China's smart home patent invention is worrying

At the 2015 Internet of Things and Smart Home Global Summit held on October 23 this year, many IoT industry executives including ZigBee Alliance President and CEO Tobin Richardson agreed that China's smart home industry started late. In western developed countries, the overall level of development has gradually entered the forefront of the world.

This view is worthy of struggle for every Chinese in the smart home field. After all, after missing two major reforms, we caught up with the third wave of the development of the world's information industry and became more influential in the future. The wave of networking industry. Indeed, as many people have known, the development of smart homes in China has been extremely rapid in recent years, and the application of products from the ground up to the application of technology is almost inspiring.

Different from foreign countries paying more attention to some smart items, although the domestic smart homes are still far away from the real popularity, the related hardware products on the market are already very rich, from basic switches and sockets to indispensable light bulbs and doors. Locks, and then to the higher pursuit of audio, home appliances, can cover almost every corner of the general family, the variety of "gradually fascinating eyes."

In terms of technology application, wireless communication technology is the mainstream of smart home development, and has become the consensus of domestic smart home enterprises. However, cable technology in foreign countries still accounts for half of the smart home industry, and it is relatively troublesome for home applications. At the end of October this year, the Russian HI-TECH Building exhibition brought together more than 200 companies from more than 20 countries and regions including Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Russia. Most of the smart home products they brought with them. It is based on wired technology.

The smart home is ultimately used by the public family to create a safe, comfortable and efficient living environment for users. The continuous enrichment of domestic products can meet the needs of more consumers to a certain extent. However, from a layout point of view, the domestic approach is actually difficult to claim as a leader abroad, especially in terms of innovation.

Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science (Thomson Reuters) last June, the US Patent and Trademark Office has received a patent application for home automation since 2000. . It was found that Samsung has submitted nearly 150 related patents in the past 14 years, ranking first. At that time, Samsung was not deeply involved in the smart home field, and basically stayed at the intelligent level of 3C products, and the concept was much larger than the actual application.

Similar to companies like Apple. Apple launched the smart home platform Homekit at WWDC2014 held in early June last year, but this platform is not hardware, just a program application that comes with the system. To put it simply, Apple does not have a smart home product appearance. However, even so, around WWDC2014, Apple has more than a dozen related invention patents exposed. It's also a bit simpler. In the smart home space, Apple has begun to quietly lay out.


Although the related smart home products are not mature enough, foreign companies, especially well-known companies, are obviously more inclined to use patent layout, thus achieving a thick accumulation. On the contrary, many domestic companies that have been doing a lot in the smart home field have been paving the way with products, and the number of related patents, especially invention patents, is so shameful.

According to the relevant information of the State Intellectual Property Office's official website, it is not difficult to find that the smart home enterprises with the most domestic patents are the leading system brand manufacturers. IOT Sensing has submitted hundreds of smart home related products in the past few years. The patent, the domestic "no peers can give it to the right." However, even the most, IOT sensor has only obtained 31 invention licenses. What is even more embarrassing is that this number has exceeded the sum of dozens of well-known companies in the industry, and many of them are usually at the show or in the industry. The actual invention patent for the loud company has not even achieved zero breakthrough.

Of course, many people may not understand that smart homes only have products that can meet the needs of users. Why do you have to emphasize patents? Can you build good products without patents? The answer is obviously that there is no patent to create products, but The road will be more difficult to walk, and now Xiaomi, which is gradually turning to the smart home industry, is a typical example.

With a good development environment, new Internet marketing methods and cost-effective products, Xiaomi has become the largest mobile phone manufacturer in China in just three or four years, and has won countless firsts. However, the first seat may not have been hot, and this year it was slammed down.

The reason for Xiaomi's style is multifaceted, but the most important one is the lack of innovation. In fact, as a young technology company, Xiaomi’s invention was not published, but until today, its invention authorization was few. It is understood that the reason why the first time in India was sued by Ericsson and has not entered the US mobile phone market, the main reason is the lack of patents, and has become a constraint for Xiaomi's progress.

Emphasize that the product itself should be, but blindly engage in "production" and ignore patented technology, can only be like a headless fly. The result of this almost rash may be that the product will land quickly and gain immediate benefits. However, the current situation of Xiaomi warns us that no patent can only be "the road is good now, and the future is difficult to lift." Regrettably, the current smart home in China may have embarked on the path of “transfer patents”.


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