Intelligent lighting encounter God Tucao PHILPS Hue into the thief stealing money

Hot topic this week is still around apple iPhone6, Watch or iOS 8, since the heat is not apple, I also take a foot. We'll talk about Apple's partners - PHILPS, specifically, apple HomeKit smart home platform partners, Hue smart bulbs.

Expensive A iPhone6 to buy 4 sets of smart bulbs

Although the new generation of iPhone6 is not listed in the mainland, but the price has become an indisputable fact that the price of 5288 yuan iPhone6 now in the village has been fired on the million, which does not include the big screen iPhne Plus. Even the original 5300, estimated to have started "maishen" to, if you find a iPhone five thousand block and expensive, so you must have realized that the price of smart light bulbs.

In order to Apple HomeKit small partner PHILPS Hue smart bulbs, a price of 1233 yuan, a iPhone can only buy a set of bulbs, how to calculate it seems not very affordable. Forget to tell you that the Hue series includes three bulbs and one adapter. Take a look at your home needs a few bulbs, not enough to sell iPhone cash, home to stay a iPhone control these bulbs is enough.

PHILPS smart light bulb Hue (picture from Smartlife)

I do not want to Tucao smart bulbs, but the price is really some outrageous. If Hue is the price of Apple borrowed light high, look at other brands of smart bulbs, looks like the price is in 100 yuan of above, the relative benefits of the TCP wireless LED bulb price to 106 yuan / month, but it is also set to sell only 675 yuan each.

This insight into the power of the smart bulb it, not to mention the function of these bulbs, just look at the price is definitely not an ordinary people can afford to stay in the upper class is the smart home never fade coat. When ordinary consumers can afford to use the first price 50% to talk about the market.

Smart light bulb function: smart is just a gimmick

Disagreeable conversation half sentence, if you are interested in intelligent lighting, so please continue to look down. Here we explore the function of intelligent bulbs.

By discussion, as well as more direct is tucao. Smart bulbs and ordinary light bulbs, how smart is the key. The previous manual switch lights, to now through mobile phone wireless remote control, this is the biggest change in smart bulbs; if by wired becomes wireless, absolutely live up to this price, a common energy-saving bulb price is 20 dollars, doubling the price of smart bulbs, apparently have more hard skills.

Intelligent bulb brightness adjustment

Intelligent lighting is another significant function to adjust the brightness or color change, most smart bulbs have brightness adjustment function, if you want to change the color into the atmosphere light, I am afraid the price is too high, this also explains why the Hue bulb is so expensive, because it will change color or multi-color flashing switch.

Ambient sensing smart light bulb color change (images from Youku video screenshot)

In short, one hundred yuan smart bulbs basically meet the above two functions: to achieve wireless phone control, support for different brightness adjustment. Maybe you think this is fully meet the needs of the home, but according to the author of this bulb can not be called intelligent. It will not save electricity, it will not switch, rely entirely on mobile phones, rely on personnel control, use a period of time, you will feel more trouble.

What is a smart light bulb?

According to the current operating habits of people, intelligent lighting control can open mobile phone is still a problem, but the real smart bulbs is not required to control the mobile phone, more specifically does not depend on the mobile phone, the operation mode of intelligent induction control zero. The switch on the wall to the phone, which is the 1 era of smart bulbs, and the smart bulb is the voice of the era of the 2 control, the same need to rely on mobile phones, this part of the jump. Real smart 3 era so that the bulb automatically to the environment to make sense, go away, trouble the phone!

Smart bulbs can create cost-effective?

This week, I found a new intelligent lighting, Stack Lighting, Alba lighting, light sensor automatically adjust the brightness according to the ambient light and color, like the smart mobile phone screen brightness automatic regulating function; motion sensors more magical, can automatically judge whether there are people in the room, automatically turn on the lights. As a result, the real realization of intelligent lighting control, just imagine, if all the lights in your home are intelligent, then go where the light, it is a science fiction!

Alba smart light bulb (picture from Lei Feng)

If you install a smart light bulb on a desk lamp, congratulations on the double effect of the bulb, and you will have a healthy sleep. The video from the official point of view, in the morning through the intelligent lighting brightness gradually wake up, wake up more than the traditional alarm for health, you may need to view the principle of "passive wake up against big smart alarm clock this article" wake up scientific way.

Function does not necessarily have a market, the biggest obstacle or price. It is understood, Alba intelligent lighting starter set at $150, including a Hub and 2 type BR30 lighting, single smart bulbs for $60, first do not worry now is Tucao, let everyone know that the official release date to Q1 in the next year, need not to need to have your own say.

I do not have a light bulb with the holiday, the current market is more intelligent light bulbs or gimmicks, features that means you need to dig more