Works with Apple Homekit Apple homekit technology provides an easy, secure way to control homekit-enabled accessories Siri Compatibility for Voice Control Conveniently switch your lights on and off using Siri or with a quick tap on your iPhone. Assign a name to each Smart Switch and communicate each Switch by name when making a voice command. Monitor Power Consumption Check whether your Koogeek Smart Light Switch is connected properly with a standard light. Monitor its current power and state via the free Koogeek Home app. Remote Control You can set up your Apple TV (4th generation or later with tvOS 10 or later) or iPad (running iOS 10 or later) as a home hub and control Koogeek Smart Light Switch even when you’re away from home. Create Scenes to Control Multiple Accessories Create individualized scenes and control multiple lights simultaneously with a single Siri voice command or a quick tap on your iPhone. 2-gang Design The 2-gang design enables you to control and monitor two connected lights simultaneously with one smart switch. Wide Compatibility Compatible with all single pole light switches. Not intended for use in 3-way light switches, which are controlled by more than one switch. Note 1. Koogeek Smart Switch replaces single pole switches only. Not compatible with 3-way switches, which could be controlled from multiple locations. 2. Neutral wire is required. 3. Metal faceplates are not recommended. Otherwise, it may cause harmful interference to Wi-Fi performance. System Requirements HomeKit requires an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Apple Watch with iOS 8.1 or later

HANGZHOU, China, Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Artificial intelligence, or AI, will be a game changer for our planet, leading to transformational changes in lifestyle for every human being regardless the walk of life. A growing number of firms have initiated efforts in AI development. A white paper entitled China's innovative applications of artificial intelligence, jointly issued by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence and Munich, Germany-based global strategy consulting firm Roland Berger, foresees the global AI market growing from USD126 billion in 2016 to over USD3 trillion in 2025, with an annual compound growth rate of more than 43 per cent on average. Tuya Smart is a China-based IoT firm with international reach. Its founder and CEO, Jerry Wang, and members of the founding team were previously star managers and developers at leading internet firms as well as at forward-looking manufacturers, among them, Alibaba, Huawei and Haier. Wang left his position as general manager at Aliyun in 2014 and founded Tuya Smart, a software service firm that helps manufacturers intelligentize hardware products in the quickest way possible, with a focus on services for product manufacturers. Tuya Smart's connected modules, cloud and app-based one-stop smart services are interconnected across the IoT ecosystem. The focus is on enhancing the efficiency of the AI process and on helping manufacturers heighten awareness of their brand The entire smart home industry has found it difficult to take off due to the lack of a unified application platform, as the multiplicity of interfaces and control devices result in low compatibility. Owing to the challenges, smart home makers end up releasing expensive products, hobbled by high deployment and service costs. Tuya Smart, a China-based IoT platform, empowers manufacturers with AI and IoT functionalities, enabling them to provide consumers with smart devices affordably and with a short time-to-market. Typically, firms keen to convert to AI turn to a third-party team for help. An investment that can easily run a million yuan in research and development can still require at least 12 months before a working prototype is produced. However, Tuya Smart's one-stop platform allows manufacturers to start mass production in just 15 days, and to be able to do so at low cost. Its zero-code OEM automated app generation engine service enables firms to design and develop their own distinctive app within a few minutes by choosing from a variety of modules and then branding them with their own logos. In the three years since coming into existence. Tuya Smart has already partnered with upwards of 10,000 firms including Geeni, Merkury and Philips, helping them to create eye-catching products such as the Magic Leap head-mounted virtual retinal display. Tuya IoT Platform provides companies with Intelligent solutions, help manufacturers connect with several mainstream digital assistants ( such as Alexa、Google Home)。