It was reported on March 10 that it was established in 2017, shipped more than 5 million units in 2020, and currently sells its products to more than 100 countries and regions around the world. Meari Technology(CloudEdge) is a Hangzhou-based company that specializes in IoT video smart terminals and smart home solutions. , it only took 5 years to successfully realize the global business layout.
According to the company’s information, Meari Technology focuses on audio and video products in the smart home field, integrating R&D, supply chain, and sales, and focuses on providing customers with one-stop audio and video solutions. Its smart home products cover many categories.
In fact, Meari Technology has fully used Amazon cloud technology services to accelerate global business expansion. Recently, Jin Wei, CTO of Meari Technology, Zhu Youzhi, Cloud Business Director of Meari Technology, and Wang Xiaoye, Senior Manager of Data Products of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China Product Department, shared Meari Technology’s thinking and practice in global business expansion.
As a technology company that integrates the distinctive features of “intelligence + hardware + globalization”, Meari Technology’s history of being based in Hangzhou and going global is undoubtedly a great reference for other entrepreneurial technology companies that go overseas.
The globalization of smart home products and services faces multiple technical challenges
According to Jin Wei, Chief Technology Officer of Meari Technology, Meari Technology provides high-quality IoT video smart terminals and smart home solutions. Since its establishment in 2017, it has developed rapidly and has rapidly deployed in global regions such as Europe, America, Australia, Japan, South Korea, South America and Southeast Asia. . In the process of going to sea, it did encounter a series of technical challenges.
Jin Wei, Chief Technology Officer of Meari Technology
These challenges mainly include four aspects: the stability of the international link will directly affect the success rate and delay of image transmission of Meari Technology’s smart cameras and other products, thereby affecting the user experience; the global deployment of Meari Technology’s business is faced with global multi-data Collaboration, operation and maintenance challenges brought by the center; at the same time, the increasingly huge data generated by smart home terminal devices all over the world put forward higher requirements for storage security, compliance and stability; as a smart home product, it covers more , The intelligent demand of a wider range of scenarios also prompts Meari Technology to continuously and rapidly innovate more artificial intelligence products that meet the needs of users.
Through the cooperation with Amazon Cloud Technology, Meari Technology has found effective methods and solutions to deal with the above challenges.
Zhu Youzhi, Cloud Business Director of Meari Technology, introduced that in terms of improving the stability of international links, Meari Technology will migrate its original infrastructure and cloud services to Amazon Cloud Technology starting in 2020. P2P (point-to-point) forwarding servers are set up on the cloud in many Amazon cloud technology geographic regions such as Italy, Singapore, etc., so that the P2P transmission delay of terminal devices is within 600 milliseconds, and the connection success rate is increased from 95% to more than 99%. The speed of an image preview is within 1 second, which greatly ensures the connection stability of the device and brings an excellent user experience.
In terms of business globalization deployment, based on the cloud infrastructure of Amazon Cloud Technology, Meari Technology adopts microservice and containerized deployment, and uses Amazon Cloud Technology’s ECR (Elastic Container Register) solution, which greatly improves the operation and maintenance efficiency and reduces the cost of operation and maintenance. Operation and maintenance costs. Zhu Youzhi introduced: “At present, the deployment of a single service can be completed in one minute.”
In terms of data security, compliance and stability, Meari Technology’s various audio and video data are encrypted and stored on the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) object storage service. Zhu Youzhi said that since the use of Amazon S3, there has never been any data loss, which highly guarantees the security and privacy of users. Meari Technology migrated audio and video index information from self-built MongoDB to Amazon DocumentDB, a fast, scalable, highly available and fully managed document database service, increasing data stability from 95% to 99.99%.
Through the cooperation with Amazon Cloud Technology on a number of products and services, the more stable and efficient user experience of Meari Technology’s smart home products has been basically consolidated.
Smart home artificial intelligence still has great potential
On the basis of “stable”, Meari Technology also hopes to provide customers with “smarter” video and smart home solutions. Jin Wei introduced that Meari Technology’s smart home products have been widely used in humanoid detection, pet detection, crying in baby care scenes, image detection, and parcel detection by couriers.
Jin Wei also emphasized that when facing more scenarios, since the current AI model is not a general AI model, it needs to be supported by corresponding algorithms adapted to different scenarios. The more scenarios, the more algorithm requirements. In the face of new smart home application scenarios, technicians are required to continuously develop algorithms and train models, which require high time and labor costs.
It just so happens that Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning platform that simplifies the complexity, allowing developers and data scientists to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models. For example, the data labeling used by Meari Technology is realized by the two sub-functions of Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Ground Truth plus.
So Meari Technology simplifies the entire machine learning process based on Amazon SageMaker, fast training and iteration of its AI intelligent analysis algorithm for different hardware and usage scenarios.
“We will use Amazon SageMaker to train these models better, and Amazon SageMaker has some features and functions that it provides, which we can use to make our models more competitive.” Jin Wei said.
Zhu Youzhi, Cloud Business Director of Meari Technology
Meanwhile, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), as a highly elastically scalable, secure and highly available cloud server, provides a variety of optimized instance types suitable for machine learning and GPUs for compute-intensive deep learning, enabling IoT and AI The rapid processing of massive fusion data and model optimization help Meari Technology to launch smart home solutions faster.
In the field of artificial intelligence, Zhu Youzhi believes that there is still a lot of room for cooperation between Meari Technology and Amazon Cloud Technology. He revealed: “In the future, in the field of artificial intelligence, we will do all kinds of protective equipment testing. Its scene is to monitor whether workers wear helmets on construction sites, and in the global epidemic environment, to detect whether people wear masks in public places. We will try and explore based on Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Panorama. In addition, Meari Technology serves more than 100 countries around the world, and the customer service system involves multiple languages. In the future, we will try to do voice on Amazon Polly and Amazon Transcribe.”
Wang Xiaoye, Senior Manager of Data Products, Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China Product Department
Talking about the cooperation between Meari Technology and Amazon Cloud Technology, Wang Xiaoye, senior manager of data products of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China Product Department, said that the industry represented by smart home has rapidly evolved from hardware-led to after-sales after hardware. Service-led form. The core competitiveness of Chinese enterprises going overseas has also evolved from low labor costs, manufacturing, and high-quality products as the core competitiveness of Made in China, to intelligent integration scenarios as the core competitiveness.
“Amazon Cloud Technology’s industry-leading artificial intelligence and machine learning services and data analysis services will continue to empower smart home solution providers such as Meari Technology to innovate smart products, provide customers with more stable services and improve customer experience.” Wang Xiaoye emphasized .