Intelligent lighting is not just "LED bulbs"

What are we talking about when we talk about intelligent lighting? First of all, the mind that is sure to be a smart lights. Hue, LIFX, Yeelight, GE, of course, there is a vote in the congregation to raise smart bulbs. What about the smart bulbs?

Apple positioning technology iBeacon

IBeacon is a technology developed by Apple Corp to achieve precise positioning by low-power Bluetooth (BLE) technology. You can receive a range of signal issued by other iBeacons by this equipment, but also can put your information to other users in a certain range passed. All mobile phones equipped with Bluetooth 4 or more can be used as the transmitter and receiver of iBeacon technology.

Beacon means lighthouse, beacon, can be used for positioning, broadcast information. As for why in front of the addition of a I, who let it make Apple Corp agreement. For Bluetooth features, we are most familiar with the way is connected (such as a variety of Bluetooth device connections), but the most used Beacon broadcast function.

Simply put, iBeacon can be positioned (indoor navigation), information collection and push. Many people saw demonstrations, think iBeacon push down is a rich text information (for example, contains a variety of merchandise information like ah), but it's not, we can take it as a spatial location based on two-dimensional code. Sweep the two-dimensional code, people know that the two-dimensional code itself does not contain specific information, but when you scan, it will automatically jump to a web page. Beacon broadcast is such an effect, but omitted scanning such action.

Now there are a lot of foreign retail industry began to deploy iBeacon, such as the Australian retailer Chatswood Chase, France's Les Terrasses Du Port, the U.S. commercial real estate tycoon Simon malls... They all saw the inside of the business, is a line to line extension, can do interactive marketing, retail brand (this the Internet is not always done?) , you can record the user's behavior, trajectory, hotspots and so on, which is definitely rich in big data!

What does this have to do with lights?

Don't worry, iBeacon is just a Bluetooth protocol, and the lights inside the Bluetooth module, it is not a new thing, is it? Next we will talk about, what are the advantages of the light compared to the estimote (which appears in the video, like a button like Beacon device).

The first 4 Bluetooth is low power consumption, but always consumes electric energy, this means that if you deploy an Beacon device in the mall, perhaps half the time you have to replace one, which will consume a large amount of manpower and material resources.

In order to replace the installation of this device is easy to use, are generally used to install the magnetic force, easy to fall or be taken away by the customer, this time there will be a blind spot in your navigation map. The last point is that there is no connection between the Becon device itself, it is easy to be criminals camouflage UUID, resulting in the loss of money. Precisely integrated in the light, you can solve the above problems, and the market itself by a sufficient number of lamps, our company used to call the "light network".

ZigBee, WiFi, Bluetooth?

A while ago the Internet of things for the use of the industry, the hubbub of the uproar, and even a variety of giants to establish their own alliances, such as Nest led Thread (based on ZigBee). After a period of time to think, I gave them a name, called "Trinity", you want to make your things to live up to, the three agreements must exist together.

Specifically, ZigBee is equivalent to the body, blood. Use ZigBee to link hundreds of lights to you and communicate with each other. This is not the time, it is equivalent to a vegetative state, you may be able to control him, but can not do more things. Then you need a sensor like Bluetooth (you can even add a variety of sensors), let it become your eyes, nose, mouth, that is, five sense. At this point you can move, but also the perception of a variety of information, it is not, because you will not deal with this information. So it requires the best WiFi to link to the brain cloud, help you coordinate processing, so that you won't be a son.

In a word to sum up is to use ZigBee composition of the body, Bluetooth constitute five sense, WiFi connected to the brain, only this time, you are alive, in order to be a good, smart, valuable things.

Intelligent hardware is the opportunity or pit?

Now the capital of the pursuit of intelligent hardware, just like the original Internet chase. Of course, they also hope to get the same investment rate of return on the smart hardware. Intelligent hardware is the opportunity or pit? In my opinion, intelligent hardware is still in the pit stage.

First look back at the Internet, mobile Internet features. The essence of the Internet is to connect, connect people, objects, information, to solve the huge information asymmetry in order to obtain benefits. The three giants of the domestic BAT just corresponds to the information, objects, people, they have been a great success. Mobile Internet connected services, such as airbnb, taxi software fast, drops, Uber, buy network, as well as a variety of mobile payments, he has solved a service problem.

Finally, we look at intelligent hardware. Now most of the intelligent hardware is basically a hardware + software model, it can be said that only a more advanced remote control