The LED lighting industry has entered a mature period after price competition and industry integration in past years. The traditional application market of LED has gradually become saturated, and it is rapidly developing towards intellectualization under the promotion of Internet technology and intelligent lighting concepts. The global smart lighting market arrived worth $16.2 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $77.1 billion in 2026. Lighting is one of the main prospects of the current intelligent technology market, and smart bulbs are a basic type of LED light. How much do you know about it?
Common Control Styles of Smart Lighting
Smart lighting is typically controlled in three ways: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and ZigBee. We are going to evaluate their own advantage and disadvantage from intelligent module's standby power, control distance and system extensibility.
First is the energy consumption, based on the Wi-Fi module's working characteristic. Although its transmission speed is the fastest in all three, its power consumption is high relative to the other two types, which nearly can stably work until the 300-500mA. However, Bluetooth module only needs 30mA to work normally.
The second is the control distance. The high power of Wi-Fi makes it the farthest control distance. Although the minimum power controlled by Bluetooth leads to the shortest control distance, Bluetooth SIG Mesh has been standardized. After the adoption of Mesh networking, each Bluetooth lamp can pass on controlling messages. When there are multiple lights, the multi-level coverage distance can reach 50-100 meters.
Finally, the expansion of the system, Bluetooth and ZigBee are directly connected to its gateway. No matter how many smart bulbs are connected, it will almost not affect the performance of the router, meeting the needs of the whole house intelligence. For Wi-Fi control, if the number of smart bulbs connected exceeds five, the network communication speed will slow down obviously. However, if you need to control a large number of bulbs, you can access BLE Mesh Gateway which can solve the over-loaded problem and the price is lower than ZigBee.
We can see from the above that there are various advantages and disadvantages of the current common control methods, but matching the technology can improve their respective shortcomings. It seems that the Wi-Fi control method plus accessing the BLE mesh can meet the requirements of both long-distance control of smart light bulbs, as well as whole-house multi-group light bulbs and home intelligence control, with suitable cost.
Features and advantages of Smart Lighting
The intelligent system makes data analysis on the collected information from users and environment, to adjust its own equipment to meet users' personalized and customized use needs. The core functions of smart lights are control, lighting effects, creation, sharing, the interaction between light and music, and the promotion of health and happiness. This is also what the Homebest brand wants to bring to the consumer when designing its products. Homebest has been rooted in the industry for over 20 years, keeping an eye on market information, updating certification standards and having a professional lighting factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong, where product quality is strictly controlled and a comprehensive one-stop sourcing service is provided. Product design follows the market trend and meets the actual needs of consumers. Take the following smart bulbs as an example, which can be directly connected through Wi-Fi, reflecting several mainstream features and advantages of smart light at present.
Remote Control
Through the 3G/4G/Wi-Fi, the HomeBest smart light bulb can achieve remote control. Not only can it achieve timing control, set specific time to control the light bulb turn on/off, but also can it achieve group control, sharing with family control at the same time. The remote control distance is more than 50 meters, as the control can go through walls and floors, so that you don't have to worry about forgetting to turn off the light when you go out. The light can also be turned on before entering home to avoid searching for the switch in the dark. In addition, real-time status can be displayed on the APP.
Intelligent Control
Several basic instructions can be set in the system in advance, which can automatically adjust mutually at a preset time and intelligently adjust the illumination to the most appropriate gear. Compared with traditional lighting, it can also achieve touch screen dimming, one-to-one remote control, and partition lighting on and off, and other controls. The HomeBest smart bulb can also work with Amazon Echo and Google Home to achieve voice control.
Intelligent Sensor
The intelligent lighting system can carry out intelligent dimming on most lamps, set sufficient lighting in the required space and time period, and turn off the unnecessary lamps in time to make full use of natural light to reduce the loss of electric energy and reduce the power supply pressure. When the weather changes, the system will automatically adjust to maintain the stability of indoor lighting. The intelligent induction lamp installed in the corridor and street can achieve the effect of "light up when people and cars coming, light off when leaving" through the induction device. The intelligent control of the opening and closing of the lamps does not need any manual operations. It is suitable for various automatic lighting places such as corridors, hallways, basements, garages, warehouses, and so on.
Scenes Control
The Homebest smart bulb is equipped with various lighting scenes, 16 million colors for you to choose from. Just click the controller with your fingertips, and you can sit on the sofa and control all the lamps in your home and adjust the brightness at will. You can set the scene for guests, dining, audio-visual, relaxing, and entertainment at will. Different lighting effects match with living scenes. You can preset different scenes, and just need to operate in the corresponding operation panel whenever you want to.
The development trend of smart lighting
Driven by technological advances, the active participation of factories and sellers, and the popularity of smart lighting concepts, the global smart lighting market has grown rapidly in recent years. However, despite this, the market penetration of smart lighting products is still relatively low. As an excellent starting point for smart cities, smart lighting is an opportunity not to be missed. The smart bulb may be just one part of intelligent lighting. But how to meet the whole lighting demand of a family from a small bulb, or how to make lighting and other household appliances interact more perfectly to realize the demand of the intelligent whole house, is what we need to think about and devote ourselves to at present and in the future.
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