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Smart Home & Appliances
Intelligent solutions bring your connected device to market faster
Devices within and around the modern home are becoming smarter as they evolve to meet the needs of consumers. These days, a refrigerator can play music, check the weather, give you recipe ideas, and even order groceries. Equipped with cameras, fridges can even allow you to peek inside to see what you need from the grocery store. Your washing machine can suggest the best cycle, wash clothes at the time that’s most convenient, and alert you if there are issues. Products across a diverse range of categories from home gym equipment to pizza ovens and grills are all becoming smarter, with improved connectivity, processing power, and embedded AI.
Yet to profit from this evolution, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must confront new and difficult technology, manufacturing, and supply chain challenges.
Today’s smart home innovators must consider:
- Connectivity — WiFi, Bluetooth® wireless technology, powerline, Ethernet, and near field communication
- Sensor capabilities — humidity, light, proximity, temperature, and pressure
- Sustainability — recyclability, refurbishment, and waste control
- Ease-of-use — immediate usability, accessibility, and error tolerance
- Supply chain resilience – Network optimization that reduces complexity and improves profitability
Our Advanced Technologies
Jabil System on Module (SOM)
This modular family of connectivity solutions enables faster time-to-market at a lower cost for smart home and appliance products. The IoT-ready secure hardware incorporates only those components common to most applications. Customizations are performed on a supporting carrier board with standard IO that includes I2S, I2C, SPI, GPIO, USB, UART, and Audio Out. Customers can leverage three different SKUs for varying price and performance points.
Human Machine-Interface (HMI)
The most-recognized global brands partner with Jabil for its deep expertise with interactive components for HMI, such as touchscreens, sensors, Wi-Fi connections, and developing technologies such as Touché swept frequency capacitive sensing (SFCS). From design through manufacturing and supply chain management, from microwaves to washing machines, Jabil helps integrate these diverse technologies into products that feature user-friendly HMI.
Jabil’s HMI expertise includes:
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Capacitive/discrete/resistive touchscreens
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3D gesture recognition lasers and optics
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Voice recognition microphones and acoustic testing
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Haptic feedback (touch-based signals and responses)
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Sensors — light, proximity, current/power, environment, motion, flow and others
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IoT architecture
Ki Cordless Technology
Jabil supports brands with the end-to-end integration of the Ki cordless kitchen standard, which allows small kitchen appliances, from juicers to kettles and blenders, to operate without the need for traditional power cords. This innovative standard supports devices that require up to 2.2 KW of power, eliminating clutter and optimizing kitchen space. With Ki technology, appliances like coffee makers are powered when placed on Ki-compatible power transmitters, without the hassle of plugging them in.
A Proactive Solutions Partner
Jabil engineers, builds, and ramps some of the most innovative connected products within the $483B smart home and appliance market. Jabil’s components are part of over 40% of today’s appliances, with more than 100 million assemblies shipped since 2005. As a proactive solutions partner with extensive experience producing machine, and motor controls, power supplies, lighting and user interfaces, Jabil can solve your toughest product challenges.
In addition to advanced, high-volume manufacturing solutions delivered across Jabil’s 100+ sites, Jabil also provides key services that include:
Engineering Services
Jabil's engineering services provide customers with proactive solutions to reduce production costs, increase quality, and accelerate time-to-market.
Precision Automation
Automated assembly manufacturing and engineering solutions leverage high-efficiency and high-tolerance process robotics.
Supply Chain Management
Comprehensive solutions in market intelligence, procurement and supply chain strategy, procurement technology, procurement and supply chain management, and logistics.
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