What if every light bulb had its own unique Internet IP address? The possibilities are endless: You could monitor, manage and control every light bulb from any Internet-enabled device- turning lights on and off individually, dimming or creating scenes from your smartphone, tablet, PC or TV – to save energy as well as electricity costs.
NXP has unveiled technology that has to potential to provide every light bulb with its own IP address. In this
way, light bulbs could be controlled from any internet enabled device. The approach builds on its recent
acquisition of Jennic.
The technology, called GreenChip, is small enough to fit within the base of a regular energy efficient light
bulb. Two versions will be launched: GreenChip iCFL, for use with compact fluorescents (cfl); and GreenChip
iSSL, for use with leds. Both chipsets can act as dimmable drivers for smart lamps and are accompanied by:
a standby supply controller, with 10mW no load capability; a 2.4GHz IEEE802.15.4 compatible wireless
microcontroller; and wireless connectivity, enabled by the JenNet IP network layer software.
John Croteau, NXP’s general manager, power lighting solutions and high performance RF, said: “chipset has very low power consumption so it doesn’t negate the benefits of energy efficient lighting. And the cost structure is such that it can ship in consumer light bulbs.”
NXP is partnering with TCP, a leading manufacturer of cfl and led lamps. “TCP makes more than 1million
light bulbs a day,” said Croteau, “and will be launching consumer ready products. This is not a technology
demonstrator.” A further partnership with GreenWave Reality will see an intelligent lighting control and
management solution becoming available.
NXP will also making the technology available under an open source licence and will establish a
consortium to oversee its development. “There will not be an ‘internet of things’ if technology is proprietary or with royalties,” Croteau noted, adding “and if it only works with the iPhone, it won’t be deployable.”
NXP will be taking on ZigBee in the emerging wireless control sector, even though Croteau said this
wouldn’t be the case. “It’s not about competing with ZigBee,” Croteau claimed, “it’s about delivering
something people want to buy.”
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One will accept that if i say that world today is totally dependent on the field of Electronics for almost all matters. And the electronic technology we use can be made simplified for our daily life activities.
Today i am going to show one such idea i.e. simplified battery using lemon.
Basically when two dissimilar metals are suspended in acid it forms the battery. So i am preparing a battery which is called as lemon battery.
Lemon contains citric acid and when two wires are connected across it we should get some voltage.
But the voltage we get is very small. And this experiment can be done on other items also like tomato etc which contains acid content in it. The voltage we get for different items are different. And if you ask what is use when small voltage is present as it is not capable of lighting a single bulb also?
But this voltage can be increased but connecting more and more lemons in series so that the voltage produced across them will be large enough to lit a bulb. And i have my first video tutorial on this experiment. You can see the proof of this post by watching the below video. :)
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