On the afternoon of January 14, IDC released the top ten forecasts for China's smart home market in 2019. According to the IDC report, shipments of China's smart home market are expected to reach 150 million units in 2018, an increase of 35.9% year-on-year. The intelligent upgrade of products mainly focuses on App client, voice assistant and machine learning.

For the forecast of the development trend of China's smart home market in 2019, IDC mainly starts from three aspects: ecology, interaction and channel.

Prediction 1: The connectivity of smart home devices will be further strengthened to promote the establishment of a family IOT ecosystem. It is estimated that by 2019, 67% of smart home devices will be able to access the home Internet platform, and 23% of smart home devices will support two or more connected platforms. 

The more devices can access the home networking platforms such as Mijia, Ali Intelligent, Jingdong Weilian, etc., the more intelligent home devices can participate in the creation of multiple linkage scenarios.

Prediction 2: With the rapid development of the smart speaker market, the voice platform gradually takes over the role of home interconnection. It is expected that by 2019, more than 80% of smart home devices will be controlled through smart speakers.

Prediction 3: Smart TV will become another important home device entrance besides smart speakers. It is estimated that by 2019, 25% of smart TVs will be able to control other home devices.

Prediction 4: As the demand for home scene automation emerges, the home environment, safety and control equipment market will usher in a period of rapid growth. It is expected that the growth rate will reach 60% in 2019.

Prediction 5: The penetration of voice assistants will gradually increase and will be more widely used in many categories of smart home devices. It is estimated that by 2019, 39% of smart home devices will be equipped with voice assistants.

Prediction 6: Image recognition technology will be widely used in home security monitoring products. It is estimated that by 2019, 10% of home security monitoring products will realize facial recognition function, which will guide the establishment of smart home value-added service mode in the long run.

Prediction 7: Screens will be increasingly used in smart home devices and will drive new product forms.

Prediction 9: As the main provider of home and mobile networks, operators will accelerate their deployment in the field of smart home devices. Carrier channels are expected to play an important role in the smart home market in 2019.

Prediction 10: Smart homes will cooperate in the commercial market, such as smart hotels, smart buildings, etc., in the digital transformation of the hotel and real estate industry, enhance the customer experience, and provide IT manufacturers with offline experience space for their products. 

（Source: JJgle.com）