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The smart light poles in the Jiangnanxi Cultural Tourism Business Circle in Haizhu District, Guangzhou are officially lit

Recently, Guangzhou Xintou, a member company of Guangzhou Radio Group, assisted in the official lighting of the smart light pole project in Jiangnanxi Cultural Tourism Business District, Haizhu District, Guangzhou. Up to now, Guangzhou Xintou has built more than 2,300 smart light poles in 9 districts of Guangzhou, playing a leading and supporting role in the new generation of information infrastructure represented by smart light poles in the construction of new smart cities, and deepening urban renewal for Guangzhou, realize the new vitality of the old city, and add luster to the “four new and brilliant”.

The smart light poles in the Jiangnanxi Cultural Tourism Business Circle in Haizhu District, Guangzhou are officially lit

A few days ago, the lighting ceremony of the landmark “Eye of Fashion” in the south of the Yangtze River in Haizhu District was officially launched. The new landmark of Jiangnanxi standing on the square of the Offshore Oil Building – the fashion eye and the brand-new information screen of the smart light pole is lit up at the same time, lighting up the Jiangnanxi business district like dazzling pearls.

The smart light pole project constructed by Guangzhou Xintou in the Jiangnan West Cultural and Tourism Business District integrates smart lighting, full coverage of Internet signals, video surveillance, display information release, environmental monitoring, and other complex functions. Later, 5G microlight poles can be expanded according to actual needs. The base station and other functional modules. With the continuous lighting of smart street lights and visual landmarks, the rich three-dimensional art installations are dizzying, fully demonstrating the “new vitality of the old city” in Guangzhou and the “new charm of the old business district” in Jiangnan West.

In recent years, Guangzhou Xintou has built 2,327 smart light poles in 9 districts including Tianhe, Haizhu, Nansha, Huadu, Zengcheng, Yuexiu, Baiyun and Liwan innovatively integrating high-power DC charging piles with light poles to create the first innovative application in Guangzhou that combines convenience functions such as smart parking and smart charging. Among them, the application of smart light poles integrated with charging piles on Jiaochang East Road and Jiaochang West Road was selected into the practice of “serving people’s livelihood and doing practical things” by the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee Activities to help the old city burst into new vitality.

At the same time, Guangzhou Xintou also combined unmanned driving, smart charging piles, smart civil air defense and other application scenarios, and cooperated with Nansha Big Data Company to carry out vehicle-road coordination equipment on smart light poles, and realized L4-level autonomous driving testing and testing for the first time in Nansha.

In the future, Guangzhou Xintou will actively respond to the national digital new infrastructure strategy, combine the smart city construction planning and urban landscape, accelerate the construction of smart light pole projects, create a beautiful urban landscape, deepen urban renewal for Guangzhou, and realize the new vitality of the old city. “Four new and brilliant” add luster.

LED lighting helps grow vegetables in supermarkets

With the rise of urban residents’ awareness of environmental protection and their yearning for green life, coupled with the rapid development of related technologies, urban agriculture has become popular in various countries in recent years. It not only creates employment opportunities but also expands urban green space. “Local consumption” shortens the distance for food to be delivered from the place of production to the dining table, which is conducive to energy saving and carbon reduction.

LED lighting helps grow vegetables in supermarkets

It is common for urbanites to learn to be farmers and play the realistic version of “Happy Farm” in their own yards, balconies, and rooftops. However, a high-end department store in the center of Paris, France, also operates a “sky vegetable garden”, which is refreshing. The roof of the Lafayette (Galleries Lafayette) department store on Huadu’s bustling street was planned by a group of agricultural engineers and architects, the “Paris Strawberries” company, to create a huge vegetable and fruit garden, which can supply about 1.8 tons of food to Parisians every year. Strawberry is its bulk.

The current “vertical farming method” is adopted here. The soil is discarded, and the patented “biofilm” is used to grow edible crops. Specially filtered air-conditioning wastewater and rainwater are used to provide the nutrients needed for plant growth. The foundation of this “soilless, hydroponic cultivation” is “biofilm”, which is mainly prepared from animal fibers such as waste wool that has no textile value. The cost is not high and the construction method is simple, which is both economical and environmentally friendly. As far as the trend is concerned, vertical farms are popping up like mushrooms in department stores and shopping malls in Paris and other cities.

