LED lighting companies must know "new tricks"

In the past decade, with the joint promotion of the Chinese government and industry, semiconductor lighting (LED) has developed rapidly. As technology advances and costs drop rapidly, the penetration rate of general lighting has increased year by year. LED's replacement of the lighting market has made a significant contribution to promoting energy conservation, emission reduction, environmental protection, and building a conservation-oriented society. At the same time, China's semiconductor lighting industry has also made considerable progress and formed a relatively complete industrial chain. The scale of the industry continues to grow. Mainland China has gradually become the undisputed manufacturing center of global semiconductor lighting, and large-scale market applications are also ranked. The world is in front. Semiconductor lighting can be said to have successfully transformed the life of traditional lighting!

However, with the pursuit of investment and the continuous proliferation of technologies, the LED industry is rapidly changing from the Blue Ocean to the Red Sea. Only from the perspective of the alternative lighting market, LED products are highly homogenized, standards are not perfect, quality is uneven, and the price war is fierce. The fiery competition between the LED lighting industry's boom and the enterprise's difficulties has created a fierce contrast. Standing at such a time node today, if semiconductor lighting still stays in the simple alternative market, without considering and deploying innovative applications, this industry will quickly become a traditional industry from a strategic emerging industry! If you scare it a bit, as a This kind of "long-life" energy-saving products, as an indoor and outdoor ubiquitous hardware products, if the semiconductor lighting products do not have the function of scalability and scalability, will soon be replaced by multi-functional smart lighting products! Cause a huge waste of resources, and even wipe out the effect of early energy-saving emission reduction!

Innovation is not only the mission of semiconductor lighting, but also his gene. Because LEDs are primarily "semiconductors," they are inherently intelligent, communication-capable, and human-machine interface-capable. Their use as lighting is just an evolution of many of their applications. The application beyond lighting is a real revolution. LEDs have spawned new applications in the fields of optical communication, intelligent transportation and home lighting, medical care, and agriculture, and have become new applications. The wider application of LED as an important "connected" medium in the information society has only just begun. Responsible for and lead the needs of the Internet era, keep up with the development of the information and digital era, can make lighting become infinite possibilities, but also will let LED lighting in the original energy-saving emission reduction basis, bring more for all mankind Well-being.

Nowadays, the era of digitalization and networking is a social trend, and the lighting industry must be ready for a new storm. In the future of intelligent society, what role does LED play in the future? With the rapid development of Internet of Things, cloud computing and 4G technology, the construction of smart cities has risen to the core strategy that leads the development of cities. Today, LED applications have penetrated into many areas of urban construction. Outdoor applications such as LED displays and LED street lamps are more widely used in indoor applications such as smart homes, smart malls, smart hospitals, parking lots, mines, etc. . In the information age, the combination of LED and advanced data technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things will increase the ability to respond to urban security and emergencies. This will bring more possibilities for LED development in the future.

For example, the development of LED displays has become an indispensable medium for people's lives, and it carries news, culture, and business information. In the future, LED display systems with intelligent control functions will not only be a single function display screen but will be embedded in cutting-edge smart systems. The city-related managers can use a unified electronic control platform to enable the display to take on the functions of the security monitoring and command center in the entire city at the same time, satisfy the requirements of public security management, urban management, traffic management, and emergency command, and can also take into account the disaster. The need for image surveillance in terms of accident warnings, safety production monitoring, etc., will ultimately complete the upgrading of city services.

Outdoors, many cities have also installed "smart" LED street lights. Street lights with intelligent control systems can carry more functions. A few days ago, Beijing began to pilot the “street lamp charging pile” after transforming traditional high-pressure sodium lamps into LED lights. Of course, the function of intelligent street lamps is far more than this. Each street lamp installed with intelligent control system can have an independent IP address. The single lamp of the network can achieve precise geolocation, remote controllable, online tracking of operation status, etc. Do road monitoring, road public facilities management. In addition, the intelligent control system LED street lights can save energy by 10% to 20% on the original LED energy-saving technology. In the future, urban cloud-based data interconnection platforms based on "smart streetlights" can also realize "intelligence" such as urban management, transportation, sanitation, and vehicle networking, and build a three-dimensional information and security network in smart cities.

In the field of indoor lighting, LED as an important part of smart homes, smart shopping centers, the future can be regarded as a space can not be overlooked, many LED companies have begun to layout smart home ecosystem. In applications such as smart shopping malls and smart hospitals, Huace Optoelectronics is uniting with LED to continue cross-border innovation, reconstructing application promotion models, and building an ecosystem based on visible light communications. The application of LED white-light communication technology indoor positioning system is not only a technical breakthrough, but also more application-level multi-dimensional presentation and more demand satisfaction. Each LED lighting device with LED visible light communication technology (U-beacon technology) is a small GPS satellite with position coordinates. Based on precise positioning, it can complete the digitization of shopping centers through positioning, navigation, and scene changes. Social networking, games, etc. improve the popularity of shopping centers. Of course, in the special industries such as mines, railway stations, fire fighting, military, and prisons, it is also possible to confirm the relevant location information in real time through the accuracy, stability, and convenience of visible light communication, and to ensure safety control and disaster warning.

As LED applications continue to expand, smart lighting requires more cross-border and cross-domain cooperation, which also puts forward new requirements for standard setting. Nowadays, the standards of the intelligent lighting industry are lacking, the communication protocol is not uniform, the real market demand of customers is still vague, and the marketization of products is facing difficulties. Here, it is also hoped that an industrial ecological chain based on synergy mechanisms will be established at the national or alliance level, and some key intelligent lighting demonstration projects will be promoted to expand market influence. At the same time, speeding up clear and specific technical and standard work, such as the short-term LED lighting product form and structure, the realization of smart lighting functions will be linked with the driving power of the lamps, even if it is only to solve the power supply needs, such as There is a standard interface on the driving power supply, which will be beneficial to the promotion of smart lighting products, especially when the initial installation does not consider the intelligent application, the reserved interface will be much more convenient for the later transformation. Therefore, power supply design plans and standards are urgently needed to have a forward-looking proposal standard.

Your own life requires courage and determination, but it is always better than being replaced by other revolutionaries. After all, in the semiconductor lighting industry, Li Ka-shing came and millet came. If BAT or Huawei also announced that they entered the semiconductor lighting industry, there should be no How many people will be surprised, but they will only do general lighting products?