As a senior editor who has been exploring the Internet of Things for many years, let's bring up a story about smart lighting ideas two years ago:
In the evening, every time Dad got up and went to the bathroom, just opened the electric light, the mother screamed and woke up, so back and forth, three or five times a night, the old couple could not avoid a small quarrel. Now, when Dad wakes up at night, he only needs to wave his hand at the bedside sensor switch position. The bedside lamp on the bedside side is turned on, automatically brightens to 30% brightness, and the “starting mode†is turned on. Seeing the road clear, does not affect the mother to sleep. At the same time, all the lights from the bedroom door to the bathroom are turned on, and kept low brightness, not glare. After going to the bathroom, go back to the bed, then wave your hand and turn off the lights. It’s much easier for Dad to get up at night, and my mom can sleep hard every night.
Today, two years later, the vision has become a reality, and the actual products are still not widely used by families. Traditional lighting companies still involved in intelligent lighting are struggling to find their way. However, the estimated total revenue of 8.1 billion US dollars in the total smart lighting market in 2020 has already become a target. Traditional lighting giants have joined hands with the Internet of Things platform. The former platform manufacturers have risen to the ground and are ready to go all the way to the black.
IoT and LED
Industrially speaking, the Industrial Internet of Things is based on smart connected devices and machines to help companies expand new digital services and business models, especially to promote economic growth in mature markets.
Technically speaking, LEDs have a common low-voltage DC drive, which facilitates the integration of IoT and LED integration. The combination of the two can achieve on-demand illumination to further reduce power consumption. At the same time, when all the lights can be centrally controlled, build a local part. Perceived networks enable intelligent control, making intelligent and informative lighting possible.
Some organizations predict that smart LED lighting will have the highest growth rate in IoT consumer applications, from 6 million in 2015 to 570 million in 2020. At the same time, industry research data shows that the market scale of China's lighting industry has reached 89.8 billion yuan in 2012, becoming the largest consumer of the global lighting market. It is estimated that by 2016, the market size will reach 123.6 billion yuan, with a huge order of magnitude. Therefore, for the two strategic emerging industries of the Internet of Things and LED, if the alliance is combined, it is 1+1 greater than 2, which can bring very good application results. This is also the reason why giants are getting involved in smart lighting.
Hardware technology is ups and downs, software solutions are not shocking
The rise of the intelligent lighting market can be said to be a coincidence or an inevitable result of the development of the times.
First of all, the maturity of the smart phone industry has triggered a sharp decline in the price of WiFi core components. From the very beginning, only mobile phones and computers can be connected to the Internet. Until now, any hardware plugged into a WiFi module can be easily connected to the network through WiFi hotspots. After that, the price of LED was also pulled down, so the three major industries of mobile phone, WiFi module and LED completed the reform and detonated the appropriate chemical reaction of intelligent lighting.
In this project, in order to connect the lights and the mobile phone, the major manufacturers are also painstaking. From the WiFi lights that smart home fired last year to the intelligent lights of ZigBee networking, and then upgraded by Bluetooth upgrade, the "communication language" of intelligent lighting has been constantly changing. At the same time, there are thousands of usage scenarios in the field of lighting, and it is impossible to determine who can dominate the overall situation. For the intelligent lighting, the hardware is ebb and flow, and the technology is constantly changing. Regardless of whether you use ZigBee, Bluetooth or WiFi at the bottom, you can achieve a unified and complete solution at the software level. After all, software iterations are always much faster and more flexible than hardware. At this time, the cloud platform manufacturers such as Predix, Yunzhiyi and so on have become the navigation maps for the traditional lighting manufacturers to transform the intelligent lighting.
It is said that standing on the shoulders of giants can see farther, then let's take a look at the smart lighting field, the giants in the lighting field have done a good job.
Inventory of intelligent lighting in the blue sea
At present, foreign intelligent lighting control systems have been widely used in the construction field, and the use rate of lighting control in China is less than 1%. As early as 2010, the Ministry of Construction has required 60% of the housing in large and medium-sized cities across the country to be intelligent. Nowadays, under the general trend of intelligent lighting control switches and system technology, and the cost is gradually decreasing, the prospect of the intelligent lighting market is very bright, and even can be said to be justified.
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