In recent years, under the background of domestic infrastructure and urbanization construction, supporting industries such as railways, ports, airports, highways, and national defense have developed rapidly, bringing growth points to the development of the industrial lighting industry.
Today, we have ushered in a historic intersection of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation in the world and the transformation of our country's development mode. From a global perspective, advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data, and cloud computing are setting off an intelligent revolution in traditional industries in the name of "Industry 4.0", and industrial lighting is gradually becoming intelligent. From a domestic perspective, my country’s economy has shifted from a stage of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development. Digitalization has provided new momentum for traditional industries to improve production efficiency and achieve transformation and upgrading. Industrial lighting intelligent applications have ushered in a good period of historical development. After undergoing a major examination of the epidemic, factories must take the initiative to adapt to digital changes and accelerate the integration of intelligence and informatization.
The future industrial lighting will be a flexible control application based on the Internet of Things
In the “Questionnaire Survey on the Digital Application Trends of Industrial Intelligent Lighting” launched by Aladdin All Media recently, they talked about their views on the development trend of industrial lighting. The survey results showed that 69.05% of the people said that the future development trend of industrial lighting is energy-saving, Lighting on demand; 66.67% of people think it is humane, healthy and comfortable; 59.52% of people think that lighting can be adjusted according to the scene to improve production efficiency; 57.14% of people think that intelligent control is convenient for operation; 76% of people think that it is intelligent interconnection, compatible with other industrial production equipment platforms, and coordinated control; 45.24% of people think that it is integrated with factory data to realize big data management of industrial production; 42.86% of people think it is Visual management.
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Topic: What is your forecast for the development trend of industrial lighting?
It can be seen that energy saving, humanization, and improvement of production efficiency are the top three factors that everyone pays attention to the development of intelligent lighting.
Application 1: The organic integration of lighting and scene requirements realizes flexible, energy-saving, wireless communication, and remote control industrial lighting applications.
Nowadays, under the wave of industry 4.0, factory production has put forward higher requirements for lighting, not just limited to simple dimming and color adjustment, and future industrial lighting will better realize factory humanization through intelligent control. A healthy light environment is a means to realize the integrated design of architecture and lighting, and to realize the comprehensive digital, intelligent upgrade and application of the manufacturing industry.
In the view of Gao Nan, director of the industrial lighting project department of Sanxiong Aurora Marketing Headquarters: The development of industry 4.0 is a process towards the Internet of Everything. In terms of industrial lighting, it is a stage of moving towards a highly intelligent all-IoT intelligent factory. Based on this, the future of industrial lighting will create a new chapter of application centered on integration, intelligence, and energy saving, realize the coordination between people and space, and the synchronization of equipment and energy saving as the starting point, and organically integrate lighting and scene requirements, thereby realizing industrial production Coordinate and efficient development.
This view of Gao Nan coincides with Sun Zhipeng, the project management manager of the Engineering Management Department of Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd. Sun Zhipeng believes that future lamps will be able to directly integrate wireless networking controllers, and any lamps can be freely combined, and lamps can be grouped quickly with the device layout adjustment and function adjustment, so as to achieve more flexibility, energy saving, wireless communication, and remote control. Lighting applications.
Application 2: Cross-domain integration of multiple technologies such as perception, communication, positioning, etc., to create industrial lighting applications that combine personalization, human lighting, and intelligence
At present, industrial intelligent lighting is mainly based on the combination of LED lighting and wireless control and dimming functions. International manufacturers are successively investing in the research and development of human-caused lighting and intelligent lighting systems, and connecting the intelligent control development platform to create a new combination of personalized, Human factor lighting, intelligent LED intelligent lighting application industry. Chen Kun, an engineer from the product planning department of Shenzhen Sunway Lighting Co., Ltd., said: The future applications of industrial smart lighting will integrate smart light modules, perception, wireless control, cloud and other technologies across fields, and greatly enhance the functions of LED lighting systems, except for light environments. In addition to lighting, it is also necessary to be able to combine positioning and communication technologies to create additional application value for LED lighting.
In the industrial 4.0 era, information technology will experience a technological innovation revolution, and intelligent industrial lighting, as a part of LED lighting applications, is not only the object to be transformed, but also provides a method and means for transformation. Signify (China) Asia Pacific Standards and Regulations Chief Expert Dr. Feng Huang mentioned: In the future, industrial lighting has a broad application prospect, and high-quality lighting should be provided to meet the requirements of high efficiency, energy saving, health and comfort. It can also provide individualization for industrialization 4.0. service. At the same time, it can also provide visible light communication capabilities for industrial automation through technological innovation. It is understood that the combination of an intelligent lighting control system based on visible light communication technology and lighting scenes can give full play to the technical advantages of visible light communication and provide a better method for communication in smart factories in the future.
Application 3: Digital management and control of lighting assets, realizing effective linkage between lighting systems and other industrial systems, and big data integration management are key applications of factory lighting
Digitization, intelligence, and a high degree of networking are the main characteristics of modern industrial production. In the era of Internet of Everything, the same is true for industrial lighting. In fact, digitization requires not only the digitization of products, but also the digitization of management among production processes, production data, and production factors. Therefore, digital management and control of lighting assets, ultimately realizing effective linkage between lighting systems and other industrial systems, realizing factory data integration, and realizing big data management of factory production are the key applications of factory lighting. This has reached the scope of the development of the Industrial Internet.
Professor Yang Yaowu, chief engineer of Changshu Zhuohui Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., mentioned: If industry 4.0 is only the development direction, then the integration of industrialization and industrialization is the work being carried out by industrial enterprises at present, which puts forward intelligent requirements for lighting management. In the future, realizing the matching and compatibility of lighting intelligence and industrial control systems will be a key task for enterprises.
