Smart lighting rise or become a new business opportunities in the LED industry

LED lamp longevity may be a double-edged sword. Due to the long life, the replacement of natural damage caused by the market is not as large as traditional lighting. After the traditional lighting market is replaced, LED will be used where? This is the problem faced by the entire LED industry. In recent years, the rise of intelligent lighting, LED industry will probably bring new business opportunities.

Intelligent lighting belongs to the category of smart home, smart home is considered to be the equivalent of the future or even beyond the smart phone market. In recent years, in the upsurge of smart home, smart lighting is also warming year by year, a large number of companies competing to enter, trying to share a cup of soup.

Abroad, PHILPS, GE and other international lighting giants have launched a new smart bulb, looking for the direction of transformation. Domestic enterprises, not only the lighting industry and the LED industry chain enterprises into them, and even Jingdong and millet such Internet companies have begun to play cross-border".

"The biggest advantage is that each LED lamp can be controlled separately, changes can be used to control the brightness and color of the mobile phone. This could be the biggest market for lighting applications. "Three hung Aurora market director Wang Jun said.

PHILPS's Hue is currently the smart lighting market, the star product. It is understood that this product can not only light, color, and can be customized according to the needs of the iOS or Andriod software. At the same time, PHILPS's latest intelligent lighting software platform, allowing users to complete the control of different scenarios of intelligent products, outdoor and indoor anytime within the system connected to the LED lighting equipment.

In recent years, the increasing expansion of the territory of millet is also unwilling to remain out of the limelight, in mid October this year released 4 smart Home Furnishing products, including a Yeelight intelligent lighting products. Related reports show that Yeelight is a smart lighting startups, and early this year to complete the A round of financing, millet is its main strategic investor. According to Yeelight founder Jiang Zhaoning said, in cooperation with millet the bulb is customized, quite some "millet special" means that only support to complete the control lamp operation through the millet router network.

Insiders said that the essence of intelligent lighting is the electronic and network, can not only realize the intelligent lighting control system, the realization of the basic functions of automatic control and scene lighting, and an entrance is the Internet, which led to more high value-added services.

It is worth mentioning that, although the future of smart lighting looks very beautiful, but the part of the existing intelligent lighting system, from the control platform, control protocol to source products, because there is no uniform standards, resulting in product characteristics is decentralization and fragmentation. Only control agreement, the current market there are WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee and NFC, etc., the control platform also apple, Android and other options available. Obviously, the future of smart lighting still need the whole industry chain collaboration.

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