Besides，Tuya has Abundant supply chain resources to help manufacturers build upstream and downstream industrial ecosystem. Many products powered by Tuya platform have entered the international market. Helping American retailers establish an AI inventory and integrate their online and offline sales channels Tuya Smart is most optimistic about the US market, as American consumers are notably receptive to AI-driven products and keen to try whatever is new in the marketplace in addition to having strong purchasing power. As a result, AI products are expected to experience explosive growth in sales in the US. The current retail environment has changed significantly. Consumers want a multi-channel retail environment capable of integrating new technologies, new devices and social media. What should today's retail channels provide to consumers? Over the next few months, which products are expected to perform best when sold via offline channels? How can firms efficiently manage sales in the new environment? Wang, Tuya Smart CEO, said: "Despite huge changes posed on the retail environment by online shopping, we expect impulse buying to become even more prevalent while offline channels will be converted into experience centers. Management of customer databases will become more efficient as a result of the continued proliferation of smart devices and expansion of social media." With years of experience in AI and in the supply chains that serve the entire IoT industry, Tuya Smart has helped retailers such as Walmart, Home Depot and Costco build an AI inventory, allowing them to better manage offline supply chains, attract customers with an increasingly diversified product mix in tandem with high-quality services, improve profitability and establish good relationship with customers. With proper systems and processes in place, retailers can add new channels flexibly based on existing systems while guaranteeing the success and profitability of new channels. Tuya Smart aims to help retailers worldwide improve the management and the elasticity of the supply chain. Tuya Smart's tie-ups with manufacturers that has resulted in the output of smart products with production runs yielding millions of units monthly demonstrated the degree to which the software services provider has developed into a fully mature operation As of the end of 2017, Tuya Smart had supplied AI services covering a wide spectrum of home appliances to over 10,000 customers in 200 countries and regions across six continents. The gross merchandise volumes that Tuya Smart has been responsible for are a testament to the firm's achievements. Sales of Amazon Echo exceeded 10 million units in 2017, with some 800,000 units being shipped monthly. Monthly sales of the iPhone reached 15 million units. Wang explained that Tuya Smart helps brands and the manufacturing operations that support them produce millions of units of smart products monthly and the figure continues to rise at a rapid rate. Geeni and Energize, two brands that are quite popular with American consumers, and Chinese brands, among them, Changhong, TCL and Delixi, are all partners of Tuya IoT platform. Wang concluded by saying, Tuya Smart has entered a period characterized by fast growth, during which it aims to empower more people and facilitate the further development of IoT and AI.

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuya Smart (Tuya), a China-based global IoT platform provider for enterprise businesses, today at the Consumer Electronics Show 2018 in Las Vegas announced the launch of the U.S. version of its platform, a turnkey solution that helps U.S. manufacturers transform standard products into IoT products within days and upgrade traditional supply chains with artificial intelligence capabilities. The Tuya platform offers hardware access, cloud services and app development in an end-to-end process that, at its fastest, can create controlling apps within ten minutes, transform a standard product into a smart one within a day, and launch mass production within two weeks. The platform is further supported by big data capabilities that enable geolocation and environment-sensing features. All of these help manufacturers reduce their R&D cost and time to market, while gaining user behavior insights. All this improves the bottom line. Building on Tuya's established position in China, the launch of its U.S. solution points to its ongoing efforts to export its capabilities to global manufacturers amid a strong growth in IoT uptake in the U.S. and worldwide. According to IDC, global spending on IoT is set to reach USD772.5 billion in 2018, up 15% from 2017, while the United States will account for USD194 billion. Currently, Tuya's partners include Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple Homekit, and Tmall Genie, and many others, making it the world's only platform that connects these gadgets on a global scale. "From homes and schools, to offices and factories, smart living will become a norm in the highly connected IoT world of the future. Tuya hopes to be the 'gateway' to this smart world, serving as the AI and IoT catalyst for manufacturers and helping them to bring smart devices to consumers faster and more efficiently," said Jerry Wang, Founder and CEO of Tuya. "We see tremendous business potential in the connected lifestyle, where data understands everyone's needs, preference, and habits." "The U.S. market is of significant importance to us with