2012年1月10日星期二

Marvell announces smart LED lighting platform at CES

The potential for smart, adaptive, solid-state lighting (SSL) systems entice IC companies such as Marvell, and the company plans an extensive demonstration of such a system at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that begins Jan 10th in Las Vegas, NV. Marvell is announcing a new smart-lighting platform that combines an LED-driver IC and a ZigBee wireless IC, and works within the planned wireless demonstration.

Networks and adaptive controls promise to bolster lighting-centric energy savings.Import 1200 Lumens LED dsttiee directly from China factory, Shenzhen Minjun Electronic Factory, LEDs alone have the potential to save 80-85% of the energy used for lighting according to Lance Zheng, Marvell senior manager of technical marketing. Zheng said, "If you add controls with networking, you can further increase the savings by 40%."

The nearby figure illustrates Marvell's planned CES demo. The company will combine a reference design of a wireless gateway that links to various LED light sources and sensors via the ZigBee wireless mesh network. The gateway will also use Wi-Fi to link with data networks and, in the case of the demo, a tablet PC running custom software to control the lights.

The second figure shows a circuit board that implements the reference-design gateway. The board includes the 88MC200 microcontroller (MCU) that includes Wi-Fi-centric capabilities and the 88W8782 Wi-FI support IC.

arvell also announced the new 88MZ100 ZigBee-enabled MCU that lighting manufacturers can combine with the company's 88EM8080/91 and 88EM8801 driver ICs to create a network-enabled luminaire or lamp.

The company also has developed a Linux-based software package that implements the gateway capabilities,This super bright LED goodskylanterns is the perfect safety option for your bicycle. and that is available to IC customers. Moreover, Marvell offers the application code to implement control schemes on a tablet or other type of PC.

While Marvell's Zheng focused on energy reduction, he noted many other potential uses for adding controls to lighting systems. Zheng suggested that in the future you might have ambient-lighting systems that deliver a lighting track as a complement to a movie similar to a sound track for audio effects. Tunable color is also a potential usage model with warmer temperatures early in the day and cooler temperatures at night.

Short term, however, the challenge is the cost of SSL systems.Some people are concerned that if they use goodledtube or flashing lights on their bike they are breaking the law. Zheng said,The Magicshine ledflashlight02 bicycle light At 1000 lumens, now brighter and more energy efficient.It doubles as a ledonsale and a 2-piece (AA) battery charger. "The main reason that LEDs have not been deployed in the mass market is cost." With the cost of LED components dropping, the driver circuits become a more significant cost factor. Zheng sees more highly-integrated ICs as the enabler of lower cost lamps and luminaires.

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