ORVIBO releases new HomeAI operating system, technological aesthetic new product may once again lead the industry development

On May 18, ORVIBO streamed its annual strategic new product launch across all platforms, unveiling HomeAIOS 4.0 — an all-new intelligent IoT operating system with full Matter protocol compatibility — to considerable industry attention. At the event ORVIBO also launched the world's first dual-screen smart voice switch, MixPad Defy, along with the next-generation natural-light-inspired smart Cangqiong lighting series. Two years on, ORVIBO — now a “little giant” of the smart-home industry — once again leads the industry with an extreme technology-and-aesthetics new-school smart-home philosophy.

New-School Technology-Aesthetics Products May Once Again Lead the Smart-Home Trend

Since launching MixPad, the world's first wall-mounted smart voice switch, in 2018, ORVIBO has drawn industry attention with its innovative technology-aesthetics style. It has not only led the smart-home screen era but continually pushed against the industry's ceiling, creating numerous industry firsts. At this event ORVIBO once again overturned everyone's fixed idea of what a switch should be, launching MixPad Defy — the world's first dual-screen smart voice switch — and using a PMOLED display on a smart switch for the first time. The Defy series' distinctive “irresistibly dimpled” keys make you want to press them just once, while its independent suspension design gives the switch the kind of exquisite feel you get from a BMW steering wheel. Defy-series switches also come in multiple colours, as heart-fluttering as a love letter, and with formidable performance they are nothing less than the “emperor” of smart switches.

If the Defy series represents a romantic rebellion, then Bach is ORVIBO's homage to minimalist rational aesthetics. The Bach series' song-like aesthetic design and mathematically precise structure, combined with ORVIBO's uniquely powerful RelayProTech™ relay protection technology, give Bach switches formidable safety and stability. Bach-series switches have a built-in dual-microphone smart voice array and powerful smart-gateway capability, compatible with WiFi, Bluetooth and Zigbee, and will be fully compatible with the Matter ecosystem. Bach also offers customisable colourways to suit any interior style.

In addition, ORVIBO launched MixPad 7 Ultra, its first decorative smart screen, which blends the smart voice screen into the wall. It is available in three pioneering finishes — walnut, B&O-matched smoked-green fabric and flowing silver aluminium — so users can easily match minimalist, modern or light-luxury styles, giving smart homes genuine spatial aesthetic value. ORVIBO CEO Mark believes: “A truly good smart voice screen should look as if it grew out of the wall, letting smart home return to the meaning of home — rather than letting the home be held hostage by cold digital devices.”

Another major highlight of the event was the Cangqiong lamp, an all-new next-generation natural-light-inspired smart light. It uses a precise light-mixing algorithm that adds 6500K white light to 480nm blue light to achieve a realistic blue-sky mixed-light effect. The lamp also uses side-emitting technology to simulate the cut-off line that sunlight forms when passing through a skylight; working together with the blue-sky surface, it creates a more realistic blue-sky ambience. The Cangqiong lamp also has built-in 16-million-colour RGBCW ambient soft light, delivering a rich range of nature-inspired scenes so people can enjoy the world's finest scenery at home. “Just look up at the sky and you can glimpse all four seasons,” said Mark. Drawing on a home-design philosophy that blends space with nature, ORVIBO's Cangqiong series product team brings genuine natural light into every day of life. With the backing of intelligent technology, nature-inspired lighting may well be the smart-lighting industry's next hot topic.

HomeAIOS 4.0: A Natively Developed Chinese Intelligent IoT Operating System with Ultimate Interaction and Superb Compatibility

Beyond hardware, the bigger industry focus at this event was HomeAIOS 4.0, the native intelligent IoT operating system ORVIBO built for whole-home intelligence, striving to create a secure, efficient and stable interaction and computing system for every living space.

HomeAIOS 4.0 comprehensively upgrades the Xiao Ou voice assistant. Its all-new ONESTEP technology makes every device wake-word free; near-field wake-up 3.0 human-machine interaction positioning, combined with distributed mixed/direct-source separation sound-source localisation and multi-layer noise suppression, delivers faster, more accurate whole-space interaction — no more devices all responding at once. HomeAIOS 4.0 also introduces AUTOLIGHT adaptive dimming, which adjusts the home's lighting according to 24-hour changes in external sunlight so people stay comfortable at all times.

HomeAIOS 4.0 also supports MatriShield™ full-link bidirectional security technology, authenticating both device and gateway to protect user privacy; the new Jupiter and Octopus technologies merge Bluetooth, WiFi and Zigbee into a single three-network fusion, greatly improving wireless stability and disaster tolerance; and NatureLink whole-space ultra-long-range touch-free onboarding solves bulk device onboarding — a 1,000-square-metre villa can join the network the moment power is on.

HomeAIOS 4.0 further builds the Newton everything-engine for device onboarding and interaction based on a strong-fog model. It is fully compatible with the Matter protocol and all IoT communication protocols, and through the open HADC it enables one-stop configuration, multi-terminal synchronisation and no-code onboarding.

“HomeAIOS 4.0's mission is not merely to connect everything; more importantly, it gives home devices more proactive intelligence and better human-machine interaction. Only by applying all-scenario, multi-modal interaction and proactive intelligence across whole-home devices can we reshape how people and spaces interact and connect, and create an exquisitely intelligent way of living,” Mark stressed. ORVIBO's R&D team rewrote 5 million lines of code, comprehensively optimising and upgrading the system kernel layer, service layer and application architecture, and thoroughly resolving Android's shortcomings in security, privacy and heat generation that prevent long-term operation. HomeAIOS 4.0 may become the second domestic IoT operating system after HarmonyOS to break away from the Android ecosystem — all the more significant at this particular moment.

Whole-Home Intelligence: A Trillion-Yuan Blue Ocean Officially Opens

Recently Google also announced at Google I/O that it will be fully compatible with the Matter protocol, raising the prospect of a globally unified smart-home standard. Reaching this consensus will have an enormous and far-reaching impact on the smart-home industry; as houses gain value moving from bare shell to fine decoration to smart home, it is bound to generate enormous trillion-yuan commercial value.

As Wu Jun, a distinguished computer scientist and special guest at the event, put it: the intelligence of home spaces in the future is an unstoppable trend, and housing will follow the same development path as the phone and auto industries — while the decisive role of operating systems in shaping competitive landscapes may exceed that of hardware. The next decade of smart home will therefore be the decade in which smart home reaches millions of households, and in which whole-home intelligent operating systems and smart hardware become fully interconnected and integrated.

Just as Apple, since launching its first phone, became the world's most valuable company on the strength of OS + hardware + services, ORVIBO uses its whole-home intelligent operating system and switch panels as its entry point, combining technology-aesthetics hardware with software services. It is fast becoming a “little giant” of smart home, with limitless prospects ahead.