The development trend of the security industry can be clearly seen from the current situation of the industry and the 2018 Beijing Security Expo:
1. AI becomes the mainstream trend in the development of the security industry
As one of the fields where AI is applied, security has a natural demand for applications such as fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, video analysis, etc. After years of development, using AI technology for identity recognition, feature recognition, and behavior analysis has become mainstream in the security industry. Artificial intelligence is aggressively invading the entire security industry, including building intercoms. At the 2018 Security Expo, building intercom manufacturers that did not exhibit AI products have already done so.
2. AI chip manufacturers flock in droves
At the 2018 Security Expo, it can be seen that many upstream AI manufacturers are engaged in comprehensive competition in computing power and are beginning to layout the AI chip industry. AI chips have become the driving force for the integration of software and hardware in the era of artificial intelligence, and have also become the key to reducing costs and integrating segmented fields in the security market. Building intercom manufacturers need to continuously optimize the overall functionality, technical specifications, stability, power consumption, cost, and other aspects of the system by selecting a reasonable chip solution to maintain product competitiveness.
3. Facial recognition function has become a standard feature for building intercoms
From the perspective of development trends, facial recognition is widely used as an important means of security and passage in building intercom hosts, intelligent door locks, intelligent access control, pedestrian gates, and other applications such as pedestrian walkways, building entrances and exits, and community security.
In 2019, driven by trends in the Internet of Things, mobile internet, and artificial intelligence technology, the building intercom market may undergo significant changes in the following areas:
1. Products meet personalized needs
From a consumer perspective, building intercom has become one of the widely used products in the current security industry and has become the most common system in daily life. After so many years of development, the problem of homogenization of building intercom products is very serious. Based on a thorough analysis of the mature building intercom market, Lilin not only injects new elements into traditional products, but also pays more attention to the segmented market demand for building intercoms. While digitizing the entire range of building intercom products, it fully meets the needs of customers in high, medium, low-end, and even different regions. In terms of product design, the building intercom products have achieved full series compatibility, mixed matching, and expandable functions. We continue to make great efforts in technological innovation and product services, providing personalized products and services to enhance the competitiveness of our products.
2. Cloud intercom popularization application
From the product point of view, the building intercom technology has undergone the transformation of 4n type bus type LAN type Internet type. Early analog video intercom systems had many limitations. Mathematically based video intercom systems used TCP/IP technology, laying the foundation for interconnectivity and greatly improving system stability, reliability, maintainability, and scalability. Cloud intercom is the development trend of building intercom products based on the Internet, which is more flexible and convenient in application and convenient for value-added services. In today's world where smart smartphones and tablets have become a part of people's lives, implementing building intercom extension functions on smartphones meets the usage habits of most people, expands the usage space, and enhances the user experience. The emergence of "cloud intercom" has reduced users' dependence on building intercom indoor units. Indoor units can be simplified to reduce system costs and gradually realize platform based and large-scale cloud applications. Cloud intercom can fully tap into the demand of the existing market, especially suitable for upgrading and renovating applications in old communities.
3. Artificial intelligence achieves better user experience
Artificial intelligence technology must be adapted and optimized through practical application scenarios in specific industries to truly achieve optimal results. Otherwise, it will only bring new problems and unstable factors, especially for building intercom products with large user groups and vastly different usage environments. Users' demand for facial recognition function of building intercom hosts has increased from scratch to concern about their recognition rate, misidentification rate, and ability to resist environmental impact. Similarly, facial recognition products still have varying levels of performance, which directly affects the user experience of the product. As artificial intelligence technologies such as facial recognition gradually become standard in building intercom products, their performance and technical indicators need to be continuously improved, and the products will continue to be perfected to provide users with a better product experience.
The Lilin facial recognition host has passed the certification test of facial building intercom equipment from three public security departments, with a dynamic recognition rate that is among the best in the industry. The LFW universal test set has a pass rate of over 99.9% and an error rate of less than 0.01%. In non cooperative mode (without the user actively blinking or shaking their head, etc.), facial recognition uses a single camera to prevent electronic screens (pictures or videos) from opening doors and printing photos from opening doors. At the same time, the product has undergone targeted training in the security industry, and the optical imaging system has been specially tuned to adapt to harsh scenarios such as dark fields, backlighting, side lighting, and direct sunlight cameras. It has fast recognition speed and strong adaptability, and can correctly recognize faces in various occlusion situations without being affected by hairstyles, masks, hats, makeup, etc. It can also be correctly recognized by registering with large-span photos that are more than 10 years older than the actual age.
