On January 11, 2024, iprdaily Chinese Network announced the "2023 Global Smart Home Invention Patent TOP100" ranking. Among them, Haier Smart Home once again topped the list with 6,152 public patent applications, achieving the tenth consecutive championship in the world. So far, the number of public patents of Haier Smart Home has reached 29,486, ranking first in the world.
In fact, as early as 2020, the number of Chinese applicants for global smart home invention patents accounted for 1 3 of the total. Today, Haier Smart Home has locked the championship in China for 10 consecutive times, which not only reflects the global influence and international competitiveness of China's smart home field, but also becomes a strong proof that Chinese enterprises take innovation as the background and technology as the fulcrum to accelerate the transformation of global users' lives and continue to lead the era of the Internet of Things.
Behind the quantitative leadership is the user value leadership
At present, smart home has become a global investment and consumption hotspot, setting off a new round of technological revolution. In such a "technology-based" field, if you want to improve the strength of the enterprise, then the invention patent must be one of the most important evaluation criteria.
Therefore, the "Global Smart Home Invention Patent TOP100", which is released every six months, has become a compass for the outside world to analyze the development trend of the industry and evaluate the innovation strength of enterprises.
This time, Haier Smart Home will add a total of 6,152 smart home invention patents in 2023, an increase of 8% compared with the same period in 2022, and the cumulative number of published patents will be 29,486, a year-on-year increase of 26%. It can be seen that in the field of smart home patents, Haier Smart Home continues to grow rapidly, firmly occupying the first place in the industry, regardless of the number of new additions or the cumulative number.
However, behind the "quantity" that occupies an absolute advantage, the leading nature of Haier Smart Home lies in the "best value" of its invention patents - in the view of Haier Smart Home, patents that can continuously meet the needs of users are truly useful patents. Therefore, Haier Smart Home's patent layout is not blindly pursuing quantity, and every patent is born because of "user needs".
For example, today's users need more than just a refrigerator, but a healthy diet. To this end, Haier Smart Home has proposed relevant patents for methods and devices for managing ingredients, refrigeration equipment, storage media, etc., so that the refrigerator can automatically record the stored ingredients and plan recipes accordingly, becoming a family food steward; Another example is that traditional air conditioners blow dry and cold and are prone to "air conditioning disease". To this end, Haier Smart Home has developed air conditioning control methods, devices and intelligent air conditioners based on the user's health status, so that the air conditioner can blow natural wind, and can also automatically identify the position of people and bypass the air supply ......
It can be said that these patents have changed household appliances from cold "maids" who can only obey orders to warm "family members" who can take the initiative to serve. It is precisely because each invention patent is based on the needs of users that Haier Smart Home can always accurately solve user pain points, lead the development trend of the industry, and continue to gain recognition from users and the industry.
Behind the leadership of science and technology is the leadership of the R&D system
The number of patents is an important embodiment of the scientific and technological reserves of enterprises. However, Haier Smart Home's scientific and technological innovation strength is by no means as simple as a single patent leading.
According to statistics, Haier Smart Home has achieved absolute leadership in four aspects: patents, standards, industrial design, and national recognition: in terms of patents, in addition to the 10 consecutive championships of global smart home invention patents, Haier Smart Home has also won the industry's largest 12 Chinese patent gold awards; In terms of standards, Haier Smart Home is the only enterprise in China's home appliance industry that leads and participates in the smart home standards of IEC, ISO, IEEE, OCF, and Matter, and has also led and participated in 97 international standards, the most in the industry; In terms of industrial design, it has won 6 international design gold awards, the most in the industry; In terms of national recognition, Haier Smart Home has won 16 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, accounting for two-thirds of the industry.
At a time when user needs are changing rapidly, it is not easy to find changes, and it is even more difficult to continuously meet the dynamically changing user needs with technological innovation. To this end, Haier Smart Home has laid out a 10+N open innovation system and HOPE innovation ecological platform around the world, so that its own innovation iteration can resonate with the needs of global users.
Among them, the 10+N open innovation system is based on the world's 10 major R&D centers, N innovation centers and innovation networks, realizing global R&D collaboration, digital R&D upgrading, and customized scientific and technological innovation, product iteration and scenario upgrading according to user needs, so as to realize scientific and technological innovation "in the world, for the world"; The HOPE innovation ecological platform links 250,000+ technical experts and gathers more than 1 million R&D resources, so that every need can be "seen and satisfied".
Enterprises repay users with peach, and users will also "invest in them". With the support of scientific and technological innovation, Haier Smart Home has solved one problem after another for users and entered one family after another with one patent after another and innovation after innovation, and continues to accelerate the global implementation of smart homes. As a result, global users have also used their own choices and support to push Haier to Euromonitor International's 15th consecutive global retail volume of large household appliances.
This is an era of innovation, but also an era of users. Haier Smart Home once again used practical actions to illustrate that in such a context, enterprises must not only be good at innovation, but also know how to use scientific and technological innovation to meet users, so as to create value, gain word of mouth, enter the channel of high-quality development, and open up continuous upside.