A Patent of Home Automation Comes to 180 Billion!

  At present, home automation has become the global hot spot, and national governments and enterprises treat home automation as a key developing object in succession. Home automation will become one of the applications in smart Earth and IOT (Internet of things) in China. At the beginning of this year, Google took over Nest, and the whole world meets with a wave of home automation and enterprises at home and abroad keep a close watch on this hot application and begin to release the plan of smart home development.

IOT (Internet of things) is also called sensor network in USA. Its basic operation principle is that a mass of sensors detect the various status data of the environment anywhere, anytime and continuously, and then transmit the data to cloud server to analyze them, in order to decide whether intervene the environment, which will be a comprehensive and large-scale active intervention to our living space for the first time in human history, and it will create a burst of global innovation.

    Essentially, IOT is the combination of virtual economy and substantial economy and it features with development in several fields at the same time. After 30 years of reform and opening up, China has become a global manufacturing power and after 20 years of the development of Internet, China has cultivated massive Internet genius. The above two characteristics have laid the global foundation of the development of IOT in China. From the point of the development of global IOT, developed countries and China are basically in the same starting line, and in particular, China has guided the global development in certain application field. With the continuous development of China economy, China will form a huge market and surpass developed countries. Before the arrival of next consumption wave, whether Chinese has made preparation means a lot.

To exceed western countries economy ultimately, China should rely on innovation. According to modern commercial codes, intellectual property is the powerful weapon to protect innovation. Whether Chinese enterprises have the awareness of intellectual property, and whether they can keep continuous innovation and the awareness of intellectual property rights protection in the home automation could be particularly important.

According to the information published by National Patent Office, the patent we can find that involved home automation is quite limited, among which, utility model patents with low value occupy the largest share. However, it’s worth mentioning that the leader of home automation – Nanjing IOT Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. has achieved 9 national invention patents, among which, high value patents awarded by National Patent Office account for a huge share. And several patents are worth special mention. It is well-known that, all traditional house appliances adopt IR remote control and this method has covered almost every family. Then how to realize the automation of house appliance without replacing them, IR control comes to the sole choice or the exclusive entrance of the automation of traditional house appliances. To control house appliances remotely via mobile phones can be realized by a patent called “Wireless IR Transmitter” invented by Nanjing IOT Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. involved in this area. Namely, controlling traditional house appliances by transferring wireless signals into IR signals by any other companies constitutes infringement. This patent owns a huge market – if a family has 2 air-conditioners and 1 computer, it means every family needs 3 IR transmitters. Considering there are 300 million families in China and if one transmitter sells at 200 RMB, this IR transmitter has a market size amounted to 180 billion RMB.

Another patent by this company called “Wireless Cloud Smart Lock” is also amazing. The smart lock at present market is the intellectualization of single product with just fingerprints, passwords, cards, keys to open the door at a close range. Nevertheless, With the Wireless Cloud Smart Lock, users can open the door remotely via mobile phones, which not only avoids the inconveniences caused by keys, but also improves the home security greatly. What’s more, Nanjing IOT also owns some high value invention patents, such as “Wireless Cloud Drawer Lock” related to home security closely, and “Wireless GPS” that can realize the real home automation. These patents of this company prevent from foreign enterprises’ entrance to Chinese home automation market. The characteristics of IOT wave that distinguish the traditional industries such as the industrial revolution and Internet revolution is relying on invention patents instead of price war. But what is even more remarkable is that all these patents have been developed into actual products which have been sold to domestic and foreign markets. Obviously, Chinese enterprises have beaten western companies by making full use of western thought.

The development of an emerging industry relies on the guide of the government and the support of the society. From the national level, Chinese relative management department should preserve the innovation awareness and protect the intellectual property of our enterprises in the emerging industry like home automation field, so that the whole society will protect and encourage self-innovation, which will lay a solid foundation for our countries to compete with western developed countries in this emerging industry wave.