Intelligent lighting system heating high integration MCU/ intelligent switch popular

Chen Junhong pointed out that, in the smart lighting system, open wisdom important relationship; different from the traditional power switch, switch to wisdom import MCU, communication, sensing, energy acquisition and high efficiency AC to DC (AC-DC) power management unit, to collect information and instant electricity, energy is collected to the gateway (EnergyGateway) or home display panel (IHD), allowing users with tips from the dynamic management of lighting electricity peak electricity.

On the occasion of the global energy shortage, electricity prices continue to turn up on the occasion, any construction of power and equipment must be in ultra low power and wisdom management direction and incentive related system industry and chip manufacturers to actively develop a new generation of power management, energy acquisition (EnergyHarvesting) and wired / wireless communication technology, and build up smart grid (SmartGrid) and intelligent lighting system, to help users save every cent power.

As a result of the global lighting electricity consumption accounted for the proportion of total electricity consumption has exceeded 20%, the future will continue to rise, so the promotion of intelligent lighting is a priority for governments. Chen Junhong stressed that the wisdom of the switch shipments has reached two billion and five hundred million scale, will become the New Canaan chip manufacturers; especially the wisdom switch because there is no ground, in addition to the general control, communication and sensing element demand, must also use energy acquisition technology emerging to obtain driving elements of power, is expected to open up a new chip industry the blue ocean market.

At the same time, the system also expanded in the lighting solutions, the installation of a wired or wireless communication protocol to support a high degree of integration of MCU, as well as temperature, infrared or optical sensors, and thus to achieve intelligent control. Chen Junhong also revealed that with the establishment of intelligent switch, traditional lighting or LED lighting design can also be changed to take a single FireWire switch, to further improve the heat, reliability, and power consumption and a huge number of lamp socket and other issues.

With the advent of intelligent lighting system design opportunities, many chip manufacturers are coming to grab a cup of soup. Among them, especially in the TI is the most active, long deployment of integration of ZigBee, Sub-GHz, Bluetooth low energy (BLE), wireless local area network (Wi-Fi) or short distance wireless communication (NFC) wireless technology MCU, as well as the integration of power line communication (PLC) of the MCU control module, also has energy collection and a variety of sense the sensor solutions, captured the overall smart lighting market.