Behind the popularity of artificial intelligence, leveraging innovation in the lighting industry
AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, which is a major sign of the rapid leap of artificial intelligence from independent thinking to deep thinking. The popularity of intelligent lighting stems from the rapid development of artificial intelligence. When artificial intelligence technology is combined with intelligent lighting, there will be many surprising discoveries.
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 achieve automatic interaction, providing a more convenient, safe, and comfortable experience.
The traditional lighting supply chain system has been self-contained for a long time, with little intersection with other categories. With the development of the Internet of Things, intelligent lighting systems urgently need to be integrated with other intelligent devices and linked with them. The traditional lighting industry chain is no longer suitable for the intelligent lighting industry that requires highly systematic integration. The future traditional lighting should be transformed and upgraded to a systematic commercial form from the current commercial development of lighting fixtures.
The popularity of intelligent lighting in the past one or two years is due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Not long ago, AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, which is a major sign of the rapid leap of artificial intelligence from independent thinking to deep thinking: machines, like the human brain, have the ability to think deeply. They will learn and upgrade themselves, making judgments and predictions about what happens through continuous learning. When we combine these cutting-edge technologies to look at intelligent lighting, we will have many surprising discoveries.
At present, the rapid iteration of technologies such as robots, language recognition, image recognition, and natural language processing has provided significant technical support for intelligent lighting.
In the intelligent lighting system of Sengled Shengdi Intelligence, technologies such as music, facial recognition, and heat map analysis are integrated into LED lighting fixtures, enabling lighting to have various "high intelligence" functions such as automatic statistics, automatic recognition, and behavior analysis, and providing deeper system applications based on these functions.
Intelligent lighting does not exist independently, it will become a part of smart cities and smart homes that run through our work and life.
Smart cities are a new concept in the process of urban development, but the construction of smart cities involves various aspects, making it difficult to establish an effective and unified coordination mechanism nationwide. As the infrastructure of a city, lighting, if intelligently connected first, will effectively promote the construction and development of smart cities.
Smart cities not only emphasize the smart life brought by high-tech, but also focus on sustainable socio-economic development. Intelligent lighting will help reduce energy consumption and facility maintenance costs, and assist smart cities.
The main benefit of reducing energy consumption is that intelligent lighting systems can effectively utilize natural lighting. The lighting needs vary in different locations of the city due to weather changes, seasonal changes, and differences in the surrounding environment such as trees and buildings. If the entire city turns on and off lights at the same time, it will not only cause a lot of unnecessary energy consumption, but also cannot meet the lighting needs of all regions. By adopting an intelligent lighting control system, this problem can be solved.
By utilizing M2M technology, monitoring and remote control of lighting facilities can also be achieved. When there is a problem with a street light, the node will send a fault message to the control center. After receiving the location message, the control center will immediately dispatch operators to the accident site, avoiding the time and cost of troubleshooting.
One important aspect of building a smart city is to ensure public safety. In terms of safety monitoring, it can be achieved through the combination of intelligent street lights and high-definition cameras. Through the communication between RFID chips installed on public facilities and nearby street light poles, analyze the geographical location of public facilities, coordinate with the management backend, and jointly capture and record videos on site, timely release of messages and accident warnings.
If the camera can upload data to the cloud platform for storage and analysis, it will provide strong video evidence for criminal tracking. 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.
As intelligent lighting gradually becomes popular in urban infrastructure and technology matures, 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 human needs. Using intelligent lighting systems in commercial buildings can not only reduce energy consumption and help businesses save costs, but more importantly, it is a humanistic care.
After adopting the intelligent lighting system, the system will automatically switch between various working states according to the situation. For example, in the morning, when there is ample light, the system will dim or turn off the lights; In the window area, the system will intelligently utilize outdoor natural light.
Similarly, when the weather is clear, indoor lighting will automatically dim; The weather is gloomy, and the indoor lights will automatically turn on; When night falls, the system will automatically enter the evening working mode and slowly adjust the lights in each area. In this way, the staff inside the building can be in a comfortable lighting environment.
Unlike commercial buildings, shopping malls and supermarkets hope to gain greater foot traffic through intelligent lighting. Undoubtedly, good lighting can create a warm and comfortable environment, affecting the shopping mood of customers. However, relying solely on lighting is not enough. Linking intelligent lighting systems with other systems, such as indoor environment adjustment systems, and working together to improve the shopping mall environment, can truly achieve its effectiveness. For example, when the pedestrian flow in the mall increases, people may feel irritable and stuffy. At this time, by adjusting the color of the lighting (using a cooler color tone), and simultaneously adjusting the temperature of the air conditioning and the indoor temperature of the market, customers can have a better shopping experience.
Compared to the fields 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 furnishings has encountered bottlenecks. There is still a long way to go for intelligent lighting to enter thousands of households. In order to ignite this huge market that is bound to explode, an excellent product is particularly important. Because only products that directly target consumer pain points can change user cognition and cultivate user habits, allowing consumers to open up this market on their own.
There are two crucial factors for smart lighting products to capture the attention of consumers.
One is to put people first and provide a good experience. Intelligence can add icing on the cake, but it cannot provide timely assistance. If a manufacturer of intelligent lighting equipment produces products that do not even provide a basic lighting experience, then what is the use of being so intelligent?
In addition, most of the current smart home products, at the initial stage of development, will fall into the blind pursuit of the word "intelligence", that is, the blind superposition of functions and the setting of chicken ribs out of curiosity make consumers roast constantly and feel that they have spent money unjustly. So in the future, intelligent lighting products that operate smoothly, are energy-saving, healthy and comfortable, and focus on visual physiology will become mainstream. Smooth operation means that there will be no conversion lag, unstable light source, or other phenomena that affect the user experience during use; Energy saving refers to the ability of lighting fixtures to save electricity and energy through functions such as changing light intensity and turning off lights when walking; Healthy and comfortable lighting fixtures can create a light environment that conforms to the visual and physiological characteristics of the homeowner's environment.
Intelligent lighting, as a component of smart homes, must possess artificial intelligence in order for smart home products to truly become a must-have market. Artificial intelligence can be said to be the soul of smart homes. We can see clues from the strategic layout of giants.
The world's four major technology companies, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, are actively promoting smart homes. Amazon's Echo is like the familiar Trojan horse, disguised as a wireless speaker, it can actually control your smart home products, including lights, thermostats, and locks, relying on your voice commands. Echo began to control smart homes, starting with light bulbs.
The competition between the smart home and smart speaker markets has already begun, and with the official debut of Apple's HomePod, the competition has become even more intense. Basically, the entire smart speaker market was opened by Amazon Echo, and then Google joined with Google Home. Now, Apple has officially released HomePod on WWDC 2017, and the three main products have officially formed a strong position.
In short, intelligent research around human experience will become mainstream and will be the development direction of intelligent lighting for a long time in the future.
Summary: Although smart lighting has not yet formed a large-scale national consumer market, as long as smart lighting operators follow the trend and continue to work hard, they can develop more excellent products that are close to real needs. The booming smart lighting is a better gateway for smart homes, smart cities, and the Internet of Things. The enormous energy it contains will not only bring innovation to the entire lighting industry, but also have a great impact on the lighting related industry.