On November 28, 2017, the first Xiaomi IoT developer conference of MIDC was held in Beijing. Lei Jun, the founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, disclosed that Xiaomi's IoT platform has more than 85 million networking devices, more than 10 million daily-use devices, and more than 400 partners. It has become the world's largest intelligent hardware IoT platform.
Since the official launch of Xiaomi's IoT strategy in early 2015 and the release of the first Xiaomi intelligent module to the public, Xiaomi's IoT business has won the first place in the world in just three years through an open, non exclusive and non exclusive cooperation strategy. Lei Jun announced that the next stage of Xiaomi's IoT strategy will be to open up in all respects. This announcement of Xiaomi's IoT developer plan is a concrete manifestation of this concept.
The world's largest intelligent hardware IoT platform is fully opened, and the Xiaomi IoT developer plan is launched As the world's largest intelligent hardware IoT platform, as of November 5, 2017, Xiaomi IoT platform has more than 85 million networking devices. Compared with the total number of connected devices, Lei Jun, the founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, said that the data of more than 10 million Xiaomi IoT devices is more gratifying. In terms of the indicator of user stickiness, Xiaomi IoT platform is far ahead in the industry, which also proves that Xiaomi IoT has indeed changed users' habits through intelligent hardware products, It really improves the user experience.
At the same time, Lei Jun said: "The biggest in the world is not Xiaomi's goal.". At the very beginning of the company's founding, Xiaomi set the vision of making the coolest company in rice noodles, so that everyone can enjoy the fun brought by technology. Winning the title of the world's largest intelligent hardware IoT platform is indeed worthy of the pride of Xiaomi and every rice noodle, but it only achieved Xiaomi's periodic goal of IoT. How can everyone use intelligent hardware products easily and conveniently, and let the Internet of Things change the lives of more people? This is the next step for Xiaomi IoT - comprehensive opening and Xiaomi IoT developer plan.
Xiaomi IoT has always adhered to the concept of openness. As of November 2017, Xiaomi IoT has more than 400 partners, including China Mobile, Microsoft Xiaobing, Siemens, Philips, and Supor. At the same time, after more than three years of common growth with Xiaomi IoT, including Zimi, Huami, Zhimi ninebot、 Xiaoyi and other Xiaomi ecological chain companies also joined the ranks of Unicorn companies. In the future, Xiaomi IoT will face more third-party brands with a comprehensive and open mind.
Gao Ziguang, vice president of Xiaomi Ecological Chain and head of Xiaomi IoT platform, said: Although IoT has been recognized as the mainstream direction of future development in the past two years, due to the fact that it is still in the initial stage and the platform access standards are not unified, although it has a strong potential, it has not built a tower. The Xiaomi IoT developer plan is designed to help third-party brand intelligent hardware products quickly integrate with the existing Xiaomi IoT products and achieve linkage control.
The openness of Xiaomi IoT developer plan is reflected in: open access to modules&hardware, open access to Mijia APP, open access to new retail channels, open control of intelligent device interconnection and open sharing of AI cloud/big data. The intelligent hardware team can use the standard technical documents and unified API interface provided by Xiaomi IoT to connect to Mijia APP through its own intelligent module hardware, and can also choose to use the intelligent module hardware officially provided by Xiaomi IoT. After being connected to Mijia APP, the third-party intelligent hardware will also realize linkage and mutual control of all products on the existing Xiaomi IoT platform.
Gao Ziguang also said that the open access of new retail channels also represents Xiaomi's determination to open its IoT platform. At present, Xiaomi's new retail strategy is in full swing. After Xiaomi. com became the eighth largest e-commerce platform in the world, Xiaomi has also opened the construction of offline Xiaomi Home. At present, there are more than 200 offline Xiaomi Home stores, In addition, Xiaomi also introduced more third-party boutique smart home products through its own boutique e-commerce platform. In the future, smart hardware products participating in the Xiaomi IoT developer plan will also have the opportunity to land in the new retail channel of Xiaomi.
In view of the fact that most domestic intelligent hardware teams are small scale start-ups, the Xiaomi IoT developer plan also proposes: startup team support plan, developer program plan, excellent team incubation plan and star product subsidy plan. At present, the official website of Xiaomi IoT developer plan has been launched, and more details can also be logged in //iot.mi.com/ Query.
Xiaomi and Baidu cooperate in depth to jointly explore new forms of AI products
On the day of the conference, Lu Qi, president and chief operating officer of Baidu, attended the conference and delivered a keynote speech. Xiaomi and Baidu announced at the meeting that they have reached a deep cooperation. Baidu relies on the layout and development advantages of artificial intelligence. Xiaomi, with its industry-leading IoT advantages and artificial intelligence product advantages, has joined forces to bring better experience to users.
