In the era of the Internet of Everything, the decade-long evolution of a remote control software

Remote control, as a new Internet operation mode, is becoming a trend.

In the era of the Internet of Things, everything is connected, and remote control is everywhere in our lives. In the field of remote control in China, Sunflower is well known. Sunflower remote control, with its easy-to-understand remote operation, remote power on and off experience combining software and hardware, remote computer game playing on mobile phones, etc., has given many technical novices the fresh pleasure of becoming a "hacker" for the first time.

The birth of Sunflower also made the former QQ remote assistance function gradually fade out of people's sight, and even the remote operation function that comes with Windows has gradually been forgotten.

Back in 2009, 10 years ago, Sunflower, a remote control software with independent intellectual property rights, was officially launched on the market. At that time, Sunflower was still an unknown domestic small software. Today, Sunflower has been applied to various industries, including retail and finance, education and science, agriculture and infrastructure, medical health, e-commerce and technology, etc., and has accumulated a good reputation in the industry, with an average of 10,000 users registering every day, 30 million cumulative individual users, 120 million installed base, and 50,000 corporate users.

From the Internet era to the Internet of Things era, people are pursuing convenience and speed. Sunflower is well aware of user needs. After going through trials and tribulations, Sunflower has now become a domestic remote control pioneer.

The development of things is always changing dynamically. Sunflower divides the development of the past ten years into three eras.

Remote control 1.0 era, defining remote control for sunshine health

In the remote control 1.0 era, when Sunflower was first born, the remote control industry was full of gray operations, but the market turned a blind eye to such violations. Hacker-type remote control tools were everywhere in the domestic and foreign markets, and no company was willing to provide formal remote services exclusively to users.

In this context, Sunflower, through independent research and development, released a pure software solution - Sunflower 1.0 software client, which supports remote desktop, remote files, remote camera activation and other functions, and was the first to propose the product concept of "Sunflower Remote Control".

The so-called "Sunshine Remote Control" is different from remote control that hovers on the edge of gray and illegal. As a regular remote control software, Sunflower has the following characteristics: regular installation mode, allowing users to freely install and uninstall, and passing third-party security software certification. The characteristics of hacker remote control software are silent installation, no uninstallation allowed, similar to virus programs.

As soon as the Sunflower 1.0 software client was released, its novel concept and simple operation defeated similar products and won the support of many veteran users in the remote control industry.

The emergence of Sunflower 1.0 solved many users' needs for daily office and remote collaboration. It was the good reputation among these ordinary users that made Sunflower popular.

Imagine that you can work from home after get off work and use Sunflower to remotely control the company computer to achieve remote work, access data files anytime and anywhere, and solve the 996 problem. What should you do if you are on a business trip and your pet is at home and you want to check it in real time? The Sunflower video monitoring function can solve this problem well.

In terms of security, Sunflower uses unique encryption technology to ensure that the user's remote control information is as safe as before. In addition, Sunflower also has certifications from major security vendors, such as 360 Certification, Kingsoft Certification, QQ Security Manager Certification, China Information Security Center Certification, etc. It is worth mentioning that Sunflower is also the only remote control software in the domestic remote control field that has obtained Microsoft certification, laying the foundation for industry security standards.

In the era of Sunflower 1.0, a healthy and sunny remote control concept was created. At the software level, Sunflower is divided into the main control end and the controlled end, and the product is still in its early stages.

Remote Control 2.0 Era, Opening a New Era of Software and Hardware Integration

From 1.0 to 2.0, Sunflower has undergone many qualitative changes.

In the 1.0 era, Sunflower could only be remotely controlled through software, but anyone who has used remote control knows that the premise of remote control is that the controlled computer needs to be turned on in order to operate.

But we can’t keep the controlled computer turned on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?

In the era of Sunflower 2.0, based on the user's need for remote control when the computer is turned off, Sunflower is no longer controlled only by software. Sunflower has pioneered the leap from software to hardware remote control, and has reached a strategic cooperation with Qualcomm Atheros to release its first hardware - Sunflower Power Stick. Users can remotely turn on the controlled computer and realize remote startup - remote control - shutdown, opening a new era of software combined with hardware.

[[273642]] The emergence of the Sunflower Power Stick solves the user's need for remote power on. It not only supports remote wake-up and power on, but also supports timed power on and off, MAC address power on, batch power on and off, etc. The power on method is diversified and can be operated by everyone from novices to technical experts. After the launch of the software and hardware combination solution with the power stick, the number of Sunflower users began to grow exponentially.

In addition to the combination of software and hardware solutions, Sunflower 2.0 has also made changes to its core technology, the remote control desktop. In the 1.0 era of Sunflower, the Mirror (mirror drive) technology used by the remote desktop had a disadvantage. As more and more dynamic things appeared on the page, queue sorting problems would occur, and images could not be transmitted to the user's computer in time. At the same time, the image quality was poor. In the 2.0 era, Sunflower has improved the entire mechanism and adopted a dynamic bit rate video compression algorithm, which can effectively reduce bandwidth, is more friendly to video images, and the image transmission is clearer.

