An IP address for every light bulb?
And if every light bulb had its own IP address? This is what NXP and its partners and TCP Greenwave Reality who presented their intelligent lighting system at the international exhibition GreenChip Lightfair.
With the chip from NXP GreenChip, it is possible to create a network of intelligent lighting (smart lighting) and low power consumption enabled by the Internet. Goal? Save energy and reduce electricity costs but also improve the comfort of the user by providing the right level of brightness.
Users can adjust the brightness or turn on or off by selecting the lighting intelligent controls "Home" (house), "Away" (absent) and "Night" (night) from a variety of devices such that a PC, a smart phone or a television. Intelligent lighting controls are supplemented by sensors that adjust interior lighting depending on external conditions, turn off the lights when the room is empty, etc..
The intelligent lighting solution GreenChip comes in two versions: GreenChip iCFL for systems and compact fluorescent lighting for GreenChip ISSL to LEDs. The system includes:
The chipsets and GreenChip iCFL GreenChip ISSL that control the attenuation of light for lamps intelligent;
A controller supply ensures ultra-low power, with a capacity of 10 mW to empty standby power is a very important application of intelligent lighting because lamps are permanently "to the listening "orders of the user or the network;
A wireless microcontroller compatible with IEEE 802.15.4, 2.4 GHz, a voltage transmit / receive less than 17 mA;
A wireless IP address low power, enabled by a software layer of the network-IP Jennet. Jennet-IP is a network tree mesh 6LoWPAN low memory footprint, especially for the networking of residential and industrial applications at low power IEEE 802.15.4. It is secured by AES 128 bits and will be open source licensed dispoible in Q4 2011.
The idea seems attractive to property managers and other community buildings that can produce energy savings.
Source: Green IT
