What Is Smart Lighting？
The light bulb is arguably one of the greatest inventions in the world in the 19th century. It has changed our way of life and entered thousands of households. With the progress of society, people’s demand for lighting is getting higher and higher. It seems that traditional lamps can no longer meet our requirements. Fortunately, with the development of smart cities, smart communities, smart home markets and technologies, smart lamps have emerged. It has started to become within reach. Lighting equipment is widely distributed in the room and has the largest number of nodes. It has gradually become the “smart home ecological entrance” that Internet companies are eagerly pursuing.
What is smart lighting?
Smart lighting is an advanced way of home lighting. Smart LED bulbs contain software that connects to apps, smart home assistants, or other smart accessories, so you can automatically control the lights or remotely control them without the need for a traditional wall switch.
Taking history as a mirror, let’s take a look at the development history of lamps.
The first stage: manual control
Lamp control first appeared around 1879, and it was born with the invention of the incandescent lamp. The circuit is controlled by point-touch switches, including push-type point-touch switches, pull-wire switches, etc. Although the original switch has a simple structure, it can only play the role of connecting the circuit, which is relatively unsafe, and it is easy to damage the lamp and cause a short circuit.
The second stage: dimming control
By the end of the nineteenth century, with some electrical components being used in the circuit control system, the circuit system was safer. At the same time, the brightness of the light becomes easy to control, and the timing lighting is also realized. The electrical components used in the control system include resistors, inductors, transformers, relay transistors, thyristors, etc.
The third stage: semi-automatic control
Incorporating induction electronic components into the original traditional lamp control to realize induction control lighting. The production of inductive switches reduces human involvement in the control part of the lighting system, and the lamps are automatically turned on in a specific environment.
The fourth stage: automatic control
Incorporating induction electronic components into the original traditional lamp control to realize induction control lighting. The production of inductive switches reduces human involvement in the control part of the lighting system, and the lamps are automatically turned on in a specific environment. Mainly include light sensor control, manual remote control, sound sensor control, temperature sensor, motion detection control, constant illumination control.
The fifth stage: Intelligent control system
There are mainly networked smart products and wireless sensor networks.
Networked intelligent lighting products are a new generation of network lighting technology products that integrate network technology and dimming technology.
The networked intelligent lighting control system connects the local lighting control network to the Ethernet through an intelligent gateway.
Wireless sensor network control adopts computer network technology and field bus technology to form a complete intelligent system integrating communication, equipment control, security and other functions.
Benefits of smart lighting
The advantage of smart lights is not only to control your lights automatically or remotely. There are other hidden benefits of using smart lighting.
Localized lighting control: The lighting level schedule, preferences and configuration files of each luminaire are communicated wirelessly during system settings and stored for continuous operation.
Bluetooth Low Energy: Embedded BLE radio allows sensors to receive and transmit beacons, and supports communication with lighting control devices and other sensors.
Occupancy /Vancacy/Manual: The digital passive infrared (PIR) sensor is combined with the environment, and there are 3 different modes to choose from.
Dual 0-10V channels: Dual channel control supports brightness dimming and CCT dimming.
Daylight collection: The captured ambient light information is processed locally to increase and decrease the light level based on the available daylight.
Room and area control: Pair with the room switch to realize the manual opening or automatic closing function according to the code. The sensor can be divided into multiple areas that share occupancy sensing data and coordinate light control based on the detected motion.
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