What are we talking about when we talk about smart lighting?

A light did not appear, but the iBeacon full screen, what is this iBeacon?

iBeacon is a technology developed by Apple to accurately locate Bluetooth technology (BLE). This device can receive a certain range of signals sent by other iBeacons, and can also pass your information to other users within a certain range. All phones with Bluetooth 4.0 or higher can be used as transmitters and receivers for iBeacon technology.

Beacon means beacons and beacons that can be used to locate and broadcast information. As for why I added an i in front, who let it make Apple's agreement? For the Bluetooth function, the most familiar way is to connect (such as the connection of various Bluetooth devices), but Beacon uses the most broadcast function.

Simply put, iBeacon can perform positioning (indoor navigation), information collection and push. Many people read the demo and thought that iBeacon is a rich text message (such as containing various product information). Actually, we can think of it as a QR code based on spatial location. Anyone who scans the QR code knows that the QR code itself does not contain specific information, but when you scan it, it will automatically jump to a web page. Beacon's broadcast is such an effect, just omitting the action of scanning.

There are very many foreign retailers now deploying iBeacon, such as Australian retailer Chatswood Chase, France's Les Terrasses du Port, American commercial real estate giant Simon Malls... They all see the business opportunities here, it is a kind of Offline to online extension, can do retail, brand interactive marketing (this is not what the Internet has been doing?), can record user behavior, trajectories, hot spots, etc., this is definitely rich in big data !

What does this have to do with the lights?

Don't worry, iBeacon is just a Bluetooth protocol, and the Bluetooth module inside the light is not new, isn't it? Next we will talk about the advantages of the lamp compared to the estimote (the Beacon device like the button that appears in the video).

First of all, the Bluetooth of 4.0 is low power consumption, but it always consumes power. This means that if you deploy hundreds of Beacon devices in the mall, you may have to replace them once in half a year, which will consume a lot of manpower and resources.

In order to facilitate the replacement and installation, the device is generally installed with magnetic force, which is easy to drop or be taken away by the customer. At this time, a blind spot appears on your navigation map. The last point is that there is no interconnection between the Becon devices, and it is easy for the criminals to disguise the UUID, resulting in the loss of money. Just integrated in the lamp can solve the above problems, and the mall itself has enough lamps, our company is used to call it "light net".

ZigBee, WiFi, Bluetooth?

A few days ago, the IoT industry was arguing about what kind of agreement to use, and even various giants established their own alliances, such as Nest-led Thread (based on zigbee). After thinking for a while, I gave them a name, called "Trinity," and you want your Internet of Things to live. The three agreements must coexist.

Specifically, ZigBee is equivalent to the body and blood. Use ZigBee to link your hundreds of lights together and communicate with each other. This time is not enough, it is equivalent to a vegetative person, you can probably control him, but can't do more things. Next you need a sensor like Bluetooth (you can even add a variety of sensors), let it be your eyes, nose, mouth, that is, five senses. At this time, you can move and you can perceive all kinds of information. This is not enough, because you will not process this information. So this time you need the best WiFi, to link to the brain cloud, to help you unify and coordinate, so that you will not become a second.

In one sentence, it is to use ZigBee to form the body. Bluetooth is the fifth sense. WiFi is connected to the brain. Only then can you be alive, smart, and valuable.

Is smart hardware an opportunity or a pit?

Now the capital chasing smart hardware is just like chasing the Internet. Of course, they also want to get the same return on investment in the Internet as smart hardware. Is smart hardware an opportunity or a pit? In my opinion, smart hardware is still in the pit stage.

Let's go back and look at the characteristics of the Internet and the mobile Internet. The essence of the Internet lies in connecting, connecting people, things, and information, and solving huge information asymmetry to obtain benefits. The domestic Big Three BAT just corresponded to information, objects, and people, and they all achieved great success. Mobile Internet connected services such as airbnb, taxi software fast, Didi, Uber, group purchase network, and various mobile payments, he solved a service problem.

Finally, let's look at smart hardware. Most of the smart hardware is basically a hardware + software model. It can be said that there is only a more advanced remote control, and in many cases, this remote control is not so easy to use. Let's look at the Internet is free, and the hardware is charged. In any case, as long as it is charged, the impact will be huge, even if you only charge 1 cent.

As a simple example, when the resistance is zero, the resistance becomes a superconductor, and the difference between the superconductor and the 0.0001 omega resistance is enormous. Moreover, the hardware does not solve the information asymmetry, and almost no service is provided. Where is the way out of the hardware? I think it is the collection and processing of data. The advantage of hardware is that you can carry a variety of sensors, collect data, hardware will know you better than yourself, use data to help you make better decisions, this is the direction in which hardware generates more value.

Let me say a little bit of control

There is no virtue in Shangde, and there is no virtue in virtue of virtue. - Tao Te Ching

For thousands of years, Lao Tzu has made the best discussion on intelligent control in the Tao Te Ching. Intelligent control is embodied as uncontrolled or natural, and this is the intelligent control that is uncompromising. Stupid control is embodied in external control, which is bad control, such as Lutron. A lot of control is artificially added by product managers. It should be more inspecting the original usage habits and even allowing the machine to learn adaptively. Of course, this is to go step by step according to the development of technology.

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