Joining forces with one of China’s leading smart home industry organisations, the China Smart Home Industry Alliance (CSHIA), Shanghai Smart Home Technology (SSHT) will return to the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from 31 August – 2 September 2016. This year’s edition will once again run concurrently with Shanghai Intelligent Building Technology (SIBT). The two shows are expected to attract240companies to exhibit throughout an increased exhibition space of 16,000 sqm.

Ms Lucia Wong, Deputy General Manager of Messe Frankfurt (Shanghai) Co Ltd, outlined the significance of the exhibition.“Positioned as China‘s premier platform for smart home technology, the fair focuses on technical integration and cross-sectorcooperation for the smart home industry. SSHT also aims to encourage industry players to develop innovative and practical smart home solutions to serve growingdemandforsmart living products. In addition, traditional companies specialising in home appliances, lighting, security, sun shading and electrical engineering are incorporating smart home strategies into their core businesses. The show will help to further promote integration of these traditional firms with innovative Internet and smart home companies to generate a comprehensive display of solutions covering the entire smart home ecosystem," explained Ms Wong.

 In regards to the development trends of China’s smart home industry, Mr Steven Zhou, Secretary General of CSHIA, commented: "Key trends for the smart home industry in 2016 include integration and business restructuring. The integration aspect involves realisation of the much-discussed ‘Internet of Everything (IoE)’ era where Internet companies, smart home appliance manufacturers, cloud platform enterprises and system integrators will work together as one. Such cooperation is not merely defined as technological integration but rather as complete integration and connection oftechnology, product and market elements inthe smart home ecosystem. As for business restructuring, it is accelerated by China‘s national policies thatemphasise concepts such as ‘Internet Plus’ and ‘Industry 4.0’. I forecast that there will be a greater number of defined specialisations emerging from the smart home industry,while more small and medium-sized companies pop up. As such, more business opportunities will be created in the industry over the next 10 years."

Exhibitors to unveil total smart home innovations important to future industry development

SSHT successfully gathers well-known industry enterprises and the 2016 edition is set to bring in Midea, Honyar, Control 4, UIOT, SIIC-LongChuang, KNX, EnOcean, Z-Wave, ZigBee, Appollo, WRT, CRODIGY, DigBird, HDL, Hi-Champ, Sauter, Lierda, Miotlink, Konke, World-Linking, ALCATEL, Dr PENG, CnWise, Andson, ATTE, Cinemaster, TRI-SUN, Xinghuoyuan, LifeSmart, KEF China, TC Smart System, AbleCloud, L Best, POLYHOME, Shuncom, REXENSE and many others. 

Regarding the development of smart home technologies, Ms Wong stated: "Smart home technology is not a single application but a combination of the application of Internet, communication and automation control technologies. SSHT will continue to deepen its technological offerings by inviting industry experts to share ground-breaking ideas and insights. Furthermore, CSHIA, a show co-organiser and leading industry organisation, has strong interests and a deep understanding of the industry‘s development. By joining forces with the alliance, we will work together to create a forward-looking smart home technology platform and promote smart living."

 SSHT is jointly organised by Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co Ltd, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade – Shanghai Pudong Sub-Council, Shanghai Hongshan Exhibition Service Co Ltd and the China Smart Home Industry Alliance (CSHIA). SSHT and SIBT are both headed by the biennial Light + Building event which will take place from 18 – 23 March 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany.

 In addition to the above exhibitions, Messe Frankfurt's series of building technology and lighting exhibitions in China also include the

Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition and Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology. The company's series of building technology and lighting exhibitions also covers markets in Argentina, India, Russia, the UAE and other countries and regions.

For more information on Light + Building shows worldwide, please visit www.light-building.com/brand. To learn more about SSHT, please visit www.building.messefrankfurt.com.cn or email building@china.messefrankfurt.com.