Even the bigwigs of Hong Kong's film and television companies have to look up to Xing Baohua if they want to make money overseas, especially in Europe and America. Whether Xing Baohua wants to promote someone or help with film distribution, he can decide how to allocate resources with just a word.
The two walked down the stairs side by side and arrived at Haina's side.
Andy Lau's appearance was not unexpected. His brother had already called him, and people in the industry who wanted to curry favor with him were definitely trying to find connections.
The only thing that satisfied Xing Baohua was that Master Zhou hadn't sent out the news of his return to Hong Kong.
Otherwise, Xing Baohua would have received many phone calls two days in advance.
After the two sat down in the office, Andy Lau explained his purpose: several film company bosses in the industry had asked him to meet with Xing Baohua.
Mr. Lin of Huanya, Mr. Xiang of Yongsheng, and Master Hong of Baode.
Since these bigwigs had no business dealings with Xing Baohua and had only heard of him but never met him, Hua Zai could only act as a go-between.
Xing Baohua thought for a moment and said to Huazai, "Please tell them for me that I just got back and have a lot of things to take care of. I will personally visit them in a few days."
Andy Lau smiled as always and nodded, replying, "I'll talk to them when I get back. Mr. Xing, I won't bother you any longer, please go ahead with your work."
After seeing Hua Zai off, Xing Baohua looked at the pile of documents and reports in his office, some of which required his signature.
After handling some of the backlog of official business, Xing Baohua went to the software park in the afternoon.
The software park has quite a few projects, not only developing various computer software, but also mobile Java software.
The consequence of forcing growth is that the development progress is very slow, and it also requires hardware support, but unfortunately the hardware is holding us back.
Under the current hardware conditions, the software programs developed are all relatively small, with the largest being only 200kb, which is equivalent to large software.
When Xing Baohua arrived, he called the hardware manager and software manager to his office and gave them instructions on how to activate the smart home network hardware devices.
Calling it "intelligent" is just a gimmick, a way to fool people; it's light-years away from true intelligence.
The name "home networking" is alright; it basically involves developing a central gateway to control devices.
A low-cost device can control all equipment with a remote control, avoiding the need to search for remote controls everywhere, and it can also be used in conjunction with infrared-enabled rice and mobile phones for communication.
Another high-end option is to add voice control.
Actually, voice-activated switches already exist. You can control lights or other devices by clapping your hands or making a "ah" sound.
But what Xing Baohua wanted were a few voice commands: turn on the air conditioner, turn on the TV. These two seemingly simple sentences were actually quite difficult to execute.
Using a CPU to run these short commands would be wasteful. Using a microcontroller IC chip would require redesigning the IC chip itself and also necessitate using other IC chips.
If you want to sell a product series for a long time, you have to do your own research and development; that's how you save money.
Ultimately, we decided to develop it ourselves. Our hardware team was responsible for developing related voice command chips, digital decoding chips, gateway and bridge chips, and so on.
For wireless transmission, Xing Baohua felt it was best to use the 2.4GHz frequency band.
For home use, the distance is not far, and a single signal feeder cable can perfectly solve the problem of a distance of 20-30 meters.
Of course, it also depends on how many walls there are. The most crucial factor is the load-bearing walls. If there are load-bearing walls blocking the way, even 5 meters might be difficult.
If you only use a single channel, it's quite simple. The only downside is that once it's interfered with, you can shout yourself hoarse and it still won't turn on or off.
Therefore, in order to save costs in research and development, Xing Baohua had people shout themselves hoarse to make single-channel signal transmission.
Xing Baohua feels that most households nowadays rarely use wireless.
Only communication devices like mobile phones and pagers are wireless. Most other communication devices are infrared.
However, they are not on the same frequency band, so they are not afraid of interference.
If that doesn't work, spend a few more cents to get a magnetically shielded cable and make an anti-interference source.
Actually, adding a small magnet doesn't cost much.
In terms of software, it's quite simple: digitize the voice commands and use them with a decoder, adding dialects, English, Japanese, and Korean as well.
It will only be turned on or off when a specific word is spoken.
This is different from saying "Ah" to open or "Ah" to close.
If you don't distinguish the sounds, the Japanese nightlife is... ugh! Turning the lights on and off constantly is more surreal than the creaking of a bed.
Xing Baohua goes to great lengths to provide a better customer experience, not to ruin his brand or disgust people.
The hardware needs to be modularized, and the programming needs to be written.
This makes it easier to install on TVs and air conditioners.
As for other appliances, Xing Baohua felt there was no need to install them. He would install them on the washing machine and refrigerator when wireless internet became more widespread.
These electronic devices can be remotely controlled via mobile phone.
Even if we make them now, the phone's hardware won't be able to accommodate these software programs.
There's no need for customers to download software only when they need it, and then clear space to make room for other software when they don't.
It's still necessary to have a light control. You can make a special base for the light, and if you usually prefer to use a panel or pull cord, you can operate it manually.
Those who are too lazy to get out of bed need to use their voice to control themselves.
A perfect smart experience.
At that time, intelligence was still a concept without a framework. Xing Baohua only created the term "intelligence" to grab market attention and make users feel that it was high-end.
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