The mayor of Paris, Itage, has introduced a new law to encourage citizens to be “gardeners of public space”, hoping to create 100 hectares of new gardens such as vegetation walls and green roofs by 2020, one-third of which will be contributed to urban agriculture (gardening), producing food. This has added conditions for food “local production and local consumption” for Paris, which is densely populated and sparsely populated, and has further beautified the urban landscape, and enhanced the city’s biodiversity, which is conducive to ecological balance.

On the other hand, the Metro supermarket chain in Berlin, the capital of Germany, cooperates with Infarm, a company that develops urban indoor farming methods, to promote the indoor vertical farm plan, “growing vegetables and fruits directly in the supermarket”, and selling them while growing them, so that customers can conveniently Pick your own fresh ingredients for purchase.

Infarm is committed to growing food in various “impossible” places. It uses old containers to make stackable modular planting boxes. In this “vertical farm”, irrigation and nutrient supply are controlled by the Internet The system, LED lighting that simulates sunlight to help plant photosynthesis, and installs multiple sensing devices to monitor the status of crops. Consumers can also learn about the growth process of food materials in real-time through the Internet.

Building a vertical farm in the supermarket aisle only occupies a small space of a few square meters in the supermarket, and can be extended upwards. “The biggest advantage is that the supermarket infrastructure is complete, without any additions or adjustments. You only need to install the system. It can start to operate.” It has many advantages such as reducing the cost of food transportation, storage, and preservation, and is favored by consumers.

Canadian greenhouse introduces LED lighting system to increase seedling production

Founded in 2009, Lufa Farms can produce 75 kinds of vegetables throughout the year and provide 10,000 members to buy and eat them. The founder, Mohamed Hage, set up Lufa Farms in order to provide uninterrupted crops near people’s homes. But as demand expands, Lufa Farms hopes to introduce new growing methods to increase crop yields.

Canadian greenhouse introduces LED lighting system to increase seedling production

Since seedlings are the most vulnerable period of crop growth, how to build an environment suitable for seedling growth becomes the key to increasing yield. On the one hand, Lufa Farms wanted to increase production with limited space and lighting, but on the other hand, it was unwilling to sacrifice crop quality, so it cooperated with Current and Hort Americas to create a three-story lighting system, which installed 430 sets of GE Arize Lynk LED light bulbs allow Lufa Farms to afford the installation cost and also make the environment sustainable.

This lighting system can be adjusted according to the different needs and growth conditions of various vegetable seedlings of Lufa Farms, which increases the production speed of seedlings by 15% and improves planting efficiency. At the same time, the Lufa Farms team pointed out that the improvement of the seedling growth environment also makes the quality of vegetables relatively consistent.

Grow medical marijuana with LED lighting system

On the 11th, Sweden’s Heliospectra announced that the Danish Cannabis Pharm company’s new production equipment has selected Heliospectra’s horticultural lighting and control system. The company ordered Heliospectra’s ELIXIA LED lighting solution and HelioCORE light control software to fully automate the lighting environment and produce the highest quality medical cannabis. It is reported that Heliospectra will ship during the first quarter of 2019.

Grow medical marijuana with LED lighting system

According to official sources, Cannabis Pharm is currently building a new high-density vertical cultivation system in Randers, Denmark. The company has partnered with Heliospectra and Canada’s Montel to combine centralized LED lighting management strategies with state-of-the-art mobile racks to provide an overall solution that optimizes crop quality and maximizes production and business performance.

Ali Ahmadian, president of Heliospectra, said Denmark is fast becoming one of the largest producers of medical cannabis in Europe. The European market continues to expand the medical cannabis industry, and standardized high-quality products have become the key to success. The life cycle of cannabis goes through several different stages of growth, each with different requirements for environmental factors such as light intensity and spectrum. Using Heliospectra’s smart ELIXIA LED grow lights and HelioCORE? control software, growers can automatically adjust light and environmental prerequisites according to crop growth needs, thereby optimizing crop growth conditions and enhancing the energy efficiency of growth.

According to Heliospectra, the global trend toward the legalization of medical marijuana has driven the development of expertise in this area, and the company has partnered with various institutions and companies to expand its knowledge in the industry. Since the beginning of this year, the company has cooperated with medical marijuana cultivation research institutions from Canada, Australia, Macedonia, and Denmark.

