How to classify smart home products? Smart home product classification analysis

With the continuous development of the smart home industry, there are more and more smart home products and smart home systems. The product classification is also varied, and some are classified according to the attributes of smart homes, such as smart home products, smart home systems and smart home devices. What other smart home product classifications are there? The following editors come to share with you smart home classification analysis.

1. Smart home appliances

The products of such companies are either home appliances that are intelligently controlled and recommended through network connections, or they are all kinds of smart aids for music. For example, the company's MAID Oven Smart Kitchen Assistant, and Sonos's smart streaming speakers. In particular, Sonos is currently the most financed smart home startup company.

2. Intelligent control class

Such companies do not develop a smart home appliance or a smart home appliance, but instead specialize in developing controllers that can control various other smart home appliances. For example, Peel's universal remote controller, Ivee's personal voice assistant, etc. Ivee's slogan is: "Siri in your home." Both companies have invested in Lightspeed Venture Partners and Foundry Group consortium.

3. Energy saving

The characteristics of this type of company's products are the ability to intelligently regulate the switching of water, electricity, and gas resources at home through smart sensors, monitoring technology, and cloud databases to achieve efficient use. For example, ecobee and Rachio company, their products can be used to intelligently monitor home electricity conditions and lawn watering conditions, so it can greatly reduce electricity and water consumption for the user's home. One of them was Ecobee’s investment in the Consortium of Carrier Corporation, and Rachio received investment from Amazon’s Alexa Fund.

4. Gardening

Such smart products focus on the use of water resources in the garden and various garden monitoring scenarios. This is a relatively unpopular segment in the smart home startups. The most funded startup in this category is Edyn, who recently received a $2 million Series A round of financing. As shown in the figure below, is their company's smart soil detector.

5. Home Intelligent Control Platform

Such companies do not develop a single smart device. Instead, they develop a complete smart home control system that uses this system to intelligently control the home's doors, windows, and various household appliances. Representatives of these companies are Ecovent's intelligent temperature control platform and Vivint's intelligent security system. In particular, Vivint has already obtained up to $145 million in financing, and is the smart home startup that follows Sonos's second-largest amount of financing.

6. Health care

These companies specialize in designing smart products for people's physical health and medical assistance. Among them are MedMinder's smart reminder kit and Beddit's non-wearable smart sleep tracker. The best financing for such companies is the Hello company. They got a round A financing of up to US$40 million last year, which enabled them to top the list of medical and health smart home startups with a total financing amount of US$50 million. First place.

7. Home Robots

Such companies specialize in the development of home-use robots such as escort, cleaning and chat. Representatives of these companies are Jibo Home Assistant Robot and Neato Sweeper Robot. Among them, Jibo's current total financing amount reached 52 million U.S. dollars.

8. Smart lighting

This type of company specializes in the development of a variety of smart controls and beautiful lighting related products. For example, Philips Hue and LIFX companies can display smart light bulbs in 1,000+ colors, and Switchmate's smart light switches.

9. Pet/Infant Monitoring

These companies specialize in the development of smart monitoring devices or sensors for pets or babies to make it easier for users to view the dynamics of babies and pets at any time through smartphones. These companies are almost at the stage of just starting a business. Their representatives are Lully's smart sleep monitor and Petchabe's smart pet monitor.

10. Security

This type of company is currently the largest and the financing situation is relatively best. They focus on using the Internet and various sensor technologies to protect the safety of users and their families. Its representatives include Canary's smart security cameras and August Home's smart security products. Both of these companies have more than $40 million in financing.

11. Other types

Such companies are special and the services they provide cannot be classified as above. For example, the dynamic art photos of Electric Objects Inc. and Notion's universal sensors.