Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 229 Smart Home AI
Guangcheng is also an important layout area for Xu Shenxue's industries. Among the companies under Xiannvshan Holdings, there are more than ten in Guangcheng.

In addition, several companies under Liuhe Investment are also located here.

Therefore, Xu Shenxue also stayed in Guangcheng for a few days, briefly inspected these companies, and also visited the local Zhiyun R&D center.

Zhiyun Technology has R&D centers in first-tier cities and even some second-tier cities in China, and Guangzhou, a first-tier city, is no exception.

After the tour, Xu Shenxue took a bus back to Shenzhen.

It was already afternoon when we arrived in Shenzhen, and right after we arrived, Lin Yaxian called us.

"Have you come back? I heard from Manager Dong that you are almost here!"

Xu Shenxue said:

"Just got off the highway at Qianshan, almost home!"

Lin Yaxian said on the other end of the phone: "Okay, when you come back, let's go and see the decoration of the villa together. The decoration is already completed!"

"They are just waiting for you, the big boss, to inspect it. If there is anything they don't like and want to change, let them change it."

"Okay, let's go check it out together later!"

The convoy first disbanded at the company, and the employees who had accompanied him on the business trip for several days left one after another, while Xu Shenxue returned home accompanied by security personnel and two accompanying assistants.

As soon as I got home, I saw Lin Yaxian waiting for me at home.

In the past six months, Lin Yaxian has actually stayed in his house for quite a long time. Of course, it can't be said that she is living there directly, but sometimes she stays here at night and sometimes comes here during the day.

In Lin Yaxian's own words, it means running between two ends... Anyway, the two homes are close to each other, and the straight-line distance is actually no more than one thousand meters.

After picking up Lin Yaxian, we went directly to the villa purchased last year. After purchasing the villa, the subsequent decoration was basically left to Lin Yaxian.

The designer was found by Lin Yaxian, the design plan was also selected by Lin Yaxian, and she even contacted the decoration company. Xu Shenxue was only responsible for signing the check and paying the money.

Xu Shenxue doesn't care much about these things and doesn't have time to deal with these trivial matters, so it's good to have Lin Yaxian handle them.

After bringing Lin Yaxian to their new villa, Xu Shenxue discovered that there were quite a lot of changes here after not having been there for half a year.

The large iron gate of the yard was replaced, and the fence seemed to be newly built, and the height was higher than before. The designer who came with us also explained: "We have arranged a complete set of security equipment around the entire new house to monitor and prevent people from climbing over the wall!"

The rows of trees within the courtyard wall are still there, and are even denser.

"Based on the original courtyard forest, we transplanted a group of additional trees to block the external view and reflect a better private environment!"

This point made Xu Shenxue quite satisfied. Privacy is still very important. Although the management of this community is very good, corresponding precautions must always be taken.

Outside the forest, there is a large grassland and some sparse, low tropical vegetation. The yard is quite large.

The car stopped. After getting out, Xu Shenxue and Lin Yaxian first walked in the yard, and then entered the house. The decoration style of the house was very modern, elegant and bright, which was quite different from the previous traditional Chinese decoration style.

The designer on the side was still explaining: "Taking into account your life and work needs, we deployed a large number of cables during the decoration design, and cooperated with your engineers to install a large number of smart devices, so many devices in the house are smart homes, which can be controlled by voice or mobile phone APP!"

As he spoke, the engineer at the side demonstrated it to Xu Shenxue: "Xiaoyun, close the curtains in the living room on the first floor."

Then, an electronic voice came: "Xiao Yun got it, I will close the curtains of the living room on the first floor for you!"

An engineer from Zhiyun Technology next to the designer said: "This is our smart home AI extended from Xiaoyun Voice Assistant. It can accurately recognize various simple voice control commands and respond accordingly!"

Then, the engineer demonstrated: "Xiaoyun, turn on the central air conditioning and maintain a constant temperature of 25 degrees and a constant humidity of 65% throughout the house."

Then Xiaoyun's electronic voice came again: "Xiaoyun received!"