4. Promote the implementation of smart homes
With the vigorous development of smart city construction, as the basic components of smart cities, smart communities and smart homes have also ushered in a new round of development opportunities. Building intercom, as a communication bridge connecting communities and families, has a natural entrance attribute and has become an integral part of smart communities and smart homes. In order to achieve the integration of community and home systems, some enterprises have also taken advantage of the opportunities of smart communities and smart homes to join the competition in the building intercom industry, such as Hikvision, Dahua Corporation, and even Haier, Hisense, Midea, Changhong and other enterprises have joined the ranks of building intercom and smart home.
The natural home entrance attribute of digital building intercom has brought new development opportunities to the smart home industry. The combination of building intercom and smart home system further enhances the value-added space of intercom system, improves the cost-effectiveness of the system, and thus obtains a wider application market. Building intercom is usually presented in the form of a screen terminal in homes. It can serve as a multi screen interactive interface for smart homes and also act as a gateway in some small systems. After the integration of cloud intercom APP and smart home, users can operate the functions of building intercom and smart home on one APP. In smart homes, users can enjoy a wide range of intelligent lifestyle features such as lighting control, door and window control, HVAC control, home appliance control, audio-visual control, smart door locks, smart security, and smart health. As the cost of smart home products gradually decreases and their functions continue to improve, they will accelerate their entry into millions of households.
5. Promote the development of smart communities
People's requirements for community environment are no longer limited to residential area, transportation and other hardware facilities, but more focused on the safety and comfort of the living environment. Building intercom has natural connectivity properties in communities, serving as the entrance product for smart communities and an important device that penetrates into residents' homes. It has played a huge role in community informatization, improving living quality, and enhancing property service quality.
Building intercoms complement smart homes and communities, further enhancing value-added space and cost-effectiveness, and providing enterprises with ample space for functional expansion. Simple building intercom products can no longer meet the market demand. Only by integrating building intercom functions into smart home and smart community systems, realizing the interconnection of all things in communities and homes, adopting new information technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and big data, and providing overall equipment solutions for smart homes and smart communities, can the development direction of building intercom industry upgrade be achieved.
Nowadays, smart communities have entered the era of AI, and the product categories have become more diverse, with a wider range of related fields. Taking Lilin's smart community system as an example, in the community scenario, the community entrance and exit relying on facial recognition technology, the home entrance and exit relying on fingerprint recognition technology, and the parking lot entrance and exit relying on license plate recognition technology have achieved the connection between personnel, vehicles, and the system. This not only provides practical and cost controllable property management solutions, but also elevates the overall security level of the community to a higher level. For access control and vehicle management, implement functions such as facial recognition, person ID comparison, fingerprint recognition, license plate recognition, and unmanned parking lot. Among them, the Lilin intelligent access control system supports multiple door opening methods such as facial recognition, fingerprint, Bluetooth, QR code, mobile app, IC card, password, etc. The mining and application of community big data has improved the intelligent management level of smart and safe communities. It collects, summarizes, analyzes, and integrates massive data information from various subsystems within the community, effectively utilizing and managing this data information to achieve dynamic and clear management of smart and safe communities. It can also be integrated with public security systems, extending community-based independent security systems to city level and provincial-level security systems, eliminating various security risks, and realizing innovative application models of community security big data.
In recent years, social security housing has enabled many families who are not yet wealthy to realize their dream of having a place to live, providing strong support for building a harmonious society. The management systems for affordable housing in the market are uneven, and most of them cannot distinguish whether the information of applicants is consistent with reality and effectively supervise residents. To this end, Lilin's comprehensive management plan for social security housing focuses on facial recognition, accurately grasping the status information of houses and personnel in the community, monitoring tenants' violations (such as subleasing, lending, vacancy, arrears, etc.), and allowing residents to experience facial recognition without feeling the need to enter or exit, significantly improving resident satisfaction, effectively solving regulatory problems, achieving comprehensive coverage of security housing management work, and meeting the needs of all parties in security housing management.
As an important information device for communities and households, building intercom systems can achieve more powerful functions and diversified value-added services through the smart community cloud platform, better serving community owners. The smart community cloud platform tightly connects users, families, property management, communities, and government services, providing users with a variety of intelligent management and services, making people's lives better.