[dismantling the lamp] PHILPS Hue ()

Two days before the first time we got Hue, remove one, because we want to know the heart, lighting a gangster in the traditional sense, pay attention to the basic technical accumulation antique company is how to put a traditional Taiwan factory will concern small peripherals, Belkin Wemo Series sales dismal enough to bigwigs a lesson?

But when the hand picked up the Hue, all of this has been the answer, I realized that this is not a test of the game, but a strategic revolution, but from the work point of view, this is undoubtedly the industrial design boutique market rare.

Different from ordinary domestic LED, PHILPS lighting system using circle ring ring design: external circle like plastic material, easy to grasp the scratches with hands; the internal circle is a cooling system of aluminum, the whole circuit cavity using the cooling gel casting, greatly improving the radiating efficiency.

LED driver is under the foot work, 11 of the LED division, let the color display become more uniform and coordination; from the control box also move the brain, using 32 STM plus Ti2530 Zigbee scheme of high speed IC, the small web server RestFul interface provides the possibility to develop two times. Although iOS is not perfect (iTouch card), but can be described in the design of UE and UX on a simple but not simple. Ingenious color collocation, smooth user experience, all this shows that the Hue product is a finely crafted, full of sincerity of art, rather than the traditional strong manufacturers making cold industrial goods.

Three combinations (control box, Hue bulb, iOS APP)

Hue base (note the core of heat dissipation) for a long time to use almost no significant heat

Hue bulb LED array (full gamut) is much larger than the standard 3 lamp RGB color scheme

However, PHILPS also is not only the sincerity, with the listing of Hue, PHILPS launched the first developer community (meethue.com and non official everyhue.com), invited the programmers together to improve and extend the function of Hue (there are a lot of really need to be perfected in our eyes), this is also the traditional hardware manufacturers rarely act.

From the beginning of Hue, I think, the most important should be Control4, Creston this traditional meaning of smart home manufacturers.

Why? Because this product of Hue will be the traditional sense we feel impossible to enter the common family intelligent control products, directly in the back of the price cut one or two zero, so that ordinary consumers from the original "to dare" to "buy" stage, this is a smart mobile phone penetration to great changes in the traditional the home appliance industry.

In fact, the similar Hue lamp control system, temperature control system Nest, socket system Wemo, SONOS speaker system and so on, everyone can use intelligent mobile phone DIY Home Furnishing traditional intelligent function 90%, not only can be removed from the new decoration suffering (all wireless system), and the money is only a fraction of the traditional the intelligent Home Furnishing.

So, the future of smart home where to go? Make a bold prediction:

1, plug and play: no configuration, plug directly into the power can be used, we can not afford to buy money by;

2, a comprehensive mobile control: do not use this friendly platform for interaction, too wasteful;

3, lightweight gateway: due to the computing power of the phone, the gateway becomes dispensable, if you have to, it must be very lightweight cheap goods;

4, the ability to expand and upgrade: sales is only the delivery of the functional platform, the function will be upgraded with the use of the product;

5, open and fun: the next time you open the App, found that users contribute to the new features, the things you want to achieve;

6, Kickstarter mode: leading personalized hardware product innovation, the giant product integration program to complement and challenge;

7, low-cost market strategy: rapid low price and market offensive strategy, resulting in a large number of star products.

We can see is related to the intelligent mobile phone hardware products, because of the existence of open wide, the future can not use software DIY and community capacity will be more and more manufacturers, facing the bottleneck of the development of the.

Now some manufacturers like to develop a closed standard for internal use, but its ability to develop may not meet the needs of the future, it can not play the potential of the hardware itself. So do not standard, open interface approach, perhaps more in line with the current trend of the times.

To sum up the Hue brings some changes, the traditional home appliances and electronic products, is no longer just around the appearance and design competition, a large number of products will quickly become Connected networking equipment. As the networking equipment, not only means that you can complete a simple remote control, and they will get through the network hitherto unknown "smart" ability, they will know the time and weather forecast, know your social account and schedule, know your preferences, they can also assist with other networked devices (such as Hue and let you infrared sensor alarm device) as cooperation.

The sensor and the communication, the further development of the cloud background, the manufacture and the communication cost of these devices is greatly reduced, so that only need to spend a few dollars and ten dollars, you can experience all home use for a change!