Overall updating of cleaning robot and SaaS service spawn a property market worth one trillion yuan
With rising cleaning quality requirements from the property party, traditional manpower-intensive cleaning mode encounters difficulties, which brings development opportunities to the property cleaning robot market. Recently, Intelligence.Ally Technology launches a new generation of “true intelligence” property cleaning robot that achieves overall intelligence from core, scenario application and man-machine interaction.
According to the seventh national census results announced by National Bureau of Statistics: Compared with the six national census in 2010, the share of people in the age groups of 15 to 59 was down by 6.79%, and shares of people in the age groups of 60 and above and those in the age groups of 65 and above were up by the 5.44% and 4.64%, respectively.
The aging trend of population increases labor costs year by year. According to history data from National Bureau of Statistics, the average wage of employed persons in urban units from 2010 to 2019 soared from 36,500 yuan to 90,500 yuan. The CAGR in 2010 hit 10.6%.
As demographic divided disappears and emerging technology develops, unmanned factory, unmanned delivery, and unmanned patrol have come into the public eye. In the property service, unmanned cleaning has become one of the major trends. The property party poses higher cleaning quality requirements and the traditional manpower-intensive cleaning mode has faced great difficulties. For example, the human cost is high; older employees have potential safety hazards; and employee emotion may lead to unstable cleaning quality.
The property cleaning robot market ushers in development opportunities amid interwoven contradictions. Recently, Intelligence.Ally Technology launches its new generation of “true intelligence” property cleaning robot. EqualOcean interviewed CEO Zhang Liang and Product Director Cao Weichuan from Intelligence.Ally Technology to discuss how this new generation of cleaning robots can adapt to different scenarios? In the face of large market gaps, how can robot enterprises seize the market?
The intelligent property market capacity is up to one trillion yuan.
2020 is a booming year for property companies to list. A total of 18 property companies were listed throughout the year, hitting a record high. As the annual report season ends, 42 listed property enterprises deliver their financial statements: The total revenue amounts to one hundred billion yuan with an average growth rate of near 40%; and the total net profit sees a year-on-year growth rate of near 70%.
Behind the high-speed industry development, the competition turns white-hot and the homogeneous competition is fierce. To explore points of differentiation, property companies strive to seek for support of technology.
Vanke claimed to change its property business to “Vanke cloud” consisting of three modules. Among them, the tech module provides software and hardware service capacity, digital operation and industry intelligent service; Country Garden also debuted its “new property” brand including new technology. Currently, in Country Garden service, over 4,500 persons engage in the research and development. In recent three years, a total of 590 million yuan has been invested in scientific research.
The property of technology can expand the imagination space of property company in the capital market, but its root purpose is to enhance service capacity, realize basic service automation, improve management efficiency, and cut cost.
However, the intelligent transformation of property service will not be accomplished at one stroke, and will face complex scenarios, costly investment, and data fragmentation. Therefore, the transformation is at its initial stage and the future market has a huge space. According to the data from AskCI Consulting Co., Ltd., the intelligent property market capacity will reach one trillion yuan in 2025.
Property cleaning is a important sector in property service. The cleaning quality will directly affect the service life of building, user health and security, and user satisfaction. As EqualOcean estimated, the commercial cleaning market in 2020 has reached one hundred million yuan. The CAGR in the future five years will be 10%.
Dr. Zhang Liang, CEO of Intelligence.Ally Technology says: “Property cleaning needs to cut cost and improve quality. Manpower-intensive model will not work out. Technological means must be relied on, and robot service is a very important link. ”
What are the functions of cleaning robots on the market? What are the pain points? What innovations are brought from the new-generation cleaning robot rolled out by Intelligence.Ally Technology?
Building a “Master of Intelligent Evolution”
Generally, property cleaning is divided into dust pushing, sweeping, cleaning, and stone material maintenance. The property cleaning robot on the market mainly covers one or several steps mentioned above. According to market feedback, robot has certain limitations during actual application, such as insufficient corner cleaning, difficulty to control, and inability to ride elevators.
Hence, Product Director of Intelligence.Ally Technology Cao Weichuan tells us that: “In essence, these pain points are caused by insufficient intelligence level of robots. Despite of a robot shell, the core components of these products are made of traditional mechanical manufacturing. ”
Since its inception, Intelligence.Ally Technology has accumulated several intelligent technologies, such as multi-sensor fusion positioning technology, autonomous decision planning technology, and multi-robot coordination technology. The accumulation of these technologies has a close tie with the development path of Intelligence.Ally Technology: In 2017, Intelligence.Ally Technology launched its R&D project for first-generation navigation controller. In 2018, it rolled out intelligent unmanned driving car, and completed the development of various robots, like security robots, and patrol robots.
