Nowadays, smart homes based on the concept of “light smart†have become a new trend after smart phones. Entrepreneurial teams sniff out business opportunities and start with the products that are most easily accessible to users. Smart sockets are undoubtedly the best representative. Since its establishment in 15 years, I love the solution network's fast package platform to bring together a large number of smart socket development needs, including many successful cases. Through the collation of these cases and the communication with the quality service providers who completed these projects, the author summarizes the following five smart socket development considerations for later reference.
Smart socket five development considerations
First, the choice of wifi module
The WiFi module is the control center of the entire intelligent system, and its stability directly determines the performance of the smart socket. At present, the mainstream WIFI solution in the market is still dominated by TI. As a semiconductor giant, TI is one of the first vendors to introduce a WiFi solution. The smart WiFi products are mostly used in TI chips. For example, BoardLink and Ou Ruibo's intelligent remote control and socket products are mostly used. It is TI's CC3000 module.
The advantage of TI's solution lies in its high maturity stability. Its subsequent upgraded CC3100 and CC3200 single-chip solution with integrated MCU have very good performance, in the case of "wifi smart socket development" completed by the fast package platform. The service provider's development choice is TI's CC3100 chip. I believe that the future TI's WIFI module has a wider application in intelligent hardware products. Click for details of the case.
Second, the consideration of circuit safety
this point is very important! When the author communicated with the quality service provider of the fast package platform, the engineer repeatedly emphasized this point. A product with good performance is just a icing on the cake. The safety of the product directly determines the market for this. In the safety design, the choice of the transformer should pay special attention. Because the transformer has a certain mechanical structure inside, it requires a firm action. It is still possible to ensure stable contact after multiple actions, and the internal resistance is small, and a transformer capable of withstanding a large current is preferable.
Third, the appearance of humanized design
Some wifi sockets are large, and they occupy a large area in the plug, and the jacks next to them cannot be used. Some designs are very good, do not occupy other jacks, so the shape of the appearance is also very important. In addition to the appearance of aesthetics, we must know that product performance is better, user preferences are more important, the appearance is the consumer's first impression of the product, many research and development-oriented companies specialize in outsourcing this part of the design.
On the fast package platform, there is no shortage of such cases. One of the "86-type wall socket appearance and structural design" project is a good example. The employer has completed the product function realization, and hopes to find an engineering team who is good at structural design. The attractive shell, so he chose to pack on the fast pack platform to find more professional people to complete. At present, there are already 5 applicants for this project. Please click on the case details.
Fourth, cost control
There are many manufacturers of wifi smart sockets. If there is no price advantage, it is difficult for customers to accept. This requires developers to control the cost of the wifi module in the selection. If the wifi module comes with a single-chip microcomputer, try not to add it. The one-chip computer can save cost on the one hand and make the hardware area smaller on the other hand.
V. Product positioning
The positioning of the product actually refers to the definition of the product function. A good product is not expensive in function applications. Many sockets on the market integrate many unnecessary functions in order to manufacture the gimmicks. The developed products are large in area and costly. After the users buy them back, they find that many functions are not used at all, so they are not worth the candle.
At present, the popular functions of smart sockets include: timed automatic socket, mobile phone remote control appliance, intelligent human body sensing, video remote monitoring, voice control and so on. Of course, there are many smart sockets designed for specific application environments. For example, the “Lorawan Smart Metering Socket†requirement released by the fast package, the user needs monitoring functions such as load voltage, load current, power, power factor, power statistics, etc. Unlike consumer products, this solution is used in industrial control. Click for details of the case.
As the control intermediary of smart home, the small and practical smart socket has become the window for many manufacturers to layout home intelligence. This paper combines the existing cases of the fast package platform, through the analysis of several core points of the smart socket development process, to help developers to identify product requirements, to avoid problems that may arise in the development of smart sockets, to help engineers successfully complete product development.
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