Tuya Smart Home (IOT) Solutions for Smart Homes

Does your "smart" house seem not smart enough? Don't worry, there is a way! Wi-Fi systems make all smart devices more secure and more reliable.

Users have accepted the idea of relying on convenient Internet devices to automate functions in their homes. The days of manually setting the thermostat or manually turning on a mechanical clock light are gone. Today, these functions can be controlled at any time by smartphone applications or even through cloud AI (artificial intelligence). Broadband connection services provide sufficient bandwidth and low latency for homes, but wireless connections between modems and various devices are difficult to achieve.

Can WI-FI solve these problems?

Wi-Fi seems to be the last hope to connect everything. Anjielo Smart Technology hopes to meet the needs of networked power devices, security systems, door locks, switches, lights, garage door automatics, and virtual auxiliary speakers. In order to provide users with new conveniences and functions, while collecting and analyzing data, and expanding diagnostic functions, manufacturers have found ways to offset the additional manufacturing and maintenance costs associated with connected devices. Users believe that device manufacturers have begun to use secure and reliable architectures to deploy and maintain their services.

However, some common problems plague the various use scenarios of these connected products: high power consumption of traditional Wi-Fi connections, blind spots and insufficient coverage due to differences in home construction techniques and building materials, crowded 2.4GHz and 5GHz RF spectrum, complex deployment/installation procedures, hackers exploiting security vulnerabilities, etc.

Users' expectations for simple, reliable, and secure connections have led manufacturers to unite and integrate expensive installation and extremely expensive security maintenance wireless technologies.

Custom-made, expensive, and complex to operate.

Users are forced to use proprietary wireless hub devices running on Zigbee, Z-wave, Bluetooth, and other non-standard RF technologies and connect them to Wi-Fi routers. These devices require frequent battery replacement or always use AC power. They must use network extenders on devices far away from the router, must be powered by cables, or large batteries for surveillance cameras and sensors.

Lacking better long-range technology solutions, manufacturers must rely on power-hungry mobile communication technologies and need to pay continuous renewal fees and unexpected data usage charges. Since the device does not have the ability to update over-the-air, hackers will exploit the security vulnerabilities of the authentication protocol with a low level of protection on the device.

IEEE802, 11ah Wi-Fi system This is an industry standard for wireless technology that solves the problems faced by existing wireless solutions for IoT by using scalable industry standards.

Wi-Fi system, Morse Microelectronics.

How to solve these problems?

IEEE802, 11ah Wi-Fi system is designed specifically for IoT devices to meet the special needs of IoT devices: longer distance, lower power consumption, stronger ability to penetrate building materials, sufficient bandwidth, large network capacity, easy deployment and installation, life-cycle security, wireless (over-the-air) update capabilities, and low material costs.

Let's explore these needs separately. IoT first needs distance and energy consumption, then penetration, bandwidth, security, and finally capacity.

Distance

The Wi-Fi system uses a 1MHz narrowband channel and an operating frequency band of no more than 1GHz, which is 10 times farther than traditional Wi-Fi and does not require a network extender. Battery-powered cameras can be placed in more convenient locations, such as anywhere needed outside the home or garage. Whether the lights are indoors or outdoors in the garden, a single AP can control the lighting system. Providing users with solutions up to 100 meters away without the need for more extension equipment or mobile phones is a big competitive advantage.

The next requirements are just as important as distance:

Power consumption

The Wi-Fi system can provide sufficient two-way data transmission while reducing power consumption compared to traditional Wi-Fi. IEEE802, 11ah specifies a series of new sleep modes that allow devices to remain in a low-power state for a long time to save energy.

Penetration

The excellent performance of the Wi-Fi system in building services will reduce customer complaints and product returns that plague ordinary Wi-Fi products. The Wi-Fi system uses lower frequencies that can penetrate a variety of building materials, better than 2.4GHz and 5GHz, and consumes less power.

The Wi-Fi system uses OFDM modulation to correct for reflections and multipath environments. Whether the product is placed indoors or outdoors, device manufacturers can ensure a strong HaLow connection to the AP, or it can be in the basement or attic of your home. This eliminates the added complexity and cost of providing dedicated hubs or bridge devices, thereby bridging the differences in consumer residential architectures around the world.

Bandwidth

Similar to traditional Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi systems automatically adjust bandwidth based on signal integrity and distance between APs.

These predefined modulation and coding scheme standards support bandwidths ranging from 150Kbps to 40Mbps for single-stream, single-antenna (1x1) products, and use channel widths ranging from 1, 2, 4 to 8MHz, capable of delivering up to 80Mbps, using optional 16Mbps-wide channels. Automatic selection of MCS rates ensures fast data transmission.

This issue is not important because the faster data is transmitted, the less energy is consumed by the battery, and the less time a device needs to be on the airwaves, freeing other devices to use it.

Security

IEEE802.11ah contains the latest Wi-Fi certification requirements (WPA2/WPA3) and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) for wireless communications. Mores Microelectronics also offers unique device ID technology that supports encryption and signing of data to exchange data with trusted platforms over IPv6 networks. Instrument manufacturers can produce products according to ISO/IEC cybersecurity standards. Morris Microelectronics will continue to improve products and allow consumers to enjoy OTA upgrades through OTA firmware manufacturer updates. It also ensures that devices will not miss security upgrades in the future.

Capacity

The Wi-Fi System AP can handle up to 8,191 devices. Enough to cover every light bulb, door lock, curtain, thermostat, water heater, refrigerator, smoke detector, switch, solar panel, camera, car charger and all smart home devices that may be added in the future.

An ordinary home Wi-Fi router only supports dozens of devices. When the Wi-Fi System AP is deployed in the home by a broadband service provider, additional benefits are obtained by subscribing security and utility management equipment and services to one or more homes.

HaLow is a star network topology, so it does not encounter network capacity issues. At the same time, in a mesh network, the radio spectrum will be congested due to the continuous transmission of the same information.