the popularity of the likes of Amazon Echo and Google Homekit," said Alex Yang, Tuya's Co-Founder and COO in charge of the company's overseas expansion. "Both Amazon and Google are already our partners and we hope to bring our capabilities to more U.S. manufacturers via the launch of our U.S. platform at CES. This is part of our on-going commitment to the market." Both Mr. Wang and Mr. Yang are among the several founding members of Tuya who worked for Alibaba previously and held key roles in the development of Alibaba Cloud, as well as O2O and QR code projects, all of which have evolved into the disruptive mobile payment technology that we now see in Alipay. Since its establishment in Hangzhou, China in 2014, Tuya has served more than 10,000 customers, including Energizer, TCL, Vivitar, Geeni and many others, in nearly 200 countries/regions including China, U.S., Europe, Middle East, as well as Southeast Asian countries, and empowered products ranging from power accessories, lighting, and household appliances, to kitchen appliances, environmental and health, and surveillance equipment. The company now processes on average more than 20 billion device requests and six million AI interactions daily. The amount of data that it has accumulated through these interactions has reached 1PB (petabyte) - equivalent to more than 58,000 movies. In October 2017, Tuya announced it had raised tens of millions of dollars in USD Series B funding from lead investors including China International Capital, Oriental Fortune Capital, New Enterprise Associates and Quadrille Capital, representing renewed interest in the investment on emerging Chinese technology companies as the country aims to become a technology powerhouse for quality growth. Headquartered in Hangzhou, Tuya has offices in Shenzhen and the Silicon Valley. It has data centers in Portland (Oregon, US), Frankfurt (Germany) and Hangzhou (China). After the U.S. launch, the company will look to Europe and Japan for future rounds of expansion. To visit Tuya at CES, go to booth #35624, LVCC South Hall 4. About Tuya Tuya Smart (Tuya) is a China-based global IoT platform provider for enterprise businesses. It provides manufacturers with both AI and IoT capabilities that enable them to bring smart devices to consumers in a faster, more affordable way. The platform offers hardware access, cloud services and app development in an end-to-end process that, at its fastest, can create controlling apps within ten minutes, transform a standard product into a smart one within a day, and launch mass production within two weeks. It is further supported by big data capabilities that enable geolocation and environment-sensing features. Tuya IoT Plat form provides companies with Intelligent solutions, help manufacturers connect with several mainstream digital assistants ( such as Alexa、Google Home). Besides，Tuya has Abundant supply chain resources to help manufacturers build upstream and downstream industrial ecosystem. Many products powered by Tuya platform have entered the international market. The company serves more than 10,000 customers, including Energizer, TCL, Vivitar and Geeni and numerous others, connecting devices in nearly 200 countries/regions, including China, United States, Europe, Middle East, as well as Southeast Asia countries, and supporting products ranging from power accessories, lighting, and household appliances, to kitchen appliances, environmental & health, and surveillance equipment. Tuya was established in Hangzhou, China, in 2014. Headquartered in Hangzhou, it now has offices in Shenzhen and Silicon Valley. (Original link: https://en.tuya.com/news-details/000000001c )

HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- As a strategic partner of Amazon and the world's first platform that is compatible with Amazon's Alexa, Tuya Smart announce today the launch of its new "Echo Show accessible" smart camera platform, the world's first platform that is accessible to Amazon's Echo Show. Following Amazon's release of the Echo Show and its access function to smart cameras, Tuya Smart's camera team has taken large strides in the development of this new security solution, allowing camera manufacturers with low R&D abilities an easy access to Echo Show. After Siri has introduced the smart voice assistant, Amazon has been attempting to expand this concept into our homes through Echo. With Echo, people can control smart devices, play music and shop online via voice, an idea also pursued by Google and Apple. This June, Amazon has introduced a new product named Echo Show. It is equipped with a 7-inch screen, designed around Amazon's voice assistant Alexa, and aims to enhance the perception and visual performance while strengthening the Echo device's communication ability with other devices. Between physical control and smart phone "app" control, people are increasingly preferring to control their smart devices with voice and visual interaction, therefore making this newly released product popular in North America and Europe. Many Echo