VietNamNet Bridge – BKAV, a large technology group in Vietnam, has said that “it is 10 years ahead of Microsoft, Google and Samsung” in terms of smarthomes. Lumi Vietnam has also jumped into the smarthome market.

“The best known technology groups in the world like Microsoft, Google and Samsung have just joined the smarthome market, while we (BKAV) have been present in the field for nearly 10 years,” said Vu Thanh Thang, director of BKAV SmartHome, at a workshop on utilizing information technology (IT) achievements in the real life.

Prior to that, BKAV’s managers many times stated at workshops and conferences that BKAV’s smarthome is the best product of this kind now available in the world.

And they emphasized that this is a 100 percent Vietnamese made product which is “the most complete system in accordance with Gartner’s standards”.

According to the market survey firm’s standards, most of the smarthome models marketed recently in the world belong to the Home Automation group. Meanwhile, the highest level of smarthome – Connected Home – will only develop strongly and become popular in several years.

As Thang said, BKAV’s smarthome can meet Connected Home standards. This explains why BKAV says it is ahead of many other technology groups in the world in the smarthome sector.

Also according to Thang, the BKAV’s smarthome solution can fix the problems existing in solutions provided by foreign firms – the complexity and the low systems’ software content – which does not adjust the systems to fit the users’ habits.

The statements by BKAV’s managers have raised controversy. They have been harshly criticized on IT forums, where they are described as boasters.

No one believes that such a high-technology product can be created by the Vietnamese.

Meanwhile, BKAV has many formidable rivals who are globally known smartphone solution providers such as German company Siemens with its Synco system, Dutch-owned Philips with Dynalite system, French company Schneider Electric Wiser with Home Control and the US’s Leviton with HAI solution.

Other major corporations, including Microsoft, Google, Samsung and Apple, have also joined the smarthome market.

Google in early 2014 bought Nest, the thermostat and the smoke alarm manufacturer, while Samsung, after buying a smarthome firm, has launched the closed smarthome system in its devices. Most recently, Apple launched HomeKit, a smarthome application platform for developers.

However, some analysts, who have spent time learning BKAV’s smarthome solution, have recently said that BKAV’s smarthome has “outstanding advantages”.

“It is too early to say BKAV’s smarthome is the best in the world. But it really has many outstanding advantages,” an analyst said in a local newspaper.

In the latest news, Lumi Vietnam, a joint stock company, has also joined the smarthome market by providing touch electric switches, connection solutions, electricity network remote control via smartphones and internet-connected tablets.

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