Signify researches LED lighting technology for cut roses

Signify announced yesterday (4th) that it has signed a two-year cooperation agreement with China Gansu Linxia Baiyi Modern Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. on the formulation of LED light for cut roses to jointly carry out research on the application of LED supplementary light for greenhouse cultivation of cut roses in western China. . During the same period, a tripartite joint laboratory of Signify, Baiyi Group and Yunnan Aibida was established at the International Flower Port Flower Production Demonstration Base in Linxia National Agricultural Science and Technology Park (Sino-Dutch), Gansu Province.

Signify researches LED lighting technology for cut roses

Signify will set up a special innovative agricultural research fund for the light formulation cooperation project for the joint laboratory, and will send Signify international botanical experts to the Linxia (China-Dutch) International Flower Port project from time to time to conduct training and information on flower LED lighting technology Exchange and resource sharing, promote the application and promotion of the latest international LED supplementary light technology and cases in western China, and improve the quality and economic benefits of flower production in western China.

Gansu Linxia (Sino-Dutch) International Flower Port Project is invested by Linxia Baiyi Modern Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. to develop high-end flower industry. With the listing of the joint laboratory, Signify also awarded the two companies as the ambassadors of Signify’s facility horticultural LED in the world and the Chinese flower industry.

“We have seen the demand for innovative LED supplementary lighting technology in the production of cut rose greenhouses in western China. The joint laboratory’s research on light formulations will help improve the production efficiency of flowers in western China.” Udo van Slooten, head of Signify’s LED plant lighting business Said that Philips GreenPower LED supplementary light products have a lot of successful application experience proven by the market in the production of cut roses, and we look forward to future cooperation results.

Linxia (Sino-Dutch) International Flower Port Project produces cut roses by introducing Dutch greenhouse construction technology, flower planting technology and original seedlings, which are at the leading level in the international facility industry. Huo Gang, general manager of Linxia Baiyi Modern Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., said that Philips LED light formula has a good advantage in the production of cut roses in greenhouses. He looks forward to working closely with the Signify LED plant lighting team in the future to witness the use of LED in flower production. It will promote the success of the Linxia (Sino-Dutch) International Flower Port project, and further promote the transformation and upgrading of local agriculture and the integrated development of industries.

Ningxia’s first LED smart plant factory built

In response to the urgent demand for high-quality horticultural products in the rapid urbanization of Ningxia, and to balance the shortage of water and soil resources, through the support of the key research and development plans of the autonomous region, Ningxia University, the Institute of Agricultural Environment and Sustainable Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Beijing Innovative Life Technology Development Co., Ltd. The company jointly implements the key project of East-West cooperation “Research and Demonstration of Energy-Saving and Efficient Cultivation Technology of Artificial Light Plant Factory”.

Ningxia's first LED smart plant factory built

The project will build a new intelligent LED artificial light plant factory of 225 square meters, supporting the construction of three-dimensional cultivation racks, nutrient solution supply and recovery, lighting system, air conditioning temperature control system, and comprehensive environmental control system, and expanding the supporting hydroponic cultivation of leafy vegetables under natural light conditions.

The project has developed 2 sets of red and blue chip combined and phosphor-excited LED plant light source devices, developed 1 set of plant factory light-temperature coupling heat exchanger and its control system; designed 3 sets of adjustable three-dimensional hydroponic cultivation systems, developed 1 item of nutrient solution circulation and uniform supply technology.

After the completion of the intelligent LED artificial light plant factory, it can produce 10 lettuce crops a year, and each crop can be planted with 6,000 plants; combined with artificial light seedlings, the hydroponic leafy vegetable system can produce 11 lettuce crops a year under natural light conditions.

The project achieves technological breakthroughs in light and heat energy saving, efficient use of water, fertilizer and land resources through plant factories, forming a high-tech industrial system of plant factories with independent intellectual property rights, boosting the rapid development of Ningxia’s plant factory industry, and improving the application of agricultural high-tech at home and abroad. Competitiveness makes a positive contribution.

100,000 LED bulbs in Tokyo create alternative cherry blossoms

According to the “Asahi Shimbun” website, the Nihonbashi Muromachi digital art “Sakura” in the central district of Tokyo met the public a few days ago, attracting everyone’s attention. The “cherry blossom tree” made up of about 100,000 LED bulbs is about 8 meters high, showing a variety of colors such as green and peach.

