智能家庭整合的状态
Apple recently announced that it would be partnering with a slew of smart home companies to bring HomeKit to their products, which is anticipated to have a huge impact on consumer adoption and the industry overall.
Until recently, it often didn’t make sense for smart home companies to integrate with each other. From a user experience perspective, the types of platforms previously available had limitations that required the user to set up complicated rules in order to provide adequate and useful functionality. While this was great for early adopters, it was not ideal for the mass market. Now, HomeKit and Google Home will serve as two easy-to-use options that are certainly more user friendly than what’s previously been available.
Integration also didn’t really make sense up until now because there were very few best practices in place. In recent years, there have been many improvements that have made integrating a more feasible and reliable option for smart home companies. Now, there are better guidelines in place because of companies,like Apple, that are codifying sets of best practices as rules for HomeKit, ensuring that products will work consistently and predictably in the ecosystem.
为什么现在？
现在是因为苹果公司和Google等公司领导智能家庭集成的收费，消费者已经熟悉他们的产品，服务和平台。因此，学习曲线并不那么陡峭。智能手机应用程序已经成为我们与大多数智能设备进行交互的方式，Apple和Google将将此功能集成到手机的操作系统中。这意味着用户不需要采用新平台 - 他们已经在上面了。
From a用户体验的观点，大多数人希望他们的产品能够无缝合作并无需付出很多努力。对于iPhone用户，HomeKit将多个设备本地集成到操作系统中，从而轻松将它们连接到平台。这些产品不必彼此了解，并且无需用户必须设置特定集成或规则即可无缝集成 - 它只是可行的。
These are clear examples of how we know the time is now for integrations to make sense. When platforms reach this level of readiness and ease of use, it then makes sense for an organization to integrate its product. When integrations are done well, it allows your product to function better and vastly improve the user experience by enabling an ease of use that was previously unavailable.
How can companies implement smart home integrations?
希望集成到HomeKit之类的平台的公司必须确保其产品可以自行无缝运行。它需要良好工作，并始终如一地做应该做的事情。然后，重要的是要确定集成是否模仿了用户已经使用公司应用程序和产品的流程。对于许多人来说，这就是为什么HomeKit有意义的原因。iPhone已经是许多人的主要智能家庭中心大多数产品都包含iOS应用程序，因此它是人们和智能家庭公司都熟悉的操作系统。
此外，公司还需要确保他们决定与之集成的组织具有足够的标准，即使他们只是考虑到最基本的准则。这是至关重要的，因为如果您选择具有弱标准和准则的生态系统，那么您可能会遇到重大问题。为了真正从生态系统中获得价值，这些准则必须对企业和客户都有意义。
最后一步是让公司做作业，看看还有谁是整合的一部分。公司应将整个生态系统（包括其他产品集成）查看，并确定其产品是否可以很好地合作。平稳，简单的用户体验最终是最终目标，因此，公司的产品运作良好，而且可以与他人发挥好作用，这不仅有意义。
在接下来的几个月和几年中，这些整合对于希望进一步推动智能家居并鼓励消费者采用的组织变得越来越重要。随着苹果和Google等公司的加入，消费者也很快就会不仅想要，而且期望集成。
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