customers have remained loyal and bought the new Echo Show after experiencing the smart voice control with Alexa. European and American markets contain a greater number of "smart homes", in effect, causing greater demands and expectations for visual interaction products. Echo Show has video camera access capabilities, and the video cameras compatible with this function are twice as expensive as normal smart cameras. Users can integrate video cameras around their house to the Amazon Echo Show. For example, by simply saying "Alexa, show me the front door", or "Alexa, show me the baby room", the user can see the live images captured by cameras through Echo Show. Seizing the Potential in Smart Camera Market Currently, there are only a few video camera models which are compatible with Echo Show globally. A normal smart camera is priced at about 60 dollars, but with the function of access to Echo Show, most of these cameras are over 200 dollars. However still, customers are not detracted by the price tag and still willing to pay for such products. Seeing the potential in this market, camera manufacturers all over the world are diving into the research and development of this field. The access to Echo Show requires excellent hardware performance, a mature cloud service system and vast experience in Alexa development. Unfortunately, there are only a few products that have met such requirements and this field is still relatively undeveloped in China. With access to Tuya Smart's platform, camera products can also gain access to Echo Show within a few days, which will greatly strengthen their competitiveness in overseas markets. This is particularly helpful to the camera manufacturers with low R&D abilities. Firstly, the Tuya platform is charged in a one-time, lifelong, platform-based and transparent manner, therefore the manufacturers need not invest ten to one hundred times the funds originally required on technology development. Secondly, manufacturers can quickly release the finished smart cameras with access to Echo Show and greatly shorten the development period. With low investment costs, short R&D cycle and excellent compatibility, smart cameras with access to Tuya Smart Platform will become highly competitive products. Different development solutions can meet the requirements of different manufacturers. Tuya Smart supports a variety of products: normal cameras; PTZ cameras; visual doorbells; low-power camera; baby monitors; and offers complete cloud solutions. Basic cloud services: a solution for the complete P2P services (including P2P forwarding) and improved user account system, OTA upgrade hosting, and visual management of operating background systems. Alibaba Cloud + Amazon-based video cloud storage service: a solution with military-grade security encryption technology, to effectively ensure data security and make life easier for enterprises and consumers. Tuya Smart will continue expanding cloud third-party services, Echo Show, Google Home, IFTTT, and other integrated services, making IPC more scalable. About Tuya Smart Tuya Smart is a world-wide smart platform that enables products smarter for consumers, brands, OEM manufacturers and retail chains. It provides users with a one-stop AI IoT solution that covers hardware access, cloud services and App software development, forming a service closed-loop of AI + manufacturing. Up to early November of 2017, Tuya Smart products have covered 200 countries and regions including China, the United States, Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia, serving over 10,000 clients across the globe and reaching millions of consumers. Tuya Smart receives daily Device Requests of over 20 billion times, daily AI interactions over 5 million times and its accumulated data has reached 1PB. (Original link: https://en.tuya.com/news-details/000000001s )

Tuya Smart was the sole IoT solutions provider and smart platform creator invited by the organizer of the World Internet Conference (WIC) and China Central Television (CCTV) to provide insights into the two topics that were the themes of the event: artificial intelligence (AI) and globalized intelligent manufacturing. On December 4, Tuya Smart COO and Tuya Smart USA president Yang Yi, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tencent CEO Ma Huateng, Netease.com CEO Ding Lei, Sohu CEO Charles Zhang and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, among other top-level executives from some of the world’s leading internet firms, attended the event. Global smart platform Tuya Smart, recognized for its outstanding contribution to the intelligent manufacturing and AI sectors, was invited to give a speech themed “New Intelligent Businesses in the New Era” at the AI-focused session. Mr. Yang said during his speech that the innovation in technology is the key to the transformation from “Made in China” to “From Smart China” and cited as illustrations Aliyun’s breakthroughs in terms of internet data centers and how QR turned traditional payment services on their