Intelligent lighting leads the industry to a higher level

"Compared with traditional lamps and energy-saving lamps, the characteristics of LED can only fully reflect its value through intelligence." This sentence with many experts' wishes gradually entered the stage of practice. Since 2012, the LED industry has experienced a downturn in the ups and downs and this year the market has gradually improved. Under the bright momentum, the development of the LED industry has also made great progress.

Since the beginning of this year, various manufacturers have begun to pay attention to the intelligence of their products. Although before this, intelligence has always been a hot trend in the industry, smart lighting has entered the Chinese market since the 1990s. Consume awareness, market environment, product prices, promotion efforts, and other restrictions have been slowly developing.

Different from the past, due to the rapid development of LED indoor lighting, this year, "intelligent" is more grounded gas. For indoor lighting, one of the unique advantages of “intelligent” is to create a comfortable and energy-saving lighting environment through intelligent control. The relevant person in the industry stated that after 3-5 years, when the LED light efficiency reaches the limit of use, the energy-saving effect is not Then there is the ultimate interest appeal point of LED lighting. Future LED lighting competition is more reflected in the intelligent demand.

　 All manufacturers have shot "smart cards"

In fact, many international first-line lighting brand enterprises have begun to lay out the market for intelligent control products.

Last year Osram targeted LED lighting control solutions through the acquisition of Encelium Technologies, Inc., a state-of-the-art lighting control software system for commercial buildings. In recent events, OSRAM has introduced hundreds of lighting products and solutions to the industry. Its exhibits include a series of smart and efficient LED lighting solutions. OSRAM's smart technology is more widely used in large buildings and outdoor spaces. OSRAM's latest display of Traxon's ultra-bright media building facade solution “IMAGICWEAVEHO” can transform large building facades into media presentation facades. The solution is unique in that it can provide three different brightness configurations, suitable for all types of locations.

Philips is not inferior to other manufacturers in smart lighting. In the intelligent lighting control system, Philips provides people with unlimited imagination about future lighting. Through intelligent control, more humanized lighting effects can be created, providing more convenient and effective lighting management.

“The development of digital lighting provides a brand-new and broad stage for intelligent control. Philips Lighting is leading this innovative trend in the world, providing consumers with a new home lighting experience, providing integrated lighting for professional lighting customers. The solution is to promote the accelerated development of Philips lighting business,” said Chandra Vaidyanathan, vice president and general manager of Greater China Lighting Solutions, Philips Lighting Solutions.

Not only the lighting brand manufacturers in the smart innovation, NXP is focusing on semiconductor drive ICs are also actively exploring new markets for smart lighting, NXP Semiconductors (Beijing) Co., Ltd. Greater China lighting market product manager Zhang Weichao that smart lighting future The focus of development is the business model.

Because of the cost of LED lighting itself and the additional cost of smart lighting, people's acceptance of LED smart lighting largely depends on the promotion of business models. NXP hopes that its intelligent lighting system will be applied to all office lighting in China, such as indoor rooms, conference rooms, etc., to provide office workers with healthy, comfortable low-carbon office life. Second, it also includes some high-end residential bedroom lighting. As a semiconductor manufacturer, NXP hopes to try its best to reduce costs in ICs, hardware, and software.

Every year, billions of chips are sold, and Marvell, the world's leading semiconductor company, believes that the LED lighting industry should support smart and energy conservation. Lance Zheng, Marvell's technical marketing director of green technology products, introduced that from the product level, the demand for dimming and intelligent lighting products in Europe and the United States is more. From the perspective of the entire market, the difference in the cost of dimming and non-dimming continues to shrink, and the market is huge, especially intelligent dimming.

Marvell has just launched a new program this year, narrowing the gap between smart dimming and non-dimming costs to less than $2. After a year or two, the cost difference will be close to 1 US dollar. He said that not only the foreign markets will develop, but the domestic market will also expand rapidly.