AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, which is a sign of the rapid leap of AI from independent thinking to deep thinking. The popularity of intelligent lighting comes from the rapid development of artificial intelligence. When artificial intelligence technology is combined with intelligent lighting, there will be many surprises.
Intelligent lighting is a new industry born with the Internet of Things, and a subdivision of the Internet of Things under the influence of the Internet. Intelligent lighting not only has traditional lighting functions, but also can realize automatic interaction, providing a more convenient, safer and more comfortable experience.
The traditional lighting supply chain system has been a self-contained system for a long time, and does not intersect with other categories very much. With the development of the Internet of Things, intelligent lighting systems need to build an integrated system with other intelligent devices and link with other devices. The traditional lighting industry chain is no longer applicable to the intelligent lighting industry that requires highly systematic integration. In the future, traditional lighting should be transformed and upgraded from the current commercial type of lighting fixtures to the system commercial type.
The popularity of intelligent lighting in the past year or two stems from the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Not long ago, AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, which is a sign of the rapid leap from independent thinking to deep thinking in artificial intelligence: machines, like human brains, have the ability to think deeply, they will learn and upgrade themselves, and make judgments and predictions about what happens in the process of continuous learning. When we combine these cutting-edge technologies to look at intelligent lighting, there will be many surprises.
At present, the rapid iteration of robot, language recognition, image recognition, natural language processing and other technologies have provided significant technical support for intelligent lighting.
In the intelligent lighting system of Sengled Shengdi Smart, music, face recognition, thermograph analysis and other technologies are integrated into LED lamps, so that lights have multiple "high IQ" functions such as automatic statistics, automatic recognition, behavior analysis, and will provide deeper system applications based on these functions.
Intelligent lighting does not exist independently. It will become a part of smart city and smart home throughout our work and life.
Smart city is a new concept in the process of urban development, but the construction of smart city involves all aspects, and it is difficult to establish an effective and unified overall planning mechanism nationwide. As the infrastructure of a city, lighting will effectively promote the construction and development of a smart city if it can achieve intelligent connectivity first.
In addition to focusing on the smart life brought by high-tech, smart cities also pay attention to the sustainable development of social economy. Smart lighting will help reduce energy consumption and facility maintenance costs, and help smart cities.
The reduction of energy consumption is mainly due to the fact that the intelligent lighting system can make good use of natural lighting. Different locations in the city have different lighting needs due to different weather, seasonal changes, and even different environments such as trees and buildings around street lamps. If the lights are turned on and off at the same time in the whole city, it will not only cause a lot of unnecessary energy consumption, but also cannot meet the lighting needs of all regions. The intelligent lighting control system can solve this problem.
The M2M technology can also be used to monitor and remotely control the lighting facilities. When there is a problem with a street lamp, the node will send a fault message to the control center. After the control center receives the location message, it will immediately send operators to the accident site, avoiding the time and cost of troubleshooting.
An important aspect of building a smart city is to ensure public safety. In terms of security monitoring, it can be achieved through the combination of intelligent street lights and high-definition cameras. Through the communication between the RFID chip installed on the public facilities and the nearby street lamp post, analyze the geographical location of the public facilities, link with the management background, and then jointly conduct video capture and recording on the site, so as to timely release information and warn of accidents.
If the camera can upload data to the cloud platform for storage and analysis, it will provide strong video evidence when tracking criminals. In addition, building a smart city can analyze the road conditions through the analysis of these video data, providing more convenient information for drivers and travelers.
When intelligent lighting is gradually popularized in urban infrastructure and the technology is further mature, more business places begin to pay attention to its application value, such as large office buildings or shopping malls and supermarkets.
The original intention of intelligent lighting is to meet the needs of people. On the one hand, the use of intelligent lighting systems in business buildings can reduce energy consumption, help enterprises save costs, and more importantly, it is a humanistic care.
After the intelligent lighting system is adopted, the system will automatically switch between various working states according to the situation. For example, in the morning, when there is plenty of light in the day, the system will dim or turn off the light; In the area near the window, the system will intelligently use the outdoor natural light.
Similarly, when the weather is clear, the indoor light will automatically dim; When the weather is dark, the indoor lights will turn on automatically; When night falls, the system will automatically enter the evening working state, and automatically and slowly adjust the lights in each area. In this way, the staff in the building can be in a comfortable light environment for a day.
Different from the business building, shopping malls and supermarkets hope to get more traffic through intelligent lighting. Undoubtedly, good lighting can create a warm and comfortable environment and affect customers' shopping mood. However, light alone is not enough. Only by linking the intelligent lighting system with other systems, such as the indoor environment regulation system, can we work together to improve the shopping mall environment. For example, when the number of people in the shopping mall increases, people will feel irritable and stuffy. At this time, by adjusting the light color (using a cooler tone), and at the same time, jointly adjusting the temperature of the air conditioner and the temperature in the market room, customers will have a better shopping experience.
Compared with the field of public facilities and business, the application of intelligent lighting in home is still very limited, and it can even be said that the road to home has encountered a bottleneck. There is still a long way to go before intelligent lighting can reach millions of households. In order to ignite this huge market, an excellent product is particularly important. Because only products that directly hit consumers' pain points can change users' cognition, cultivate their habits, and let consumers open the market themselves.
Intelligent lighting products have two important points to catch consumers' eyes.
First, people first and experience well. Intelligence can add to the cake, but it can't provide timely help. If a manufacturer of intelligent lighting equipment makes products that are not even good at basic lighting experience, what's the use of being smart?
In addition, most smart home products at present will fall into the blind pursuit of "intelligence" in the early stage of development, that is, the blind superposition of functions and the setting of chicken ribs out of curiosity will make consumers roast constantly and feel that they have spent unjustly. Therefore, in the future, intelligent lighting products with smooth operation, high efficiency, energy saving, health and comfort, and focus on visual physiology will become the mainstream. Smooth operation means that there will be no conversion jamming, unstable light source and other phenomena that affect the user experience during use; High efficiency and energy saving means that the lamps can save power and energy through light intensity conversion, pedestrian lights off and other functions; Health and comfort means that the lamp can create a light environment that conforms to the visual physiological characteristics according to the environment of the household head.
As a component of smart home, intelligent lighting must have artificial intelligence, which can be said to be the soul of smart home, if you want to make smart home products truly a demanding market. We can see the clues from the strategic layout of the giant.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple, the world's four major technology companies, are actively promoting smart home. Amazon Echo is like the "Trojan Horse" we are familiar with. It uses wireless speakers as its cover. In fact, it can control your smart home products, including lights, thermostats, and door locks, depending entirely on your voice commands. Echo began to control the smart home from the light bulb.
The competition in the smart home and smart speaker market has already started. With the official debut of Apple HomePod, the competition has become more intense. Basically, the entire smart speaker market was opened by Amazon Echo, and then Google joined it with Google Home. Now Apple officially released HomePod on WWDC 2017, and the three major products have formed a powerful situation.
In a word, intelligent research around human experience will become the mainstream and will be the development direction of intelligent lighting for a long time in the future.
Summary: Although intelligent lighting has not yet formed a large-scale national consumer market, as long as the intelligent lighting industry complies with the trend and continues to work hard, it can develop more excellent products close to the actual needs. The emerging smart lighting is a better access to smart homes, smart cities and the Internet of Things. Its huge energy will not only bring innovation to the entire lighting industry, but also have a great impact on lighting related industries.