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.
