Some popular science knowledge of smart curtains

PREFACE

With the development of the times and changes in lifestyles, traditional curtains can no longer meet the taste buds and functional needs of consumers, and smart curtains are gradually becoming standard products for home decoration and real estate hardcover. Whether buying smart curtains as a single product or integrating them into a whole-house system, it is a fashionable choice for people's new propositions for smart life.

To put it simply, smart curtains realize the left-right opening and closing and up and down lifting of curtains through smart motors, and the core component is actually smart motors. Compared with traditional curtains in function, smart curtains can realize multiple functions such as voice control switch, panel control switch, mobile phone APP, scene linkage, timing control, light-pull start, stop and stop when blocked, and realize no contact in a variety of ways. Style control, the perfect solution to the "hands-on" curtain experience.

This article will start with four sections of smart curtain product form development, specific product classification, specific application functions, and smart linkage scenarios, so that you can understand smart curtains in one article.

Form development of smart curtains

Before introducing smart curtains, let's talk about the development of curtain product forms.

The earliest curtains were mainly purely manual curtains composed of various rails and various finished curtains. The components included manual rails, pole sets, drawstrings, pull beads, and one-wire links, etc., and did not contain any electrified components.

Then, electric curtains controlled by wired switch buttons and wireless remote control appeared, which can realize various functions such as switch, single control, dual control, group control, group control, and timing. At this time, the electric curtain can already be linked with wind, rain, and light sensors, and it can also be self-powered by batteries and solar energy, but it is still an independent local system and cannot leave a certain range of control areas.

With the development of the times, the form of AC/DC smart curtains has begun to appear, which is mainly realized by the way of motor + module + APP. With the help of cloud architecture, remote control can be carried out through networked APP, and intelligent voice control can also be realized. In addition to the way of cloud + local interconnection, smart curtains have begun to be integrated into smart home systems with different protocols and ecological platforms.

At present, smart curtains are mainly evolving in the overall direction of multi-protocol, de-gateway, decentralization, control diversification, and product diversification. Compared with traditional curtains, smart curtains can meet the main functions of shading, shading and heat preservation. The superior intelligent functions will change the control experience and light management methods, fundamentally change the lifestyle of consumers, and effectively improve users’ Quality of Life.

Classification of smart curtains

Consumers have diversified needs for aesthetics, privacy and functionality, and more and more smart curtain categories have been born, such as smart opening and closing curtains, smart blinds, smart roller blinds, smart Roman blinds, smart Shangri-La Blinds, and smart curtains. Luo gauze curtain, smart honeycomb curtain, smart vertical curtain, etc.
From the perspective of the extended product category of smart curtains, roller shutter doors, roller shutter windows, smart doors and windows, smart awnings, etc., products with shading, shading, privacy protection and aesthetics, all belong to the derivative category of smart curtains.
From a broader perspective of smart motors, smart clothes dryers, smart projection screens, and smart window opening machines are all brother categories of smart curtains.

Smart curtain product category and structure composition

In the range of ordinary household applications, we summarize the more common mainstream smart curtain categories: one is the flat curtain that moves along the track or rod parallel to the rail, and the second is the venetian blind that can be adjusted by 180 degrees and can be moved up and down, vertical or left and right. , Other common categories such as smart roller blinds, smart Shangri-La blinds, smart soft gauze blinds, smart honeycomb blinds, smart Roman blinds, etc.
For the living room, bedroom, study room, bathroom, balcony and other family scenes, we took Duya's smart curtain product line as a benchmark to sort out the smart curtain categories in detail.

•Smart side curtains: including smart motors, motor upper and lower covers, top rail brackets, belt fixing buckles, sideways rails, end hooks, hook upper and lower covers, hooks, hanging wheels, booms, belts, smart remote control器等。

•Smart zigbee-motor-Smart-Electric-Roman-Curtain-Rods.html target='_blank'>Roman Rod: Contains smart motors, main gearboxes, pulleys, and rubber belts.

•Smart lifting curtains: including smart motors, motor brackets, smart lifting motors, runners, rope reels, middle brackets, tail plugs, transmission tubes, etc.

