PHILPS lighting lit the world, leading the next phase of smart city

Smart city is the trend of global development, in 2017 in Taiwan, China held a smart city exhibition, from Holland's PHILPS to share their cooperation with countries in the case of the city. At present, there have been more than 36 countries, more than and 800 city lighting CityTouch PHILPS networking use wisdom, deep throughout the city to help the government to grasp the real-time traffic and public security units, energy management, and achieve sustainable development.

Connected lighting

2006 to 2030, the global lighting consumption will increase by 70%, while lighting electricity will account for about 19% of global electricity consumption, especially in urban areas. Intelligent lighting system can reduce carbon footprint and environmental damage, and improve the quality of living, and even promote the development of the industry. In the smart city forum, general manager of PHILPS lighting China and vice president Selwyn Jonker said, PHILPS lighting will expand to the innovation in the field of the Internet of things, in the streets, public landscape, sports venues and indoor lighting four are developed for exclusive technology. Such as the application of indoor office PoE (Power over Ethernet) intelligent networking lighting system, so that each LED lights are connected to the network, has its own IP address, through mobile App, according to the staff of the position adjustment of lighting and temperature, effectively reduce the energy consumption of idle space.

Also like in the tunnel space, through the LED lighting system intelligent networking, can provide different illumination at each time point and position, to save more than 50% electricity, but also can improve the driving comfort of human eyes, to strengthen the safety of tunnel. Jonker said that in the future, the Internet will become more than the Internet of things, but also a huge network system, from the home, office space to the city, because of the optical networking and have more intelligence.

The Selwyn Jonker that PHILPS lighting to assist the city intelligent target, provided in the streets, public landscape, sports venues and indoor lighting solutions etc..

CityTouch solution wisdom, open and safe

In the forum, PHILPS lighting global intelligence street lamp series Dr. Peter Zink mentioned that the modern development of smart city, often encounter challenges such as efficiency, power consumption, environmental pollution and budget. In addition to the effective planning of lighting systems, more attention must be paid to the collection of data and information, as well as real-time monitoring functions, which is an important opportunity for the birth of CityTouch.

CityTouch is a cloud platform, with wisdom, openness, security, the 3 main features, and these features are covered by the 3 software and hardware level. In the web interface of the CityTouch, the user does not need to set up complex and additional network equipment, as long as the use of the exclusive account password can login operation. The hardware part, due to the adoption of the external connection of the installation module and LED lamps combined, so that the urban lighting can be quickly replaced by CityTouch intelligent street lamp management system.

In the face of the lamp suppliers from around the world, PHILPS also provides CityTouch Ready Partner lighting lamp lighting plan, let the wisdom of suppliers can be equipped with CityTouch system, but also through the open API, to allow the software to keep update.

As for the security problem of many users concerned, Dr. Zink said that the mobile communication module CityTouch with built-in SIM chip, using low transmission demand 3G band, compared to the general fixed network or Wi-Fi transmission is safe. In addition, PHILPS lighting every year to invite hackers to try to invade and crack CityTouch system, and then put forward suggestions for them to strengthen and upgrade to protect the security of the system.

CityTouch allows street lights, surveillance cameras and traffic signals to exchange information with each other, and can be monitored and managed through a single platform. Like in a traffic jam, or is involved in a car accident scene mob to strengthen lighting, help avoid driving risk, make more clear picture of the surveillance camera. In addition, through data collection and analysis, but also in the area of high crime rates in the night to improve the brightness of the street, to protect public safety.

PHILPS lighting has the wisdom of the city in the "city of wisdom exhibition lighting solutions.

Dr. Zink interview - Taiwan's blueprint for the smart city

Dr. Zink shared with us the successful case of Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and Jakarta city. In Jakarta, PHILPS lighting in cooperation with the local government, took only 7 months time, it set up the wisdom of street lights 90 thousand. In the future, in Taiwan, China, PHILPS lighting will become more and more like a "service provider", continue to provide different solutions.

"Chinese in Taiwan science and technology development has a certain basis, not only the Internet penetration rate is high, people are willing to accept new technology, PHILPS hopes to borrow from the smart lighting technology, monitoring city and master all kinds of data, promote the public security and traffic on the one hand, on the other hand also save system maintenance, manpower and energy consumption. "Dr. Zink," the wisdom of the city's development is related to the whole country and the industrial chain, need to build other areas within the industry manufacturers, through government co-ordination complete ecological system, all kinds of wisdom device used in people's life. It is understood that the Chinese government in Taiwan and PHILPS have also begun to study the possibility of cooperation.

Finally, he also mentioned that, if in Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung three metropolitan areas in terms of size, because the infrastructure is already reaching perfection, as long as you have the manpower and resources allocation, than in Jakarta