The 2016 AWE (Appliance & Electronics World Expo) will be held in Shanghai from March 9 -12 with an exhibition area that reaches into 100,000 square meters and spans across seven halls (W1 – W5, E1 and E2) in the Shanghai New International Expo Center. AWE is organized by the China Household Electrical Appliances Association (CHEAA) and has become one of the world™s three largest exhibitions for household appliances and consumer electronics. In this significant event, exhibiting products are classified into 13 categories (white goods, spare parts, consumer electronics, 3 C digital products, high-end home appliance, kitchen & bathroom appliances, living environment and health appliances, household appliances, communication products, commercial electrical appliances, wearables, smart platform, and home audio equipment). As a grand event in the industry, the 2015 AWE attracted more than 550 brand enterprises to launch 22,000+ pieces of new products and more than 50 strategy conferences were opened with intensive media coverage from 360-some social media platforms from China and abroad.The 2016 AWE will be centered on the topic of œInternet+, Home for Next, and smart home is a hot spot with experience museum of 12,000 square meters. As a professional supplier for IoT devices and solutions, Wulian has devoted to the research and development of ZigBee technology since its foundation. Wulian, as the Promoter of the ZigBee Alliance, cooperates together with other board members in the Alliance to promote the popularization for the global standards of ZigBee technology. In 2016 AWE, Wulian will unveil the latest solutions and products for smart home. œDream Flower Smart Vase, Mini Gateway, Cylincam and other Wulian products will be showed in this exhibition, and the Wulian team will also present integrated smart bathroom solutions, which comprises terminal products, communication module, sensors, open-source code, etc.Nowadays, in the smart home field, barriers of information interchange among IoT devices and compatibility of smart home equipment are the two major thorny problems. In order to remove the developing obstacles, the Wulian R&D team launched the Wlink Open Platform based on years of technology exploration and accumulation, which takes a super gateway as the core center and provides solutions (hardware upgrading; software application, cloud service) for traditional equipment manufacturers and cooperates with single-item smart home manufacturers that is of different communication protocols. At AWE 2016, Wulian aims to create and spread a win-win developing vision with enterprises from industries of the IoT, home furnishings, household appliances and the alike.Please visit Wulian at 2F41, in the E2 Hall of the Shanghai New International Expo Center.