Smart lighting will become the dominant lighting

As a semiconductor device, LEDs make it possible to use digital lighting and networked applications. Intelligent lighting not only provides lighting, but also provides management and monitoring functions.

According to Ma Wei, director of the Technical Center of the Institute of Optical Environment Design, Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Planning & Design Institute, the digital and Internet technologies in the field of lighting are mainly to improve the level of lighting control, thus making the maintenance and management of lighting facilities more convenient. Lighting control from the earliest three remote (remote control, remote signaling, telemetry), to the future of the Internet of Things, and then to the current cloud control, digital, intelligent become more and more dominated by lighting.

Smart lighting improves management

The concept of intelligent lighting does not take a long time. It generally refers to a control system made up of technologies such as wireless communication, power carrier, intelligence, and information processing. The emergence of intelligent lighting also brought with it real-time monitoring, regional management, mode management, intelligent early warning, GPS positioning, anti-theft monitoring and other supporting functions.

Ma Yong said that intelligent lighting can achieve remote control, such as the use of mobile phones to control the lights at home, go out and forget to turn off the lights, you can check on the phone, and switch lights control. Intelligent lighting can also be combined with other controls to play a greater role, for example, half an hour before returning home, you can turn on air conditioners and water heaters. Focusing on smart lighting, a complete smart home system can be constructed to provide us with a more comfortable living experience.

In addition to improving the quality of people's lives in the home area, the management efficiency of smart lighting in the commercial sector is even more evident. Taking road lighting as an example, in previous urban street lamp management, people must be sent out every day to check whether the lamps are damaged. Now, with the feedback of the control system, it is possible to know exactly which lamp has failed, which will save manpower and increase maintenance. Management efficiency.

Ma Yun disclosed that we are compiling the “Regulations on Energy Management of Urban Lighting” and that all districts and counties in Beijing need to conduct energy consumption statistics. Intelligent lighting can provide energy consumption reports and improve the management level of functional departments. These intelligent lightings can be rewired, which facilitates the integration of old and new lighting control systems.

Intelligent lighting makes the design more spacious

The emergence of intelligent lighting on the one hand makes the light break through the limitations of lighting, on the other hand it also provides a richer possibility for the innovation of lighting design. The new term of intelligent lighting design has also emerged. Ma Yong believes that the more important role of intelligent lighting is to make the design of a broader space, can bring greater breakthroughs in city night lighting. She used the lighting design of the banks of the Nanchang River as an example to explain that because of the emergence of smart lighting, 300 buildings on both banks could be linked. The lighting system has the difference between a weekday mode, a holiday mode, and a major holiday mode. When the weekday mode is stationary, during festivals and major holidays, the LED lighting device on the facade of the building presents different scenes under the control of the intelligent control system. For example, there are waterfalls that show the local natural scenery, and the local culture of sunset and so on. .