/PRCWT/Shenzhen, November 3, 2023 - vivo 2023 Developer Conference was officially held in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province on November 1. With the theme of "One heart, One Journey", the conference opened the main venue and nine sub-venues. Among them, in the IoT sub-venue, vivo shared the results achieved in the IoT field in the past year with the developers and partners present, and demonstrated the new capabilities brought to partners.
Build a new experience with developers around multiple scenes
vivo firmly adheres to a fully open ecological strategy, is committed to creating a 1+X+N multi-device ecology, and works with ecological partners to build an intelligent experience of everything around five major scenarios: smart travel, smart home, smart office, sports and health, and video and audio entertainment.
Wu Wencang, senior director of vivo iot Center, said that in order to achieve this goal, vivo has brought new features of the product, focusing on five core scenarios to bring users a more comprehensive, convenient and intelligent connection experience. Up to now, there have been more than 5,600 connections for vivo IoT ecosystem devices, providing users with a richer choice of connections.
In the smart travel scenario, vivo officially released intelligent vehicle 4.0 today, bringing a number of new features and functional optimization improvements. vivo also introduced new functional iterations in connection scenarios such as smart home, command office, and sports health to meet users' connection needs. At the same time, vivo will also launch a multi-device interconnection function to help users manage smart devices in one stop.
Committed to improving user experience, smart vehicle 4.0 release
In the past year, vivo smart vehicle has made remarkable achievements, covering the rapid growth of users, high user stickability, has grown from 40 million to 160 million, and the average daily use time has reached 80 minutes. Today, vivo intelligent vehicle has successfully supported more than 100 car brands and more than 1360 car models, providing users with a rich and diverse travel ecological experience.
Since the release of vivo Smart Vehicle 1.0 in November 2020, vivo has continued to make progress in this field. In September 2021, vivo led the establishment of the Smart Car Open Alliance ICCOA to promote the openness and cooperation of the car networking industry. In November of the same year, vivo intelligent vehicle 2.0 was released, marking the further deepening of vivo in the field of intelligent vehicle. In November 2022, vivo released the vivo open driver interconnection component at the World Internet Conference, demonstrating its innovation and breakthrough in intelligent vehicle technology. In November of the same year, vivo intelligent vehicle 3.0 was officially released. Now, smart vehicle 4.0 is coming, vivo will continue to uphold the concept of open cooperation, and work with partners to build a more perfect intelligent vehicle ecosystem, and is committed to bringing users a more intelligent and convenient travel experience.
Zhao Cong, technical director of vivo Car connection, said that vivo intelligent vehicle 4.0 mainly brings five aspects of experience improvement to users, more smooth and stable screen experience, more convenient on-board voice, more focused and easy to use travel services, more rich and open travel ecology and more natural and concise visual effects.
In order to improve visual comfort, vivo has redesigned more than 50 pages, making the overall visual effect of smart Car 4.0 look new, more consistent with OriginOS 4, while taking into account the comfort of driving perspective. In addition, all page content supports the "see to tell" function, which can directly perform navigation home and music playback control without waking up. The new Navigation Info floating window displays all navigation information at all times. Wechat voice call function can be realized by one-click answer on the car screen. vivo has added more than 20 new applications that support multi-window display. Users can also select and switch between multiple new wallpapers. Smart car logo and text size can also be adjusted to suit different car screen sizes.
vivo also announced that it will open up the large-model capabilities of the vivo IoT 4.0 platform for partners to jointly create a more convenient and intelligent hand-car connected experience for users. At the platform level, vivo IoT open platform adopts the characteristics of open componentized design, cross-end cross-platform, scenario-based functional packaging, out-of-the-box, and free combination to provide developers with differentiated product innovation capabilities. At the network level, vivo adopted self-developed BlueXlink as the core technology support to achieve an efficient and stable connection experience. At the same time, through the empowerment and support of the Blue heart large model, vivo IoT open platform 4.0 will explore the landing intelligent travel scene, vivo intelligent vehicle has also entered the era of Blue heart large model, bringing interaction, efficiency and service innovation to users.
For example, when the user wants to replace the proprietary personality of the car wallpaper, through the generative AI ability of the blue heart large model, vivo smart car can generate a car personality wallpaper in line with the user's taste at any time, so that every trip has a fresh sense of the future vivo will continue to explore with partners more large model and mobile phone integration scene application direction.
In addition to the comprehensive upgrade of vivo intelligent vehicle 4.0, vivo also brings developers and partners the greatly expanded capacity of vivo vehicle connection open component, which is compatible with ICCOA, Carlife and other Internet protocols, and can combine the system capabilities, services, and application ecology of mobile phones with the capabilities and services of vehicles. Carry out deep interconnection and seamless flow. In addition, with the blessing of vivo's Blue Heart large model, the capabilities of the components have also been greatly improved.
vivo digital car key technology expert Wu Yarin shared vivo digital car key solutions for partners. The best digital car key solution needs to cover all user scenarios and lead physical keys in terms of usability, ease of use, stability and security. vivo's digital car key scheme is implemented based on DKF, and the key data is stored in eSE security chip, combining the hardware capabilities of Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, security chip of mobile phones and watches and the software functions of Origin OS to create a digital car key scheme covering the whole scene to provide users with the best intelligent entry experience. vivo digital car keys support non-inductive entry/start, vehicle control, NFC swipe card, key sharing, key loss/deletion and other functions, and in the use of car keys, vivo combined with the advantages of mobile phone manufacturers, to provide users with more shallow interactive entry, such as through the mobile wallet swipe page, intelligent card selection function, AI voice, The operation of the vehicle can be completed.
