The new national standard for smart home appliances has been officially implemented, ending the chaos of "pseudo-intelligence."

On May 1, 2026, two national standards—GB/T 28219.1—2025 "Technical Requirements and Evaluation for Intelligent Home Appliances Part 1: General Requirements" and GB/T 46505.1—2025 "Application Scenarios of Smart Home Appliances Part 1—General Requirements" were officially implemented. For the first time, a unified evaluation standard was established for smart appliances based on the dimensions of "intelligent capability" and "scenario effect," establishing a quantitative grading system.

Currently, the smart home appliance market is expanding rapidly, but issues such as uneven product quality, blurred functions, and conceptual hype remain prominent. Many products simply achieve simple networking and voice control before being labeled "smart," with a significant gap between actual experience and marketing. Data shows that over 50% of respondents believe the fully automatic experience of smart stir-fry machines is indeserved, and over 55% report that smart curtains cannot understand detailed commands like "what percentage is open." Many brands regard "connecting to WiFi" as the complete concept of intelligence, or "touchscreens" as symbols of intelligence. The industry urgently needs unified standards to regulate market order.

The new national standard provides a clear definition and evaluation system for smart home appliances. According to the "General Requirements" standard, smart home appliances must possess four core capabilities: data management, human-machine interaction, intelligent control, and intelligent operation and maintenance. A five-level intelligent evaluation system is established from L1 to L5: L1 requires basic networking capability, L2 requires environmental perception, L3 requires scenario recognition and serves as the minimum threshold for whole-house intelligence, L4 supports multi-device linkage throughout the house, and L5 requires devices to have autonomous judgment and behavior prediction thinking capabilities. The "Scene Effects" standard clarifies the definition of intelligent scenarios, establishes a four-level classification system, and a quantitative scenario rating evaluation model.

From an industry perspective, the implementation of the new national standard will shift smart home appliances from "competition by functional selling points" to "system capability competition." As intelligent capabilities and scenario effects are incorporated into the evaluation system, upstream companies in chips, sensors, and algorithm platforms need to better align with the needs of complete device applications during product design.

The increasing complexity and systematization of smart home appliance functions places unprecedented demands on testing and verification capabilities. Stability testing of intelligent control modules, stress verification in multi-device linkage scenarios, and self-inspection capability evaluation of intelligent operation and maintenance functions all rely on professional testing equipment to accomplish these tasks. Wanhe Testing will continue to deepen its presence in the testing equipment field, providing reliable testing support for home appliance companies' intelligent transformation.