Midea Smart Home M-Smart is the most professional smart home experience service proposed by Midea Group in its smart home development strategy based on the advantages of Midea product group and industry group, focusing on the core demands of consumers.

Development background

On March 10, 2015, Midea Group announced Midea's strategic concept and action plan in the field of smart home at the Midea M-Smart smart home strategy press conference. Relying on advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing, Midea Group will be one of the first. A traditional home appliance manufacturer has become a smart home creator. This kicks off with the beautiful smart home.

Midea's Smart Home Strategy

According to the plan, Midea will implement the "1+1+1" strategy in the field of smart homes, namely "one smart housekeeper system + one M-Smart interactive community + one M-BOX management center", and create "air smart housekeeper" and "nutrition" Smart service sectors such as Smart Butler, "Water Health Smart Butler", "Energy Security Smart Butler" accelerate the layout of the Internet of Things home furnishing market. To this end, Midea has formulated a four-stage promotion plan to realize the interactive application of the ecosystem from the networking of various categories, automatic control of single categories, and then automatic control of smart housekeeper systems, to the community, shops, hospitals and other ecosystems. The ultimate goal is to build A brand new smart home ecosystem.

In order to achieve this goal, Midea Group has continuously increased its R&D investment in the field of smart homes. In 2014, Midea's related R&D investment exceeded 4 billion yuan, and the cumulative investment will reach 15 billion yuan in the next three years. At the same time, Midea has unified the same code for various internal product research and development departments to achieve the interconnection of all products under its entire category. At present, Midea Fluid Technology Research Room, Nutrition Research Room, Water Health Research Room, Frequency Conversion Research Room and other units are stepping up the research and development of new smart products.

Midea Smart Home Cooperation Enterprise

Midea has joined hands with Huawei, Alibaba, Qualcomm, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to realize the entire macro-architecture planning of smart homes, and leverages the advantages of Huawei, Neusoft, JD.com, BAT and other companies in their respective professional fields in the Internet to promote the construction of Midea's smart home platform from cloud to end. Especially at the end of last year, Midea and Xiaomi successfully "married" and will accelerate Midea's development in the fields of smart home ecological chain construction and mobile Internet business integration.

M-Smart System White Paper

On March 11, 2015, the 14th China Home Appliance Expo (AWE) Midea Group released the "Smart Home System White Paper".

The M-Smart system white paper clearly explains the basic composition, core functions, internal ecosystem, external ecosystem, social value, and commercial value of M-smart; the architecture of Midea Cloud (including basic cloud M-Cloud + open cloud Open-Cloud two Architecture); Mercure APP; price, hardware specifications, basic software process and serial communication protocol between modules and home appliances; M-Smart system opens specific service content; M-Smart system is aimed at using third-party cloud , three open docking forms of Internet partners that use Midea’s built-in cloud and no cloud.

M-Smart big event

On March 10, 2014, Midea Group announced its strategic concept and action plan for smart homes at the M-Smart smart home strategy launch conference.

On March 17, 2014, a press conference on cloud strategic cooperation between Midea and Alibaba was held in Alibaba Park, Hangzhou

On March 18, 2014, Midea M-smart smart home debuted at the Shanghai Home Expo

On April 15, 2014, Midea M-Smart Smart Home debuted at the 115th Canton Fair

On September 5, 2014, Midea M-Smart System debuted IFA2014 International Consumer Electronics Exhibition

In November 2014, the Midea Smart Home Super APP, the Midea Android version was launched, and smart air conditioners and water heaters were launched.

In January 2015, Mercure APP released an IOS version to realize dual-system control of M-Smart smart home appliances Android and IOS

On March 11, 2015, Midea released a white paper on smart home

M-Smart Core Value

Intercommunication: basic (product) connection and control, real-time data collection and processing, 24/7 service

Mutual understanding: a people-centered understanding of people, things and things in the home, a smart housekeeper system

Interaction: Interactive communication platform for everyone, human-machine, machine-machine, community forum alliance construction

Mutual commerce: interactive-based consumer demand explicit, Internet of Things-based e-commerce

The purpose of M-Smart

Highly open, reduce comprehensive costs, and optimize user experience.

Three pillar products

WIFI communication module, Mercure APP, cloud service

Four core services

1. Cost-effective WIFI module

The core value of the WIFI module is to solve the problem of home appliance access network in a simple way, so the M-smart module minimizes the threshold for home appliance electronic control systems. The WIFI module has no restrictions on messages. Home appliance developers can define their own control protocols based on the actual situation of the product, with good independence and flexibility. The price of the WIFI module is absolutely affordable.

2. A comprehensive IoT product solution

The M-smart system will provide cooperative manufacturers with a complete set of solutions covering product research and development, production, testing, quality evaluation, and after-sales service, helping external enterprises solve various problems in platform applications.

3.APP development support

M-smart will open the SDK to support third-party developers to make excellent mobile terminal applications and optimize the experience of smart home.

4. Cloud service development support

M-smart provides a cloud-based API interface to share users and data with third-party servers. On the other hand, collaborators can also rent existing cloud platforms, develop applications on the platform, and customize exclusive content and functions.

M-Smart's four smart home butler systems

Taking "Midea Air Smart Butler" as an example, it will integrate air conditioners, fans, and air purifiers to provide users with weather, air and other information, while remembering users' living habits and actively creating a comfortable and comfortable air environment for the family. , provide a low-carbon economic life.

"Nutrition Smart Butler" is mainly based on Midea kitchen appliances. For example, smart kitchens can provide personalized services such as seasonal food, recommended recipes, customized recipes, etc. The refrigerator can identify the nutritional components of each menu, reminding which foods are about to expire, and implementing the refrigerator. Food nutrition management.

"Water Health Smart Butler" provides smart drinking water and domestic water management. If the water purifier needs to be replaced with the filter element, the water quality monitoring will alarm, and water dispensers, water heaters, etc. will also achieve smarter temperature adjustment, which can be set according to different groups of people Personalized water health management application.

"Smart Energy Security Manager" helps achieve economical energy saving, safe, comfortable, convenient and fast energy services through intelligent solutions such as central air conditioning and lighting systems.