Smart lighting applications are budding future output is estimated at $8 billion 700 million!

LED light can be used for light treatment, such as the baby can be a moderate amount of blue light treatment of jaundice, the baby does not need to endure such as the sun and other strong light.

In the past, such as the Museum of navigation and acquisition of voice equipment, the future will be the emergence of intelligent lighting positioning technology, automatically broadcast content on the tablet.

The Industrial Technology Research Institute and Changhua Christian Hospital cooperation, LED intelligent lighting combined medical wisdom to Taiwan hospital development.

Industry has become an irreversible trend of the times, in the lighting industry, smart lighting is the main trend of development. The LED lamp as an example, before 2014, the lighting industry development priority to enhance the power, but the power to reach 100 lumens per watt, to enhance the speed of development has slowed, the primary target to expand the application level, and focus on smart lighting related fields.

According to statistics, in 2016, LED light permeability is about 31%, to 2019, LED light permeability prediction is about 49%, already can meet as equals with the traditional lighting, the output value of about $72 billion 600 million, including smart lighting estimated value of approximately $8 billion 700 million, the ratio is only about 12%, still have considerable room for growth.

At present, the ratio of smart lighting used in the commercial market, the domestic market, were 62%, 26%, in a few years, the ratio of domestic market will improve slowly, forecast to 2019, the ratio will be adjusted to 50% and 32%, growth is very obvious.

In fact, the wisdom of lighting can be seen everywhere, people are not strangers. For example, mobile phone through the digital control, control lamp brightness, flash, and some space lighting equipment using infrared detection, when someone enters, immediately open automatically; all the people left when automatically shut down.

However, there is no need for artificial intelligent lighting control, you can accurately perceive the surrounding situation, signal changes, automatically adjusted appropriately. Even people who enter the space of the device's intelligent lighting can release different light according to their state. Therefore, the current wisdom of lighting technology is still in the bud, the distance is still far away from the realm of intelligent lighting.

In recent years, more and more international manufacturers into intelligent lighting technology, application research and development. Due to the wisdom of lighting for the new field, and the number of ICT components, the participants in addition to lighting manufacturers, including many ICT manufacturers, competition is more and more intense, and in the global smart lighting industry supply chain, Taiwan hardware manufacturers also by card, the more advantage in the package side, but in the end is still weak in the lighting.

Another disadvantage is that manufacturers in Taiwan are less adept at creating, imagining, and developing new applications of intelligent lighting. In the foreseeable future, Taiwan should stick to and strengthen the advantages and make up the weak, when wisdom is also expected to become have a brilliant future, lighting lighting industry, new industry ICT.

Intelligent lighting can also be classified as a part of the Internet of things, with the momentum of the Internet of things, the degree of concern is also growing.

Good prospects for indoor positioning applications

According to the definition of the Internet of things, everything can be connected with each other in the network, according to a new generation of Internet Protocol IPV6, can provide 2 of the 128 party website, known as all things even as tiny as a grain of sand, there are. Intelligent lighting to the Internet of things, so that the LED bulb has its Web site, and can form a network, its function is much more than traditional lighting.

In addition to lighting, intelligent lighting can also be used in communications, positioning. In the wireless communication has not yet universal time, the ship docked, the crew have to manually to light through the Moss code, send messages to the port, can be described as visible light communication, visible light communication can help modern electronic help, faster than traditional way 100 million times faster, at the same time that can be more than 100 million times the amount of messages.

In order to communicate with the wisdom of lighting, do not have to turn off the LED lamp, as long as a slight change in the brightness of the bulb sensor can be induced, technically, only to control the current strength, technology is not difficult. Due to the current smart lighting is not widely used in communication, dimming and communication function are 2 days after the wafer will be integrated into 1, the volume and the cost effect.

But, in wireless communication, smart lighting competitors such as WiFi, a large, easily marginalized existing technology, is not easy to catch up from behind. So, for the extension of application of intelligent lighting, ITRI preferred location, especially indoor positioning, and cooperation with the hospital of Changhua Christian Hospital has been developed, the indoor positioning system.

Outdoor positioning has been quite popular, accuracy is also increasing, the highest penetration rate of GPS, but the indoor positioning has just started, and poor accuracy. The most often used in indoor positioning technology, as is WiFi, but its accuracy is only 5 to 10 meters; the principle of smart lighting can be indoor positioning, is that each bulb has address, its accuracy will be increased to 1 meters, greatly reduce the probability of error.

Help the hospital to optimize the service

The Ministry of science and technology project in the Economic Research Institute jointly developed under the support of "nursing shift VLC positioning system of intelligent hospital and Changhua Christian Hospital, to help nurses reduce shift time. Previously, Changhua Christian Hospital Nurse every shift, because of various instruments located in different positions, just count instrument, takes about ten minutes, if things go on like this, the time spent considerable, even more exhausted nurse.

In order to let the nurse shift more smoothly, Akira