When the lamp becomes unprofitable business PHILPS is doing

LED changed a lot of things, PHILPS is undoubtedly one of them.

Going into the new Edge, The, the new headquarters of the audit giant DDT in Amsterdam, the light will be the first thing you notice.

In the 13 - story glass office building completed in 2014, the sun was pouring down from the top of the glass patio. In the sun can not directly cover the area, the distribution of the 6000 groups of PHILPS smart LED lamps.

Amsterdam DDT new headquarters The Edge int.

Unlike common light bulbs in office buildings, these LED bulbs do not rely on the wires for power. Each of the bulbs is connected to a network cable - that is, when you use broadband Ethernet cable. These bulbs can be connected to the sensor network information. Here, you don't need to look for the switch or the remote control of the air conditioner. Into an office area, the top of the lights will automatically open, air conditioning will be transferred to the temperature of the human body.

In addition, everyone can according to their preferences, adjust the overhead lights and air conditioning temperature. The Edge within the workspace is not fixed, the project manager Christine every day to go to their own place to sit, they will take out their own iPhone to adjust the lights.

"You find a table to sit down, open the phone with the camera head to sweep the lights, press the button on the screen to adjust the lighting and temperature. Christine side presentation side told reporters. Because the location is not fixed, the building is not the same as the general lighting bulbs directly through the intelligent search Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, but with the secret identity in the bulb near the current location of mobile phone recognition, help.

Use a mobile phone front camera to scan nearby lights

Everyone can adjust the working environment, the average man used to reduce the temperature of the air conditioning twice, women prefer to be relatively warm. So you see, sometimes most of the male employees sit together, while the female employees tend to sit together, the temperature is separated. DDT property manager Tim Sluiters said. His daily work is to look at the use of the office and conference room in the whole building in a special management system.

The light management system controls all the lights and air conditioning on the thirteen floors, but it doesn't need a lot of screens and complex software like a casino monitor. Sluiters sat in front of a round table in the public activity room to give a presentation to the reporter. The access control system only needed to open a web page on his laptop.

The Edge management system

Sluiters told reporters: "in this system, I can see a day in different time how many employees in the office, the office of the people now more 4-8 floor, one or two hours later will change. "

By the end of this year, The Edge has been in use for a year, is expected for this system will save 70% energy for DDT DDT design and install complete lighting system lighting PHILPS Internet Product Manager Derek Wright.

In addition to PHILPS's traditional sales of light bulbs, the whole building used in the line power supply system, smart phone applications and building management systems, developed by PHILPS. A few years ago, PHILPS in such a system is often just a box of energy-saving lamp bulb.

These can be achieved, because compared to energy-saving lamps, LED lights can do too much.

At a Carrefour supermarket in Lille, France, PHILPS started another experiment with LED lights: sensors installed in LED lights to track the location of each customer. The total length of 2500 meters of the LED lamp belt can send signals to smart phones, smart phones can be connected without the need to determine the location of the user's location and the direction of walking by receiving light signals.

In this way, retailers can join in the mobile phone shops inside navigation application function, can also according to the location of the user push promotions, such as "2 meters ahead on your right on the shelves of Wine buy one get one".

In addition to the pilot project and Carrefour, PHILPS in the United States of Losangeles, New York, Italy and other places to carry out st Angelo 262 City Experimental project. As early as more than a decade ago, PHILPS began to try to sell the overall solution to customers. But in recent years, such as The edge, Carrefour case began to appear in people's vision.

Driven by this change, mainly the possibility of LED technology itself.

A technological revolution initiated by LED

Although there are a lot of designers will be retro Edison bulbs used in home design, but the lighting industry now and the future of the future, are LED.

LED (light emitting diode) is a technology that has existed for decades. In the last 5 years, LED has become the most economical choice in the home and office with the cost reduction and brightness enhancement:

Comparison of the cost of bulbs of different varieties, cost reference figures for the United States

Home retail giant IKEA has announced that it will begin in September 1st of this year, all stores in the world only sell LED lamps, no longer sell incandescent or even energy-saving lamps.

Technological change is undoubtedly a good thing for consumers. But it's not necessarily the case for a commercial company.