When Xiaomi arrived in India, we knew it as a smartphone company but then we realized it was much more than that. It’s an Internet company with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an Internet of Things (IoT) platform at its core. As much as its phones, the company’s IoT products are everywhere — air purifiers to floor vacuum mop, fitness bands to security cameras. On August 26, the company is hosting Smarter Living 2022 where new IoT products of the company will be showcased. And here’s what Raghu Reddy, chief business officer of Mi India, told us before the big event.
In 2014, one of the pillars of Xiaomi was laid out by the founder of the company (Lei Jun)…. that we don’t want to be just selling smartphones but also be a world-leading IoT platform. And as part of the vision, he said we would invest in around 100 companies over the next five years to make different products that can work with Xiaomi smartphones. This brings us to what constitutes an IoT platform — consumer electronic products that can connect with the smartphone and make your life easier. We had to identify the core primary endpoint devices which happen to be our phones. And the company decided that all endpoint devices and the core technologies will connect to the IoT platform and will be driven by Xiaomi. Phones, laptops, TVs, routers, smart speakers… they are all designed and manufactured in-house. These 100-odd companies specialize in different segments but they follow our IoT protocol, so they work well with all Xiaomi products.
Second, how to ensure all these products feel like they are from the same company. So Xiaomi has laid out the design aesthetics of a lot of these other products. If you see any of the IoT products — be it security cameras or smart speaker — there is a Xiaomi feel to it. These are the two important pillars for our IoT vision. If you look at business figures till the end of 2020-21, we had 351 million connected devices to the Xiaomi IoT platform, making us the world’s leading IoT platform.
Continue reading: https://www.telegraphindia.com/science-tech/all-about-mis-internet-of-things-platform/cid/1828006
In 2014, one of the pillars of Xiaomi was laid out by the founder of the company (Lei Jun)…. that we don’t want to be just selling smartphones but also be a world-leading IoT platform. And as part of the vision, he said we would invest in around 100 companies over the next five years to make different products that can work with Xiaomi smartphones. This brings us to what constitutes an IoT platform — consumer electronic products that can connect with the smartphone and make your life easier. We had to identify the core primary endpoint devices which happen to be our phones. And the company decided that all endpoint devices and the core technologies will connect to the IoT platform and will be driven by Xiaomi. Phones, laptops, TVs, routers, smart speakers… they are all designed and manufactured in-house. These 100-odd companies specialize in different segments but they follow our IoT protocol, so they work well with all Xiaomi products.
Second, how to ensure all these products feel like they are from the same company. So Xiaomi has laid out the design aesthetics of a lot of these other products. If you see any of the IoT products — be it security cameras or smart speaker — there is a Xiaomi feel to it. These are the two important pillars for our IoT vision. If you look at business figures till the end of 2020-21, we had 351 million connected devices to the Xiaomi IoT platform, making us the world’s leading IoT platform.
Continue reading: https://www.telegraphindia.com/science-tech/all-about-mis-internet-of-things-platform/cid/1828006
