Smart technologies to keep the pandemic at bay

The pandemic has impacted all of our lives irrevocably, placing an enormous burden on our lives, economies, and societies at large. As the pandemic engulfed lives across the globe, millions of people turned to working from home as a means to minimize transmission and keep the virus at arm’s length.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and as a response to evolved market needs, we have witnessed the rise of several technological advancements that are pushing the envelope of our everyday lives, while simultaneously making us better equipped to deal with the finer aspects of a post-pandemic world.

The Internet of Things, smart technologies, and the advent of the connected are at the forefront of this revolution, with these and many more innovations driven by the pandemic. As sanitization measures start to take centerstage, even in our homes, where efforts are being made to clean and disinfect high-touch surfaces daily in household common-use locations, smart connected solutions help keep contact to a minimum while adding a world of convenience to our lives.

In the long term, we will witness voice control and other smart features, such as imaging and deep learning driving smart home adoption, and the pandemic has doubtless been a catalyst for its uptake. Changes in habits and experience, moving away from physical actuation toward using smart control in the home, will engender greater smart home expansion. Automated, low-touch solutions are leading the way towards a safer, more connected future and these capabilities are being leveraged to the fullest by innovation leaders, such as Tuya.

By the end of October 2020, the Tuya IoT Development Platform served over 230,000 developers around the world, a 28% YOY increase. The AIoT platform has smart-enabled more than 200,000 products in nearly 1,000 product categories, a 122% YOY increase. Now, Powered by Tuya products can be found in more than 190 countries in over 100,000 sales channels globally.

Compared with traditional devices, Powered by Tuya smart devices save carbon emissions equivalent to planting 40 million trees, saving users nearly $200Mn USD in electricity bills. The Tuya Cloud processes on average:

• 73 million AI facial recognition and security device computations per day.
• 81 million AI voice interaction computations per day.

Tuya, together with 20,000 cloud developers, will continue to build a smart business ecosystem and provide smart business solutions for industries including security, commercial lighting, community, housing, hotel, and elderly care.

The world around us is being reimagined as you read this, and being molded into a smarter, more connected ecosystem of devices that are enabling us to live and interact better. Tuya is poised as the leading AIoT platform provider for OEM manufacturers, brands, and retail chains, who can seamlessly connect their devices to Tuya’s cloud and thereby enhance consumer experiences greatly.

As technology starts to become increasingly integrated into our professional and personal lives, the importance of living smarter lives enabled by technological advances cannot be understated. A highly connected ecosystem of smart devices that will greatly amplify the quality and safety of our lives, and this is no longer a futuristic development that seems far-off. Automation in our everyday living spaces is firmly rooted in our present, and the need of the hour. Low-touch solutions are being explored by industries, enterprises and governments at large to ensure the safety and well-being of all their employees and citizens respectively and cannot be ignored.

A cloud with the immense capability of processing and further enabling the smart use of this information can only act as a catalyst to a smarter, more connected future that improves the quality of life for humankind everywhere.