Coway Partners with Amazon to Make Smart Water Purifier

South Korea’s Coway Co. will deploy Amazon’s voice-enabled artificial intelligence platform Alexa to make its water purifiers smart after the success with its air purifier earlier this year. 

Coway hopes to unveil its smart water purifier at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January. 

Image: Coway CEO Lee Hae-sun (far left) hands a customer a drink with ice cubes produced from its new water purifier AIS at an event in Seoul. [Photo by Coway Co.]

“Typical voice recognition technology simply understands and executes orders,” said Lee Hae-sun, chief executive of Coway. “We want to go beyond that, make it dig into big data to communicate and meet the needs of the user before command,” he said. 

The Airmega air purifier can turn the device on, check indoor air quality and adjust fan speed all through voice command. The device can be activated and controlled remotely through a smartphone app. The release of Airmega boosted Coway’s air purifier sales in the U.S. by over 20 percent from a year earlier. 

Coway’s performance jumped in the first quarter aided by a series of product improvements, turning out 120.9 billion won ($107.7 million) in earnings on sales of 610.2 billion won. Its target for this year is 494 billion won in operating profit and 2.68 trillion won in sales, up 70 percent and 10 percent from the previous year, respectively. 

Source: Pulse

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