Integrated ESD protection facilitates more reliable smart appliances

The most popular technical term in 2018, AIoT, represents that we have entered a new era with the combination of “Artificial Intelligence” and the “Internet of Things,” and now it will continue to blow up in 2019. In order to reduce the gap between AI assistant and product features in the past, the collaboration of AI assistant with manufacturers of other peripheral products makes it easier for consumers to control many household appliances remotely. For example, a smart speaker can be placed anywhere in your home to create the most direct human-machine communication: operate hands-free with your voice. And the display on the smart refrigerator enables you to search for recipes. By using your personal ID virtual dialogue, it can read the recipes or morning news, or directly connect to a grocery shopping app to check the missing ingredients for a recipe from your refrigerator for you to organize the shopping list. New Smart Home experience provides you a convenient living space.

    In a smart home, the wireless network is formed by various communication technologies: Long-range and high-data transmission of WiFi network which requires high power consumption is usually used in wireless fans and robot vacuums. Zigbee, the low-bandwidth and low-power wireless mesh networking is used in smart bulbs and the top-selling product, Amazon’s Echo. Bluetooth 5 provides support for connectionless IoT service like beacons. The increased transmission range, rate and amount of data enhances the reliability of a mesh network while maintaining low power consumption and is widely used in some smart phones and wireless speakers. Having its own IPv6 address (address translation is no longer required) is the major feature of Thread that offers a highest level of security and is commonly used in thermometers/hygrometers