On May 28, Midea IoT and Tencent Cloud signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement, Midea Group Vice President and CIO Zhang Xiaoyi, Midea IoT Vice President Chen Shaobo, Tencent Vice President Xu Yiming, Tencent Cloud Vice President Cai Yi and other guests attended the meeting, the two sides will focus on the Internet of Things smart home solutions, carry out AI, big data, content services, smart products and other aspects of in-depth cooperation, work together to promote the intelligence of home appliances and accelerate the implementation of smart life scene services, and jointly promote the development of AIoT strategic emerging industries.  

  Behind the strong alliance between the home appliance industry and Internet giants is the combination of Internet of Things technology and cloud platform technology, with the goal of realizing AIoT industrialization and smart life application scenarios. As a smart home solution provider, Midea IoT has a full range of smart white goods products and massive smart hardware data, providing Tencent Cloud with smart hardware product development, application scenario design, and operation services. As a cloud service brand built by Tencent, Tencent Cloud can provide Midea with leading cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence services, and customized industry solutions through its excellent technological capabilities, and jointly promote the upgrade of smart life services.  

A powerful combination of "software and hardware".

  Midea IoT and Tencent Cloud have carried out in-depth cooperation in core areas such as intelligence, digitalization, cloud services, IoT platform interoperability, content services, and green smart data centers, continuously optimizing the user experience of AIoT smart home appliances and strengthening the construction of the smart home ecosystem.   In terms of AIoT terminal products, the two parties will jointly develop innovative applications of voice AI technology, and carry out cooperation in ASR, NLP, TTS voice technology and image AI technology, including gesture, human body, face, image recognition, etc., to fully empower the intelligence of Midea's air conditioners, refrigerators and other products, and bring consumers a more efficient, convenient and humanized smart home appliance operation experience and rich smart home application scenarios. In addition, the two parties will also cooperate in the fields of music, radio, video, reading, games, news, finance and other content to provide users with richer sources of content.  

Technological advancement to build an ecosystem

  Midea is one of the home appliance leaders that started the smart home strategy earlier, and in recent years, the road to technological advancement has mainly focused on: application scenario experience, hardware product intelligence, and home appliance product connection and interconnection. At present, a mature IoT industry platform has been built to help ecological partners implement smart life scenario services.   In particular, the personal privacy information security of smart home appliances that users are most concerned about, Midea's IoT user data security protection has passed a number of international authoritative certifications such as PCI DSS, TRUSTe, ePrivacyApp, etc., providing a complete set of smart home security management specifications for the industry, which can provide smart home appliances product listing specification process and user privacy data protection solutions, and effectively help third-party ecological enterprises access.   In the field of IoT, Tencent Cloud has built full-link product capabilities covering cloud, pipe, edge, and device, and will provide Midea IoT with full-chain services covering terminals, platforms, and ecosystem construction by relying on technical capabilities such as AI and edge computing for the 5G era. This cooperation will accelerate Midea's AIoT process, and gradually realize the "multi-brand linkage smart home ecosystem" by building an open IoT platform, so as to provide users with more complete smart life services.   Reference source: Fast Technology //news.mydrivers.com/1/691/691824.htm