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At the same time, the software functions of Sunflower 2.0 are becoming more and more abundant, realizing true cross-platform connection, and remote synchronization operations and file transfers can be performed between PC and PC, and between mobile phones and PC.

Remote Control 3.0 Era: Intranet Remote Control to the People

With the gradual improvement of the Sunflower 2.0 era, Sunflower ushered in 3.0. Sunflower launched the self-developed intranet remote control artifact - Kongkong A2, opening a new era of intranet remote control.

Sunflower Control A2 is a remote control hardware based on Sunflower technology and hardware image compression algorithm. It can remotely control and manage the target machine without installing any software on the controlled host. There is no data interaction in the intermediate control process, and the controlled machine does not need to be connected to the network. It is mainly aimed at scenarios where remote needs cannot be realized due to the particularity of the network environment.

The birth of Sunflower Control A2 happened to catch up with the development trend of the Internet of Things.

Many corporate IT after-sales technicians have begun to use Sunflower Control A2 to penetrate the intranet to provide remote desktop support, solving the problem of data isolation between the intranet and the extranet, ensuring data security while improving corporate efficiency.

Take a state-owned enterprise as an example. To ensure the security of internal data, the company stipulates that office staff can only use the enterprise platform in an intranet environment with firewall isolation. However, as the company's business lines expand, branches are established across the country. Whenever after-sales problems arise, the branch offices are unable to arrange staff in time and can only ask the head office to send people to assist in solving them.

This solution, on the one hand, requires dispatching personnel to rush to the scene, which will take up a lot of time and affect the efficiency of problem solving; on the other hand, the long distance will result in a waste of travel expenses.

To address these corporate challenges, Sunflower provides an SDK integration solution for A2, which supports private deployment and customized professional remote control solutions. The technical solutions provided by Sunflower not only enrich the other party's remote needs, but also solve the problem of personnel travel and reduce the problems that existed in the past.

Since the encryption technology and dual authentication of the 2.0 era are not met, Sunflower 3.0 has also launched an enterprise-exclusive client for enterprises, upgraded security and fluency, and adopted RSA/AES-based 256-bit asymmetric encryption technology to provide bank-level encryption protocols.

At present, Sunflower has reached cooperation with Changhong, Midea, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Meteorological Science Research Institute, Guangdong Science Center, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and other government and enterprise units to provide them with advanced Internet of Things solutions. With its high technological innovation ability, Sunflower has surpassed similar products at home and abroad, becoming an advanced representative of domestically produced independent and controllable technology, and has been highly recognized by corporate users and even the country.

In recent years, with the booming domestic game market, Sunflower has discovered through market research that many game players have a strong demand for remote control gaming.

In response to the remote needs of this type of game enthusiasts, Sunflower launched an exclusive game service. Players only need to download the Sunflower master and controlled software on their mobile phones and computers, and after logging in to the same game service account, they can use their mobile phones to operate computer games.

For gamers, the biggest requirements for remote control games are the operation feel, the speed of picture transmission, and the clarity of the remote control picture. The Sunflower Game Exclusive Edition is designed to meet the actual needs of gamers, ensuring that players can enjoy the highest bandwidth resources of Sunflower while intelligently adapting to the best frame rate based on the player's resolution and network conditions.

In terms of operating feel, the exclusive version of Sunflower Game has also adapted buttons for popular online games (such as DNF, League of Legends, Overwatch, etc.). Users can customize commonly used buttons/combinations according to their own operating habits, and say goodbye to the trouble of the keyboard blocking half of the screen when remotely controlling the terminal game with a mobile phone.

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In terms of transmission speed, Sunflower remote control supports customized BGP cross-circuit switches in East China, South China, and North China, optimizes links, and provides smooth remote control experience across broadband. The images on the remote computer are clearly transmitted to the local computer.

In terms of the screen, after repeated modifications and tests by the R&D staff, Sunflower supports high frame rates for remote games during remote control. Even the high-speed changing screens of the game can be transmitted at high speed. Even when the network speed is unstable, the transmission speed will not be affected.

The emergence of the exclusive version of the Sunflower game solved the remote needs of game enthusiasts, and the number of users of the Sunflower game version soared.

From the 1.0 era to the 3.0 era, Sunflower has continuously made breakthroughs in the past ten years, demonstrated its strong technical strength, and accumulated a good reputation. In the past ten years, there has been constant technical suppression from similar foreign competitors, but Sunflower has still overcome many difficulties and grown into a remote control pioneer in inland China, but this is far from enough, because Sunflower's goal is not just this, it is still exploring more possibilities.