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Editor: Zhong Lilei
As we enter 2022, the IoT industry, having moved past its pioneering phase, has reached a new consensus, and a blue ocean market for the Internet of Things is forming.
According to data from iResearch, the number of IoT device connections in China reached 7.4 billion in 2020, approximately seven times that of five years ago, and it is expected to maintain a high growth rate in the coming years, potentially surpassing 15 billion by 2025.The increasing market space also means that a wealth of business opportunities are contained within; being the first to launch high-quality products can seize market advantages.
Of course, we all know that excellent products do not appear out of thin air; they require thousands of practitioners to explore, develop, and accumulate over several years. However, just as countless innovators have candidly stated, “standing on the shoulders of giants,” developing upper-level products through high-level technology platforms and industry tools will be a highly feasible path to achieve goals quickly.
EZVIZ, which has always been committed to serving end consumers and industry developers, has brought four major IoT technology upgrades in the summer of 2022. EZVIZ hopes to provide developers with more precise and efficient IoT technology empowerment in areas such as device intelligence, real-time audio and video interaction, integrated audio and video technology, and dedicated IoT cloud.This will help upgrade product intelligence and innovate industry applications across a wide range of scenarios.
If you want to achieve more in the IoT field and are looking for a better IoT open platform and technical components to optimize products, then do not miss the new developments announced at the EZVIZ Cloud 2022 Developer Conference.
EZIoT Open Platform Architecture Helps Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency
From the outside, doing IoT might seem as simple as adding networking capabilities to devices, but in reality, it requires detailed processing of the traditional forms of products, combining the characteristics of networking and intelligence to bring about a transformation in user experience. In 2021, the EZVIZ EZIoT platform launched modules such as offline voice recognition and posture recognition, helping developers realize more product functions.
As IoT practices and the upstream industry’s connection technologies, communication protocols, and basic principles evolve, new issues are gradually emerging: Wireless devices across different network segments and protocols face interoperability challenges; Bluetooth has low connection costs but limited communication efficiency; AI-powered computer vision has certain thresholds. EZVIZ’s interconnection technology, dynamic gateway technology, and visual + AI technology provide solutions.
On the existing EZIoT open platform architecture, EZVIZ has upgraded two capabilities for developers: first, the SDK access capability has been enhanced, and second, the APP open capability has been strengthened. In simple terms, EZIoT components have gained AI capability evolution, allowing them to run on more hardware and connection technologies, making it easier to create APP components.
EZIoT currently covers three operating systems, four mainstream CPU architectures, six mainstream communication protocols, over 25 business components for selection and customization, and 20 types of chip options,whether for platform adaptation, connection via protocols like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, or AI function invocation, it is now much more convenient and powerful.
EZVIZ has achieved APP SDK componentization, through one core package and six major component packages (network configuration, messaging, family, intelligence, push, debugging), as well as UISDK and category SDK, meeting developers’ customization needs and scenarios.
In families with various smart pet hardware, developers need to solve the networking issues of different devices, ensuring that multiple devices can maintain a connection to the router while enabling real-time online functions like food replenishment and emergency alerts. On the APP side, rapid development and user-friendliness are also required. This typical scenario can be fully met by the EZVIZ EZIoT platform.
EZVIZ Video Open Platform Accelerates Industry Innovation
Friends who follow EZVIZ know that they have developed a dual main business of “smart home + cloud platform services” and are one of the few AIoT companies in the industry that have integrated capabilities from hardware design, development, and manufacturing to cloud platform services.
The audio and video technology achievements they have accumulated in serving end users are now being offered to all industry developers on the video open platform. We have also seen through various cases that with the diversification of audio and video capabilities, management transformations and efficiency improvements have been brought to various industries.
The EZVIZ video open platform PaaS provides full-process audio and video technology systems,from interactive live streaming and voice intercom to face recognition and behavior detection, covering all conceivable audio and video technology details. As early as 2020, EZVIZ introduced a lightweight application development component that supports various scenarios with just three lines of code on the web.
Now, EZVIZ hopes to help developers reduce costs and increase efficiency, not only making it easier to develop their products but also ensuring that when economies of scale arrive, mass production can actually lower costs. The various changes in the video open platform focus on four major directions: IoT device manager, lightweight application component v4.0, cascading services, and algorithm training, effectively transforming scale into enhanced benefits.
The IoT device manager is free for developers and covers common functions such as batch management, allowing for easy large-scale binding, organization, and remote management of devices. The lightweight application component v4.0 can adapt to various devices, supports no-code development and multi-party audio and video interaction, and prepares for rendering efficiency in the 4K era. Cascading services can aggregate all devices at low cost, while algorithm training can enhance efficiency for different scenarios.
The demonstration scenario here is a smart construction site, addressing the management of multiple devices in a large space and the remote intercom needs of multiple personnel. Developers can use the lightweight application component v4.0 and cloud storage services,to directly achieve group intercom using wearable devices’ microphones and speakers, while all audio and video data is saved in real-time on the cloud, allowing for the new feature to go live in just three days.
EZVIZ ERTC Real-Time Audio and Video Makes Interaction Feel Close
In today’s world where video calls are already popular, audio and video interaction is not new to the general public, but from a developer’s perspective, there are still many details that need improvement.To achieve a more immersive experience and more efficient real-time audio and video interaction, progress must be made in reducing latency, ensuring stability, improving clarity, and accommodating more devices and scenarios.This is precisely the focus of EZVIZ ERTC.
