Building Smart Home for Better Life

After Google's acquisition of startup companies Nest Labs and Dropcam, smart home has become a buzzword overnight. Smart home means using new-generation information technologies including M2M, mobile internet, cloud computing, and big data to create a secure, low-carbon, and comfortable family life based on feature-rich network platforms of telecom operators.
Smart home is not just about technology; it’s an attitude. It is the latest sign of people pursuing a better life. Security, low carbon, comfort, and love are all indispensable to a better life. With rich experience and technological advantages in the telecommunications field, ZTE provides a turnkey solution for home entertainment, visual communication, home monitoring, family album, and home network-attached storage (NAS).

Home Entertainment: Enjoying Family Fun Time
The demands for entertainment vary with age and gender. Home entertainment includes videos, games, education, fitness, recreation, and shopping to meet specific demands of people of different levels, ages, and genders. All these services can be accessed with ordinary or smart set-top boxes (STBs).
ZTE has partnered with companies that have feature-rich video content to provide mainstream video and music programs. ZTE’s home entertainment covers videos, games and fitness, and integrates the content from websites such as YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu. ZTE has developed normal 2D games as well as interesting and novel 3D games that incorporate family and social features. ZTE has also launched health and fitness services.
ZTE’s smart STB has high-performance chips and Android OS 4.0 to provide HD decoding capabilities and deliver videos, games, visual communications, and monitoring services. The STB is compact and has an eye-catching classic black ABS shell. ZTE’s unique low-rate HD technology ensures smooth HD video broadcast at a low bit rate. The STB supports 3D effect and 1080p large screen for a better and truer display. An ergonomically designed handle is also used for easier gaming.

Visual Communication: Seeing Is Better Than Thinking
Fast modern life has made people spend less time with their families. To address this issue, ZTE has launched visual communication to help families communicate anytime, anywhere. This service provides free cross-screen (cell phone, tablet, and TV screens) visual communications, point-to-point and multi-point HD video chat as well as multimedia messaging.
ZTE’s visual communication is based on existing STBs and needs small initial investment. An optimized H.264 algorithm brings new HD video and audio experience. The service supports multi-party calls (six-party audio communication and four-party video communication) and barrier-free multi-channel, multi-terminal communication via audio, video, text, image, and doodle. The service also allows you to find friends and share audio and video messages.

Home Monitoring: Caring is Everywhere
In the fast-paced modern world, people don’t have time to stay at home and take care of the elderly and children. ZTE’s home monitoring allows for remote care of old people, children, and even pets and flowers. The home monitoring service allows people to connect to a remote video camera to monitor remote scenarios after downloading and installing the client on a cell phone or tablet. The service can also be bound with WeChat so that you can change the angle and direction of the camera remotely.
ZTE’s home monitoring supports USB and IP cameras, sports alarms, and timer videos. The client can be downloaded by scanning a QR code. The service also supports video monitoring applications on a mobile phone and extends pan-tilt control functions. 

Family Album: Sharing Wonderful Moments Anytime
As the resolution of smartphone cameras improves, mobile phone camera snapping has become popular, and people are eager to share exciting moments with family and friends. ZTE’s family album is based on the concept of “snap and share.” The family album service allows you to immediately send hotos taken by mobile phones to a TV screen through WeChat or DLNA after downloading and installing the client on a cell phone or tablet. In this way, people can share wonderful moments with family anytime.
ZTE’s family album allows you to browse, edit, and delete pictures. You can download the client easily by scanning a QR code. Pictures can be transmitted anytime and anywhere through WeChat (or ZTE’s customized app) and DLNA. This service means you can access the home NAS to store more pictures.

Home NAS: Building Home Cloud Storage
In the information society, the amount of texts, images, audio, and video continues to increase. ZTE’s home NAS is a home high-capacity cloud storage solution that is manageable and secure. It supports user rights and file sharing management and can be backed up and recovered through the USB flash disk, NAS, or PCs. It also supports BT download, local and remote data acquisition, local and remote file upload, and flexible access to NAS data through the mobile app or client. Moreover, a smart TV assistant can be included to help home users implement remote control, voice control, and interactive sharing functions through mobile phones.

Summary
As smart phones become popular, mobile hardware is becoming cheaper and more powerful. This provides the necessary hardware basis for a smart home. ZTE has made great efforts to open up the smart era and will continue to improve its smart home solutions. ZTE will create a better life for people through technical innovation.