If you are building an affordable smart home, standards such as Zigbee or Tuya, which cover various cheap gadgets. In today's article, we will take a closer look at the functioning of these services, as well as compatibility with individual products.
The Tuya mobile application as the central hub of your smart home
Tuya Smart is a global intelligent platform, that is, a platform for developers "AI + IoT" solutions and the world's leading interactive voice AI platform that connects consumers, brands, OEMs and retail chains to meet demands for intelligent product features.
Platform Tuya Smart provides customers with a comprehensive artificial intelligence Internet of Things solution and covers hardware access, cloud services and software development, creating a closed loop of artificial intelligence services and smart products not only within the smart home, in order to meet consumers' higher requirements for hardware products.
As of the end of October 2018, the Tuya Smart platform had more than 93 customers worldwide, connecting more than 100 million smart products to the market. This created a completely new and unique model of strengthening the products of the "AI + IoT" category. At that time, smart products were delivered to almost 200 countries and regions.
On a global cloud platform with a distributed IoT architecture, the number of daily processing devices has reached nearly 50 billion. The daily interaction of voice AI exceeded 20 million, and the accumulated data volume reached the level of 15 PB.
The 5 main pillars of the Tuya platform:
- Tuya IoT Module - Networking is the first step to a smart device, supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee
- Tuya Cloud - Concurrent processing capacity of 10 million users with uninterrupted service time (99,9%)
- Tuya Smart APP - App is a smart control center of smart systems, user and company solution available (Tuya Smart App / Brand OEM App)
- Data and Operations Center - A center that evaluates data statistics and has consumer operational tools available
- Smart services with added value
Among affordable gadgets that support either the Tuya application or the Tuya platform, we can find the following product categories:
- Smart socket or extension cable
- Smart switch (exterior / interior, dimming, switch set, etc.)
- Smart lamps (ceiling light, smart bulbs, ambient lighting, etc.)
- LED strips
- Air conditioners (portable / built-in air conditioners)
- Robotic vacuum cleaners, mops and cleaning equipment
- Air cooler, fan, air humidifier, aroma diffuser
- Security camera, doorbell
- Kitchen appliances, water purifiers, water savers
- Air purifier, heater, UV lamp against mosquitoes and more...
Brands that work in the Tuya ecosystem
Although this is not a complete list of all the brands you will find in the Tuya ecosystem, you may recognize some of them:
- Teckin
- Gosund
- Avatar
- Digoo
- New Star
- Treatlife
- Bakeey
- Noooie
- You don't
- HomeFlow
- Lidl
- Ener-J
- Iotas
Third Party Products and the Tuya Platform
Products integrated within the Tuya platform also work with third-party services. In our region, you will certainly be familiar with intelligent voice assistants such as, for example amazon alexa, Apple's Siri or Google Assistant, however, there is much wider and worldwide compatibility on offer. These are the following services:
- Works with Amazon Echo
- Works with Google Assistant, IFTTT, Google Nest, Tmall Genie, Siri, Baidu DuerOS, Rokid, JD DingDong, Tencent Xiaowei
Some products from the Tuya ecosystem
We also publish smart home products on our website, the so-called internet of things. At our Chinese partners you can find, for example, smart valves for radiators, smart sockets, smart water valves, thermometers and various other sensors.
Moes Tuya ZigBee3.0 smart valves
- 4x valve, EU warehouse (1 pc for €25,93)
- 1x valve, Chinese warehouse
- 2x valve, Chinese warehouse
- 1x valve, EU warehouse
- 2x valve, EU warehouse
- 3x valve, Chinese warehouse
- 3x valve, EU warehouse
EU warehouse
EU warehouse
% Zľava v košíku
1,89 €
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15-day delivery
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15-day delivery
15-day delivery
15-day delivery via Aliexpress Standard Shipping
Aliexpress Standard Shipping is available for this product with guaranteed delivery within 15 days. It is the most convenient way of delivery, which takes place without customs fees and in most cases is delivered by a courier company. 15-day delivery we actually tested it.
Express delivery from a European warehouse free of duty and VAT.
This product will be delivered to you expressly from your local warehouse in Europe. Delivery from EU warehouses usually takes 7-10 days and delivers courier. No extra charges, no customs duties or VAT.
