Hongmeng in the eyes of partners, an interview with Li Yin, director of research and development of Haique Technology

Modern society is moving from the Internet era to the Internet of Things era. With the continuous popularization of Internet of Things applications, smart devices suitable for various scenarios emerge in endlessly. As an important entrance to the smart home ecology, smart cameras have become an important carrier for security monitoring, entertainment interaction, and smart homes, and they play an increasingly important role in the home scene.

Not long ago, a Puffin camera equipped with HarmonyOS officially went on sale. This is the first smart camera product that Puffin Technology and Huawei Hongmeng have cooperated with. Its unique "distributed care" and multi-device linkage function are eye-catching. So, as one of the first cooperating vendors of Huawei HarmonyOS, why did Auk Technology choose to join the HarmonyOS ecosystem? What innovative experiences have Auk cameras achieved based on HarmonyOS? What expansion of imagination will this product bring to the traditional home camera market? Recently, Li Yin, director of research and development of Puffin Technology, accepted an interview with reporters and shared the story behind being a HarmonyOS 2.0 ecological partner.

Puffin and HarmonyOS collaborate to advance the intelligent innovation of home cameras

At the moment, with the development of AI, 5G and other smart technologies and ecology, home cameras are evolving in the direction of intelligence and sceneization, playing a vital role in home security, caring for the elderly, children, pets, etc., and at the same time Users have also put forward higher requirements for home cameras. Traditional home cameras have been criticized by consumers due to their cumbersome installation steps, complicated operation methods, and poor safety.

In line with the product concept starting from consumer needs, Puffin was aware of these pain points earlier and has been investing relevant resources in product research and development. They hope to deeply bind the camera to the user’s mobile phone and other devices to form an integrated scene Experience. In this process, the R&D team will inevitably encounter some difficulties. How to make the camera and mobile phone and other devices more efficient and simple is one of them. At the same time, cross-device data synchronization and security issues have become horizontal. An obstacle in front of the team.

In response to these problems, the Puffin R&D team urgently needs a highly mature cross-device interactive solution, otherwise there will be no outstanding design concepts, but the product will not be able to land. At this time, the launch of HarmonyOS 2.0 gave the Puffin team an opportunity. Its advanced distributed technology and lightweight design concept fit the product vision of Puffin Technology. So the two parties quickly reached a cooperation for joint product development. The Puffin Smart Camera Pro, which was launched not long ago, is the result of the cooperation between the two parties.

Experience upgrade, the device can be connected at the touch of a touch, and it can be seen at a point

Under normal circumstances, when consumers use smart camera products, they first need to download an APP, then open the downloaded APP, register, log in, and connect to wifi. The whole process takes a long time and the steps are extremely cumbersome. The Puffin Smart Camera Pro equipped with HarmonyOS is much more convenient. Li Yin mentioned, “This camera can be quickly configured with a simple touch of a Huawei mobile phone, and the device can be added to the mobile phone to perform related functions. Operation, no need to download APP, very convenient."

Talking about the innovative experience brought by the cooperation with HarmonyOS, Li Yin cited three typical examples.

First, based on the device virtualization capabilities of HarmonyOS, the Puffin Smart Camera Pro can be transformed into a virtual peripheral camera of a Huawei mobile phone, becoming the third "eye" of a Huawei mobile phone, and it also supports the control of multiple cameras connected at the same time. "Suppose we put one of the two cameras in the study room and the other on the balcony, and we can switch the picture of the other camera at will by clicking the button on the mobile phone; in the same way, when using the mobile phone to make a video call, the user can call the Puffin camera at any time The screen of the screen is presented to the other party in real time, and you can experience convenient calls in all scenes and across spaces."

Second, using the distributed file system capabilities of HarmonyOS, photos and videos taken by the Puffin camera can be easily called by Huawei mobile phones. "For example, it is difficult to capture the scenes of a child walking for the first time and learning to write and draw for the first time. If there is a Puffin camera, it can only be responsible for recording, and its built-in hard disk can continuously keep life. The pictures and videos are recorded. You only need to go back to your home phone to touch it, and you can easily access the photos and videos taken by it in the phone's system album and select the recorded wonderful moments."

Third, HarmonyOS makes the Puffin camera more secure. As a very special product, the camera is often applied to some relatively private scenes, which brings great challenges to the security and privacy of users. And "based on the distributed security capabilities of HarmonyOS, the photos taken by the Puffin camera, if not authorized by the higher-risk device-the mobile phone, no one can access the data captured by the camera, which solves the user's security problem well. ."

Focus on industrial upgrading and open up a new competitive landscape to achieve a leap in value

As the first group of pioneers to join the HarmonyOS ecosystem, Puffin has achieved good results in the process of cooperation between the two parties. Li Yin mentioned that compared with the traditional home camera, the Puffin Smart Camera Pro truly achieves a seamless and seamless operation experience. "HarmonyOS can configure the network with one touch, change from screen to screen, and interact with multiple devices, etc. Form, let home smart camera equipment be operated in a unified language for the first time", and in different usage scenarios, it can organically collaborate with mobile phones and other devices to realize application solutions based on current scenarios. The moment the Puffin camera is added to the mobile phone, it is actually part of the mobile phone. "Ultra-fast connection, minimal interaction and smart collaboration experience have made Puffin Smart Camera Pro a very advantageous position in the fierce market competition. s position.

In Li Yin's view, at a higher industrial level, the value of the cooperation between Puffin and HarmonyOS still has great potential to be tapped. "HarmonyOS is extremely lightweight and convenient installation and operation experience, making users more willing to use products based on HarmonyOS, which will lay the foundation for our equipment manufacturers to provide users with more and better services in the future, which will be more conducive to getting through The multiple key links between our manufacturers and users not only bring better experience, but also provide us with new breakthroughs in industrial competition and bring opportunities for intelligent industrial upgrading."