Xiaomi commenced its annual Mi Developers Conference 2019 on Tuesday in China. During the first day of the conference, the Chinese tech giant reiterated its mobile+A!oT dual-engine strategy which it is operating presently. Xiaomi also unveiled a variety of IoT smart gadgets under the AQara brand.
The main product is the MIJIA Smart Multi-mode gateway which comes with support for three communication protocols, namely; Zigbee, Wi-Fi, as well as BLE & BLE Mesh. The product is priced at $129 (~$18) and will be officially launched on December 12. Also announced is the Aqara smoke alarm NB-IoT version, which is priced at 299 yuan (~$32) and will equally go on sale on December 12.
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In addition, Xiaomi also announced an update to the IoT module family, in which the Xiaomi IoT BLE Mesh module now comes with a reduced price of 6 yuan, the Zigbee 3.0 module’s price is reduced to 10.5 yuan, and the WiFi+ Bluetooth module has a price tag of 9.5 yuan.
According to reports, Xiaomi AIoT has more than 196 million service-connected smart devices, serving 59.99 million homes, and intelligently executing commands 108 million times a day. The service is available globally and in a short while will be expanded further with the launch of the AQara brand in the US.
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