The engineer continued, "Our smart home AI is still at a very rudimentary level, and there aren't many devices that can be connected. They are mainly some smart ecological devices within our group. In addition, we have modified some other devices and added special interfaces!"

"In addition to the simple opening and closing of curtains, control of air conditioners, TVs, refrigerators, etc., we have also integrated an ecological chain product that our group has not yet released, the AI ​​sweeping robot."

As he spoke, the engineer pointed to a round sweeping robot in the corner.

"This is an AI sweeping robot that is improved based on our company's first-generation sweeping robot. It mainly adds a home AI system, which allows the home AI system to take over the sweeping robot and work autonomously at night or other time periods when no one is active."

Xu Shenxue is quite interested in this... He is not very interested in other things like smart home, voice control, etc. These things are basically more symbolic than practical and not very useful.

As for the sweeping robot, Xu Shenxue knew before that it was a new ecological chain product under Zhiyun Technology, but he didn't know the details and didn't even know that it had been put on the market.

Xu Shenxue has too many companies, and Zhiyun Technology is just one of them. However, Zhiyun Technology is very large, with more than 100,000 employees of various types in China alone, of which R&D personnel account for more than 90%.

There are countless R&D projects and many released ecological chain products.

Especially in the smart home series, some new smart home products are launched from time to time. However, except for TVs, the sales of other smart home products have not been very good. This is mainly because many stores, although named as smart homes, are not actually of much use.

To be honest, it's a bit early to play with smart furniture now, and the price is also expensive. Zhiyun Technology is developing a smart home ecosystem, but it doesn't focus on cost-effectiveness. Instead, it still produces very expensive high-end products.

Smart TVs cost tens of thousands, smart refrigerators cost tens of thousands, and smart washing machines cost tens of thousands.

In the list of products in Zhiyun Technology's ecological chain, it is really not easy to find something that costs a few hundred yuan...

If you want to talk about cost-effectiveness, that is not what Zhiyun Technology wants. Cost-effectiveness means following the path of ordinary family stores, with too low profits.

So when Zhiyun Technology develops the so-called smart home, it likes to stack up hardware and also add a lot of flashy things, such as various sensors, a display screen, capacitive touch buttons, smart modes and the like.

Regardless of whether it is practical or not, just ask whether it is advanced enough!
This kind of high-end product wouldn’t be expensive to sell for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan!
That's basically the routine.

The same goes for sweeping robots!
Is this thing useful? This is a rather metaphysical question. Some say it is useful, while others say it is not.

But this is not important. What is important is that Zhiyun Technology's sweeping robot R&D team equipped it with a top-level laser sensor and a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system. That's not all. They also equipped it with a high-definition camera and infrared sensor, and developed a 3D visual model algorithm.

Finally, it uses data from laser sensors, infrared sensors, cameras and other sensors to locate and build maps, and to identify moving targets and automatically stop and avoid them. Does this set of things look familiar?

That’s right, most electric vehicles in later generations also use similar technologies to achieve assisted driving, and Zhiyun Technology’s sweeping robot team borrowed some of the technical achievements of the unmanned vehicle assisted driving project team and used them on this sweeping robot.

Finally, a high-tech sweeping robot was created, which can not only map and model the house, but also determine the routes of moving targets and avoid them.

If this set of things were placed on a car, and the sensors were made bigger and better, and the computing power was made stronger, it could basically be used for assisted driving in the car.

This sweeping robot was officially released last winter and attracted the attention or reviews of a group of technology enthusiasts.

But sales are not very good and it is too expensive...the basic version costs 15,000 yuan.

Moreover, the sweeping robot can only perform basic cleaning, and it also needs manual cleaning on a regular basis, otherwise it will be filled with dust and garbage and will not be able to continue cleaning.

In any case, this is the first time that sweeping robots have appeared on a large scale in the eyes of Chinese people, allowing them to enjoy the same high-tech technology as developed countries abroad.

As for whether it is affordable or not, that is not a problem that Zhiyun Technology needs to consider... But Weiku Electronics is also very interested in this thing and plans to make a low-end version to see if the price can be controlled at around four or five thousand yuan.