From core parts, unmanned driving cars to robots, Intelligence.Ally Technology has a profound technical accumulation. According to Cao Weichuan: “We hope to jump out from traditional cleaning equipment manufacturing idea and create a fully-intelligent self-evolving product from core, scenario application, to man-machine interaction in the era of intelligence.”
[New generation cleaning robot]
In fact, Intelligence.Ally Technology’s new generation of cleaning robot can be hailed as the “Master of Intelligent Evolution”.
This new generation of cleaning robots is capable of “intelligent evolution”. When the robot is applied in the scenario, scenario data will be accumulated into an algorithm training database. After constant iteration, users will find that the robot will become more and more suitable for themselves. “The redundant design in hardware system allows our robot to be compatible with new scenario demands through OTA updating and make it an evolving product. ” according to Cao Weichuan.
The new product is truly “unmanned” in maintenance and requires no frequent manual replacement of rag or rolling brush, manual drainage, cleaning of the sewage tank, and water supplement. The robot can automatically go to the full-automatic base station to “supplement itself” being left unattended. Regarding interaction, most traditional robots on the market are controlled by software app. The new product is controlled by voice, mobile phone app, and cloud software, allowing customers to control their robots more smoothly.
Apart from robot performance, price is also an important factor that affects user decision making. Dr. Zhang Liang states that: “Human cost will keep rising. However, with scaled production of robots, its costs will decrease greatly. In the long run, there exists a scissors differential between them. ”
Cao Weichuan says that the new generation of cleaning robot is designed to be an intelligent and cost-effective product. In terms of appearance, the new product is more compact and greatly slashes the cost with modular design and manufacturing and higher level of integration. In addition, as Intelligence.Ally Technology has rolled out several robots, related technologies can be reused. The new product cost is only half of that of similar products on the market, which can meet the high cost-effectiveness requirements.
Building a moat with cloud SaaS platform
With the development of 5G, big data, and cloud computing, the property service is becoming more and more digitalized. Property company builds a cloud platform that gathers all terminal data of the property project and conducts intelligent analysis to improve the property service quality.
In previous property projects, though robots were put into usage, independent human control is also required. With increasing number of robot varieties and quantities in a single project, robots will be gradually scheduled by the property company cloud platform in a uniform manner. For this, Zhang Liang says that: “One property project may require several robots. If each robot enterprise needs one independent operation system, the cloud platform will be too overwhelmed to play the role of cutting cost and improving efficiency. ”
Based on this, Intelligence.Ally Technology creates the cloud SaaS platform, which can be bound to the property company cloud platform and gather all robots of the property project on its platform for uniform control. Intelligence.Ally Technology also provides navigation controllers to third parties, and other robot manufacturers can also access their controllers to the cloud SaaS platform.
“Each physical robot has a corresponding virtual robot on the cloud SaaS platform. When the number of robot terminals of different brands accessed to the platform increases, the ecological effect will become more prominent. ”, as introduced by Dr. Zhang Liang.
Robot data will be collected on the cloud SaaS platform. With massive data training, the algorithm will have deeper understanding of the property scenario and the robot will become more and more intelligent. “Using hospital scenario as an example, the places that need disinfection and the time with a large volume of people can be determined through scenario data collection and constant training of algorithm to achieve the optimal operation efficiency. ”, as Dr Zhang Liang says. In addition, after optimizing the function by technological personnel, the robot will be updated in real time through the SaaS platform.
[Robot cloud service platform]
Currently, the robot penetration rate in the property project is low. “The rate is less than 1%”, says Zhang Liang. “The property company back-end platform system is not complete. The company that can quickly connect the property company cloud platform to its service system is likely to form a moat and expand from the commercial cleaning field to the entire property service sector.”
Backed by core technology accumulation, Intelligence.Ally Technology has advantages to march into the robot sector. Its new generation of cleaning robot solves many pain points of existing products on the market. More importantly, the product can keep “evolving” in scenarios and is truly intelligent from inside to outside. What’s more, the cloud SaaS platform will lay a foundation for its connection to property data and boost overall improvement of property service quality, and establish a first-mover advantage in the trillion-level intelligent property market.
Link to original article: https://www.iyiou.com/interview/202105171017733
Post time: May-18-2021