2014年7月2日星期三

Patent Blazes the Path - Home Automation Giant Appears

Home automation has become one of the largest hot spot since this year. The top technology giant continues to make the power, and stimulate the market. No matter large enterprises or small ones are afraid to fall behind, so they rushed to the home automation industry, and even parts of the venture capital cannot wait to know the market completely, and invest in some young home automation enterprises. Therefore, home automation market is extremely hot now.

Let’s have a careful look at the development ideas of global technology giants. It is well known that they have possessed rich experiences of market competition since they’ve strived for so many years. They insist that thinking twice before leap, so they would never enter the market easily before thinking twice. Now, Google dare to take the lead in launching the war of home automation, not only because they’ve taken over home automation company – Nest Lab, but also they possessed many patents of home automation through acquisitions or purchase. What’s more, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft also prepared to enter home automation industry. They have investigated the market deeply and completed part of patents layout. Although they enter the market with different time, they have prepared for it. Apple possesses a lot of home intelligentization patents, and Samsung also possessed about 200 home automation patents. They’ve prepared to move on.

From the world’s leading institutions Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property Research Center survey data, showing that from the statistical results of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the China National Patent Office have received the patents of home automation since 2000, Samsung has belonged nearly 150 items of patents. Sony owns 60 items, not the half of Samsung, Google and Apple rank the NO.16 and NO. 30. From these, we can see these technology giants have the profound and lasting idea and experienced measures in wireless home automation area. Just see the patents, the biggest three smart home leaders of the future are becoming more and more clear.

The date of Thomson Reuters also shows, Nanjing IOT Sensor Technology Co,.Ltd of China has submitted more than 100 patents and more than 100 utility model patents. And 8 patents and more than 100 utility model patents have been approved. Many of them value a lot, enough to be a strong barrier for the competitors to enter this field. It is understood that Nanjing IOT Sensor Technology Co,.Ltd not only actively overall arrange the patents in the field of smart home, but also researched more than 200 kinds of smart home products and more than 100 kinds of products are in volume production now. And they also deployed the world's largest chain of retail smart home network, creating a unique business model in this industry. They have become a worldwide highly influential company in the field of smart home.
As the journalists investigation, judging from these public information of the industrial and commercial registration, patent inventor, network information etc, this rapidly developing, very low-key and mysterious enterprises belong to the domestics, no signs of foreign participation. The enterprise with this background has a unique natural advantage in the Internet of things smart home industry based on the domestic development which have near connections to the station security. Obviously, with the patent escort, excellent products, domestic background of the three conditions, the figure of domestic smart home giant is looming.