At present, vivo has cooperated with 22 car brands, including BMW, Tesla, ideal, NiO, Xiaopeng, BYD, etc., launched more than 200 models of digital car keys, covering the first in the industry, these digital car keys can realize the mobile phone door, or start the engine, close the Windows and other functions, greatly convenient for users to travel.
Smart life, connected to the future
In recent years, the smart home market has shown a trend of annual growth in the overall scale, and the number of smart home products owned by users is also increasing. The size of the consumer group with multiple smart items is growing, but the demand for unified management, connection, control and the formation of cross-brand smart home scene linkage experience between cross-brand and cross-ecological smart items has not been met. In order to solve these pain points, vivo Smart Life and industry partners jointly create an open and win-win smart home new ecology, to bring users an open, scientific and convenient new experience of smart life.
Hu Zhanhong, technical director of vivo iot, introduced the status quo of vivo smart home. Since its launch in 2018, vivo's smart home business has continued to develop, covering 200 million people. In-depth cooperation with many partners, there are now 60+ enterprises to join the ecology, access smart equipment SKU reached 4300+, including 90+ categories, to meet the lighting, electrical, security, entertainment, health, living and other life sub-scenes.
Based on vivo's own mobile phones, watches, headphones, and tablet hardware, as well as OriginOS and BlueXlink connection technologies, we built far-field and near-field intelligent hardware connection services. Through connection technology, product experience optimization, and operation empowerment, vivo helps partners improve the experience of a single product and provides users with cross-brand hardware and software linkage.
For example, the vivo watch can recognize the user's sleeping state, switch the smart home to sleep mode, and achieve a linkage experience such as air conditioning sleep curve and automatic lighting off. Temperature and humidity sensors can be linked to air conditioners and humidifiers to create a constant and comfortable home environment for users. At the same time, home and home intelligent scenes can be automatically opened through the geographical location of the phone, to achieve cross-brand multi-device linkage experience. With the in-depth cooperation with more brands, vivo Smart Life will continue to solve user pain points, so that the growing number of smart home devices can continue to evolve, so as to better provide active services to users.
Solve user pain points, upgrade multi-device interconnection function
vivo introduced a number of new connection functions and optimization measures this year, including intelligent vehicle 4.0, smart life 4.0 update, office suite optimization, all-round fitness private education, projection screen 4.0, headset 4.0 and so on. In order to help users achieve shallow, unified, and intelligent device management, vivo also upgraded the multi-device Interconnection Center, and added multi-device interconnection cards to OriginOS 4 to achieve unified presentation and management of smart devices with different connection methods.
The newly added multi-device interconnection card can be presented in the form of a card in the mobile phone control center, which is convenient for users to quickly manage and operate multiple smart devices under the same account, and realize the active connection of devices with the same account. For functions that cannot be implemented, a diagnostic cause function is also provided to provide users with clear instructions for operation.
In the future, users will have more and more devices, so they must have a more efficient and stable connection experience on the connection, vivo today officially launched the vivo IoT open Platform 4.0 to partners.
In the network layer, vivo self-developed BlueXlink connection technology, using a distributed design concept, compatible with industry standard protocols, so that data can be completed between multiple devices efficient, stable, secure flow and access.
At the platform level, vivo opens up the system connectivity capability in the form of component Kit based on BlueXlink. With the characteristics of component-based design, cross-platform, out-of-the-box and so on, it brings differentiated product innovation ability to developers.
At present, the platform has been iterated to version 4.0, which continues to support product innovation in the five core scenarios.
Working with partners, we are committed to improving the user experience
Last year, vivo and Volkswagen CARIAD China jointly developed the game cabin GameBase, and this year, vivo and Volkswagen CARIAD China have made innovative exploration in a number of scenarios: such as desktop application interoperability, vehicle small window mode and navigation relay. These innovations complete the complete experience loop of users getting on and off the bus, allowing users to easily reach their destination. This year, vivo officially launched the Blue Heart large model, which will further promote the scene expansion and capability upgrade of travel ecology. In the future, vivo will also join hands with CARIAD China to explore more application directions of large models and hand-car integration scenarios, and bring innovation in interaction, efficiency and service to travel users. "
As one of the first ecological manufacturers compatible with the important protocol -Matter protocol in the field of smart home, vivo has always upheld the concept of openness and win-win, and comprehensively promoted the interoperability and compatibility between devices of different brands, communication protocols and ecological platforms.
vivo has begun to adapt the Matter protocol, is currently in the process of certification, and will soon push the software with this function to users. By then, smart home devices using the Matter protocol can be seamlessly integrated with vivo mobile phones, vivo provides a large number of device entrances to reach users, users can use vivo mobile phones for device distribution and control Settings. When a Matter device connects to a phone's native IoT services, in addition to maintaining standard Matter features, it can also directly benefit from vivo iot software services, including convenient voice, desktop components, and a consistent UI panel.
vivo through the implementation of a fully open ecological strategy, actively layout smart travel, smart home, smart office, sports health, video and audio entertainment and other fields. In the future, vivo will continue to explore and innovate more in terms of products, experiences and cooperation models, and work together with partners to build the IoT ecosystem and bring users a better wisdom experience!
