Xiaomi and IKEA To Incorporate In Smart Home Field

Last week, Xiaomi officially announced that it will hold the 2018 MIDC Xiaomi AioT Developer Conference in Beijing from November 28 to 29. The official information released by Xiaomi shows that Lei Jun himself will attend the conference. So the degree of attention is huge.

It is reported that Lei Jun will explain the strategic layout of the two core future businesses of Xiaomi AI and IoT at the conference. In addition, it is said that the assembly will also have a certain place in his speech.

Today, it became known that Xiaomi will announce strategic cooperation with the home giant IKEA at this conference. However, the details of the specific cooperation between the two sides are still unknown. One is the global leader in the field of AI+IoT, and the other is an internationally renowned brand in the field of home furnishing. So it is not difficult to guess the purpose behind the alliance.

At present, the smart home industry based on AI+IoT has become a buzzword after the mobile Internet. Lei Jun once asserted that the number of IoT devices will be an order of magnitude larger than that of smartphones in the mobile Internet era, and it contains huge market opportunities. AI and IoT have a lot of integration points. So he believes that in the future, hundreds of billions of IoT devices will bring AI intelligent session system.

As the giant of the traditional home furnishing industry, IKEA chose Xiaomi for the first time to test the smart home. Of course, more behind it is the affirmation of Xiaomi’s achievements.

According to the Xiaomi Group Q3 financial report, as of the third quarter of 2018, the number of Xiaomi IoT consumer-grade IoT connected devices has reached 132 million (excluding smartphones, tablets, and laptops), and the monthly active users of AI intelligent voice assistants are more than 34 million. It can be said that Xiaomi has become the king of AI+IoT field.

At the first AioT conference last year, Lei Jun announced that Xiaomi has built the world’s largest consumer-grade IoT platform. According to iResearch data, in terms of the number of connections, the global market share of consumer-grade IoT hardware in 2017 was 1.7%, which is far ahead of Apple’s 0.9%, Amazon’s 0.9%, Samsung’s 0.7%, and Google’s 0.6%.