heads. Products incorporating China-originated intelligent manufacturing strategies are now available the world over. However, a technology platform cannot be considered as one that has succeeded unless there is complete and total ease of use, or, to put it another way, not even an iota of a barrier between the platform and the user. Tuya Smart aims to build a smart platform that meets this objective in all respects and engage every company across the manufacturing spectrum in intelligent manufacturing. Since identifying the synergies between intelligent manufacturing and new retail at the IoT Intelligentize Conference that Tuya Smart itself hosted on October 26, besides the WIC, the smart platform creator has received invitations from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), as well as many of the top players in Silicon Valley, in addition to other leading organizations within China and around the world. Before delivering the AI-focused keynote speech, Mr. Yang had received an invitation from CCTV to give a 30-minute live presentation in English about the event. As part of the live interview, Mr. Yang shared with the CCTV and British journalists in attendance his views on the ongoing transformation of the meaning of “Made in China” as well as the status of and trends influencing AI. When asked by the host about the future of the manufacturing industry and AI, Mr. Yang said, “At every one of the sessions of this important international conference, the WIC, the topic kept returning to the all important themes of the “digital economy” and “open and sharing”, which facilitated the fusion of internet, big data and AI, as well as how this fusion helped the digital economy grow rapidly. I believe that in China, today and as we look into the future, the continued development of the manufacturing sector has become and will continue to be the cornerstones of the internet, IoT, AI and big data, while, in turn, these new technologies will be the engine that drives the next surge of growth across the sector. Over the last two years, China’s manufacturing sector has been moving quickly towards intelligent manufacturing. Leading home appliance makers, including Changhong, Haier, TCL and Midea, have already built out their smart product lines. In addition, a wide spectrum of traditional manufacturers are embarking on their transformation to intelligent manufacturing in response to the government’s supply-side reform. AI is undoubtedly one of the new drivers behind the development of the manufacturing sector. According to data provided by research organizations working closely with Tuya Smart, the smart platform creator has helped several major brands successfully transition into an intelligent hardware environment, with one percent of their growth in sales of the relevant product lines directly attributable to the effort. Some medium-sized companies that Tuya Smart worked with experienced sales growth exceeding 50 percent. Consequently, it has become apparent that AI has become the key to the transformation of traditional manufacturing. At the same time, in terms of the country’s transition to intelligent manufacturing, what started out as a rocky road has, over the last two years, gradually become much more smooth going. When the first steps of the transformation were initiated, leading manufacturers from every sector were eager to invest in intelligent manufacturing, however, consumers were still highly skeptical of the new intelligent products and expressed reluctance in getting on board. In addition, the challenges facing adoption included disunity in terms of setting standards, immaturity of the industry chain, instability of the overall system and a high threshold for entry. The reasons behind the challenges, I think, include, first of all, the technology barrier and a lack of cooperation among manufacturers, which resulted in the consumers quickly becoming frustrated when faced with the difficulty of managing the various interfaces and control devices in anything that resembled a unified way. Secondly, an industry is not likely to move up to the next level if it grows independently of the support that it needs from external resources. The establishment of an ecosystem is necessary in providing consumers with a better smart home experience, regardless of whether the provider is a major player or a small start up. This can be seen, for example, in Xiaomi’s stores, each one of which it manages directly, demonstrating the ecosystem’s capability in injecting new momentum into the industry. In my opinion, every player across each industry needs to agree on and roll out fully integrated communications protocols. In addition to enhancements to product safety, cloud computing and big data will help companies build their own ecosystems and provide consumers with new experiences in every corner of their intelligent home. Concurrent with China’s transition into intelligent manufacturing, AI technology has been staking out its own sizeable claim over the last few years. For example, even