Intelligent lighting is based on the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, with LED light source, wireless communication and intelligent sensing as the core energy-efficient, healthy and environmentally friendly lighting system. With the rise of the Internet of Things, LED smart lighting will enter a rapid development channel. IoT/AI lighting is the future development direction, and technology and products will have a huge market space.

It is foreseeable that the intelligent lighting industry will usher in a rapid development stage. As the new operation mode of smart lighting solutions involves a huge industrial chain, chips, sensors, LED lighting, communication modules, cloud platforms, etc. will all have huge market opportunities.

Four stages of intelligent LED lighting technology development

1. In the conventional lighting stage, LED lighting replaced traditional lighting;

2. In the stage of smart lamps, smart lamps have the function of dimming and color adjustment

3. In the stage of IoT lighting, it is a system integrating light source, wireless sensor network, intelligent control and management, which can realize intelligent control of lighting fixtures through wireless transmission;

4. In the AI lighting stage, interconnection can be realized to provide healthy and humanized lighting.

Global Smart Lighting Market Scale Analysis and Forecast

According to the "Smart Lighting Industry Development Prospects and Investment Strategic Planning Analysis Report" released by the Foresight Industry Research Institute, the global smart lighting market in 2013 was only 2.5 billion yuan. In the past five years, the scale of the global smart lighting market has increased year by year. As of 2017, the scale of the global smart lighting market was 26 billion yuan, of which lamps and accessories accounted for about 30%. The global smart lighting market is expected to reach 32 billion yuan in 2018. And it is expected that the scale of the global smart lighting market will exceed 75 billion yuan in 2022. Smart lighting is expected to become the new blue ocean in the future market.

IoT lighting classification situation

IOT lighting is mainly divided into two parts: smart lighting and smart lighting system (solution). Among them, smart lighting is composed of LED light source module, sensor module, control and communication module, including dimming/coloring lamps, high-quality light source Lamps, multi-function lamps, etc.; intelligent lighting system (solution) is based on the Internet of Things technology to build a LED smart lighting network system, including smart lamps, wireless networks, smart access, cloud platforms, etc.

Wireless communication and network analysis

In terms of wireless communication and networks, radio frequency technology has the advantages of easy development, low cost, and high spectrum utilization. The disadvantages are poor compatibility and confidentiality, and low transmission rate. The WIFI communication protocol is mature, and it does not need a gateway to connect directly to the Internet. The speed is fast. The disadvantage is that it consumes a lot of power and has a low number of nodes. 

Bluetooth has low power consumption, fast connection, and good compatibility. MESH technology is the latest development in the field of wireless networks. ZigBee technology is a wireless control protocol with low power consumption and self-organizing network. The security is high. The disadvantage is that the system requires an additional gateway. NB-IOT technology is suitable for long-distance applications in large areas (for example: smart city/street lights), while Zigbee/Bluetooth Mesh technology is more suitable for local wireless interconnection (smart home/indoor, etc.). At present, the wireless IoT still has problems such as stable and reliable/multi-technology, multi-protocol interconnection and standardization, which need to be resolved as soon as possible.

High-quality smart lamps will be promising in the field of special lighting

With the continuous improvement of white light LED technology, people’s demand for the quality of white light LED light sources is getting higher and higher. The original pursuit of "high brightness" has been converted to "high quality" that takes into account color rendering index, color temperature and other light and color performance. , And even pursue full-spectrum lighting similar to sunlight. High-quality lighting can achieve healthy lighting, scene lighting, and fun lighting. High-quality smart lamps are promising in the field of special lighting (plants/art/display/medical/health, etc.).

Smart lighting will promote the development of smart city industries

As an infrastructure, smart street lamps combine sensors, video surveillance, display screens, wireless communication base stations, charging piles and other equipment to build a multi-functional street lamp (pole) system to play a greater role in the construction of smart cities. In addition, the development of smart home systems will also become a new breakthrough point for smart lighting. Smart lighting can allow other smart home systems, such as security systems, entertainment systems (speakers, TVs, etc.) to interact with voice, and apply AI technology to make the system smarter, allowing seamless interaction between people, lighting, and home appliances (home appliances) The interaction makes people's life more convenient, richer and safer.

Intelligent lighting will become a new trend in the development of lighting technology in the future

It is foreseeable that in the future, the intelligent lighting control system will connect the dimming module, switching power, scene control panel, sensor and programmer, programming socket, PC monitor and other independent control modules to the computer data line to form an independent lighting control system. It can realize the intelligent management and automatic control of the lighting system, facilitate the creation of a comfortable lighting environment, and benefit people's health, which will become a new trend in the development of lighting technology in the future.