How are large enterprises laid out in the field of intelligent lighting?

NVC Lighting officially signed a contract with the Cloud Computing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to actively promote smart lighting cooperation. Earlier, Opus teamed up with Huawei to sign a smart home strategic cooperation agreement, demonstrating its ambition in smart lighting. In the field of intelligent lighting, how are large enterprises laid out?

It is said that smart lighting has become the standard of lighting products, just around the corner. Let’s take a look at how attractive the smart lighting is, and attract countless heroes to compete.

Intelligent lighting has become an important outlet for the smart home industry, and the space and potential for development are enormous;

According to market research firm P&S Market Research, the global smart lighting equipment and control market is expected to increase from US$22.11 billion in 2014 to US$59,188.1 million in 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 17.8%;

According to relevant analysis, by 2020, the overall market for intelligent lighting is expected to reach 8.14 billion US dollars, and the annual compound annual growth rate from 2015 to 2020 is 22.07%.

Let’s take a look at how large companies are deploying smart lighting:

The size of the market and the potential for development are so large that it naturally leads to the layout of large enterprises. From the basic routines of large enterprise layout, it mainly includes:

1. Give full play to its own strong strength in the field of lighting, set up a separate department or business department, and take the lead in product layout;

2. Implement cross-border cooperation and talk about a close-knit love, such as Philips and Cisco, Xiaomi, Opto and Huawei, NVC and the Chinese Academy of Sciences cloud computing center;

3. Committed to building and leading the intelligent lighting ecosystem.

Let's take a look at Philips' product layout: Hue series products for home lighting; smart office lighting solutions using POE, ie, Power over Ethernet for office lighting (in this solution, lights are no longer separately used Power supply, networked to network, but through a line can simultaneously achieve power and networking functions, enabling managers to easily remote control, and get a variety of data from each light point, for the building Management provides valuable information to help improve lighting usage and energy consumption. For streetlights, the CityTouch remote lighting management system is introduced to allow streetlights to instantaneously access remote lighting management systems via wireless GPRS networks rather than local wireless RF networks. Strengthen the lighting control of street lamps.

Look at its market actions: alliance with Xiaomi, development of smart health desk lights for mobile phone remote control; open API, launch of Philips Hue Friend program, establish a cooperative win-win ecosystem; also announced in 2015 that it has reached a global strategic alliance with global IT giant Cisco. Integrating Philips' LED-connected lighting system with Cisco IT Internet to create a global office lighting market of up to 1 billion euros. More importantly, Philips' AcTIveSite smart connected lighting system has been successfully applied to the San Francisco Bay Bridge, Bayern Munich Football Club home, and the Spanish oil company headquarters building.

In 2016, OSRAM previously introduced connectable LED luminaires in the LighTIfy range. At the recent CES 2016 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, OSRAM released the first intelligent LED light that is said to be controlled by the Thread network protocol. The Thread protocol is designed for indoor and outdoor smart home equipment applications. In addition, other new LIGHTIFY series of networked lighting products are displayed, which are outdoor RGB light strips, wireless switches and plug products.

In addition, OSRAM has also merged its intelligent lighting business (LIGHTFY) with the digital lighting business unit (DIGITAL SYSTEM) to combine the advantages of both parties to create brilliant results. This move is bound to create synergies and promote the growth of OSRAM in the world.

After the listing, Op Lighting has increased the layout of smart lighting products, and signed the “HiLink Smart Home Cooperation Agreement” with Huawei to jointly develop “Oupu HUAWE HiLink Smart Lighting Products” according to the agreement on the cooperation of HiLink smart home solutions. On August 31, a joint release was held at the Huawei HiLink Smart Home Ecology Alliance Conference at the Shanghai World Expo Center.

At the press conference, Op Lighting has displayed a total of two “Oupu HUAWE HiLink Smart Lighting Products”, one is “Yinghui Minghui HUAWEI HiLink Edition” which can be applied to the main lighting of the bedroom/restaurant, and the other is applicable. The HUAWEI HiLink version of the "Smart and Space Scene" for home-assisted lighting. These two products have the following common features: 1. Smart and healthy light. The optical application from health, according to the circadian rhythm of the human body, uses different light colors to meet the visual and emotional needs of different life scenes. 2. Intelligent control mode. This new product can be controlled by Huawei mobile phone for a more convenient intelligent control experience. 3. Cross-border smart family experience. On the Huawei HiLink platform, Op Lighting products and other home appliances such as home appliances are linked across the border to bring consumers a three-dimensional smart home scene experience.

Op Lighting said that the release of “Oupu HUAWE HiLink Smart Lighting Products” is the first cross-border cooperation and substantial progress of the company in the smart home field. The above products will further enrich the company's products in the smart home field, which will help the company accelerate. Developments in smart home products and solutions. The company's cooperation with Huawei is a comprehensive cooperation in the technical level and compatibility platform, which is conducive to the company's continued expansion of the smart home market.

For the lighting industry, smart lighting is the next "cake." This time, Ke Zhicheng and Wang Donglei are hoping to bet the wisdom of lighting and let NVC enter a new growth track.

Zhang Peng, president of NVC Group, said that after experiencing the product strategy, channel strategy and brand strategy stage, NVC has entered the stage of Internet platformization strategy. It is understood that NVC has set up a smart project research and development department in 2015, and established cooperation with Internet companies such as Xiaomi on home smart lighting. The cooperation with Zhongke Zhicheng will promote NVC's development in smart commercial lighting and smart city lighting.

LED street lights are not only used for road lighting, but also as part of a smart city. Relevant persons of Zhongke Zhicheng believe that there will be many applications for the future of smart streetlights. Smart cities use the platform for data integration and management. The strategic cooperation between Zhongke Zhicheng and NVC is more at the intersection, and the street lamp is a good carrier.

Hong Xiaosong, vice president of research and development at NVC, said in an interview that the market for smart lighting is very large. There are about 200,000 street lamps in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. There are many imaginations in the future. NVC will expand its smart lighting market from lighting services to camera equipment services. Existing street lights do not need to be reinvented, just add intelligent modules, terminals and sensors are connected together, data is stored, analyzed and managed.

Hong Xiaosong said that with the cooperation between NVC and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the two sides will integrate information in software and data. Starting from smart street lights, it is expected that specific projects will not come out until the middle of next year.

The main actions and layout of large enterprises in the field of intelligent lighting

From the frequent "staking" of the major lighting giants in the above table, we can clearly see once again that smart lighting is destined to be the next battlefield of the Internet of Things. Their cooperation model generally shows the following characteristics:

Provide a total solution: traditional lighting equipment manufacturers such as Philips, Op, etc. are actively transforming into smart lighting total solution providers

Based on market segments: Lighting giants have different focuses in the smart lighting market. For example, GE Industrial Internet Strategy focuses on urban lighting, Philips is the first in office lighting, and Op is directly based on its leading position in home lighting. Smart home lighting

United Technology giants: Lighting giants and IT companies, communications and other technology companies to join forces to integrate technology information data scheduling capabilities or Internet communication capabilities and connectivity capabilities into their own intelligent lighting systems

Leverage cloud platform vendors "gold-plated": The giants seized their respective cloud platform vendors as partners and provided a layer of "gold" for their software services and solutions.