Smart Lighting: Everything for a Better User Experience

This year, "Internet +" has become a popular word, and intelligent lighting has become one of the applications in "Internet +." The voice has also increased, and applications and activities with the theme of smart lighting and smart lighting have dramatically increased. "Congxi" also caused some investment institutions and large brokerages to focus their attention and attract many cross-border players to create smart lighting industry.

"Three Intelligent Lightings You Can See"

Smart lighting under the Internet+ is more than just a simple lighting. It can fully integrate LED lighting systems with intelligent controls, networks, terminals and applications for the transmission of information and data. This can not only improve people's lives, but also create new commercial value. Intelligent lighting has broken through the limitations of the original lighting, integrated into the digital life, and continuously improved people's quality of life. It can also receive wireless light to access the Internet, prompting the receipt of new messages and e-mails; or through changes in the color of the light, to remind the outside weather and temperature changes.

Currently, there are mainly three types of products that can be combined with smart lighting and the Internet:

1. Intelligent control of lighting products through local area network: This application mode is also the most common case at present. It can control the light through a gateway, a light, a controller + drive or a mobile phone.

2. Smart lighting products that can be remotely controlled: This type of application is mainly based on smart homes. Smart lighting is only part of the smart home, and smart home manufacturers are still in the state of their own. Really realize lighting. The interconnection of products will also have some way to go.

3. Visible light communication: A kind of technology that utilizes the light to surf the net, namely LIFI, many countries are making great efforts to study, our country is increasing R&D intensity too, deserve attention.

"For a better user experience"

So, for major companies, they want to be smart connected lighting as soon as possible into the homes of ordinary people. In addition to product price factors, I believe that the standardization of home intelligence gateways has also become a necessary prerequisite.

Smart gateways play an important role in lighting systems. Smart lighting uses existing computer network technology to connect various lamps and lanterns, and can realize unified control and management of lighting lamps and lanterns through the network. Intelligent gateway is the internal transmission and control center of intelligent lighting network and directly determines the intelligent lighting network. Can it be established quickly? The gateway provides a foundation for lighting network construction. It is understood that the topic of smart gateways was discussed more than 10 years ago. Today, a variety of gateway products have emerged in an endless stream. Recently, there has been a so-called omnipotent "magic box," but it still seems to be tepid. The situation, I think, is mainly because there are too many product types and there are no uniform standards for interfaces, and ordinary families will not use them.

Imagine that assuming that all manufacturers can use the unified standard to create smart lighting home gateway scenarios, terminal equipment manufacturers do not have to bother to think about how the device is connected to the user's mobile phone, and then develop a gateway application or mobile phone APP. The product is sold everywhere; at the same time, the user does not have to worry about the terminal product that he wants to use. For example, if you take a look at a very novel, discolored Hue LED light from Philips, you can buy it immediately, plug it in after you go home, and then install a manufacturer's APP on the gateway to set the control parameters (including setting various Natural colors, etc.) You can immediately enjoy the endless fun of wonderful lights. Just like you bought a CD and went home and enjoy the wonderful music in your home theater. However, if the gateway cannot be unified and it is inconvenient to access and operate, there will be no such extreme experience.

In addition, companies can now try to develop an extension-type growth model, relying on resource integration, and cooperating in groups. For example, in the way of layout development, they can conduct in-depth cooperation with related companies such as telecom operators and e-commerce home appliances. Alliances, agreements, investments, bundled cooperation, and other forms of real interconnection and interchange.

Tongfang Lighting has also increased R&D investment in intelligent lighting and is pushing smart LED light components. It can also achieve network control.

Therefore, this is an era of user experience. Intelligent lighting must be based on the user's point of view. For example, users want smart lighting to be opened just like a faucet. Simple and complex, this is more conducive to the popularity of LED smart lighting, which is also the ultimate goal of intelligent lighting practitioners to achieve.