Smart lighting: lighting fixtures will enter the “remote control era”

Experts predict that in the near future, smart lighting will replace general lighting and become the cutting-edge mainstream product in the lighting industry. Lighting products will enter the “remote control era”. Do not touch the switch by hand, just gently press the remote control, the lights can be automatically switched, you can not sleep out of bed when the lights off. At the recently held Guzhen Lamp Fair in Guangdong and Shenzhen International Lighting Fair, a new type of “fool” type smart home lighting system produced by 100% lighting has attracted attention of the public. .

This year's major exhibitions, many companies introduced new smart lighting products, the appearance frequency of smart lamps has been greatly increased compared with previous years, and the scientific and technological content is getting higher and higher. At the Olympic Science and Technology Outlook Forum, smart lighting was put on the agenda. The Ministry of Construction requested that in 2010, 60% of domestic large and medium-sized cities be intelligent. The relevant Shanghai municipal department decided that when the peak of electricity consumption is used in summer this year, streetlights on the main roads in the city center should be equipped with energy-saving intelligent lighting systems. All indications indicate that the smart lighting market will be more optimistic. Remote control has become an important symbol of the remote control era.

It is reported that although smart lighting technology has considerable complexity, there are at least three to four companies that have reached a practical level in domestic technology. Companies engaged in intelligent lighting abroad, such as Lutron in the United States, Bunge in Australia, and Thorn and ABB, have also completed technological breakthroughs long ago. Technology: Obvious advantages of wireless network It is understood that the application of modern technologies such as PC, IC, and IT in switching technology can add new functions such as wireless remote control and stepless brightness adjustment to lighting fixtures. Intelligent lighting control technology should also be applied. And students. At present, in the market, from the perspective of the composition of lighting control systems, there are bus types, power line carrier types, and wireless network types. From the perspective of technology development, wireless network technology has unique advantages. In recent years, it has been rapidly developed in the IT field and has become a new hot spot in the IT industry and the semiconductor industry.

Smart lighting: lighting fixtures will enter the “remote control era”

It is reported that ST semiconductor, an internationally renowned semiconductor manufacturer, is preparing to launch a control chip dedicated to light control combined with wireless RF functions. Intelligent lighting control system products using wireless network technology have recently appeared in front of consumers. The MCO smart scene lighting control system launched by Germany's Magoy recently entered the Chinese market. The intelligent characteristics of its products are mainly manifested in the following aspects: The function of adjusting and controlling the combined light according to the scene is realized; the personalization setting is realized: “watching TV”, “guest reception”, “dinner” can be set. , "lighting away from home" and other light scenes, switch mode can choose computer, remote control, touch button switch, infrared automatic sensor switch and other ways to carry out one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one flexible control of lighting scenarios; The stepless brightness adjustment and automatic delay function of the system lamps, the memory function of the power failure state and the locking function of the switch state make the system more safe and reliable. Price: There is still a lot of space. The current price of smart lighting is relatively high, which is an important factor in the difficulty of entering the homes of ordinary people. It is understood that the most expensive home smart lighting is currently a foreign brand, about 1,000 yuan / road, generally three bedrooms and one living room, requiring 20 roads. That is, an intelligent lighting system requires 20,000 yuan. At present, the normal price of domestic smart lighting products is about one hundred to two hundred yuan, but the current product promotion efforts are far from enough.

The wireless network lighting control system is a home intelligence network control system that uses radio to communicate. The control signals sent by each system control unit are transmitted by radio waves. Each system control unit receives these propagation information and then follows the system communication protocol. Perform corresponding actions to achieve intelligent network control. As with the power line carrier solution, since there is no dedicated network cable, installation or expansion is very simple. This solution can even use battery power without connecting the power cable, which is very flexible and convenient, and also reduces the overall application cost of the user.