1+1+1>3, Tuya Smart joins hands with UL and KUMUX to develop the global smart lighting market

Catalyzed by the rapid development of cutting-edge technologies such as 5G communications, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, the world is accelerating into the era of the Internet of Everything, setting off a tide of building a smart ecosystem of the Internet of Things, and lighting is an important part of it. The first link is accelerating its integration with sensors and control systems, and is constantly developing in the direction of intelligence, health, and comfort.

However, although smart lighting is the general trend, the development has not yet entered the stage of popularization. In the final analysis, these three reasons are: the lack of unified standards in the market, the incompatibility of products in the major IoT systems, and the business model of a single product or Single-system intelligence is the main focus. In the face of these problems, manufacturers in related industries have continued to innovate and make breakthroughs in recent years, and have opened the door for cross-border cooperation. They have promoted the implementation of smart ecology through complementary advantages and gradually broke the single development model.

Intelligence is not the ultimate demand of end customers, but only a technical means. Scenario-based customer needs and experience are the real driving force.

Among them, intelligent control system manufacturers play a core role in the intelligent lighting technology industry chain, and need to be more open and innovative to realize the interconnection of smart scenes and smart devices. The global IoT development platform Tuya Smart is based on neutrality, The open positioning has gradually become a pioneer in the development of the industry.

Over the years, Tuya Smart has reached cooperation with well-known lighting companies at home and abroad, and forward-looking cooperation with the global professional and authoritative certification body UL and the European scientific innovation company KUMUX, from standards, algorithms, data analysis and processing, scene control, terminal applications, etc. Starting from multiple dimensions, relying on the three cores of hardware development tools, global public cloud, and smart business platform development, it provides comprehensive empowerment from technology to marketing channels to create a neutral and open developer ecosystem.

On November 6, 2021, UL, Tuya Smart and KUMUX signed a human-caused lighting cooperation agreement during the CIIE, and launched UL’s world’s first certification project for the lighting intelligent control system market. The three parties will work together to deepen the global smart lighting market .

After the event ceremony, LEDinside, the Optoelectronics Research Division of TrendForce Consulting Group, spoke to Mr. Kang Jingqi, vice president of UL and general manager of the HVAC and lighting division of UL, Mr. Wang Yuan, UL IoT business development manager, and Tuya Smart Smart Commercial Lighting and Building Mr. Liu Jiwu, general manager of the business department, conducted an interview to further communicate and discuss the development of the human-caused intelligent lighting market from the perspective of standards and intelligent control systems.

 

UL DG 24480 design guidelines help products and brands stand out

 

According to LEDinside's understanding, although the current global smart lighting market urgently needs scientific and unified standards to guide, in fact, UL launched the UL DG 24480 design guide for human rhythm lighting control systems as early as 2019, which is a product for lighting companies. Provide usage guidelines and verification services for healthy and comfortable application scenarios.

 

According to Mr. Kang Jingqi, the essence of "Internet of Everything" is "people connect all things. With the development of various intelligences and sensors, people connect all things with more specific scenarios. The UL DG 24480 guide is based on the Lighting Research Center ( Lighting Research Center, LRC) scientific guide for research results, providing reference and guidance for companies in terms of space attributes, latitude and longitude, lighting product parameters, etc., and helping companies provide customers with better health lighting scenarios. Lighting application scenarios Transformation is a manifestation of the further sinking and subdivision of the market. People are the ultimate service objects of various products. Human factors or people-oriented product design need to be guided in a variety of quantitative ways to establish a dialogue with end consumers channel.

 

Mr. Yuan Wang added that the introduction of UL partners follows a concept: digital + wisdom + scenarios, while the UL DG 24480 design guide provides guidance for the entire system from end to scenario, covering the digitalization of components, products, and product connections. Interoperability with interconnection, terminal application, and scenario landing.

 

Specifically, the concept of the UL DG 24480 design guide is not only to control lighting products, but to digitize specific products, based on scientific algorithms, compile the numbers into signals that can be received by the Tuya smart platform, and then decentralize them to offices and hotels. Specific scenarios such as hospitals and hospitals will eventually pass UL certification services to verify the relevant indicators of the scenarios, such as energy-saving and emission-reduction and health indicators of commercial buildings.

 

For partners, as long as the product parameters and functions meet the requirements of the UL DG 24480 design guide, they can obtain UL’s human factor lighting intelligent control system. The UL market claims verification mark. The product solutions and services provided by the company are based on UL. The market claims verification can show users that the process and results of project implementation have been tested and evaluated by scientific standards.

 

Tuya Smart Public Platform Helps Build an IoT Ecosystem

 

From the perspective of the intelligent control system, Tuya Smart is an open, neutral, third-party IoT development platform, committed to creating a neutral and open developer ecosystem, which also means that accessing Tuya Smart’s platform can avoid the current industry There is a problem of incompatibility of smart products in the IoT system.

 

Mr. Liu Jiwu said that Tuya Smart is a global IoT development platform that connects the smart needs of brands, OEMs, developers, retailers and all walks of life. Based on the global public cloud, realize the interconnection of smart scenes and smart devices. It is embodied in two aspects: 0-1 and 1-100.

 

0-1 means that Tuya Smart can provide developers with a complete set of service solutions from the equipment end to the software control end and the construction end, which can help save developers' time, improve their development efficiency, and reduce management costs.

 

1-100 represents that Tuya Smart aims to realize the true interconnection of everything. What Tuya Smart provides is not only the intelligent control of single products, but more importantly, it helps the construction of the entire IoT ecosystem, from data collection and transmission, resource integration, channel service and operation, to the application of third-party algorithms. Customers lower the barriers they face from 1-100.

 

At the same time, based on UL’s scientific standards, partners who access the Tuya Smart platform can also cooperate with UL. As long as the relevant products meet UL’s standards, the company can obtain UL’s market claim verification mark, thereby demonstrating the landing for end users. The product is reliable and sustainable, and finally realizes the real human factor intelligent lighting.