OFweek smart home network news June 15, 2017 news, in recent years, with the development of smart home, the concept of Internet of things has gradually entered everyone's vision. The ultimate goal of smart home is to achieve interoperability, that is, to allow all smart home products to access the Internet of things to achieve interoperability. However, due to various reasons, there are currently products on the market that have not fully achieved this goal.
However, with the development of time, the current home appliances and related electronic devices of Samsung and LG may be interconnected within this year! It is reported that Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have both joined the Open Connectivity Foundation (Open Connectivity Foundation, OCF for short), an open IoT standard organization. The IoT equipment and connection standards of the two companies have been certified by OCF.
It is worth mentioning that OCF was established in February 2016 and is committed to unifying IoT standards and accelerating Internet innovation. Its goal is to “build IoT solutions and IoT devices that can seamlessly connect.†Currently, OCF members The number is close to 300, including global companies such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Electrolux.
Closer to home, Samsung's current OFC-certified products are only high-end air conditioners and refrigerators. However, there will be more products to be certified this year. Samsung’s latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S8, has also been certified by OCF. In addition, LG Electronics has news here that it has developed a smart refrigerator and is actively promoting OFC certification.
The certification of Samsung and LG’s products means that Samsung and LG’s upcoming smart appliances can be interconnected, and consumers can control and operate another product through any product. In other words, the user can check the food in the LG smart refrigerator through the screen of Samsung Smart TV in the future. But unfortunately, the products that Samsung and LG have already sold in the market cannot be compatible with each other.
However, the certification of Samsung and LG has an active role in the promotion of the entire industry. It is believed that in the near future, smart home appliances distributed in the market will also be connected and interoperable, and at the same time, the smart home can be truly realized. Moments. According to market research firm Gartner predicts that by 2020, the number of global networking equipment will reach 26 billion.
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