IoT-based Home Appliance
Home appliance producers, mobile carriers, semiconductor, sensor and software developers and service providers have joined hands to create the Internet of Things (IoT) home appliance and smart home markets.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) announced that it held an inauguration ceremony for a convergence alliance for the IoT and smart home at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) on April 26. The convergence alliance is divided into four sectors – technical cooperation which helps jointly develop the smart home technology and provide technical support to small and mid-size companies, business model which develops big data-based smart home services, system reform which discusses and improves regulations and standardizations, and spread and supply which expands the smart home market.
Based on platform links, the ministry plans to help companies, which attended the ceremony for now, jointly develop new business models for the first stage of market base construction, expand areas to related service providers, such as distribution, healthcare and insurance, for the second stage of service expansion and improve the added value by connecting services with other platforms, including smart city and smart healthcare, for the third stage of convergence and globalization.
In order to create the IoT market, the government will come up with data regulation improvement plans and expand the range of unidentifiable data open led by public companies, including electricity big data center. It will increase the number of IoT home appliance households, which participate in the demand resource trade market that can sell electricity saved at home, from 250 in 2016 to 500 this year. It will also develop and supply integrated solution modules to connect old home appliances and IoT home appliances.
In addition, the industry will accelerate the development of IoT technologies. Samsung Electronics plans to apply its artificial intelligence (AI) interface “Bixby” and “Samsung Connect Home,” a solution that can control various IoT devices, to its IoT home appliances. LG Electronics will release IoT home appliances equipped with its own Deep Learning technology called “Deep ThinQ.” Cuchen is developing smart cooking solutions that connect existing wireless LAN-based rice cooker with electric range and hood. SK Telecom plans to develop advanced smart home services using big data and its AI service “Nugu,” while KT will provide GiGA Genie software development kits to its partner compsnies in its bid to vitalize the GiGA Genie business.