At a recent industry event in China, China Mobile and Huawei have signed a strategic cooperation agreement on the development of Smart Home solutions. The companies aim to create a manageable and operable home network and boost the smart home commercialization process.
Based on its insight into the digital era, China Mobile has proposed and implemented the "Big Connection" development strategy in an effort to create a new pattern of the digital industry. Smart home, as an important launch pad for the Big Connection strategy, currently presents a series of problems, such as the lack of interoperability among different standards, lengthy product introduction times, and poor application experiences, said Huawei.
In order to fulfill the interconnection, fast integration, and application innovation of products, China Mobile will carry out extensive cooperation with Huawei in areas of IoT standards, open platforms, and ecological architecture construction of OpenLife.
Huawei OpenLife uses a smart gateway as the home connection center and has made continuous efforts in the development of SoC chips, gateway middleware, and IoT OS Huawei LiteOS, thereby laying a solid foundation for interconnection as well as capability open-up.
According to Huawei, the OpenLife home network is compatible with multiple IoT access protocols and can fulfill seamless coverage of 300 MHz to 1 GHz networks. In addition, based on the open-up of middleware, third-party products do not require version customization, which lowers skill requirements for partners, and shortens the integration period from two months to two weeks. In short, the OpenLife home network opens up network capabilities to third-party partners, on the basis of interconnection, and converges the power of the whole industry to enrich smart home business.
Jeff Wang, President of Huawei Acces Network Product Line
Huawei will continue to promote the standardization construction of the smart home industry, fulfill "Big Connection" and application innovation, help carriers construct a win-win ecosystem, and work with carriers to jointly advance the development of the smart home industry.
