Lighting is about to enter a new era of intelligence

Experts predict that in the near future, smart lighting products will replace ordinary lighting products and become the cutting-edge mainstream products in the lighting industry. At this year's major lighting products exhibition, many companies have introduced new smart lighting products. The appearance frequency of intelligent lamps has been greatly improved compared with previous years, and the technological content is also getting higher and higher.

The so-called intelligent lighting control product is to ensure that the lamp works normally and outputs the best lighting power to the lamp. In this way, the illumination glare caused by overvoltage can be reduced, the light emitted by the light can be softened, the illumination distribution can be more uniform, and the electric energy can be greatly saved. Intelligent lighting control system energy-saving rate of up to 20% ~ 40%.

At present, city managers gradually realize the technical advantages of smart lighting products and begin to promote them in the society. In the Olympic Technology Outlook Forum, smart lighting was put on the agenda. The relevant Shanghai municipal department decided that in the peak season of power consumption in summer, the street lights on the main landscape road in Shanghai downtown should be installed with intelligent control systems.

Lighting products are about to enter a new era of intelligence Although the government has been promoting smart lighting products, smart lighting control technology is complex, and few companies have mastered this technology, such as Lutron in the United States and Bunge, Thorn and ABB in Australia. There are only a few companies that have reached a practical level in China.

From the perspective of the current development of intelligent lighting control technology, various companies apply modern technologies such as PC, IC, and IT in the switching technology, adding new functions such as wireless remote control and brightness stepless adjustment to the lamps and lanterns to facilitate user use.

From the perspective of the composition of the lighting control system, there are currently bus-type, power line carrier type, wireless network type. 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 semiconductor industry.

The wireless network lighting control system is a home intelligent network control system that uses radio to communicate. The control signals sent by each system control unit are transmitted in the form of radio waves. After each system control unit receives these propagation information, it performs corresponding actions according to the system communication protocol to implement intelligent network control.

Like the power line carrier solution, the wireless light control system does not have a dedicated network cable, and installation or expansion is very simple. This solution can also use battery-powered, no connection power cord, very flexible and convenient, but also reduces the user's cost.

Intelligent lighting control system products using wireless network technology have recently appeared to consumers. STMicroelectronics, an internationally renowned semiconductor manufacturer, is preparing to introduce a control chip for lighting control that combines wireless RF functions.

The MCO smart scene lighting control system launched by Germany's Magoy recently entered the Chinese market. Its products have achieved personalized settings. The user can set lighting scenes such as “watching TV”, “visiting”, “dinner” and “away from home”. The switch mode can select computers, remote controls, touch-button switches, infrared automatic sensor switches, etc. One-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-one flexible control of the lighting scene; with stepless brightness adjustment and automatic delay function of the system luminaire, memory function of the power-off state and locking function of the switch state, the system is more safe and reliable.

Industry experts pointed out that the intelligent lighting control system connects an independent control module such as the dimmer module, switching power, scene control panel, sensor and programmer, programming socket, pc monitor, etc. to the computer data line to form an independent lighting control system. The intelligent management and automatic control of the lighting system can be realized, which facilitates the creation of a comfortable lighting environment and is beneficial to people's health. It will become a new trend in the development of lighting technology in the future.