Not only power saving, smart LED bulbs to track people's moves

As people around the world switched to LED energy saving bulbs became more and more common, a technology company in California has found a way to turn the LED bulb into an intelligent network for collecting and transmitting data. However, this new technology also brings about privacy issues.

If you are at the "B" terminal building in Newark Airport, New Jersey, please raise your head, CBS news reported. What you see is not only the newly installed bulbs. They are intelligent LED lights, with built-in sensors and connected to a wireless network camera. This complex array of LED lights monitors traffic safety and pedestrian traffic.

Silicon Valley companies SENSITY has developed the intelligent lighting, and are used in a parking garage in Newark airport and San jose. The company Martin Martin (Hugh) said, Newark Airport is mainly interested in energy saving. This week saved $3 thousand and 500, a year down, you can save $182 thousand. "

But saving money is not the only reason for the bulb's attention. Each bulb has a separate motion sensor.

Cities around the world are phasing out incandescent bulbs and sodium bulbs that have been used in the past, instead of using LED bulbs, which can also be customized with high-tech components while lighting. This is part of its "intelligence". At the same time, they can improve the efficiency of 90%, longer life, more light.

Now, there are about 4 billion outdoor light bulbs around the world. Imagine what it would be like to connect all these bulbs to a global network.

A building in Silicon Valley has begun to install the smart bulb network. They are mainly used for safety. The 40 road poles on the parking lot are equipped with 83 LED bulbs, which, along with the 7 cameras, make up a seamless grid that tracks and records people's movements.

Shorenstein is located in the building. The company's chief engineer Kirk (Kevin Kirk), said, we use the license plate recognition, and we can also detect people. "

The company plans to install smart lights throughout the country. Kirk said: "any information can be uploaded to the cloud (a computer storage terminal), so we can get this information from anywhere. This is a future is limitless technology. "

Smart bulb network can find an unattended bag at the airport, and issued a warning for the driver to show the empty parking spaces, prompting consumers through the shop. Existing LED lights with sensors, can be used to monitor pollution, measure snowfall, and find out that the bomb has not yet been destroyed (equivalent to not high, but the nuclear pollution of the nuclear bomb).

Martin said that the bulbs can collect any kind of information. But there is a problem: in the future, the smart bulb network can be endless, ubiquitous tracking everything we do. "At least, parents can feel better at school. If they know that when someone enters the school with a gun, they will be perceived as a good thing. "

Dr. Welles of the National Defense University, Wells (Linton), said, "all people, from both benefit, there are risks. He said that the pace of technological development, more than the policy to control its progress. He said: "I think the citizens to take responsibility for their own. That's your own information. "

In this regard, although some people think that technology is too advanced, but some people think it is necessary. Martin said: if we do not have this technology, we will not face the problem, we will not find the right solution to the problem. "

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