Haier chosen by IDG as one of the Global Top 10 Smart Home
Appliance Brands
LAS VEGAS, Jan.12, 2018
/PRNewswire/ -- Leading Chinese home appliance brand Haier was
honored with the Global Top 10 Smart Home Appliance Brands award at
the 2017-2018 Global Top Brands Award ceremony held by
International Data Group (IDG) during CES 2018 on January 10, 2018, along with a number of
well-known international companies, including Samsung, LG,
Whirlpool, Sony and Panasonic. Haier was the only Chinese company
to earn the distinction.
Haier, the first Chinese company to implement a digital
transformation strategy, showcased a comprehensive series of smart
solutions for four of the key smart spaces within the home: the
living room, the kitchen, the laundry room and the bathroom, at the
smart home experience zone within its 7,750 square-foot (720 sq.
m.) booth during the exhibition. The open ecosystem-based
all-in-one solutions bring together network-enabled products,
including the Xinchu Refrigerator and the Magic Mirror for the
bathroom, which are installed and deployed in five spaces within
the home creating the smart living room, the smart kitchen and the
smart bathroom, each of which serves as interactive control
centers, enabling the integration of seven ecosystems - air, water,
food, cleaning, security, health and entertainment, and delivering
what can genuinely be called a "smart home". With its
network-enabled products, Haier can be said to have truly taken the
initiative in moving time spent in the home into the stage of Smart
Life 3.0.
Haier, which has been recognized as the Most Valuable Brand in
the global home appliance market for nine consecutive years, won
the award thanks to the Haier U+ platform, the largest IoT platform
in the smart home sector. Haier created the first open and
innovative smart home platform in 2014, which, with an open
interface protocol, enables access to multiple home appliances and
services via the platform and provides the interconnections between
them. The platform now boasts more than 50 million users,
generating, on average, 437.2 billion interactions daily,
leveraging over 800,000 resources connected to the ecosystem and
producing more than 5 billion yuan
(approx. US$750 million) in
turnover.
In addition to exhibiting the Haier U+ platform and U+ IoT
chips, Haier also displayed the results of its cooperation with
leading international companies, including Amazon and the Open
Connectivity Foundation (OCF): the successful integration of the
Haier U+ smart air-conditioner and Amazon's Alexa smart home skills
as well as the Haier smart home's receiving of the Globally
Interconnected Smart Home certification from OCF. The tie-ups with
Amazon and OCF are expected to further speed up the implementation
of Haier's smart home strategy globally and help the company
deliver a better smart home experience to users.
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