Introduction to emerging networking lighting technologies and standards

Response to market for the high expectation of intelligent networking lighting, core branch of science and technology product marketing engineers continue to market is facing some urgent problems, including the understanding of different technologies and standards, the application of some common, and the developer's design challenges. Through this 'networking lighting applications: introduction to emerging technologies and standards', will help before put into product design to establish a more comprehensive knowledge and understanding. Response to market for the high expectation of intelligent networking lighting, core branch of science and technology ( 硅实验室) Product marketing engineer Alex Koepsel continued market is facing some urgent problems, including the understanding of different technologies and standards, the application of some common, and the developer's design challenges. Through this 'networking lighting applications: introduction to emerging technologies and standards', will help before put into product design to establish a more comprehensive knowledge and understanding. Networking lighting market is making a strong development momentum, the consumer adoption of the application of already gradually expanded, and simplify the intelligent networking development kit also mature lighting design work. Today's wireless lighting market scale based on IHS Markit research data show that by 2020, wireless lighting market is expected to be increased from today's 17 million to 52 million. Other sources, such as wireless sensor network (WSN) is more promising, by 2020, forecasts of volume with up to 2. 300 million units. Towards a driving force for the development of the wireless market and leading technology for household lighting applications, convenience and quality of life is the most valuable reason; For commercial applications, such as retail and hospitality, beautiful is the most important; For industrial applications, the main driving factor is cost savings. For this reason, it is easy to understand and not a one-size-fits-all solution. The correct solution depends on the application and the end user's requirements. Family lighting will likely give priority to, for example, easy to use and install, with thousands of lights and reservation of different operating requirements of building manufacturing facilities may need to be more reliable, more secure systems, and long-distance networking capabilities. Wireless technology instance related instances is decided by the specific environment and user needs, but at present the main popular technology, including Zigbee and Sub - GHz proprietary protocol, other include Thread and Bluetooth lighting is becoming increasingly popular. Now, Zigbee PRO and its predecessor Zigbee Light Link is the most widely used. These specifications controlled by Zigbee alliance, help to describe the application of lighting control message protocol, including out-of-the-box simple operation mechanism, in addition, for the engineering personnel can make development easier. It is worth noting that the Zigbee 3 published in 2016. 0 specification is expected to replace the current specifications, in 2017 as part of the rebranding market, the technology is now known as Zigbee, which the previous application link libraries become IoT centered application layer, called dotdot now. Bluetooth and Wi Fi in lighting applications of bluetooth today, in fact has been extended beyond the audio design, it is a popular technique, because it is connected to some of the most popular device - smart phones. These updates and more humanized equipment is the perfect set wireless lighting control network, and provide some cool applications, such as make the lamps and lanterns is a bluetooth low energy ( 蓝牙低能量) Beacon of advertisement, geography location and other dual purpose applications. Having said that, due to the authenticated extensibility of software and those associated with technology, many bluetooth extension system of lighting lamps and lanterns will probably add another wireless technology. And many people like to Wi - Fi because it was widely used all over the world, but when Fi power consumption is higher, has not been used for lighting design, which is the so-called 'application layer' software developers of special software. No application or software toolbox to build tends to increase for a few months the project development cycle. In addition, Wi - Fi hardware than instead of 802. 15. 4 solutions ( Such as Zigbee and Thread) A slightly higher cost. How to choose the wireless technology, according to the application requirement of users, a number of factors can play to consider. For example, the system can be as simple as individual on/off switch, or, as for the hotel/casino or manufacturing plants all features as complex lighting solution. Some considerations including network size and density, How much control will be lamp or node) , the overall building environment, set up and installation requirements, installation budget and maintenance requirements.