What is an intelligent gateway?
In short, it is the control center of the entire smart home. At present, a large part of it, especially the connection and work of smart sensors, smart sockets and some smart appliances of ZigBee protocol, need its participation. It can not only receive environmental information from temperature and humidity sensors, receive control instructions from mobile phones, but also control smart sockets, smart bulbs and other appliances such as smart electric heaters. Their relationship can be roughly referred to the figure below.
So the first step to transform traditional furniture into smart home is to add an intelligent gateway.