Industry insiders optimistic about the development prospects of smart bathroom products

Technology allows people to truly feel the power of progress. The steam room is equipped with functions such as listening to MP3, watching TV, listening to radio, reading e-books, etc. Toilets can be automatically rinsed, cleaned, deodorized and warmed, and they can automatically resolve the amount of flushing water; bathtubs can automatically give you massage.

The smart bathroom industry has been in China for nearly 10 years, but its development has been unsatisfactory. Although the domestic smart bathroom technology has not lost in the developed countries, and even many domestic smart bathroom companies will also sell products overseas, but the smart bathroom in the domestic market is still not widely developed.

According to relevant data, China's sanitary ware market size will reach 74.467 billion yuan in 2011, and will reach 90.01 billion yuan in 2015. However, the share of smart sanitary ware is quite small, and traditional sanitary ware still occupies a big head. At present, the sanitary ware market is highly competitive, but More than 80% is still a traditional sanitary product.

According to Chen Liyi, the assistant chairman of Foshan Shimei Home Bathing Ceramics World, ordinary consumers are not only less appreciative of smart sanitary wares, but they can only be deterred from facing expensive prices. Each set of toilets ranging from several thousand yuan to over ten thousand yuan is several times or even ten times more than ordinary toilets.

Furthermore, it is difficult to unify the application standards of intelligent sanitary ware and it is also difficult to promote marketing. The development of smart bathroom industry has been for 10 years, but related industry standards have not been formulated. Smart bathroom is a multi-industry cross-covering system project. Each equipment manufacturer produces equipment according to different interface standards and protocols. Interconnection and intercommunication between devices have become very difficult.

In the face of such a dilemma, sanitary ware companies are constantly taking actions. Many companies have on the one hand urged the domestic smart bathroom industry standards can be formulated as soon as possible to establish a common agreement to promote the rapid development of the industry. On the other hand, many companies have started to lower their prices. Smart toilets like Hengjie and Zhongyu have fallen to the level of a few thousand dollars.

At present, sales of smart bathroom products are slowly rising. According to You Zhimin, executive director of Asian Ceramics, although traditional sanitary ware products currently contribute more to sales, smart product sales also account for 10% to 15%.

The potential of the domestic smart bathroom market is very large. Basically, all businesses are unanimously arguing that intelligentization is a future development trend for sanitary ware products. With the increase of China's intelligent product manufacturers in the future, the maturity of technology, and the continuous improvement of consumer spending power, the cost of smart products will come down. The price will drop, and more smart bathroom products will enter the homes of ordinary people.