PHILPS: open LED lights, not just to say "bright"

Imagine such a scene: walk into a room, the room according to the number of sensors in the room and sunshine, lighting and temperature control automatic arrangement and reasonable use; each room can be directly through the mobile phone access, looking for the conference room is no longer difficult; building people can even operate the lighting and air conditioning near by mobile phone, while building managers can real-time control in every corner of the light.

This scene is not illusory, relying on intelligent building technology, building can become "smart", and save a lot of energy in the construction area of tens of thousands of square meters, can accommodate thousands of office buildings, energy saving is extremely important, on the one hand, lower power consumption and the environmental benefits of self-evident, enterprises are willing to the dissemination of positive image examples; on the other hand, even if the calculation of economic accounts, the power value of up to millions of dollars in lighting on the level of annual consumption of a building. The system of building energy saving level, is different from the ordinary family "lights" - for example, through a series of intelligent energy saving measures, water and electricity cost area of 66000 square meters of Microsoft headquarters in Shanghai every year can save $660 thousand.

A major bottleneck hindering the development of intelligent building is high cost can be controlled arbitrarily single light means that the more complex control system, and a network transmission function in each room in the layout of the sensor, it will make the construction cost extremely increased.

Located in Holland's capital Amsterdam, DDT's new office building (Edge) is a "smart" building as described above. The building, which had just been completed in early 2014, was certified by the British BREEAM green building standard, "outstanding design". Compared with other intelligent building, DDT building is significantly reduced, the construction costs of the reason is that DDT building "wisdom" from a smart bulb except lighting, lamps provided a variety of sensors, capable of sensing the temperature of the room, the sunshine, even to the number of rooms and activities of perception. This allows the building manager to adjust the temperature and light in accordance with the conditions of each room in order to save energy.

PHILPS is the most creative player in the lighting industry. Prior to this, they developed a suitable for home use "HUE" lighting system, home users can use mobile phones, wireless networks to the home of the bulb issued instructions to adjust the brightness and color. In the DDT building, every light can also be connected to a data network. PHILPS lighting business global CEO Hong Anli (Eric Rondolat) believe that only the Internet for lighting is already in the past, "through the intelligent integration of LED lighting, we can create a space, where people interconnected and digital lighting. "

Shiny wire

The secret of the DDT building is that its lighting is not connected to the power supply line, but through the cable connection. Daily cable can be seen everywhere itself can carry electricity, which is called IP over (Power Ethernet, referred to as POE) power supply can provide power for the phone, network cameras and other equipment.

But the power of Ethernet can be limited. For a long period of time, the POE power supply can not exceed 30 watts. For traditional lighting, 30 watts is clearly not enough. But the rise of LED lighting makes it all possible. Although the cost is higher than the traditional lighting technology, but LED is rapidly becoming the new darling of the lighting market.

Compared with the existing lighting technology, the use of LED lighting, energy consumption can be reduced by more than 70%, which also means that the low power POE can also supply power for LED lamps. "We are not using Ethernet to generate electricity, but rather the standard technology of voice over IP telephony. Through the use of innovative ways, now the lighting efficiency is very high, as long as a simple line can meet the demand for electricity. "PHILPS professional lighting solutions CEO Amelia Huntington (Amelia Huntington) introduction.

Hong Anli told the Global Entrepreneur, in the first quarter of this year, LED business revenue ratio has reached 33% of the entire business, is expected in 2015, this figure will reach up to 50%. PHILPS Lighting Department will be 5% of the amount of revenue for R & D investment, which most of the funds have been invested in intelligent lighting.

Able to connect directly to the lamp with the network, no doubt can reduce the cost of a large number of lighting power supply line layout can be omitted, lighting and building IT system directly into one. In DDT building, in this way, the wiring cost savings of 50%.

For a building of 40000 square meters, can accommodate 1800 people at the office of the building, which means that the installation is more convenient, and is directly installed on the cable, then let the lamp immediately have an independent IP address of each lamp is equivalent to a computer, and directly linked to the network. As a result, the lamp is turned into a '' into the building equipment, all interconnected data control system. Each lamp can be independently identified, located, and real-time monitoring and manipulation. Yu Yongtao, senior marketing director of PHILPS lighting Greater China, told global entrepreneur.

This innovation is also facing security issues. An easy question is whether there is a risk of being hacked when the lighting is directly connected to the IT system of the building

Yu Yongtao told the Global Entrepreneur, lighting systems and other IT systems are isolated through the virtual lan. Even if someone can enter