LED lighting "smart" struggle to search up and down

Since 90s, the intelligent lighting industry has entered the Chinese market since the last century, it has been in a slow development trend, which is restricted by the market awareness, market environment, product price, promotion and other aspects.

A unique advantage of LED products for home lighting is to create a comfortable and energy-efficient lighting environment through intelligent control. "LED with its light source characteristics determine its future direction of intelligent lighting. Xu Chen, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Institute of standardization, said Dr. LED, 3-5 years later, when the LED light efficiency reached the limit, the energy saving effect is no longer the final appeal of the interests of the lighting point. The future of LED lighting competition is reflected in the demand for more intelligent.

In recent years, many international lighting brand companies have begun to layout sensing, communications, multimedia and other intelligent control areas. As early as the first half of 2011, PHILPS lighting has joined Bayer to join the eco business building plan. Through cross - domain cooperation, the program provides a comprehensive service and material solution for the construction industry decision makers in the construction of public and commercial sustainable buildings. At the same time, OSRAM also last year, through the acquisition of EncELium Technology (the company has sophisticated commercial building lighting control software system), targeting LED lighting control solutions. At present, although there are some domestic enterprises launched a smart lighting products, but most of them only stay in a simple dimming color.

In fact, the concept of intelligent lighting is far more than this.

Xu Chen said that the concept of intelligent lighting there are two: first, through the sensor to change the light, so that the light to adapt to people; the two is to light as the transmission medium, as an acceptable body. Intelligent lighting is not only to change the luminous body, but the communication, sensing, cloud computing, networking and other modern technologies into which the light is not just the effect of light.

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Currently on the market, intelligent lighting products mainly through the use of power supply control functions to achieve intelligent effects, the technology itself is not difficult. At the same time, the domestic market demand for LED intelligent lighting is not high. Engineering LED Industry Institute (GLII) survey data show that the current domestic intelligent LED lighting penetration is still less than 2%, and the product is mainly reflected in the application of light adjustable LED landscape lamp, adjustable color temperature LED lamp and monitoring etc..

At present, the domestic enterprises on the research of intelligent lighting, mainly in the LED adjustable light toning lighting products, truly systematic LED intelligent lighting manufacturers rarely. "Zhang Longxin said, the current domestic LED lighting business understanding of the concept of intelligent domestic enterprises is not thorough, the blind pursuit of intelligent, focusing on the immediate interests; while the international intelligent understanding, mainly from the coordination of people and the environment as the starting point.

Energy saving and environmental protection, but the market is no lack of followers". In this regard, some industry insiders have their own views: one is because intelligence is the inevitable trend of market development, on the other hand, currently on the market the so-called "intelligent" lighting product technology cost is not high, but the profit is not low.

GLII survey data show that with an intelligent control function of the LED driver power supply cost of not more than 5 yuan, with the power supply lighting factory price is higher than ordinary lamps 20%-30%. Insiders to reporters calculations, only one of these intelligent configuration can give the lamp at least 20% increase in gross profit, and some high-end adjustable light products can reach more than 30%.

At present, the domestic layout of intelligent lighting business is mainly a number of emerging LED lighting companies. Shenzhen City, the main market for poly Industrial Co., Ltd., its 2011 sales of intelligent lighting products have accounted for nearly 30% of total sales. Xiao Ling, general manager of the company said that the current intelligent lighting (automatic induction, dimming color) as a high-end products in the Japanese market has been more common.

In R & D investment, these companies are spared no effort. Among them, KingSun 2011 R & D investment in LED and the key technology of intelligent street lamp power supply project for a total of 7 million 650 thousand, accounted for 51.69% of the total R & D investment. According to the plan, in 2012, the company will invest 11 million 300 thousand yuan in new R & D. In a random survey of reporters on the scale of the 15 revenue of LED lighting companies, there are 12 companies related to the cost of intelligent research and development accounted for more than 30% of total R & D costs.

Taking into account the cost, sales and other factors, the traditional lighting companies on intelligent lighting or not mention". Reporters in the NVC, FSL and other listed companies to disclose information on intelligent lighting and found no words. A traditional lighting manufacturers, mainly due to the intelligent LED lighting is still in the personalized stage.

An industry expert said: Although there are a number of domestic enterprises in the study of intelligent lighting, but more environmental protection is to stay in a simple dimming color, and the real intelligence should start from the control system. "

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Zhang Longxin to the development of the LED lighting market is summarized in three stages, replacing the traditional lighting stage, the integration of the system more intelligent, more energy efficient, cross industry integration (including things, remote control, smart home, etc.). However, the current LED lighting market is mainly the replacement lamp market.

He said that a simple intelligent products from the technical point of view, it is not difficult to achieve. But at present, the development of LED lighting is still in the first stage, the quality and reliability of LED products