PHILPS lighting design before long: things can be Internet of Light"

Cost at least $5 billion for the new headquarters of apple Apple Campus2 will be opened in 2017, the "space ship" in addition to find British architect Norman Foster (Norman Foster) was also particularly hard, indoor lighting. Among them, responsible for lighting planners, Liechtenstein is the architectural lighting design expert Rogier VandeHei (Rogier van der Heide).

Architectural lighting design expert Rogier VandeHei (Rogier van der Heide)

Fan Dehai is currently the fort ord (Zumtobel Group) group design and marketing, a former Philips Lighting Company (Philips Lighting) design, last year by the UNESCO named "international light" (International Light of Year) lighting ambassador.

His lighting design works all over the world, from the Iceland opera house, the overall lighting design plan of Beijing Olympic Stadium, home court Canton Tower, Kaohsiung Dali Fine department stores are in the hand of Fan Dehai, in addition, he is also responsible for the lighting design of Apple retail stores, and 2014 to participate in the new headquarters of lighting planning in 2009.

As long as three light source, you can do indoor positioning

What can be done when the light is connected to the Internet of things? Fan Dehai firmly said: I think the lights and the Internet of things will be merged into a one hundred percent concept. He further explained, if we add a sensor on the lamp, so that the light bulb becomes a little smart, then it can provide us with a lot of information, such as temperature, air pollution index, human dynamics, etc.. Fan Dehai said that people can capture the light through the phone lens, and get a lot of information, not only cheap and safe.

In the application of the building, the lighting can be used for indoor positioning. In general, the building can not be GPS positioning, but as long as my phone can receive three different light sources, you can identify what you are in this building, which room. He said, for example, with the help of light, not only in the event of an emergency, you can quickly rescue the trapped, you can also order a cup of coffee, and let it automatically sent to your office. And Fan Dehai believes that indoor positioning, is the so-called killer applications (Killer App).

"This is actually the two hundred years ago, the sailors on the sea when the basic positioning. When they looked at the stars in the sky, they knew where they were. Fan Dehai said poetically.

IOT can be "Internet of Light"

And as we walk out of the building and come outside, the light can also be a node of information receiving and transmitting.

Fan Dehai said, street lights can be sensed on the road traffic, traffic information collection. "If I go to a European city and want to find a parking space, Google Map won't tell me the answer, but the street light can help me find it. We can collect information through the lights, and then spread to the phone. This would be a great application. He believes that if you understand the potential of the lamp, you can definitely find 200, or even more than 1000 kinds of things. "I like to call it'Internet of Light," he said.

As for the curious Apple's new headquarters, Fan Dehai said he could not say too much low-key design details. But he said that apple is very interested in the topics we are discussing, including embedded lights, sensors and health and welfare of users, etc.. In addition, Fan Dehai also participated in a number of Apple retail store lighting design. He took the apple store in Hangzhou, West Lake, for example, pointed out that they spent a lot of time to research and development, in order to make the inside of the LED lights can not see a bright spot. In addition, the design of the apple store lighting, but also hope that consumers go in, just like Apple's products, like, these designs and not just for lighting, but also to create a space. "

Apple retail store in Hangzhou, West Lake.

So, for the city of Taipei, Fan Dehai can give some suggestions? He said that although the cultural background is different, it is difficult to say anything, but he believes that Taipei can start trying to start networking applications from a small place. For example, if one day after two street, street lamps will automatically extinguish, and in some accident prone areas, lighting can be set to be particularly bright, once the accident, emergency personnel will be easier to rescue. The key is to start from a street, a block began to try things, slowly learn from. "

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