Sun Wenhua, deputy director of the technical department of China Automotive Industry Engineering Co., Ltd./professional senior engineer, also pointed out that future industrial smart lighting applications need to meet the needs of digital factories and smart factories, and the construction of the system needs to be incorporated into the standard system of digital factories and smart factories to meet Digital requirements for operation management.
From specialization to popularization, industrial lighting intelligent control methods are more diversified
After more than ten years of development, industrial intelligent lighting has gradually moved from specialization to popularization. Intelligent control methods are becoming more and more diversified.
In a survey conducted by Aladdin All Media, it is found that most people prefer wireless control when choosing industrial lighting control mode—Zigbee/WiFi/Bluetooth, accounting for 48.15%; 37.04% of people choose DMX512 protocol; 33.33% of people chose DALI protocol; in addition, 18.52% of people chose traditional analog dimming.
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Topic: Which industrial lighting intelligent control methods are you more inclined to choose?
Just as Ren Xiang, deputy general manager of MEAN WELL (Guangzhou) Electronics Co., Ltd., mentioned in an interview with Aladdin's media reporter: digital control protocol has become the mainstream intelligent control method. In the future, it will move to industry as the company enters the game. In the smart lighting market segment, digital applications will become more and more extensive in the future.
As the leading brand of power supply in the LED lighting field, MEAN WELL Power has already started its layout as early as the emergence of intelligence. From the beginning of traditional analog signal control to today's digital protocol control, MEAN WELL has been at the forefront of the market. In the development and design of all new products, MEAN WELL will consider to reserve or at the same time develop products with smart interfaces and protocols to meet the future market demand for smart products.
In 2019, MEAN WELL began to launch the LCM-40/60BLE smart bluetooth LED driver power supply equipped with the European manufacturer’s CASAMBI wireless bluetooth module, which was well received by the broad market. In 2020, the LCM/PWM-IoT series 25～120W smart bluetooth dimming LED driver will be launched again, which not only retains the traditional usage habits, but also has intelligent control. In addition, MEAN WELL has also upgraded product functions for indoor DALI dimming LED drive power, and launched products that comply with DALI 2.0 specifications. There are LCM-25/40/60DA2 series with constant current output (CC mode) applications, built-in DIP-SWITCH provides multi-stage output current adjustable function, which is convenient for users to adjust the current for different LED modules and reduce the number of models, and integrate the lamps into a DALI 2.0 digital lighting system application. This type of product can also retain the traditional way of use and can also be matched with the DALI 2.0 digital lighting system.
In Ren Xiang's view, with the continuous innovation of intelligent products, technologies, and solutions, the future industrial intelligent lighting applications will certainly bloom everywhere, the road ahead is long, and the dawn has already appeared.
The smart economy presses the "accelerator button", and industrial lighting usher in the spring of rapid development
Some experts pointed out that in the next 10 years, the new label of China's economy should be the smart economy, and all fields, industries, and directions must develop toward intelligence. Digitization and intelligence are becoming the core driving force of a new round of world industrial revolution.
In the previous survey, when talking about the prediction of the industrial intelligent lighting market, the survey results showed that 78.57% of the people believed that with the development of intelligent technology, the application of industrial intelligent lighting will become more and more extensive; 59.52% Of the people said that the country vigorously advocates energy conservation and emission reduction, and focuses on the development of green lighting technology, and the development of industrial intelligence is considerable; 54.76% of people believe that as the needs of owners increase, industrial intelligent lighting may usher in a new round of development; 42.86% of the people also pointed out that the development process of the industrial intelligent lighting market is slow, the project is not as expected, and there is still a long distance from mature applications.
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Topic: What are your predictions for the industrial smart lighting market?
It can be seen that, driven by the three factors of policy encouragement, market demand, and technological development, smart lighting may bring new growth points to industrial lighting. According to data from the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute, the scale of China's smart lighting market in 2019 has increased by about 25% year-on-year, and will grow to more than 43 billion yuan in 2022, with an annual growth rate of about 23%.
In an interview with Aladdin Media, Du Le, a professor-level senior engineer/consultant deputy chief engineer of China Architecture Northwest Design and Research Institute (Light Environment Design Research Center), said: The prospect of industrial intelligent lighting should be broad. First of all, we must pay attention to industrial lighting. Do not regard industrial lighting as only functional lighting and neglect the creation of the light environment of industrial lighting. The market needs to develop more lamps and design solutions to create work lights that can make workers happy. surroundings.
Professor Yang Yaowu also mentioned: In the long run, the intelligent application of industrial lighting is very necessary and valuable, and the development prospects are very good. Sun Wenhua also said: With the digital transformation of factories and the increasing demand for cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, a large number of factories that are not equipped with intelligent industrial lighting systems may undergo technological transformation, and intelligent industrial lighting systems that meet the needs of factories have better prospects and development. space.
And Sun Zhipeng's point of view is even more powerful: the future of industrial intelligent lighting is an inevitable trend, and this trend has been accelerating. With the continuous development of digital lighting technology and its successful application in traditional office buildings, as well as the increasing emphasis on energy conservation and emission reduction by the country and enterprises, the promotion and application of industrial intelligent lighting control technology in factories is imperative.
Written at the end:
2020 is an extraordinary year. The new crown epidemic has pressed the "accelerator" button for the smart economy, and industrial smart lighting is ushering in the spring of high-quality development. In the Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee, the government has clearly stated that it must adhere to the focus of economic development on the real economy, unswervingly build a manufacturing power, a quality power, a network power, and a digital China, and promote advanced industrial foundations. Modernize the industrial chain to improve economic quality, efficiency and core competitiveness. It can be seen that the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry is imperative. Traditional industries are being transformed, fissioned, and sublimated, and they are heading to the next intelligent tomorrow. The same is true for industrial lighting!
