Not long ago, an email triggered a "war of words" in the smart home industry. The warring parties are the international ZigBee alliance and the domestic well-known smart home enterprise Nanjing IOT. Although the focus of contradiction between the two is the trademark rights related to ZigBee, which has nothing to do with ZigBee technical standards, many people begin to doubt the importance of ZigBee technical standards，Some people even directly pointed out that "for the smart home industry, whether it is ZigBee or WiFi, it is not very important.". Is it really no longer important to be regarded as the "golden rule" for the development of smart home industry?

According to the conflict of interests between the international ZigBee alliance and Nanjing IOT, it is not important and easy to understand to put forward the technical standard of smart home. Although ZigBee alliance and Nanjing IOT are "hostile", there is no fundamental conflict. ZigBee alliance is the maker of ZigBee protocol, and Nanjing IOT has been committed to the promotion of ZigBee wireless technology，The two can be described as "originally born from the same root". However, in addition to the ZigBee alliance and Nanjing IOT, there are also ZigBee technology standards jointly promoted by the two, which are inevitably affected by this event. They dare to ignore them and wantonly fight against each other. It seems that they are implying to ZigBee wireless technology competitors that this technology is not so important. It is undeniable that in the process of this event, it has indeed brought opportunities for other technology promoters to publicize themselves.

In this way, the conclusion is that ZigBee technology is not important, and there is still a certain gap between ZigBee technology and all smart home technology standards. If it is not important to put forward the technical standard of smart home, what are the considerations? In fact, the point of view here is very critical. I think that the technical standard of smart home is not important. Generally, there are two kinds of smart home.

One is from the perspective of users. It seems that users' needs are not easy to meet, but in fact they are very simple. What they pay attention to is that they are able to use and easy to use, rather than the technology behind the function. This situation is similar to "just know that the eggs are delicious, there is no need to worry about which chicken laid them". If we simply stand in the perspective of users，ZigBee, Z-Wave, WiFi and Bluetooth are meaningless. All the four technologies can be used in smart home communication. As long as the enterprise has made the product well and used it well, it can achieve intelligent effect. As for what technology is implemented, there is no need to pay attention to it.

Second, from the perspective of enterprises. The enterprises mentioned here refer to the enterprises that use a variety of wireless technologies, not all of them. Most of the products of such enterprises use a variety of communication technologies at the same time, and even the enterprises themselves are members of different alliances. Therefore, it is not important for them to publicize technical standards under normal circumstances. The important thing is to give full play to the characteristics of different technologies for their own use, so that the products can give users the best experience，And has been recognized by users. However, this does not mean that there is no difference between the various technologies. In fact, the reason why such enterprises think that technical standards are not important is mainly for commercial considerations. On the one hand, they realize technical coverage, on the other hand, they realize product coverage.

In addition to these two general situations, there is another situation that we have to mention. This situation is also "not based on technical standards". Those who do not follow the standards will win the world. The reason is the emergence and vigorous promotion of smart home platform. One of the important significance of the emergence of smart home platform is to break the single product in the smart home industry、The "two tigers" of the system are competing with each other, and it has become a very important development mode of smart home. The most typical example is the smart home platform homekit launched by Apple at WWDC (Apple global Developers Conference) in early June this year.

At a time when many people think it will be difficult to move in the smart home industry without standards, it's unreasonable for apple to launch homekit, because Apple doesn't mention technical standards at all. In fact, the idea of homekit is very simple. To put it bluntly, it is "making use of software to make use of the cooperation relationship to enable it to control the third party's smart home hardware, and it is the third party that adapts to apple, but it is not apple that makes concessions to the third party.This is one of the important reasons why some people think that the development model of smart home technology is not eclipsed. In fact, in addition to Apple's smart home platform, many other platforms are not exclusive to technical standards.

It has to be admitted that experience is the king of smart home products. No matter what technology you choose, as long as you do a good job in experience, the products will eventually be recognized by users. However, in other words, as an important means of communication between smart home devices, smart home technology standards are still unavoidable for most enterprises. Whether using a single technology, combining multiple technologies, or adapting to other platforms, technology standards play an important role. As for which technology is more important, it seems that there is no discussion value.