•Intelligent vertical curtains: including active ball rolling, passive ball rolling, track, intelligent motor, intelligent controller, etc.

• Smart Shangri-La blinds: including smart motors, hoods, tail plugs, transmission tubes, smart controllers, bottom beams, fabrics, etc.

•Intelligent honeycomb blinds: including intelligent motors, rope reels, DC motor adapters, intelligent controllers, bottom beams, fabrics and covers, etc.

•Intelligent soft curtain: including intelligent motor, cover, tail plug, transmission tube, intelligent controller, bottom beam, fabric, etc.

•Intelligent roller blind: including crown, intelligent motor, runner, tail insert, tail insert bracket, transmission tube, intelligent controller, bottom beam, roller blind fabric, motor bracket, etc.

•Smart wood shutters: including smart motors, runners, rope reels, tail plug brackets, transmission tubes, wall brackets, smart controllers, bottom beams, curtains, outer covers, motor brackets, etc.

• Smart cloth shutters: including battery sticks, smart motors, rope reels, end caps, smart controllers, bottom beams, rope reels, venetian blinds, rails, etc.

•Smart aluminum blinds: including rope reel, smart motor, DC motor adapter, smart controller, bottom beam, venetian blinds and outer cover.

In addition to the product components of smart curtains, there are also many linkage and auxiliary accessories, such as wind and rain sensor, wall sticker transmitter, group control, two-key interlock unlocking, light sensor, receiver, wall sticker receiver , Solar panels, etc.

The purpose of smart curtains

Although the categories of smart curtains are complex, they are divided according to different actual scene uses, such as switches, angles, materials, and areas.
For example, vertical curtains are suitable for large floor-to-ceiling glass windows; lifting curtains are suitable for windows greater than 4 meters in height, which can better solve the problem of curtain cloth removal; Shangri-La curtains are elegant and beautiful, and the angle of light can be controlled by adjusting the angle; soft yarn The curtain can freely adjust the angle of light input and the amount of light, the design sense and sense of hierarchy are very strong; the smart roller blind of waterproof and full blackout fabric, because the anti-mildew shading effect is the best, it is suitable for wet environments such as toilets; the wooden shutters are made of natural logs , Comes with a book fragrance, which can perfectly fit the environment of the study; cloth shutters are the same in form as wood shutters, in addition to dimming and blocking performance, they also have waterproof and anti-mildew functions; aluminum shutters have dual functions of dimming and shading , It also has the functions of dimming, waterproof and mildew, suitable for high heat and humidity environment; besides its own thermal insulation function, the honeycomb curtain does not occupy space and is beautiful and tidy after being folded, and the honeycomb structure has good sound absorption and heat insulation capabilities. , Suitable for the balcony of the western sun.

Smart scene

As an important part of the smart home system, smart curtains are also standard products. They are an indispensable role in smart home scenes. They are also one of the most intuitive smart scene experiences. In the actual daily life of the owners, the usage rate High, high activation rate and high linkage rate.
The premise of intelligent scene construction is linkage, and the premise of linkage is the need to communicate with other devices in a unified language. Smart curtains already support almost all control protocols on the market: such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluethooth, Wi-Fi, RF, EnOcean and other wireless communication protocols, KNX, RS485 and other bus communication protocols, as well as strong and weak electrical dry contacts At the same time, products with new communication protocols such as NB-IoT, LoRa, BLE Mesh, Thread, etc. are also being updated. With the evolution of new interconnection standards in the 5G+AIoT era, the linkage scene construction of smart curtains will be more convenient, easier and more user-friendly, bringing users a better intelligent experience.
In terms of contactless control, in addition to the voice control method of connecting with smart speakers through the cloud network, the smart motor in the smart curtain can directly control the voice scene of the smart curtain through the built-in offline voice module, without the need for network and third-party equipment. , Not only faster and safer, but also more cost-effective.
Smart curtain related scenes need to consider practicality and highlight the sense of experience and ritual. For example, speakers or mobile phones can control the opening and closing of curtains through voice, leaving home/home scenes, waking up/sleeping scenes, curtain opening and closing settings, curtains and lighting , Smart lock, camera, sensor, thermostat linkage, etc., users can also DIY more personalized scene needs.