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How can the smart home industry avoid a privacy pit?
2021-04-17 16:07:18

2018 was still a hot year for smart speakers.
Numerous industry giants have launched their own strong products, low price, high performance for a time to become the pronoun of intelligent speakers.

At the same time, the risks behind smart speakers and other voice assistants have come to light.
Recently, a foreign industry giant due to deep user privacy major monitoring accident was criticized by netizens, this event for the smart home industry sounded the alarm.
Most smart speakers on the market now need to be connected to the Internet, and the associated voice data will be stored directly in the cloud.
Under such circumstances, it is difficult to guarantee that users' privacy will not be compromised, because the voice data is always stored on the third-party platform. When we enjoy the convenient life brought by intelligence, our voice information is controlled at the same time.
The resulting risk of personal privacy exposure will make many users shrink back.

With regard to voice interaction, we have always adhered to the use of front-end voice recognition technology, which is deployed based on the central control system of the user's smart home. Speech recognition and control are done locally, without the need for broadband network.
Compared with the intelligent voice devices using cloud voice recognition scheme, such as the cloud voice recognition technology adopted by smart speakers, Arc intelligent voice panel does not rely on the external network, and can be used normally in the state of no network;
Because of the completely local deployment, users don't have to worry about any privacy issues.

The intelligent speech panel uses the front-end speech processing, which is a longer and more stable technology than the cloud recognition in the video recognition and speech recognition industry. However, because the front-end processing depends on the hardware performance and cannot identify too much content, it will be relatively rigid.
But front-end processing has several inherent advantages.

The front end handles speech recognition without the need to connect to the network.
For network interference, it will not be a problem that affects the input experience.

After the front-end identification, it is immediately handed over to the smart home host for execution.
In this way, the interaction between the cloud and the smart home host is eliminated and our control instructions can be executed faster.
"Fast" is a very important indicator in the control of smart home system. We always believe that only when you use the smart panel to respond in time like the turtle-plate switch used in the home, can the user experience be considered as standard.

Because it does not rely on the network, for the hotel, apartment and other application scenarios that require less remote control of residential users, it can be directly run in the internal network. On the one hand, the control is more stable, and on the other hand, the problem of user privacy leakage is avoided.

Intelligent household market continues to heat up, the hidden information security problem does not allow to ignore however.
In order to improve the user's experience in operating smart home, most smart home products realize convenient control by sending control commands remotely through the cloud. However, precisely such convenient means bring great risks due to the lack of security defense means.

The home should be a trusted privacy area to solve the security defense problems of smart home products, so that consumers can enjoy the convenience of smart home without considering information security issues.

As a smart home product enterprise, we should set up security awareness from managers to designers, so that in the development process of smart products, not only pay attention to product functions and user experience, but also should add security defense means to consider security risks for users.

2018 was still a hot year for smart speakers.
Numerous industry giants have launched their own strong products, low price, high performance for a time to become the pronoun of intelligent speakers.

At the same time, the risks behind smart speakers and other voice assistants have come to light.
Recently, a foreign industry giant due to deep user privacy major monitoring accident was criticized by netizens, this event for the smart home industry sounded the alarm.
Most smart speakers on the market now need to be connected to the Internet, and the associated voice data will be stored directly in the cloud.
Under such circumstances, it is difficult to guarantee that users' privacy will not be compromised, because the voice data is always stored on the third-party platform. When we enjoy the convenient life brought by intelligence, our voice information is controlled at the same time.
The resulting risk of personal privacy exposure will make many users shrink back.

With regard to voice interaction, we have always adhered to the use of front-end voice recognition technology, which is deployed based on the central control system of the user's smart home. Speech recognition and control are done locally, without the need for broadband network.
Compared with the intelligent voice devices using cloud voice recognition scheme, such as the cloud voice recognition technology adopted by smart speakers, Arc intelligent voice panel does not rely on the external network, and can be used normally in the state of no network;
Because of the completely local deployment, users don't have to worry about any privacy issues.

The intelligent speech panel uses the front-end speech processing, which is a longer and more stable technology than the cloud recognition in the video recognition and speech recognition industry. However, because the front-end processing depends on the hardware performance and cannot identify too much content, it will be relatively rigid.
But front-end processing has several inherent advantages.

The front end handles speech recognition without the need to connect to the network.
For network interference, it will not be a problem that affects the input experience.

After the front-end identification, it is immediately handed over to the smart home host for execution.
In this way, the interaction between the cloud and the smart home host is eliminated and our control instructions can be executed faster.
"Fast" is a very important indicator in the control of smart home system. We always believe that only when you use the smart panel to respond in time like the turtle-plate switch used in the home, can the user experience be considered as standard.

Because it does not rely on the network, for the hotel, apartment and other application scenarios that require less remote control of residential users, it can be directly run in the internal network. On the one hand, the control is more stable, and on the other hand, the problem of user privacy leakage is avoided.

Intelligent household market continues to heat up, the hidden information security problem does not allow to ignore however.
In order to improve the user's experience in operating smart home, most smart home products realize convenient control by sending control commands remotely through the cloud. However, precisely such convenient means bring great risks due to the lack of security defense means.

The home should be a trusted privacy area to solve the security defense problems of smart home products, so that consumers can enjoy the convenience of smart home without considering information security issues.

As a smart home product enterprise, we should set up security awareness from managers to designers, so that in the development process of smart products, not only pay attention to product functions and user experience, but also should add security defense means to consider security risks for users.
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