PHILPS sell light transformation to sell lighting services"

According to Taiwan media news is to buy a light bulb "lighting", through the re design of bulb and business model, we can directly buy "lighting services", not only can get more customized services, more power, for the earth to reduce waste and energy consumption, manufacturers also can obtain higher profits.

Taiwan's electricity supply structure is a hot topic of discussion in the community in recent years, no matter what the results of the discussion, energy saving carbon reduction is our consensus.

In all the use of electricity, lighting actually accounted for a large proportion of 17% of the world's energy for lighting, how to develop an innovative business model, how to design lighting, reduce lighting energy consumption and waste, has become a very important issue.

In Taiwan, lighting accounted for the proportion of household electricity, summer time accounted for 1/5, non summer time accounted for more than 1/3. If you can save a lot of lighting electricity, headache for our energy security issues are very helpful.

This problem, LED provides a good solution, because the LED bulbs compared to traditional bulbs to save a lot of electricity, Taiwan's LED production is also among the best in the world. However, in addition to street lamps, Taiwan home LED lighting has not yet taken off, many stores still use the traditional fluorescent lamp, in addition to more power consumption, but also mercury, if the recovery will not pollute the environment.

Why is the importance of electricity saving has been confirmed, but the use of LED bulbs are not popular yet?

Cheap electricity in Taiwan is the most important factor. Cheap electricity so that people do not have enough motivation to save electricity, because it can save electricity is not much. Before the price has been revised, we can refer to the following innovative lighting service model and LED bulb design.

Pay by the use of lighting rental / subscription model is emerging

Turntoo and PHILPS (Philips), BOSCH (Bosch) work together to design a service program "pay-per-lux" (only for your use of light to pay), is designed for commercial building lighting service leasing model. By making full use of natural light, and understanding the lighting needs of users, the design of the consumption of the least energy to make up for the lack of natural light to meet the lighting needs of the part. Users do not have to buy a light bulb, but rent, according to the amount of lighting used to pay, that is, how much to pay.

The Agency of Design (AoD) is also planning a set of LED "Connected Light Bulb lighting service mode for consumers" (and human connection, people pay an annual fee to the bulb) subscription rental model, users can enjoy lighting service customization, more flexible, for example:

In fact, the biggest difference between a LED bulb and a power saving bulb is that if the latter is broken, it is basically a bad one. The components and the LED bulb often broken, it is the power line, through the rental business model, recalled LED lighting, as long as the replacement of power supply, can continue to use, the theory can be 100% recycling.

This allows manufacturers to create profits, from a large number of low-cost sales, to continue to provide better service. Growth is not required to rely on the constant consumption of consumables, the manufacture of products sold - use - discard mode.

Photo AoD design of LED bulbs using modular design, so that the core power supply module can be easily removed, replaced.

Improve the bulb from the source, redesign

In fact, "only for key material recycling of LED bulbs started Connected Light Bulb" mode, but through the layers of the cobwebs and trace the origin, then extended to consumers and manufacturers can create a win-win business model.

"Connected Light Bulb" for product designers, the company's strategic departments, and even the general interest in creativity, innovation, people can provide inspiration?

The current product design, most of them do not systematically consider the necessity of re-use of resources, so even if the implementation of recycling, the material can not be effectively recovered, and become a source of pollution. Therefore, the most effective way is to improve from the source, re design.

Design company AoD through the study to understand that if the LED bulb can not be contaminated in the recycling process, coupled with the growing processing technology, the material can be used in the bulb. The LED technology in the next 5 years, the efficiency can be doubled. That is, with the progress of technology, LED bulbs can be more and more electricity. But not the entire bulb must be replaced, through modular design, as long as the replacement of the core module can achieve a more energy-efficient effect. Manufacturers and people can exchange the old and new styles of LED core modules by mail, so that the results of scientific and technological innovation can be used by consumers faster.

Another little is the use of remote connection technology (IOT), to master the use of LED bulbs, so that manufacturers can know in advance what time the need to replace the bulb, ahead of time to send a new home to the people. More importantly, through the collection of data on the use of these conditions can help designers to design more in line with the needs of the bulb.

Photo vendors and users can exchange the old and new LED core modules by mail.

Understand the structure of the LED bulb and know how to replace the core modules to allow consumers to use the most energy-efficient light bulbs. Next, the need for a different business model, so that the old and new LED core modules can be easily exchanged between manufacturers and users. Lease subscription model