But the sweeping robot used in Xu Shenxue's house now is a little different. It is a specially modified sweeping robot controlled by home AI.

Smart home AI is also an application exploration of AI technology by the research institute. It has not been released to the public yet, and it is unlikely to be released to the public for many years to come.

I just made a test version for use in Xu Shen's home.

This is also the little idea of ​​the people in the research institute: nothing can better obtain sufficient research and development funds than putting the research project directly at their boss's home so that he can see it.

There are too many R&D projects in Zhiyun Technology. Not every project can get enough funding, and not all projects can be paid attention to and personally monitored by Xu Shenxue.

Therefore, within Zhiyun Technology, many R&D projects are very dedicated in obtaining R&D funds.

Xu Shenxue looked at the AI ​​sweeping robot and tried to approach it, but the little gadget stopped after sensing someone approaching.

After Xu Shenxue walked a few steps and moved away, the little thing started working again, and even temporarily changed its route, avoiding the area where Xu Shenxue and his group were, and went to clean other areas first.

Lin Yaxian, who was standing by, laughed as she watched: "Isn't this really cute? Look, it's circling around us!"

Xu Shenxue said: "It is quite interesting!"

Ordinary sweeping robots are unable to put down their work in a designated area and go clean other areas first after recognizing that there are people in that area. Most likely they will just wait there stupidly!

This is the role of smart home AI, which has basic cognition, judgment and the ability to make choices.

Then he went up to the second floor to take a look, where he saw a very special painting. It looked like a painting, but it was actually a high-definition display.

The designer said: "This display can rotate and display some built-in paintings, and you can also choose different paintings to display regularly!"

There are similar little gadgets, and even Xu Shenxue was a little surprised.

Many things may not seem that great, some may seem flashy, but they look high-end, like a futuristic high-tech smart home.

After taking a quick look at the entire house, I went to take a look at the backyard. There was a small court there where I could play tennis or badminton.

There is also an indoor heated swimming pool in a glass house next to it.

There is also a small annex building at the back, which is the dormitory for security personnel and domestic staff.

After taking a quick look at the villa, Xu Shenxue said, "It's very nice, better than I imagined!"

"When can we move into this house?"

The designer said: "The decoration was actually completed half a year ago. All environmentally friendly and formaldehyde-free materials were used. After that, ventilation was arranged, some details were renovated, and vegetation was transplanted. Now it is all completed and can be moved in at any time!"

Xu Shenxue said: "Very good, thank you for your hard work, I will ask my assistant to settle the balance later!"

After everyone else left the house, Xu Shenxue stood on the second-floor balcony, looking at the street lights that had already been turned on outside. He suddenly turned around and said to Lin Yaxian beside him: "Since the house is renovated, let's move in after a while!"

"It's time for the wedding, but it's a bit rushed now and it's too hot in the summer, so let's choose a suitable date in the spring."

When Lin Yaxian heard this, she was immediately surprised. She took a deep breath and nodded gently: "Okay, I'll listen to you!"

The two have been together for several years, and in the past year, all the assets under his name have been processed and completed into a family trust.

In the past year, the two have been living together as an engaged couple. Lin Yaxian is almost living in his house all year round, and Xu Shenxue only brings her to some public occasions.

Xu Shenxue was very satisfied with Lin Yaxian. She had the most basic qualities of a good figure and good looks, and she was also a good person and would not bother Xu Shenxue with daily trivial matters.

As for her family, she gets along very well with Xu's mother. Xu's mother is very satisfied with Lin Yaxian, her future daughter-in-law, and often shows off her in her circle of friends.

You can’t compare with my son...you still can’t compare with my daughter-in-law!

As for comparing material things like money, Xu's mother was too lazy to do so... Not counting Xu Shenxue's assets, her own assets alone were worth billions of dollars. In her social circle, no one would be richer than her.

She has been very happy in the past two years.

And when she heard Xu Shenxue call her and asked her to return to Shenzhen from her hometown to prepare for the wedding in the near future, she was even happier!

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