" devices that can digitize the human body, space, and home environment, and thus provide some useful services. However, in fact, many of them are labeled "smart" today Tagged devices are just wishful thinking of entrepreneurs, and users don't buy them. The most important reason is that these devices do not solve users' pain points, which naturally won't be recognized by users.

At present, there are few intelligent hardware products that can hit the user's pain points, but they are not absent. Today, the author introduces a smart socket product - kitten smart housekeeper, which has both a super cute shape of "cuteness pays no attention to death" and an ultra practical function that is far beyond your imagination, Let's see how this smart socket hits the pain points of users. Maybe it can provide some useful lessons for entrepreneurs who can't find directions.

Appearance - the cutest smart socket in history

The product packaging of the kitten intelligent butler is very simple and elegant. The rectangular hard packaging box is white in color, and the front product logo is a cute kitten's head. The smiling appearance makes people feel intimate; On the back of the box are the relevant information and main functions of the product. It is really surprising to see that the products in this small box have so many functions - mobile phone remote control appliances, timed automatic socket, smart body sensing, remote video monitoring, wireless WiFi relay amplification, intelligent joint control, voice control. It is simply an omnipotent "Swiss army knife", It is impossible to resist opening the box immediately.

Can't wait to open the box, and a cute "kitten" suddenly "jumps" in front of you. It's too cute and defenseless. It's really unexpected that a socket can be made so cute. Take out the cute kitten, and below is the product's quick start guide. How can a full set of products achieve so many functions with just one socket?

Here's a close-up of Mengmengda's "kitten": the whole socket is made of V0 grade safe and flame retardant PC, which is safe and reliable. The surface is treated with piano paint, and the feel is fine. The standard five port jack is at the bottom of the front, and the black "Liu Haile" at the top is engraved with the product logo "MaoHa", logo There are two working status indicator lights under it. The triangular "cat ear" stands up below the kitten's bright two "big eyes": one is a light sensor, and the other is a human body sensor. The design is very ingenious. People often say that "eyes are the window of the soul", which is also completely applicable to kittens.

The back of the kitten is a three hole plug and basic product information; There is a switch button on the side of the socket. Short press the control socket on/off, long press can restore factory settings or switch network configuration mode.

If you think that the above is all about kittens, you are totally wrong. The top and bottom of kittens are also designed with USB interfaces and bright LED night lights, USB interface can not only provide 5V/1A current to charge various digital devices, but also realize more abundant expansion functions through it. For example, the remote video monitoring function can be easily realized by connecting an external drive free camera, and even RF remote control, hazardous gas detection, etc. are not necessary; The LED night light at the bottom can be used together with the light sensor and the human body sensor, which can automatically turn on or off as the ambient light changes. At the same time, it supports the intelligent mode of people coming on and people walking off, saving energy and electricity.

Function - powerful to subvert your view of socket

As we mentioned earlier, there are as many as ten product functions listed on the packaging box of this cute socket, which makes people feel unbelievable when they are overwhelmed: isn't it just a socket? Although the appearance is cute and invincible, how can it have so many functions? And how practical? It can't be the manufacturer's deceit. Don't worry, let's try one by one to see whether it is true or not?

The first time you use the kitten smart butler, you need to configure the kitten's network so that the kitten can access the WiFi network at home. The configuration method is very simple. First install the matching APP on the mobile phone, connect the kitten to the power supply, and wait about 30 seconds. The indicator light 2 on the kitten's forehead starts to flash green slowly. This is just to open the APP and add devices according to the wizard prompts to enter the network configuration interface for configuration. If the configuration is successful, the indicator light 2 will be green and always on. Of course, Kitten also supports the use mode of stand-alone non networking, which will be described in detail later.

After the kitty is configured, we will begin to experience many practical functions of this "18 kinds of martial arts, master everything", which may be the strongest smart socket in history.

There are more and more home appliances, and more and more remote controls. It is often difficult to find where the remote control is when you need it. Now, the kitten smart housekeeper has an infrared transmitter built in, so it can perfectly replace many traditional infrared remote controls in the home, such as TV, air conditioner, set-top box, fan and other home appliances that support infrared remote control, The kitten's learning function is super powerful. Just point the remote control to be learned at the kitten, follow the tips of the mobile phone APP step by step, and soon you can learn all the functions of a remote control. With the kitten, your mobile phone is a universal remote control. With one machine in hand, you can almost control all the appliances in your home that support infrared remote control, It frees you from many remote controls, and it can also be remotely controlled. Even when you go out, you can also remotely control the home appliances at any time. For example, in hot summer, when you go off work, you can remotely control the start of the air conditioner at home, and you can directly enjoy the cool at home, which is what smart hardware products should look like.

