Panasonic has been in India for near 50 years now, and you’d maybe comprehend it principally as a shopper home equipment firm, with merchandise like TVs, washing machines, and rice cookers. However really, it’s additionally into sensible manufacturing unit options, industrial IoT and battery options, show options, safety, surveillance and promoting options. “Go to any PVR theatre in India and you might be in all probability watching the film on a Panasonic projector,” says Manish Sharma, CEO of Panasonic India and South Asia.
Armed with all this information and expertise, the corporate arrange an innovation centre in Bengaluru in 2017 with the thought of creating sensible houses. And it got here up with MirAIe. MirAIe is a platform that may join a variety of merchandise within the dwelling – air-conditioners, doorbell, fridge, washer, followers, plugs and switches. “We’ve got developed various merchandise within the innovation centre, however MirAIe is the flagship product. A number of the tech produced round MirAIe right here has been a success for the corporate worldwide,” Sharma says.
MirAIe has been inbuilt a method that different {hardware} corporations can also join their gadgets to the platform. “We wished MirAIe to be a one-stop-shop for all of your sensible dwelling home equipment – to keep away from the effort of downloading a brand new app for every model each time. We’ve already collaborated with two very massive corporations in India and are engaged on bringing extra corporations into the fold,” Sharma says.
For the R&D crew, one of many large challenges was to offer a single open interface that may join with an entire host of merchandise. “It needed to be agnostic of protocol and platform, be it an Amazon or Google platform. The concept was to convey down the shopping for price as a lot as potential. We needed to do numerous worth engineering and construct fashions that had been scalable. We even partnered with a bunch of startups to allow this,” Sharma says.
MirAIe-enabled ACs manufactured in Haryana are presently being exported to South Asia, the Center East and nations in Africa. “The info being collected from customers now and sooner or later will show to be sport changers within the trade,” Sharma says.
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