The ECC-Internet of Light and Lighting (IoL²) Forum and the 3rd Meeting of ISA-ECC Smart Street Lighting System Specialized Committee

The 3rd meeting of ISA-ECC Smart Street Lighting System Specialized Committee (Hereinafter referred to as the “ISA-ECC Specialized Committee”) was held on Nov. 26th, 2019 at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, China. The meeting was hosted by International SSL Alliance (ISA), China SSL Alliance (CSA) and Edge Computing Consortium (ECC), supported by Sansi, Unilumin, New Space and Lunlux. More than 70 experts from lighting industry, IT and CT attended the meeting.

The meeting was moderated by Prof. Robert Karlicek, the Director of Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications, the Chairman of ISA-ECC Smart Street Lighting System Specialized Committee, and Mr. Jingkang Xiong, the Vice President of Changzhou Institute of Technology Research for Solid State Lighting.

Mr. Xiaoming Jin, the Co-Secretary of ISA Secretariat on behalf of Dr. Jianlin Cao, the President of ISA, the former vice minister of Ministry of Science and Technology of China, delivered the welcome remarks.

He expressed that the development of solid state lighting beyond people's imagination in recent years, its application has been deepened to smart city, agricultural lighting, health lighting and smart lighting and other fields. Among them, smart lighting was giving birth to new urban management models, which were being combined with the latest technologies such as 5G, automatic drive and artificial intelligence. However, there was still a bottleneck to be broken in smart lighting, which was on the eve of large-scale application. He hoped that colleagues in the lighting and ICT industry would make full use of the conference and the ISA-ECC platform to give full play to their respective strengths and overcome difficulties together, so as to open a higher and wider vision for innovative social governance and management efficiency and provide new and more effective tools.

13 experts form solid state lighting and ICT industries made presentations at the meeting.

1. Prof. Robert Karlicek, the Chairman of ISA-ECC Specialized Committee shared “Smart Lighting: Lighting New Era”.

2. Mr. Huazhang Lv from Intelligent Cloud Technology Lab of China Unicom Network Research Institute shared “Operator Edge Computing Service Deployment and Technology Development”.

3. Mr. Haibo Qin, the Director of Smart City Operation Center, Unilumin shared “The Exploration and Outlook: Smart Lighting Demonstration”.

4. Mr. Qiang Zheng, the Deputy General Manager of Vion Technology shared “The Smart eye of street lighting -- the visual perception application of artificial intelligence”.

5. Mr. Kris Liu, the Sales Director of Beijing Linktech Co., Ltd. shared “Smart lighting system integration”.

6. Mr. Yubing Chen, the Sale Manager of Honeywell Tridium China shared “Niagara Empowered Smart Street Lighting”.

7. Mr. Min Pu, the Deputy General Manager of Lunlux Corp shared “Innovation and Application of Intelligent Driver Technology”.

8. Mr. Hao Hu, the Director of 5G Application Solution, ZTE shared “Smart Street Lighting and Future Smart Vehicle-road Collaboration System based on Edge Computing”.

9. Dr. Norman Bardsley, the Chief Analyst of ISA Research shared “Smart Lighting for People and Plants”.

10. Dr. Yuxi Jiang, the Deputy Chief Engineer of Sansi Electronic shared “Smart Streetlights Build Smart city 5G”.

11. Ms. Ying Zhu, the Deputy Director of Huaxin Design Institute shared Smart Multi-Function Pole

12. Prof. Huamao Huang, the Associate professor of South China University of Technology shared “Visible Light Communication System Using MOSFET Circuit and PIN Photodetector”.

13. Mr. Jingkang Xiong, the Vice President of Changzhou Institute of Technology Research for Solid State Lighting shared “Connectivity Build a New Trend of Future Smart Lighting”.

Participants were interested in each topic and asked questions and had discussions around these topics.

Finally, Prof. Istvan Barsony, member of ISA board of Advisers, the Former director of Inst. Techn. Phys. & Mat. Science – MFA, on behalf of ISA thanked the 13 experts for their excellent reports and the participants for their active participation.

Prof. Robert Karlicek, the Chairman of ISA-ECC Smart Street Lighting System Specialized Committee summed up the meeting. He congratulated the speakers on their success and progress in the areas of smart lighting. He believed that smart lighting was a complex system, and smart lighting poles were more diverse, with different people and different places having different needs. These were worthy of more discussion, practice and cooperation.

The meeting was adjourned at 17:00.