/ Aswen News/August 18, 2022 GUANGZHOU -- Today's home furnishing market, system, intelligent has become the main melody, A.O. As one of the leading enterprises, Smith naturally cherishes this opportunity to create a suite of household products based on the needs of users. By triple connecting products, users and alliance partners, Smith creates a "family-centered" ecological model innovation.

Good water and good wind

A.O. When Smith entered China's water purification market, it introduced and mainly promoted reverse osmosis technology. Considering that Chinese people love to drink hot water, it launched the all-in-one machine under the cabinet, allowing users to open the tap and drink hot water, and ensuring large flow rate and a variety of temperature options. In addition, A.O. Smith also pioneered the "zero cold water" technology, which ensures that hot water is turned on when users take a bath, thus solving the problem of constant temperature in bath. Later,A.O. Smith launched the hot water and soft water integrated system, enabling users to achieve soft water skin care and beauty while bathing, improving the quality of life.

After firmly occupying the commanding heights of the market in the technology field dominated by "water", A.O. Smith set his sights on a broader field, organically combining "wind" and "water" to create a comfortable living space based on "good wind and good water" for consumers. The professional integration of cold and warm feng shui will become A.O. One of the core values of Smith products will also be new, shiny business cards.

In order to integrate home intelligence, A.O. Smith also launched AI-LiNK intelligent IOT system, which makes the innovative concept of "good wind and good water" take root. Smith AI-LiNK provides customized solutions for users' home problems, realizing the linkage of fresh air with the "Ching" range hood and exhaust equipment to form air distribution throughout the house, which can not only provide fresh air at different temperatures, but also break the traditional purification blind areas in the kitchen and toilet to create a home environment with fresh and good air throughout the house. At the same time, relying on the all-in-one control of AI-LiNK, the air source heat pump and gas wall-mounted furnace are adopted to achieve rapid indoor temperature rise in winter, which is not only efficient and energy-saving, but also brings energy saving and comfortable wind to users.

Relevant analysis believes that the synergistic linkage of heating, refrigeration, fresh air, water system and other aspects completely gets rid of the disadvantages of isolation between single products, so that the comfort of users is no longer limited to the superposition of single products, but under the connection of AI-LiNK, new value will be generated, and the comfort experience of consumers will be improved by leaps and leaps.

Connected user comfort service

Actually, as a star brand, A.O. Rather than following the industry trends, Smith is forging ahead, using technology to lead new consumer trends and create new business opportunities.

Under the background that many smart homes in the market only rely on WiFi for simple connection, A.O. Smith relies on hybrid interconnection technology to create a more stable, reliable and secure connection, A.O. Smith miniaturizes and integrates mature IOT solutions in industrial and commercial fields to provide customized solutions for high-end residential buildings such as villas and apartments.

In addition to connecting devices, AI-LiNK Smart iot goes one step further, allowing home consumers to deeply connect with brands, A.O. Smith's approach is to make full use of digital tools, through the connection and in-depth control of design, site installation and construction, service, after-sales and many other links, to provide a truly comfortable, energy-saving, safe home, to ensure that users can enjoy a happy life without worry.

A.O. Smith Group Senior vice president and president of China company Qiu Bu said, "AI-LiNK is not a simple digital connection technology. It is more about connecting home consumers with A.O. The Smith brand generates deep connectivity in which we deliver a trusted home service, turnkey engineering. In this process, it is very important to link the system of suppliers and service providers, which is also a process of enhancing trust and mutual empowerment."

For this reason,A.O. Smith planned ahead and invested heavily in the construction of industrial colleges and training bases. Both project managers and workers had to go through strict training. By learning a large number of professional teaching materials, they operated in a standardized way like a production line and decomposed every construction action into the user's home. Design, construction and other every process through the digital realization of online, users can know the progress in real time, but also can trace the source at any time.

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In addition to product connection and enterprise user connection, the strong alliance between enterprises will create a more solid and efficient connection for A.O. Smith and allied brands offer a broader stage.

A.O. Smith has a keen insight that smart home comfort covers a wide range, healthy lighting, personalized entertainment are worth exploring and expanding the new track, which needs to be A.O. Smith AI-LiNK is built into a new and open ecology, which can connect other high-end brands' products to create a smart home integrity alliance.

For example, AI-LiNK with Gold cabinets, Nobel tiles, Kohler, TATA wooden doors, Op, A.O. Smith and other brands join hands to realize "Ching" kitchen space, "Ching" bathroom space; AI-LiNK collaborates with Panasonic and A.O. Smith to generate innovative response and achieve good indoor fresh air effect, so as to achieve fresh and quiet living.

Recently, led by A.O. Smith, AI-LiNK intelligent iot "Honest Alliance Comfort Home" jointly created with Gambit, Nobel, Kohler, TATA, DAaZ, Op and other brands was officially opened. Its completion not only presents a crossover brand feast in the field of comfortable home, but also fully demonstrates a "family-centered" cooperative ecological model innovation.

Regardless of the connection, the service user is A.O. With the consistent core values and pursuit of Smith, various enablements must ultimately focus on customer satisfaction. "Based on A.O. Smith's Centennial values, the starting point of everything we do is how to serve customers well, focus on innovation, and build deep trust," Qiu said. "We hope to let our partners see that A.O. Smith is a responsible, innovative and visionary company."