The supply chain has been negotiated, and the cost of writing it in a small notebook is no longer useful.

The cost has been greatly reduced now.

The total of all the parts is about 130 yuan.

There is something to note here. Chenyi only asked about a few main parts, including screws, shells, buttons, microphones, copper wires and other parts, and he did not count them.

If it were included at that time, it would be more than that money. The current cost price is much cheaper than before.

Don't underestimate the profits of any hardware.

The hardware team has done almost the same dash recorder.

After many experiments and assembly, they finally created a product that satisfies Chenyi.

This dash cam uses a resolution of 480p. Before the cost drops, 480p is now a high-end one.

In fact, the current 480p and 720p are similar, and Chenyi also used two semi-finished products to conduct experiments.

He found that the license plate numbers of vehicles during sports are always difficult to take a picture of, and the pictures taken from 720p and 480p are almost the same.

However, the license plate numbers within three meters can be photographed clearly, and the vehicles within three meters must be stationary before they can be photographed clearly.

Chen Yi bought a foreign dashcam and compared it to do experiments and found that their effects were almost the same.

So it doesn't matter if you use these two in this case, and 720p is just a little clearer.

In fact, there is not much improvement, and things that should not be taken clearly are still not taken clearly.

Moreover, Yan Hongyuan went to discuss business with Xizhi a few days ago and successfully talked about a suitable price for 4g and 8g TF cards.

Chen Yi found that he still underestimated the quality of the video recording of dash cam.

The previous estimate of shooting time has not worked at all now.

After rigorous testing, an 8g memory card can record 480p videos and can record video for 200 minutes.

That is, three hours and twenty minutes.

The time for recording equipment is divided into two minutes, five minutes, and ten minutes.

Users who use the product can adjust it themselves.

There are about two or three seconds breakpoints between each video.

That is, two files that should be coherent together are missing two or three seconds.

Records of evidence are sufficient and do not affect use.

After the memory is full, the oldest video at the end will be automatically deleted.

Unlike other manufacturers, they cannot be used directly when the memory is full, and they also need to manually delete the video before they can continue recording.

In addition, the employees also have the function of auto ignition recording and automatic stop recording when the car is turned off.

Chenyi observed that the recorder now greatly reduces the cable and space consumption, but unfortunately there is not a shell yet.

Chen Yi personally designed several types, and then posted the pictures to the company group, asking employees to vote for the best ones.

Finally, a pure black shell was selected, with the four corners being round and simple, with the upper and lower buttons on the left and right sides.

This thing is easy to make.

Use design drawings to make the manufacturer produce.

It sounds mysterious to be an animation-based industrial design, but it can really be achieved.

These problems have been solved, and there is also a national-level 3C certification, which is a level that you have to pass in making electronic products.

Hardware is different from software. Products that do not obtain the 3c certification mark cannot even be shipped out of the factory or sold.

This is quite troublesome, requiring electrical schematics, repair manuals, product instructions, product safety inspection reports, etc.

You have to take it slowly, too.

In this case, those large companies will generally choose to invest in similar manufacturers directly and let the people below do it themselves.

But Chenyi is different here. He needs to understand the relevant knowledge so that he can also use it when making hardware in the future.

Otherwise, like Xiaomi, if you want to make mobile phones, the supply chain does not believe in their business model, and thinks they are like liars, so they refuse to supply.

After all, the relationship between large manufacturers and supply chains is not as simple as a contract between Party A and Party B.

It is not that you can choose suppliers as you like with sufficient funds.

Often components suppliers need to invest funds to conduct research and development with the purchaser.

Many components are exclusively customized, so they are very cautious with the purchaser.

But doing a monitoring, a dashcam and other things are just small-scale fuss, and often does not require exclusive customization, and general parts can be used.

Just take it and design it yourself and then you can produce it.

So this is just Chen Yi proving to the outside world that he has the ability to make hardware.

Although the founder of Xiaomi has been working hard in the software industry for so long, no one has ever heard of him crossing the hardware industry.

Therefore, Chen Yi is responsible for making hardware himself, and there are countless benefits.

After all, the future is the era of mobile Internet. When it comes to mobile Internet, it is impossible to avoid the future Internet of Things era.

They are closely related to hardware.

To sell this product.

Chen Yi created another "Jiankang Tianmu Security Technology Co., Ltd.".

This company is 100% owned by Mengyuan Technology.

He has no intention of launching this product under the name of Mengyuan Technology, and then giving up Mengyuan Technology's shares when financing.

After all, Mengyuan Technology is not only going to launch a hardware product, but also has its own decisions and will never be bound by any external factors.

Moreover, there are many benefits of establishing a subsidiary, so I won’t explain it in detail here.

Chen Yi thought about it and decided that Tianmu not only made a driving recorder, external monitoring, household monitoring, and alarms, can be done slowly.

If the business is done well this time, then he will have some experience in facing these hardware manufacturers in the future.

Then decide whether to do it yourself or invest, and have a clear judgment.

Another headache when making hardware is product quality and yield rate, which must be grasped well.

If the yield rate does not meet the standard, the profits that have been suppressed with the supplier will be wasted.

Moreover, if the product quality does not meet the standards, consumers will have problems before they can use it for a long time, so they will definitely have to find a manufacturer.

And if it is not handled properly, consumers may no longer buy your stuff in the future.

The suppliers selected by Chenyi are quite famous and the quality is acceptable.

It depends on the processing level, so you need to find a regular OEM factory.

Although Yan Hongyuan is a middle-level manager, he can also come into contact with some excellent OEM factories.

So next, there is no sales channel and how to advertise.

Often, the profits of hardware sales are very high, including concession dealers, freight costs, after-sales service, etc.

For example, the two mobile phone manufacturers, Blue and Green, their mobile phones look very expensive and have no cost-effectiveness at all.

But in fact, they leave a lot of profit margin for dealers everywhere.

Dealers make money by selling their phones, otherwise how could they bother users to buy blue-green manufacturers’ phones?

If they sell a mobile phone from a blue-green factory, they can earn 400 yuan, while selling a Xiaomi can only earn 100 yuan.

With such a big profit gap, these dealers are not fools. In order to make money and pay back the rent, they will naturally choose to sell mobile phones from blue and green factories.

Moreover, blue and green after-sales service is also guaranteed.
Chapter completed!