as Amazon Echo and Google Home have attracted wide attention, more than one million units of Tmall Genie, an AI-based intelligent voice terminal developed by Alibaba AI Labs, have been shipped. According to data from the AI industry whitepaper published by International Data Corporation (IDC), a leading global provider of market intelligence, expenditures on AI technology worldwide are expected to reach 275.8 billion yuan (approx. US$41.7 billion) by 2020, with China representing 12 percent or 32.5 billion yuan (approx. US$4.9 billion) of the total, demonstrating China’s leadership position. We can see huge potential in the field as the Chinese government continues to support AI projects initiated by the country’s three internet leaders, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. In addition to the smart home, finance, translation and speech, AI technology will be applied in the healthcare, security, logistics and mobility markets. However, limitations remain in terms of what the algorithm technology can deliver and we need to address them, including further developing the algorithms’ inferential capability in accurately deducing the meaning of speech and in addressing the pathology underlying cancer and other diseases. As we look further into the future, it will behoove us to face and resolve legal and ethical issues that will arise as a result of the widespread adoption of the technology. I am familiar with intelligent manufacturing in China and AI topics as Tuya Smart emerged virtually out of nowhere and has since been playing a key role in helping products made in China improve their capabilities in terms of IoT and AI while, at the same time, becoming increasingly globalized. Although the firm is yet small, Tuya Smart has now become the world’s largest intelligent platform. Our dedicated team of over 160 are helping customers expand into overseas markets, including Changhong, Seashell, Delixi, Xenon, Eboy, iO.e Light and Beca, to name a handful of the leading companies that work with us. As our business continues to grow, we will undertake a strategic upgrade this year. We are helping customers improve their performance in terms of marketing, management and capital by moving the marketing and the operation of their businesses to the platform. As a consequence, we are heading to Silicon Valley and CES in Las Vegas, the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show, along with our customers and partners. We provide services to over 2,000 customers across 200 countries and regions, with customer concentrations in Japan, Southeast Asia, the USA and Europe, helping them to improve their product offerings. We handle over 20 billion device requests with over 5 million AI interactions daily, generating up to one petabyte (PB) of data every day. We will continue to expand our customer base beyond the current 2,000 companies as we are a technology-driven platform. In the future, we expect to serve multiple thousands of firms. Although the huge market we intend to build is a major challenge, Tuya Smart, a startup company, is honored to be a part of China’s intelligent manufacturing strategy.” (Original link: https://en.tuya.com/news-details/000000001v )

SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuya Smart led the Global Intelligient Conference & 2017 Tuya Smart Service & Platform Strategic Upgrading in Shenzhen. The conference, also named "IOT without borders" invited thousands of global brands and partners as well as relevant associations and governments, discussing topics like AI, Big Data and cloud computing. Tuya Smart was established in 2014, the founding team came from AliCloud. It has become a global IoT platform that provides Wi-Fi module, Cloud Service and App Development. The manufacturers are only required to put the Wi-Fi module into their hardware products. At present, Tuya Smart has accumulated services of more than 2,000 manufacturing enterprises, helping the manufacturing industry move forward through six continents and 165 countries. The cloud platform has over 300 million daily interactions. Moreover, Tuya Smart has created over 10 billion GMVs for customers as we have helped traditional manufactures step into a new retail. Tuya Smart issued the following programs at this conference: Smart Business Free Program Tuya Smart opens its API/SDK and standard APP free of charge to the public, targeting to help 100,000 manufacturing enterprises to achieve product intelligence. AI PLUS Generate more AI solutions with Tuya Smart's AI platform Global IoT OmniChannel Open up the channel between first-rate international brands and e-commerce by major platforms, both at home and abroad Smart Business Academy Associate with Hangzhou Dianzi University, training 10,000+ technical talents and senior managers for IOT industry, issuing white paper, trend analysis and management consulting reports regularly. AI Capital Alliance Connect capital for the smart manufacturing industry (Original link: https://en.tuya.com/news-details/000000001u)