We interviewed a member of the HWTrek expert community, IDT, about their Oregon Air Smart Air Monitor, a product developed under their Oregon Scientific brand. IDT is an ODM/OEM provider of lifestyle products in three major product groups. They are experienced in areas of sensors, digital imaging, digital voice and music technology, smart home, and smart metering, and other IoT related technologies. They have 40 years of experience in sports and health products.
If you’d like to contact an expert from IDT, you can connect with Sam Tang on the HWTrek platform. IDT offers four solutions on the platform: ODM/EMS for Smart Home Products, ODM\EMS for Smart Learning & Educational Products, Smart ODM /EMS Service for IoT Applications, and ODM/EMS for Sport, Fitness, and Healthcare Products.
Following is a brief translation of part of the interview. The complete interview, originally published in Chinese, can be found here.
HWTrek: During the process of product design and manufacture, what was the biggest challenge? And how did you overcome it?
IDT: Oregon Air is an intelligent air detector that has many core functions. The primary components include PMI sensor, humidity sensor, 1.3-inch OLED display and 2600 mAh rechargeable battery. Our biggest challenge is combining all of these components and at the same time making the product size smaller. So when choosing the sensors and components, we needed to balance accuracy, quality, size, and cost requirements. After continuous research, analysis, verification, and communication with different suppliers, we successfully put all the sensors into this limited space while retaining the original fashionable design at the same time.
HWTrek: Will the strong R&D and manufacturing capabilities of IDT be open to other hardware innovators? How does one cooperate with IDT?
IDT: Smart Service is a team dedicated to the development of other innovative hardware products. With an R&D team of more than 100, it provides innovative customers with R&D, industrial design, patent registration, product certification, product localization improvement and integration with mature supply chain management systems, production quality control, professional production lines, and logistics management to provide timely delivery of high-quality products to help their creative ideas become real industrial products while improving the process to reduce development time to 90 days to meet market demand.
IDT: Sanpower Group has more than 25,000 retail outlets worldwide, a variety of retail channels including distributors, B2B, and electricity providers. IDT’s Oregon Scientific brand has mature sales channels in Europe, the United States, and Asia Pacific. Relying on these powerful sales channel resources can provide a broader sales network for innovative creators to help them grow more quickly.
HWTrek: How do you improve internal coordination and integration of resources to achieve innovation relying on your strong group and corporate resources?
IDT: For the first time, we tried to promote our product on a crowdfunding platform. This is a new model that presents a great challenge for the traditional enterprise. But Oregon Scientific, always at the forefront of innovation, unafraid of challenges, and with a positive attitude, achieved good results by surpassing the crowdfunding goal on the first day. Next, Oregon Scientific will continue to make a breakthroughs in this direction, gather the online flow entry, in addition relying on the Group’s strong offline retail sales channels for transfer of offline customers to mobile terminal, followed by the formation of word of mouth guiding more traffic to the offline experience or consumption and the formation of an “Internet + retail” sales model.
The Oregon Air was launched on JD.com’s JD Finance crowdfunding platform in China.