EZVIZ ERTC is widely used in EZVIZ video customer service, EZVIZ Cloud APP, and various EZVIZ smart terminals such as cat-eye doorbells, children’s watches, and child care robots, with over 3 million interconnections daily and a stable operation period exceeding 1000 days.This achievement has built trust and expectation among partners, motivating EZVIZ to offer it as a standard SDK, providing reliable and easily integrated RTC services.
Unlike the previously lower latency requirements of one-to-many cloud live streaming, ERTC real-time audio and video has made significant efforts in reducing latency, achieving latency generally below 400ms, which can meet the requirements of video conferencing, interactive classrooms, and remote medical care, where interaction intervals and reliability are essential. This is supported by four major service modules developed for ERTC, including SFU, MCU, three-party protocol access gateway, and interactive extension.
In terms of results, these four service modules possess four core advantages: good compatibility, excellent stability, strong resistance to network jitter, and rapid integration speed, effectively ensuring the reliability and availability of services, supporting the stable operation of SDKs across various platform terminals. This visibly helps developers significantly reduce secondary development costs, giving it a considerable advantage over similar products.
After establishing a reliable SDK foundation, EZVIZ also considers the rapid realization of upper-level functions.They have simultaneously released extension service components such as cloud recording, cloud on-demand, bypass live streaming, electronic whiteboards, and message sending and receiving, helping developers achieve audio and video interaction quickly with low code. Introducing AI noise reduction audio 3A algorithms and beautification capabilities also saves developers considerable effort in optimizing experience details.
The demonstration scenario here is a popular online interactive classroom. A leading domestic education platform provider has integrated the EZVIZ ERTC SDK to achieve teaching interaction between the platform’s client and the educational recording host, covering over 2000 schools and exceeding ten thousand live interactive classes, allowing high-quality teaching to be promoted quickly at a lower cost.
Dedicated IoT Cloud Continues to Evolve, Efficiently Resolving User Concerns
Besides local connections, continuous communication with the cloud is also a crucial aspect of IoT. Regardless of the device, remote management and functionality expansion through the cloud, as well as OTA updates for consumer-facing cloud capabilities, are significant factors in maintaining market competitiveness. Therefore,building a reliable and complete cloud service for their IoT devices is a must for all developers.
For commercial users who prioritize controllability, providing private cloud services is a popular direction beyond public cloud products. The EZVIZ dedicated IoT cloud was born for this purpose, offering video and AI-capable characteristics for IoT PaaS private deployment services. In 2021, EZVIZ introduced PaaS service components and a containerized base, serving millions of video devices and tens of millions of non-video devices across seven industries, including livestock farming, logistics warehousing, and domestic and international operators.
In response to the three mainstream needs of centralized management across multiple locations, online operational services, and intelligent product transformation, the EZVIZ dedicated IoT cloud has introduced products that are easy to integrate, highly available, easy to deploy, and secure, such as helping enterprises achieve centralized management of 200,000 video points scattered across the country. EZVIZ has found that different customers have various cloud platform needs at the technical level, with security and availability being equally important, and delivery cycles are often tight. In terms of business, there is also strong demand for agency operation and continuous service upgrades.
In response to these practical issues, the EZVIZ dedicated IoT cloud 2.0 has emerged.
At the technical level, four major architectural improvements have been achieved: lighter, faster delivery, highly available, and easy to deploy. Simply put, business resource occupancy can be reduced by 60%, and one-click deployment significantly reduces time costs, allowing for delivery within the fastest day. Faster fault recovery improves availability, and various business components can be flexibly assembled and mixed deployed with EZVIZ’s public cloud products.
At the business level, with resource occupancy reduced by 75% and monitoring components that can quickly integrate with IM, upgraded components provide safety modes, differential upgrades, and anti-bricking features,while operational components allow developers to deliver operational management tools associated with the entire system alongside the delivery plan.
Traffic management under data networks is also a challenge, for which EZVIZ has created a low-cost, easy-to-manage, and no real-name authentication or activation-required directional traffic component, making it convenient for developers to transmit video data over mobile networks.
Conclusion
Through the EZVIZ Cloud 2022 Developer Conference, it is evident that EZVIZ is leveraging its expertise in audio and video cloud technology to provide high-value IoT technology service open platforms for developers. Prior to this, low-barrier, easy-to-use development tools were available, and now, as opportunities in the IoT industry explode, changes to help developers seize opportunities and create high-quality products are also emerging.
Choosing a development platform is a question that developers constantly need to address, and EZVIZ aims to help them better answer it.A platform that performs excellently, runs reliably, incurs lower actual expenses, and can effectively reduce costs and increase efficiency at scale is precisely what all developers need. EZVIZ is making strides in this direction, and we can expect to see more service providers and developers complementing and achieving success together.
In a sense, service providers and EZVIZ cloud services are not just marketing tools or solutions to help businesses grow; they are also a relay for EZVIZ to help users obtain the ultimate experience and service. In users’ perceptions, price does not create an effective and lasting memory for brand repurchase; actual experience will influence subsequent choices.This aligns perfectly with EZVIZ’s core value of “customer-centricity.”
It is evident that EZVIZ will continue to adhere to the “open-source” philosophy in the future, collaborating with more developers to co-create. They aim to develop more and better high-quality products, create superior and stronger differentiation capabilities, and gradually realize a full-chain solution for developer cloud services based on the IoT, reshaping the new growth pattern of smart IoT. Of course, this cannot be solved in a single meeting; it requires time.
After all, the growth of developer demand has never ceased.
