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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 )