Xiaomi wants to do this smart hardware this year

Lei Jun said that currently users are facing three major pain points when using smart devices, mainly in the complex mobile phone connection, each device requires a separate APP, cloud service investment. Xiaomi Technology will use mobile phones as the center to connect all smart devices. “Let everyone enjoy the pleasure of technology”.

This year, Xiaomi will promote smart hardware strategies to address the pain points encountered by users when using smart hardware:

1, research and development of general intelligence module

Xiaomi cooperated with the industry chain to develop a smart connection module. This module will be provided to partner manufacturers at the material cost price. At present, the price of Xiaomi smart module material has dropped to 22 yuan. Lei Jun said that Xiaomi's smart module is expected to reduce its cost to 15 yuan in one year and to 10 yuan in two years. After the wireless module is installed, traditional electronic products will implement connection and control functions through the mobile phone APP. With the addition of wireless connectivity modules, it is expected that all electronic products can become smart devices within 5-10 years.

2. Provide a unified control center

As more and more devices are connected to mobile phones, the devices will have more and more apps. Through Xiaomi’s unified control center, users can manage the smart devices developed by Xiaomi and its investment companies. This control center of Xiaomi is also directly embedded in the MIUI system. The MIUI lock screen interface integrates the equipment control center, which can easily realize the control of smart devices.

3. R&D smart hardware universal cloud service

At the end of last year, Kingsoft and Xiaomi jointly invested in Jinshan Cloud and launched the Jinshan “All in” cloud business. Lei Jun revealed that in 2015, Xiaomi Cloud will be positioned at the application cloud service level, Jinshan Cloud will be positioned at the basic cloud service, and the newly invested Century Internet will mainly be a network infrastructure.

Lei Jun said that the millet ecological chain will continue to pursue an open, non-exclusive, non-exclusive strategy. In terms of products, Xiaomi will be based on mobile phones, televisions, and routers, and other smart products will be handed over to partners. In the initial stage, Xiaomi will promote the construction of ecological chains in the form of shares. After a certain period of development, Xiaomi will open the ecological chain of millet. To unite all people who can unite, whether it is a start-up company or an appliance giant, Xiaomi is willing to become its partner.

"If Gree wants to cooperate, Xiaomi is also very welcome." Lei Jun said that millet will embrace all partners, so that everyone can enjoy the fun of technology.