Key vendors lighting and smart city development trend -- LEDinside

The recent international lighting giant Philips and LEDVANCE have entered the transition period in the process of enterprise, after all product portfolio adjustment, factory layoffs, stop the traditional lighting related work and focused on smart lighting items etc.. The move is not a coincidence, but in under the new trend of decision making.

Considering the factors behind the strategy manufacturers are mainly two: intelligent lighting and building energy-saving living environment. They signed with international treaties and policies, plans to gradually abolish the traditional mercury lighting related manufacturing; more importantly, they plan to develop smart lighting as a basis for future all things.

The future, whether it is domestic, commercial and industrial lighting will be intelligent; however, after many speed faster than the progress of home. For the majority of consumers, they are for smart lighting, Home Furnishing words without a sense of relative wisdom, to encourage consumers to use smart lighting at home to cause more powerful, probably from the outside world (for example: the wisdom of the city extension or consumer policy); intrinsic demand (for example: with the high-speed transmission of light information).

In contrast, in the commercial and industrial lighting market, demand is the rapid growth of smart lighting. This is not only because of the convenience and help control obvious factors, but also because in the era of things in the process to some extent, enterprises have the necessity to introduce the smart lighting. And because of this, energy saving products and services and government subsidies have emerged.

In the promotion of networking and wisdom of the city lighting manufacturers, LEDinside will make a summary for the three key industries and the introduction of a representative firm.

The Lighting Sector: Philips, LEDVANCE, LIFX, Acuity Brands, Lite-On

Lighting industry: Philips, LEDVANCE, LIFX, Acuity, Brands, Lite

Philips Lighting was noted in the published last month earnings in smart lighting and commercial lighting has a significant growth in revenue, the company will also notice the CEO name, the new name will be more prominent in the investment Philips intelligent lighting products and services to. Philips Hue intelligent lighting company launch will lay ahead in the field of intelligent lighting Home Furnishing status; CityTouch network management platform for outdoor lighting project global nearly 1000 city are visible Philips launch.

In addition to the recent restructuring and announced that it would make snap to focus on smart lighting R & D international companies is LEDVANCE. In the name of Smart+ series of intelligent products, intelligent Home Furnishing app Homekit products and Apple are half with the other half, you can use the Zigbee network control technology. For the wisdom of the lighting, but could not see it in the consumer market demand rise significantly, LEDVANCE is aware of the current problems of intelligent lighting will sell products directly to end consumers. Therefore, with the product easy to install, do not need to bridge network two selling points, LEDVANCE in addition to the development of intelligent lighting products, efforts to improve public awareness and interest in the smart lighting.

Of course, Apple was selected as a partner is not easy, this is also a considerable degree on behalf of manufacturers have a certain level of product specifications. Lighting manufacturers in addition to LEDVANCE and LIFX. The five year old American company has successfully launched 12 models in more than 80 countries with Wifi networking LED smart bulbs.

The United States industrial lighting factory Acuity Brands can not only provide indoor and outdoor lighting, also provide lighting control system, its Atrius IoT intelligent service platform through the light and sensor control in space can help enterprises to improve effective management, management mode. In addition, Acuity Brands also like Johnson Controls cooperation and energy company, will use their own smart streetlights in multiple smart city project.

Taiwan Lite is manufacturer announced in August last year to join the history of Denver Digital City Alliance Program, committed to developing with wisdom, street lighting wireless communication and intelligent monitoring of the three functions of city facilities. So now in addition to Lite lamps, also developed intelligent monitoring scheme and the use of camera and communication module collocation.

Control system: networking and communication technology, Silver Spring Networks, Digital Lumens networking

Networking technology is definitely a big part in smart lighting and IoT. Can let the device mutual message transfer technology is too many, according to the different transmission distance, location, safety, energy saving and with the amount of data, various manufacturers and Union developed multi specification communication technology.

Take Z-wavw, a low-power RF communication technology is mainly used in home automation, with low delay, can transfer a small amount of data with the highest rate of 100kbps. Because of its main frequency less than 1GHz (sub-1GHz band), Z-wave communication technology can not interfere with other bands, such as 2.4GHz Zigbee and Bluetooth, so that users can use more than one communication technology in the same space.

Support IPv6 Thread, similar to Z-wave, is also a smart home wireless network, and the members of the alliance include Osland, developer Thread NXP, Qualcomm and Johnson Controls, also at the end of last year with the Zigbee camp to launch cross network IoT language Dotdot.

More detailed communication technology [see: LEDinside: development of LED intelligent lighting market for 2017-2020 years and the trend of change of communication technology]

City networking project development company Silver Spring Networks, recently by the U.S. technology company Itron acquisition, outdoor wireless mesh network with the main R & D smart city. Among them, Starfish network platform has been in North America, Europe and Asia are used in many places, the opening of the public cloud thousands of installations and facilities from independent cloud connected in series.

Here we introduce another development of commercial / industrial network company, is before the OSRAM to buy Digital Lumens. At first, the company's main manufacturer / lighting industry, was involved in the development of lighting control software. SiteWorx, LightRules two and Digital Lumens software can achieve the digital control with their lamps, lighting, sensor and safety monitoring camera.

The integration of energy services (end energy company): Johnson Controls, SIEMENS

Planning and implementation of such scheme is to create a smart building and smart city finally a key, and here the most important role is the energy company (ESCOs), the source of customers in addition to private enterprises and government agencies. Energy companies to help customers by calculating the most effective energy saving scheme, through coordination and communication after the implementation of the contractor, to achieve the ultimate goal of energy saving and reducing energy expenditure. In the planning of several such programs - is nothing more than lighting control system or other facilities to replace and upgrade project - they will be outsourced to relevant vendors to perform.

The business model and the case more energy companies to see that the On the Way to Smart Cities: Explore ESCO s Role with Johnson Controls] "

Surge and climate change in the population of the city makes the importance of energy, more and more high. The world's major energy companies are: North America - Johnson Controls and Honeywell Blue and DESL Star; India; Chinese - Energy Group (CET); and the European headquarters is located in SIEMENS. They operate in various modes but most of all to help customers save energy expenditure standards as the goal, and the money saved will be the cost of the project.

Many studies have pointed to 2050 the world will have more than 70% people living in the city, then the city will increase energy consumption. Between government and enterprises are trying to find the method to solve the problem of excessive energy consumption and population growth caused by problems.

It also explains why smart lighting in industrial and commercial market in large scale. However, in the future, home lighting will gradually promote the wisdom in these companies under the.

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