l The direction of the future development of the industry depends on which direction to “break through”
For the correct assessment of the development direction of lighting and lighting control related industries, we believe that it is very necessary to introduce the concepts of “main room lighting” and “auxiliary room lighting”, which can help people recognize the two branches of the trend. The need for “secondary room lighting” is very different from that of “main room lighting“. “Main room lighting” may emphasize the degree of intelligence of new control methods, such as various remote control functions and diversification of dimming methods controlled by WIFI, but “auxiliary room lighting” is different, “auxiliary room lighting” will not There is an obvious phenomenon of integration of lights and light controls, and it will still be the same as before, lights are lights, and switches are switches. The two are separate. It will be more inclined to use the induction and automatic control method, rather than the kind of remote control and illumination and light color adjustment that are mainly controlled by WIFI.
The power saving problem of household lighting lamps is not mainly in the “main room lighting”, and its illuminance should be determined according to the user’s feeling and needs, and will not be easily changed. In this space, the demand of “lights on when people come and lights off when people leave” is also lacking in regularity. The “auxiliary lighting” includes a wider range of lighting, including home lighting, workplaces and other lighting in other buildings, including channel lighting. The number of lamps used in “auxiliary room lighting” is much larger than that of “main room lighting”, which is also most closely related to lighting power saving. Therefore, when we study the trend of lighting and the future of the industry, we must not only see the market brought by the application of WIFI technology, but also pay attention to the business opportunities brought by the technological progress of “auxiliary lighting”.
Since most of the switches of “auxiliary lighting” are used in installations where there is no neutral line entering the switch slot, it will be troublesome if there is no suitable electronic switch. At present, there are two situations in practical applications. One is that no electronic switches are installed, and mechanical switches are still used as most often seen. The other is to install an electronic switch that needs to be connected to the neutral wire. In most cases, this product cannot be installed and used immediately. It is necessary to modify the wiring to add a neutral wire to the switch slot. The latter method will bring great inconvenience to the user, and only a few users will think of adding a zero line to the switch connection in the decoration project. There is no such provision in the existing “Standard Specifications for Construction of Building Lighting Wiring”, so even for new buildings, there is no such provision in the drawings, and there is no such thing in the completed ones. Adding a neutral wire to the switch slot is an additional additional requirement.
l The relationship between industry development trends and technological breakthroughs
For intelligent lighting, its concept is expressed as follows: intelligent lighting refers to a distributed wireless remote control and telemetry control system composed of technologies such as network transmission and other wireless communication technologies, intelligent information processing and energy-saving electrical control. , which has the functions of intensity adjustment of lighting brightness, timing control, scene setting, etc. and achieves predetermined effects. This definition is relatively comprehensive, but in most cases, it has been narrowed to an understanding of those intelligent lighting products in the form of WIFI control. In fact, the intelligent lighting we pursue is far more than that. Smart lighting should be diversified. It only desires to obtain two effects. One is to bring convenience to work and life, which can “make lazy people lazy”, and the other is to save electricity and save energy.
The author believes that those switch products corresponding to the concept of “auxiliary lighting” are closer to the essence of intelligent lighting. The ideal product should be as follows: fully consider and take into account the reality, conform to the characteristics of the lighting wiring of most of the current buildings, respect people’s long-term use habits – operate at the original switch position on the wall at the door of the room, Or at least it works here. Then, it should generally be a product that does not need to be connected to the zero line, and can be installed and used immediately.
The above mentioned new issues brought about by the widespread use of new energy-saving lamps, in fact, it has been proposed more than ten years ago. However, after several years of market inspection, most of the products obtained by these technologies have been eliminated. Because the products are not stable enough, the quality is difficult to meet the user’s requirements, causing troubles such as returning to the factory. This is because under the design framework of single live wire and no zero wire, in order to meet the requirements of making all kinds of new energy-saving lamps fully adapt to it, some performance indicators that electronic switches should have are demanding and difficult to achieve. But despite the technical difficulties encountered by such products, they are not always insurmountable. In fact, existing companies have made encouraging breakthroughs on this topic, but they have not achieved industrialization for some specific reasons. At the 20th Beijing International Science and Technology Industry Expo, this huge series of products was displayed. Its various types of products have their own different functions, which are very complete and can meet the diverse needs of users.
After making in-depth research on the situation of the electrical and lighting industry in recent years, we believe that the future development trend, the use of network transmission and other wireless communication technologies (such as WIFI, Zigbee, etc.) + chip intelligent information processing intelligent lighting and control products are also However, the distributed control has functions such as automatic induction, and at the same time, the single electronic switch with the characteristics of zero-connection and ready-to-use may be more suitable for the market demand. This type of product suitable for “auxiliary lighting” is the most practical, and can adapt to conventional lighting wiring, which can easily achieve the effect of “lighting wherever you go”, and contribute more to energy saving and energy saving. It also conforms to the habit of lighting that people have developed for a long time, that is, to control the light at the original switch position on the wall, which is most easily accepted by users. Therefore, it is the direction of the industry to carry out in-depth development of such products and obtain more electronic switches with more advanced functions. This depends on the continuous breakthroughs made by companies in the industry and overcoming more technical difficulties.
In today’s general LED lighting market has become saturated, and excessive competition has caused product profits to decline sharply, the profit growth point of the electrician and lighting industries must be concentrated on the lighting control product side. It is precisely because of the existence of technical difficulties that it can weaken the adverse effects caused by excessive competition, and bring extraordinary profits to the first enterprises to successfully develop such products, thus standing out in the industry, winning good results and creating extraordinary legends.