LED Professional Review - LED professional Review (LpR) - Issue 59

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Trends & Technologies for Future Lighting Solutions

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Research: Lifetime Calculation Events: LuxLive & Swiss Photonics Technology & Application: Microscopy & Cave Lighting Usability: User Interface UI & UX

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Jan/Feb 2017 | Issue

LpR

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CATEGORY EDITORIAL

Lights in Trendy Environments Recently Apple celebrated iPhone’s 10-year anniversary with overall sales of about one billion phones. The goal of Apple manufacturer, Foxconn, is to completely replace humans with robots and their three-part plan shows that by 2020 they will have reached 30% automation. In the meantime, some Foxconn factories in China already have 10 fully automated production lines.

Some of the trends seen at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas were things like self-driving cars, flying cards, vibrating pants, robots, smart beds and lots of shiny new technologies. LG, for example, presented their “Wallpaper TV”. This is a Signature 65 or 77-inch OLED TV W with a four-millimeter flexible screen, able to hang on the wall with magnets.

The German automotive company, ZF, has partnered with NVIDIA to create ProAI, a deep-learning artificial intelligence program that takes a huge step toward intellectualizing our vehicles. The ZF ProAI will be able to process input from multiple cameras, plus lidar, radar and ultrasonic sensors in a process that they call “sensor fusion”, generating a 360-degree sensory sphere for the vehicle.

Electric cars were also presented: a concept car from Bosch and the new FF91 from Faraday Future, a fully connected, self-driving car with a 1,050 HP engine that can go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.39 seconds. It also includes a smartphone-operated “driverless valet” that parks the car for you.

Spinali Design presented their vibrating short-shorts, which sync with your phone and translate directions from your favorite navigation app into goading twitches on your left or right cheeks.

We recently experienced intelligent light bulbs that can be connected via WLAN and a bridge to smartphones and then be controlled by voice commands that worked perfectly.

It is also possible to automate the lighting, control it from afar via the Internet and adjust the color and brightness.

When looking at all these developments it is easy to expect that lighting production will also become fully automated, surrounded by sensor-fusions, self-controlled, connected to the Internet, adapted to the needs of individuals and available in nearly all the dimensions and specifications we can think of. The developments we see in our environment will not stop at lighting, though. Our environments will be completely penetrated with these new trends and AI lighting will be the main way to go.

The first issue of LpR in 2017 deals with some of these trendy topics for lighting. There are also reviews of lighting events that will be of interest to you.

I would also like to mention that the LpS 2017 is the place to exchange information about the future of lighting technologies and applications. Take advantage of it by submitting your paper to be reviewed for a talk by following this link: www.LpS2017.com/cfp. We look forward to exchanging ideas about the future of lighting with you.

Yours Sincerely,

Siegfried Luger

Publisher, LED professional Event Director, LpS 2017

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