PHILPS lighting: smart lighting is the next step in smart city

In 2016 revenue reached 7 billion 100 million euros, employing 34 thousand employees of PHILPS global lighting, the day before announced to participate in this year's February 21 to 24 in Taiwan held Chinese smart city exhibition, through the new intelligent lighting solutions, provide countries strengthen the foundation of smart city development. In the city streets, indoor space, stadiums, public landscape and other four aspects, PHILPS has been in more than 33 countries worldwide, more than 530 construction area of wisdom networking lighting ecological system, it is worth to pay attention from the industry.

Smart lighting makes urban governance easier

Through the intelligent lighting solutions, lighting networking and other application services, in the streets, indoor, sports venues and public landscape, providing people with a more intelligent lighting experience. Among them, in the city wide distribution of street lamp, smart lighting can help the local management unit immediately grasp the situation in the city, and effectively improve the public security, traffic and energy consumption, so the government or public sector with lower costs, provide more services to meet the public demand. Through the integrated monitoring and management system, can help to grasp the dynamic city, for the first time to exclude criminal and traffic problems in, to reduce the crime rate, enhance public security purposes.

In addition, smart lighting by its wide distribution advantage, collect large amounts of data and analysis, not only can quickly repair in fault, reduce maintenance cost of manpower, more can be transformed into effective information, help planning and urban governance in the future. Finally, the wisdom of lighting can be used to monitor the use of the situation, so that lighting equipment only when needed to provide services, effectively saving 75% of energy consumption, so that the city towards the goal of sustainable development.

Taiwan PHILPS lighting general manager and vice president Yu Yongtao said, the local government of Taiwan China while promoting smart city, but in the main part of the city street lighting, promote the use of LED light source, to achieve the purpose of saving electricity, there is no introduction of smart lighting system. Intelligent lighting can bring more intelligent management of smart city, improve management efficiency and further bring benefits.

Yu Yongtao, general manager and vice president of Taiwan PHILPS lighting

Yu Yongtao said, a city about 4 of the lighting in the use of electricity, so saving energy become one of the driving goal of municipal efficiency, but the traditional street lamp electricity unlike ordinary household electricity meter usage calculation in detail, so the city most of the average electricity consumption calculation of a street lamp, additional electricity to to estimate the overall electricity plus a percentage of the monthly payment to the power company, smart lighting system networking of each lamp can collect electricity, calculate the exact use of electricity.

PHILPS to promote the full range of CityTouch street lighting management system

CityTouch full range of street lighting management system, is a combination of software application interface and the actual lighting equipment, through networking device integration, so that managers can have the ability to control flexible, change the operation mode of city lighting. The ability to automatically detect and repair simple operation interface and real-time remote control, CityTouch provides solutions of wisdom, open, safe, can meet the requirements of the county management unit, residents and street lights maintenance unit demand.

Specifically, there are three advantages:

1, wisdom: automatic detection, automatic return abnormal signal, and can be a single lamp or group adjustment lights;

2, open: to provide an open API, so that lighting devices connected to other devices through the mobile network, and CityTouch and existing urban management system integration;

3, security: the use of network banking and securities with the same level of security protection technology, with end-to-end encryption and dual authentication mechanism to ensure the security of data transmission and storage.

In the western city of Losangeles as an example, many of its population and the street number, need networking system can simple the management and control of lighting, and PHILPS CityTouch to assist the unit to manage each remote networking lighting device, continuous monitoring of lighting condition, reduce the night patrol manpower cost, also shorten the maintenance time of operation, make the city more smooth.

In addition to the above street lighting, PHILPS also provides POE solutions for the interior, combined with power supply and IT lighting equipment, so that the Internet of things combined with lamps, a new era of intelligent lighting.

In the field of public landscape, PHILPS provides ActiveSite solutions to a global framework for remote monitoring systems, maintenance and management of intelligent networking lighting systems.

While the global sports fans love the stadium, PHILPS is using the ArenaExperience solution to the different course, not only to provide professional lighting, stage lighting brings, let the wisdom of lighting closer to people's lives, but also to let the people more sense.

Smart lighting business opportunities gradually take off

LEDinside is also optimistic about the development of intelligent lighting systems in the city, which allows the entire lighting market and platform to get added value and long-term development momentum. Taiwan PHILPS lighting general manager and vice president Yu Yongtao pointed out that the promotion of the market in Taiwan, the present stage is to cooperate with the Taipei municipal government, Taichung Municipal government, is the initial target of comprehensive LED lighting, and smart lighting system and platform is the next stage. At present, the governments at all levels in Taiwan are relatively better in terms of the strategy and development of smart cities and the leading cities in the international market