SmartCast: commercial lighting is the 'future' of smart lights'

PhilipsHue's reputation on smart light bulbs is so great that when it comes to such products, everyone can't help thinking that this is a household and consumer-oriented product. But I have to say that at this stage, whether it is Hue or LiFX or other similar products, the smart light bulb for home use is more like a toy. The toy properties of Hue or the entire smart bulb product are determined by the function. The core demand for household bulbs is lighting, followed by energy conservation. However, Hue's app control brings convenience. It can be said that the management cost of several light bulbs in a home is originally very low. In addition, the number of bulbs is relatively small, so the energy-saving effect is difficult to reflect. Cree was an LED manufacturer two years ago, and gradually transformed into LED lighting products in the following two years. Now they are trying to cut into commercial lighting in the market from another dimension of smart lamps. Cree's recently launched SmartCast is a lighting control system that can connect 250 lamp holders. SmartCast then groups the bulbs to allow users to access wireless network management. Contrary to home smart bulbs, the latter tries to make functions more and more complicated, while Cree wants to make management as simple as possible. On SmartCast, Cree now provides data that can save electricity by 70. 5% compared with fluorescent lamp lighting. Lighting electricity charges are a big expense for many enterprises. This data should be said to have been a bunker. Specifically, switching from fluorescent lamp lighting to LED lighting alone will reduce most of the energy consumption, and SmartCast will save the remaining 30 or so through dynamic perception and light perception. Commercial Lighting is characterized by long service life and large scale, which makes it difficult to do energy-saving management of human flesh (Such as switching lights in time). The problems encountered in the promotion of intelligent lighting systems in the past are the installation threshold and complicated use. The initial installation investment of SmartCast is not small, but the overall experience has been greatly improved. SmartCast is a group of more than 250 lamp holders. These bulbs can communicate with each other through the built-in sensors, and then adjust the brightness according to the external light intensity through the sensors. The main independent energy-saving means are here; In a single small room, the lamp holder will also close itself without detecting dynamics for a long time. There are many application scenarios for commercial lighting, such as shopping malls, office buildings, parking lots, and almost all public places in hospitals. We also see a lot of various lighting control systems such as voice control and light control. The key lies in convenient installation and management.