On April 15, Midea officially released their new product - the 
second-generation Midea low-carb rice cooker. This is the combination of 
Jimei's low-carb technology and IoT technology. It is the only "low-carb rice 
cooker" authorized by the CHEARI (Beijing) Certification & Testing Co., Ltd. 
Apart from 54 leading international patented technologies, this product also 
has the unique rice holder technology. Through low-carb processes, such as 
scouring and boiling the rice as the tide, and scouring the sugar of rice 
within water using unique rice holder with hundreds of holes, it can reduce the 
reducing sugar of rice by up to 50% and increase resistant starch by about 23%, 
which always meets the high-end needs of users for health and wellness. 

IoT is deeply integrated into people's various life scenarios at an unstoppable 
pace, becoming the focus of world attention. Midea International Group is 
taking IoT + OTA upgrade technology as the core, accelerates product 
innovation, turns IoT from vision to reality, and lets the world enjoy the 
smart home era. At present, Midea, owning Midea low-carb rice cooker, Xiaomei 
smart speaker and other smart home appliances, based on IoT, big data, AI and 
other technologies, will continue to provide users with four smart scenario 
services of safety, health, convenience, and pleasure.

In fact, as early as 2014, Midea established the Smart Home Research Institute 
to fully implement the strategy of "dual intelligence", build an open, secure, 
and interconnected AIoT ecosystem by cooperating with upstream and downstream 
partners in the industrial chain based on IoT, create the largest AIoT open 
platform in the smart homes, achieve cross-brand and cross-category terminal 
interconnection. In this way, more intelligent hardware and application 
services can be seamlessly connected, thereby building a more complete and open 
IoT ecosystem.

Thanks to IoT technology, Midea's high-end product line COLMO series rice 
cookers have achieved smart identification of common rice varieties on the 
market, adjusting different heating curves to the rice types and completing 
rice recognition, measuring, washing, soaking, water adding and cooking and 
other operations with one click. At the same time, the smart rice cookers 
manufactured by Midea currently can support online "software cloud upgrades", 
enabling ordinary smart rice cookers already purchased to be upgraded to 
low-carb rice cookers. Resources can be shared through the interconnection of 
Midea's IoT big data platform and other smart devices. Take blood glucose 
monitoring as an example. Midea teamed up with D-nurse, the professional blood 
glucose meter company, to monitor blood glucose data in real time and 
intelligently recommend healthy recipes according to the changes in the user's 
blood sugar. Besides, in order to improve the taste of rice, the company also 
increased the rice cooking curve from more than 10,000 to more than 20,000, 
achieving breakthrough experience of hardware + software + contents. 

To further enrich the IoT ecosystem and satisfy people's imagination of smart 
life, Midea's IoT platform has gathered more than 100 heavyweight partner 
companies, with its ecosystem covering many fields such as AI technology, IoT 
security, smart hardware, content resources, and Internet services. The company 
will provide users with improved product experience, build rich family life 
scenarios, provide malleable services, and work together to promote the 
evolution of the AIoT ecosystem by complementing with its partners and 
implementing the connection of the full value chain.

Source: Midea