EU warehouse
EU warehouse
Express delivery from a European warehouse free of duty and VAT.
This product will be delivered to you expressly from your local warehouse in Europe. Delivery from EU warehouses usually takes 7-10 days and delivers courier. No extra charges, no customs duties or VAT.
15-day delivery
15-day delivery
15-day delivery via Aliexpress Standard Shipping
Aliexpress Standard Shipping is available for this product with guaranteed delivery within 15 days. It is the most convenient way of delivery, which takes place without customs fees and in most cases is delivered by a courier company. 15-day delivery we actually tested it.
EU warehouse
EU warehouse
% Zľava v košíku
1,89 €
Express delivery from a European warehouse free of duty and VAT.
This product will be delivered to you expressly from your local warehouse in Europe. Delivery from EU warehouses usually takes 7-10 days and delivers courier. No extra charges, no customs duties or VAT.
Moeshouse smart valves on the radiator
- 2x valve, Chinese warehouse
- 1x valve, Chinese warehouse
- 1x valve, Belgian warehouse
- 1x valve + wireless gateway
- 2x valve + wireless gateway
- 3x valve + wireless gateway
- 4x valve + wireless gateway
15-day delivery via Aliexpress Standard Shipping
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13-day delivery via Aliexpress Standard Shipping
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Express delivery from a European warehouse free of duty and VAT.
This product will be delivered to you expressly from your local warehouse in Europe. Delivery from EU warehouses usually takes 7-10 days and delivers courier. No extra charges, no customs duties or VAT.
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CZ warehouse
CZ warehouse
% Zľava v košíku
0,94 €
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CZ warehouse
CZ warehouse
% Zľava v košíku
1,87 €
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CZ warehouse
CZ warehouse
% Zľava v košíku
1,87 €
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Free shipping.
Free shipping is available for this product. However, this is the slowest delivery method and the goods can travel from 20 days to 1 month.
BlitzWolf BW-SHP15
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We recommend choosing transportation Banggood Express, for which you will not pay anything extra. Customs fees and any VAT will be handled directly by the seller for you. Shipping can only be selected in the basket, after entering the delivery address. Delivery at Banggood Express it usually takes around 15-20 days, but it can be longer.
During transport Banggood Express you don't pay any extra fees.
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During EU transport Priority Line you don't pay any extra fees.
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ME98 LCD Tuya display
Express delivery from a Czech warehouse without duties and VAT.
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Tuya smart thermometer
Shipping via Aliexpress Standard Shipping
Aliexpress Standard Shipping or AliExpress Saver Shipping is available for this product. It is the most reliable way of delivery from Chinese warehouses without customs fees for products up to €150. Delivery can take 15 days to 1 month.
During transport Banggood Express you don't pay any extra fees.
We recommend choosing transportation Banggood Express, for which you will not pay anything extra. Customs fees and any VAT will be handled directly by the seller for you. Shipping can only be selected in the basket, after entering the delivery address. Delivery at Banggood Express it usually takes around 15-20 days, but it can be longer.
The Zigbee standard is a communication technology
If you have ever chosen a new smart home product in an e-shop, you will surely know the necessity of a gateway, as a kind of intermediate step when buying selected devices. However, this gateway can serve very effectively, even for different products from different manufacturers. How to do it? The answer is Zigbee, a standard currently in use mainly in its third generation as Zigbee 3.0.
The Zigbee protocol ensures wireless communication between your smart products. The product does not have to directly contain a Wi-Fi module, but support for the Zigbee protocol will suffice. It is a PAN (Personal Area Network) network and therefore you can easily imagine it as an alternative to the Bluetooth band. However, it has a different function. Its main advantage is low energy consumption and reliable connection.
"Tuya is a platform as a service and in the Tuya Smart application you can manage your smart devices, while Zigbee is a hardware standard for the communication of the devices themselves. Special hub or gateway devices are needed to connect them."
Depending on the environment, the number of walls or the thickness of the wall, the Zigbee protocol covers approximately ten to one hundred meters of distance between the gateway and the smart product itself. If you want to learn more about this protocol, we recommend our detailed article on our sister website XiaomiPlanet.sk.
What is Zigbee technology, why is it important for a smart home and what Xiaomi products support it?
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