Ayla Networks Establishes Comprehensive and Strategic IoT Relationship With Chinese Appliance Manufacturing Giant Midea Group
Midea will leverage Ayla’s IoT technology and global market leadership to develop
connected HVAC products and expand its
reach to new geographic markets
August 3, 2016
Midea Group, a $21 billion manufacturer of consumer
appliances and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, has
selected the Ayla Networks Internet of Things (IoT) platform as its preferred overseas IoT cloud partner for all its connected HVAC
products. One of China’s largest manufacturers and the #1 manufacturer in numerous
market categories, Midea joins other Chinese top 10 HVAC manufacturers Hisense, TCL and
Changhong in using Ayla IoT technology and services for their connected
products.
“The Ayla IoT platform now powers four of the top 10 HVAC manufacturers
in China, which is powerful testimony to Ayla’s IoT leadership and market
position,” said David Friedman, CEO and co-founder of Ayla Networks. “Midea is
an enormously successful and future-thinking enterprise, and we look forward to
helping them become a dominant player in the global smart home market.”
“Midea Group laid out its concept for the smart home a long
time ago and has established Midea Smart Home Technology Co., Ltd., to focus on
the development of that business,” said Li Qiang, general manager of Midea
Smart Technology. “This cooperation with Ayla is a major step in the
international expansion of Midea Group’s smart home business. As Midea’s
third-party cloud platform partner for overseas markets, Ayla will join with
Midea to create a globalized structure of intelligent services for smart
homes.”
Midea Group’s relationship with Ayla Networks is through its
Midea Smart Technology business unit. Established in 2014 under the name of
Midea Smart Living Lab, Midea Smart Technology is working to integrate all
Midea technologies and products lines to become a total solution provider for
the smart home industry.
Midea Smart Technology’s M-Smart System supports diversified
smart product inside the nearly 50-year-old Midea Group. In addition, Midea
Smart Technology is building an M-Smart ecosystem that will provide smart
products and solutions to a wide range of business-to-business (B2B) and
business-to-consumer (B2C) enterprises. Already, Midea Smart Technology’s
ecosystem includes Ali Cloud, Amazon, Huawei, IBM, LeTV, TCL, Tencent and
Xiaomi.
About Ayla Networks
Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla’s IoT platform provides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla Networks was named a 2015 Cool Vendor in the Internet of Things by Gartner, Inc. Ayla’s investors include Cisco, the International Finance Corporation, SAIF Partners, Crosslink Capital, Voyager Capital, Linear Venture and SJF Ventures. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com.
