What is intelligent lighting?
Adding intelligence or logic to lights or luminaires to enable automatic communication and interaction with the surrounding environment, building occupants, and other devices is known as smart lighting, which is also known as adaptive lighting. Smart lighting makes it possible to operate a wide range of lighting characteristics, from basic on/off switching to sophisticated adaptive lighting, with flexibility and automation. Smart lighting control allows for the intelligent translation of such demands between the lighting equipment and the surroundings with the least amount of human interaction, whether to optimize energy savings for a business building or to offer users with ease in a private dwelling. Smart lighting systems are available to function across all project sizes and communicate utilizing a broad variety of protocols via multiple communication channels, from a single luminaire with a connection structure of point-to-point to luminaires grouped into an interconnected mesh network.
LED technology encouraged the automation of lighting
When charge-carriers (holes from the p-region and electrons from the n-region) move toward one another and recombine in the P-N junction as a result of the introduction of an electric current, a light-emitting diode, a semiconductor device, emits light. Electroluminescence, the emission process, enables precise control of the light spectrum and intensity. LEDs are a digital light source that are changing the way that lighting is used because of its ability to integrate easily with other solid state circuits. In a smart city infrastructure or smart home system, digital lighting technology is just as transformational as equipment run by electronic logic circuits or processors. More than just user convenience and energy economy, smart LED lighting offers value. Lighting may be readily adjusted to elicit favorable physiological, emotional, and biological reactions thanks to LED technology's additive color mixing, correlated color temperature (CCT) tuning, and digitally controlled full range dimming.
Intelligent Lighting Ideas
As technology advances, the phrase "smart lighting" tends to refer to many different ideas. Ten years ago, you could have referred to motion detection or user-defined schedules for switching or dimming lighting as "smart lighting technology." What we now refer to as "smart lighting" is actually an intelligent infrastructure made up of lighting nodes, sensors, and other intelligent devices that are connected to work together via an online platform. In its most basic form, a smart light is just a programmable lighting system that can connect to a remote controller over a wired or wireless network. Intelligent sensor-driven algorithms and Internet-based lighting management are not essential components of smart lighting. It might be a point-to-point system that uses local sensors or unique local controls to enable adaption on demand. The three main types of smart lighting concepts are as follows:
1. Without taking scalability and interoperability into account, localized smart lighting concentrates on providing a bidirectional communication link between a lighting controller and lighting unit. Only the linked lighting devices are capable of remote configuration, status monitoring, administration, and programming. The majority of the time, localized smart lighting is a proprietary solution that operates independently on a separate ecosystem made up of specialized hardware and software. A localized lighting system is, for instance, a network of intelligent lighting fixtures that use exclusive Ethernet protocols or Remote Device Management (RDM), a 2-way communication protocol based on DMX512. A localized smart lighting system is any wireless smart lighting system that only enables short-range point-to-point communication. Smart light bulbs are one example of a product that uses Bluetooth Classic, the original Bluetooth protocol.
2. By standardized communication protocols, network-based smart lighting goes one step further and increases the scalability and interoperability of smart lighting systems while easing the burden of commissioning and pairing. Wireless sensor networks, ubiquitous smartphone apps, and WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Networks) solutions have all led to the phenomenal growth in popularity of smart lights that are simple to install and have simple controls. Smart lighting systems utilizing standardized wireless communication protocols, such ZigBee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Mesh, and Thread, have good scalability and overcome interoperability issues. An installation of tens of thousands of highly integrated smart devices, including not only smart lights but also occupancy sensors and environmental sensors, may be made using such a lighting network, which grows from a small number of lighting nodes to highly integrated installations with ease.
3. IoT-enabled smart lighting gives body area networks (BANs) and personal area networks (PANs) more networking options. Smart lighting is enhanced by the Internet of Things. To establish communication and interaction between all smart devices and the Internet, it combines computing power, firmware, connection, and an IP-based architecture. Through the use of a highly secure, scalable cloud-based platform, IoT creates fresh insights and useful information to fully realize the potential of linked lighting. IoT-enabled smart lighting outperforms network-based smart lighting in terms of improved scalability, resilience, interoperability, dependability, and range for point-to-point connections. Lighting equipment in IoT applications can either be directly connected to the Internet or indirectly through local or wide area networks.
