Intelligent Lighting in the Era of Internet of Things: Cross-border Integration and Sustainable Development
Smart cities and smart lighting are high-frequency hot words in recent years. There are inextricable links between the two. In the current era of the Internet of Things, light is not just a function of lighting. It has become a language that connects every corner of the world and conveys information. To build a smart city is inseparable from the development of smart lighting. Compared with the time when it first emerged, smart lighting has already broken through the concept level. Technological progress has never stopped. In the competition among the industry, there are more and more intelligent lighting products on the market.
With the improvement of living standards, the demand for lighting in the market is also increasing, from the simple lighting needs to the pursuit of the harmony between light and human health, light and nature. In the era of the Internet of Things, to achieve a higher level of sustainable development of smart lighting and lighting, cross-border integration is the only way to go.
At the Novo Media Meeting held during the 23rd International Lighting Fair (Guang Ya Exhibition), Yaoming Meng, General Manager of China Lighting Design and Application Department of Signify, shared the company's lighting as an Internet of Things. Under the era of lighting companies for the development of intelligent lighting layout and views: the new era of new lighting under the Internet of Things and technology itself are undergoing new changes, the Internet of Things brings more than just product-level impact, more is Cross-border integration.
Cross-border integration from product and system services
Yao Mengming said that as a lighting company based on IoT, Nuofei will undergo a series of changes at the product level and system service level.
At the product level, Sinomax will use the Philips brand, which has a history of 127 years, and promises to have smart interconnected features for all products by 2020.
At the system service level, Nuonov announced the new Internet of Things platform Interact at this year's Frankfurt trade fair. This unified platform integrates the company's various B2B applications.
In the future, Nuofei hopes to open up platforms, unify standards, and achieve more intelligent lighting through cross-border cooperation with Huawei, China Telecom, China Mobile, Xiaomi, Jingdong, and Alibaba.
Starting from the lighting itself, Yao Mengming pointed out that in the new lighting Internet of Things era, there are three levels of lighting. The first is the most basic lighting level; the second is the network level, mainly NB-IoT, including different communication protocols and network protocols such as LiFi and future 5G applications; the third is the service level, and is based on APP. Platforms such as interfaces or cloud services transmit data and fixture information to cloud platforms or servers. On these three levels, Rannuofei has conducted cross-border integration.
■ Lighting level
According to Yao Mengming, at the level of the most basic product lamps and lanterns, from light sources to lamps and drives, Nuofei has a complete industrial chain. Through OEM channels, Nuofei will provide drivers and modules to other industries to make lamps and lanterns. Partners, and these chips or modules or drivers, will be fully equipped with interconnection capabilities by 2020.
■ Network level
At the network level, Nuofei and Huawei cooperated with NB-IoT. The promotion of the narrow-band Internet of Things streetlight on the CityTouch flex streetlight in China was based on Huawei's chips. In terms of communication service providers, Nuofeifei reached a strategic cooperation with China Telecom Beijing in November 2017. Currently, Nuofeifei is also negotiating with China Mobile on 5G cooperation. At the same time, Nuofei is still a member of the Zigbee Alliance. Philips Hue is a smart home lighting system based on Zigbee.
■ Service level
At the service level, Nuolife builds the Interact platform and transmits data to the cloud or server. It is an ecosystem built from the product side or a complete set of services. The 2018 elite designer event launched by Nuo Qifei at the end of last month aims to integrate wisdom and interconnected lighting into life through cross-border integration, combining the wisdom of interior architects, lighting designers, and home improvement designers. To create the most complete ecosystem.
In addition, regarding cross-border cooperation, Nuofei also cooperated with an American company at the beginning of this year on a smart light pole project. Next, Nuofei will also strive to seek such cooperation opportunities in the Chinese market through other smart lamp poles. The service providers cooperate to create an intelligent platform. It has been said that smart cities began with the development of smart street lamps. Yao Mengming said that this view is largely reasonable. In his opinion, in addition to providing the most basic lighting, the smart road lighting poles can also provide physical carrying platforms and power supplies for the various sensors required by other smart cities. This shows that the wisdom of street lighting and wisdom Light poles are playing an increasingly important role.
The harmonious development of light and people and nature is the development direction of intelligent lighting
In recent years, with the advancement of technology and improvement of living standards, the development of smart cities has taken off, driving the rapid development of urban lighting, including road lighting, landscape lighting, industrial lighting, commercial lighting and home lighting. Based on the sustainable development of man and nature, there is great room for improvement in any area of lighting.
It is understood that the current penetration of smart lighting in the commercial and home areas is not high, still need to promote and promote. In terms of landscape lighting, although major cities have recently launched landscape lighting projects, in fact, landscape lighting should present the historical and cultural characteristics of a city rather than the same one. In addition, light pollution due to improper or excessive lighting also has a negative impact on the health of people and animals and plants.
The direction of development of smart lighting in the new era is to realize the harmonious development of cities, lights, people and nature. With the increase of people-oriented awareness, human lighting has emerged. It is reported that during the Frankfurt show earlier this year, experts and scholars pointed out that it is still too early to realize human factors lighting. Actually, at the end of last year, Nuofeifei installed an LED lighting system for energy company Innogy's headquarters in the Czech Republic, adjusted the lights with the principle of circadian rhythm, and improved the spirit of employees at certain times. This changed with the people's daily routine. The concept of dark illumination is human illumination.
It is even more noteworthy that on May 16th this year, Sinomax launched a new Greater China headquarters building using smart connected lighting technology. The new building demonstrated the use of smart connected lighting technology in various spaces. Human concept of lighting and green health building.
According to Yao Mengming, the lighting scene seen in the office buildings in Greater China represents the development direction of the entire office lighting. The new building uses innovative LED technology and uses different lighting systems to provide lighting scenes with different spectra, different intensities, and different light contrasts over time. He said that this is also the root cause of human lighting. The lighting that people need every day should change with time like natural light, especially in the face of more humanized and healthier environment. The development of human-based lighting is unstoppable.
In fact, regarding the sustainable development of lighting, in addition to dealing with the relationship between light and people, Yao Mengming also mentioned the harmonious development of light and the natural environment. He pointed out that with the acceleration of the process of urbanization and the development of urban lighting, the light pollution phenomenon has become more and more serious, and the protection of animals and plants is often neglected. In this regard, Chenuo Fei also played an exemplary role. In response to the European 2020 strategy, Chenuofei provided some reddish light to a small town in the Netherlands, which helps to protect local rare animal bats. Yao Mengming said that this shows that Sinomax hopes to achieve ecological harmony at all levels. .
The concept of human-caused lighting has been gradually rooted in the hearts of people, and it is believed that the future will gradually be applied to more places. The relationship between light and nature is still the cognition that most people lack. Taking outdoor lighting as an example, especially landscape lighting, in many parts of the world, due to improper lighting and the destruction of the environment where animals and plants grow, how to deal with the relationship between light and nature is also a direction for the development of intelligent lighting.
In general, intelligent lighting has become the general trend for the development of smart cities, and its development direction is to realize the harmonious development of light and people and nature, and realize the sustainable development of lighting. Also as Yao Mingming said, Nuonov will continue to try and work hard in different aspects to create a light environment that is ecologically sustainable.
