Today, Huawei's first Smart Home project was unveiled at MWC Shanghai 2021. Following the core design concept of building a smart home, the installation includes a living room, kitchen, study, home gym, entertainment room, and garage, and covers an area of 550 m2 in total. Using wireless technologies, Huawei's products, including phones, PCs, tablets, watches, smart speakers, and the Vision TV range, are integrated with products from Huawei ecosystem partners to provide a comfortable, intelligent and immersive Smart Home experience.
Smart home represents a key part of Huawei's Seamless AI Life Strategy. The Smart Home project, which integrates innovative technologies such as HUAWEI HiLink, HarmonyOS, and HUAWEI HiCar, is a prototype for what a smart home can be in the Internet of Everything era.
In the coming Internet of Everything era, living in a smart home is no longer merely about installing smart devices at home. The focus is now shifting to how those devices will form a virtual world and become an extension of human senses, as well as improving how we interact with those devices by developing a repertoire of intuitive voice and gesture commands. Smart devices powered by AI sensing and computing capabilities can sense users' behaviors, monitor their health indicators, and even understand their emotions, to better grease the wheels of daily life.
Since Huawei announced its entry into the smart home space in 2018, its smart home ecosystem has grown substantially. The release of HarmonyOS promises to accelerate this ecosystem development. Currently, Huawei has more than 800 partners in its HiLink platform, covering over 220 million IoT devices. HarmonyOS has already attracted more than 20 hardware vendors and 280 application vendors to participate in Huawei's ecosystem. In 2021, it is expected that more than 40 mainstream brands will work with Huawei to provide 100 million HarmonyOS-based devices to millions of households.