Xiaomi has a leading cloud service platform in the industry, and is also the enterprise most capable of implementing AI technology into products. As early as 2012, Xiaomi has begun to focus on deep learning and artificial intelligence. In the past few years, Xiaomi has been following C (cloud computing), B (big data) and A (artificial intelligence) in terms of technology. Artificial intelligence has become the core strategy of Xiaomi.
Cui Baoqiu, Xiaomi's chief architect and vice president of artificial intelligence and cloud platform, introduced at the Xiaomi IoT developer conference that thanks to the huge scale of mobile phone and intelligent hardware users, Xiaomi is not only a mobile Internet company, but also a big data company and an AI company. "AI technology has a very broad application space in Xiaomi products. Speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing, computer vision, deep learning, and even robot related technologies may be used in Xiaomi.
At present, Xiaomi's AI R&D and application have shown their power in Xiaomi AI speakers, Xiaomi Financial 'Mi Xiaobei' and other products, winning wide praise in the industry. In the next 5-10 years, smart phones will still be the largest platform of artificial intelligence technology, and smart phones+IoT will become an infinite ecosystem of artificial intelligence. "Based on strong product capabilities, Cui Baoqiu believes that Xiaomi has the most opportunity to implement AI capabilities into a series of smart products, serving hundreds of millions of users.
With the advent of the era of Internet of Everything, security and privacy have always been the concerns of users. Cui Baoqiu said that security and privacy are two bottomless holes, and no amount of investment can be made, which can be felt by users. Xiaomi has a very firm position in protecting user security and privacy. In May 2016, its MIUI system and Xiaomi Mall had been certified by TRUSTe, an internationally renowned privacy certification company. "Data is a major responsibility entrusted to us by users. Xiaomi will continue to invest in protecting user privacy and security, and is willing to work with other industry participants to promote the whole industry's attention and protection of user privacy".
Hundreds of smart hardware products help Xiaomi AI develop at a high speed
Xiaomi began to lay out the AI industry two years ago. Lei Jun, the founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, once said that AI is the most important technological revolution in the next 10 years, which is bound to affect the entire human society. It is suggested to list AI as a national strategy. Taking Xiaomi's first AI smart speaker "Xiaoai Classmate" as an example, Tang Mu, vice president of Xiaomi Ecological Chain and head of Xiaomi Exploration Laboratory, said at the developer conference that "Xiaoai Classmate" has won widespread attention from users and the industry since its release on July 26 this year. On August 10, open beta registration was launched, reaching more than 1 million appointments in just one day. After user feedback during the public beta and continuous improvement in recent months, Xiao Ai's students now have more than 100 skills, and the user satisfaction of Xiaomi Mall is up to 99.1%.
From "never know" to "understand" to "get used to", direct voice on demand greatly shortens the user's use path and improves the user experience. Now, the number of daily voice instructions of "Little Love Students" has exceeded 3 million, and the average daily use time is about 2 hours. Among them, music and audio books are just in need of high frequency, and the number of daily playback has exceeded 4 million.
The appearance of "Little Love Students" has changed the impression of many users that smart speakers can only listen to music and ask about the weather. After three months of sales, Little Love students have been integrated into the rice noodle family. Moreover, the new experience of voice controlled intelligent appliances is quietly changing people's lifestyle, helping to cultivate the relationship between users and IoT devices, and improving stickiness. In the future, Little Love will learn more skills, and your life will become more and more smart and intelligent because of her.
Intelligent linkage air conditioner humidifier Mijia Bluetooth thermometer and hygrometer released
At the Xiaomi Ecological Chain MIOT Developers Conference, Liu De, co-founder and senior vice president of Xiaomi, also released a new product - Mijia Bluetooth Thermohygrometer, which not only has a high face value, but also can achieve intelligent linkage with other Mijia devices if it works with Mijia Bluetooth gateway, enabling air conditioners, fans, humidifiers and other devices to automatically turn on, adjust and turn off. Mijia Bluetooth hygrometer is the first Xiaomi and Mijia brand product designed to support Mijia Bluetooth gateway, and has been connected to Mijia intelligent scene. Mijia's Bluetooth hygrometer continues the millet style cost performance line, only selling for 69 yuan. It will be sold at Xiaomi Mall, Xiaomi Tmall flagship store, Youpin and Xiaomi Home at 10 a.m. on December 5.
To become the world's largest intelligent hardware IoT platform is just a new starting point for Xiaomi IoT. With the launch of Xiaomi IoT developer plan, more third-party developers will join this platform, promoting the explosive growth of the whole industry of IoT. The comprehensive popularization of IoT equipment will also boost the rapid development of Xiaomi AI. The AI technology that is more intelligent and humanized will quietly change everyone's lifestyle, so that everyone can really enjoy the fun brought by technology.