I believe many people have had such an embarrassment. They want to drink a cup of delicious soymilk in the morning, but it is time to go to work before the soymilk is ready. Now there is a kitten, everything becomes simple. You just need to plug the soymilk machine into the kitten socket, set the start time, and then the kitten will automatically start the soymilk machine, and when you get up, just in time to drink the delicious soymilk; Moreover, the kitten has a unique time delay switch function. For example, you can set the air conditioner to automatically turn on half an hour before going home from work, and turn off music an hour later before going to bed.

In addition, the kitten can also monitor the power of electrical appliances in real time. When the power is abnormal, it can automatically cut off the power to protect against accidents; The electricity statistics function can check the electricity consumption of appliances at home at any time. The APP will automatically record the electricity consumption every day, every hour and every week, so as to be a good steward of your electricity consumption and calculate every minute of your electricity bill carefully.

In addition to charging digital devices at ordinary times, the USB port on the kitten has a larger function that it can be connected with a variety of plug-ins to achieve unlimited expansion of functions, such as temperature and humidity plug-ins, radio frequency remote control plug-ins, etc. I think the most practical thing is that you can connect a general free drive camera to achieve remote monitoring, and plug the camera into the kitten's USB port, You can bind your email account. The camera works with the kitten's own body sensor. Once someone enters the body sensor area, an alarm will be triggered. The kitten will immediately send the captured image to your bound email. Of course, you can check the status of your home at any time through APP, You can even set the monitoring time period to avoid frequent push interference when people at home.

The kitten smart housekeeper has built in a 300M wireless relay to amplify the WiFi signals in the home, so as to expand the coverage of WiFi in the home. For example, if the router is placed in the living room, the signals in the bedroom may have a great attenuation. With the kitten as the relay, the WiFi signals in every corner of the home are full. The kitten supports two groups of WiFi hotspots, Therefore, you can set the exclusive WiFi signal for visitors. When friends arrive at home, they can meet their Internet needs without worrying about the leakage of WiFi passwords at home.

Here we focus on the powerful ad filtering function of kittens. I believe that video lovers are all subjected to ad harassment from various video websites for several minutes, which is overwhelming and annoying. If you access the network signal of kittens, you can watch all kinds of videos without worrying about ad harassment. I personally tested several common video apps, Cats can indeed effectively block the lengthy ads at the beginning of the film and open the video in seconds; This function is also a great blessing for friends who like to browse the web, because kittens can also block various web banners, pop-up windows and other advertisements, giving you a cool online world, and no longer have to worry about the overwhelming advertisements on the Internet, such as psoriasis.

The most powerful feature of kitten is its intelligent control linkage function. You can set various conditions such as timing/brightness/body sensing/temperature/humidity through the APP. When the set conditions are met, the kitten will automatically execute the functions you preset, and use it to execute more accurate household appliance control mode. If there are several kitten intelligent housekeepers in the home, a small LAN will be formed, You can control various complex functions of various household appliances under almost any complex conditions. For example, you can set the time to start TV dramas, watch news broadcast on time, turn on the stereo to play music on time every morning, automatically turn on the air conditioner when the temperature reaches 35 degrees and adjust the temperature to 26 degrees, and these can be set once, The kitten will automatically operate, freeing you from all kinds of tedious operations.

In addition, the kitten also supports voice control function. You just need to move your mouth, and the kitten will understand and immediately execute your order. It is the so-called "gentleman moves his mouth, not his hands". There is a sense of immediacy of future technology. I tested the voice control function several times, and was surprised to find that the kitten can recognize Cantonese and Henan dialect in addition to Mandarin, Its intelligence can also be seen from this.

Finally, let's add that kittens actually support dual mode control of the Internet and LAN. Through the Internet, you can remotely control all kinds of home appliances through kittens. Even if the Internet is cut off, as long as you connect your mobile phone to the WiFi signal transmitted by the kitten at home, you can also control home appliances as you want in this LAN, This is a good news for families who are used to using wired networks, although it seems that there are few families without wireless networks.

Summary - This is true intelligence

As mentioned earlier, there are many pseudo intelligent products in the market under the banner of intelligent hardware, such as smart water cup products, many of which are pseudo intelligent. Do we really need a water cup to remind ourselves that it is time to drink? Do you need to record how much water you drink every day to the nearest ml? These devices, in fact, are complicating a very simple thing for the sake of the lover. They are dressed in high-tech clothing and let people fall into greater constraints. The intelligent hardware I understand is the equipment that can liberate people from various complex life situations and tedious mechanical operations. After all, technology is used to liberate people rather than bind them.

According to the above point of view, the kitten intelligent housekeeper is undoubtedly a real intelligent hardware device, because it hits the pain points of users, helps users solve real problems in life, and liberates users to the maximum.

I sincerely hope that there will be more and more "true intelligence" hardware products like Kitty Smart Housekeeper!