100,000 LED bulbs in Tokyo create alternative cherry blossoms

As part of the “Nihonbashi Cherry Blossom Festival” event held in the Nihonbashi area, this cherry tree was created from digital art that was popular at the American Arts Festival and was named “The Tree of Light”. “Light Sakura” will be lit from 4 pm to 8 pm every day until April 7th.

LED lighting brings new light pollution to Europe?

A new type of light pollution has become more prominent in much of Europe as LEDs are increasingly used in outdoor lighting, a team from the University of Exeter has found. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the team describes their study of photographs taken from the International Space Station.

LED lighting brings new light pollution to Europe?

Previous research has shown that artificial light in the natural environment can adversely affect wildlife and humans. For example, studies have shown that both animals and humans experience disrupted sleep patterns, and that many animals are confused by light at night, causing a range of survival problems.

In the new study, officials point out that officials in many countries have been advocating the use of LED lighting instead of traditional sodium bulbs on roads and parking areas. To learn more about the impact of this change, the researchers obtained photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station between 2012-2013 and 2014-2020. These photos provide a better range of light wavelengths than satellite images.

Through the photos, the researchers were able to see which regions of Europe had converted to LED lighting and to what extent. They found that countries such as the UK, Italy and Ireland experienced significant changes, while others such as Austria, Germany and Belgium experienced little change. Since LEDs emit light at different wavelengths than sodium bulbs, an increase in blue light emission can be clearly seen in those areas that have been converted to LED lighting.

The researchers noted that they have found that blue light interferes with melatonin production in humans and other animals, which can interfere with sleep patterns, so increased blue light in LED-lit areas could negatively impact the environment and the people who live and work in these places. They suggested that officials had better study the impact of LED lighting carefully before moving forward with new projects.

Advantages of LED plant lighting

As life becomes more and more AI (smart), the flowers and plants that can always relieve stress and heal the soul are also very AI in planting. LEDs, which are indispensable in daily life, have expanded many new growth opportunities with the evolution of technology. , one of which is plant lighting.

Advantages of LED plant lighting

LED plant lighting has many advantages. For example, it can increase the growth rate of crops, save energy by up to 75%, and save water resources by 90%. , Both promote the development prospects of the plant and horticultural lighting market.

Plant lighting is very knowledgeable. Planters can use specific wavelengths to develop a single lighting scheme, such as blue light (420-480nm) and red light (620-670nm), or use multiple lighting schemes to form ideal light output with multiple LEDs. , to match the light required by plants at different growth stages, such as different light requirements for sowing, germination, growth, and flowering.

For the light in the red and blue bands, it has obvious effects on the cultivation of leafy vegetables, but the taste of hydroponic vegetables is still the key to improving the quality of vegetables, so the spectrum of white light plus red light is used, and other leafy vegetables and fruits, general-purpose types, etc. For example, the red light/blue light configuration of leafy vegetables is optimized to use 4:1, and the fruit such as strawberries or similar fruit economic crops should use 5:1 red/blue mixed light as the priority. For general-purpose plant growth aids, you can choose a 7:1 or 8:1 red/blue light ratio configuration.

UK agritech center to build urban vertical farms

According to official news, Current, a subsidiary of GE, provides Arize agricultural lighting solutions to the Stockbridge Technology Center in Selby, North Yorkshire, UK, and applies it to its new Vertical Farming Development Facility to help growers test and simulate their establishment of urban farm before investing.

UK agritech center to build urban vertical farms

It is reported that the new vertical farm research and development factory is located in the Stockbridge Technology Center and has received the support of the British Technology Strategy Committee (Innovate UK). Farm adoption of Current’s Arize agricultural lighting solutions will help businesses, growers and investors better understand the technical and environmental parameters needed to optimize crop yields before they start building their own vertical farms.

In order to promote commercial urban farming in the UK, the Vertical Farm Center provides a platform where potential investors and vertical farm growers can communicate and discuss with vertical farming experts. Additionally, with the help of Current’s LED lighting solutions, they were able to identify and test vertical farm setups to maximize planned harvest size, nutritional value, and visual appeal.

In addition, the vertical farm includes two identical growing rooms with a total growing area of?228 square meters, using a full range of climate control and circulating hydroponic systems. The crop racks have four tiers, all using Arize LED lights, which produce a balanced spectrum of red and blue wavelengths to help grow a wider variety of crops.

Malcolm Yare, development manager of GE’s Current Agriculture Division, said that lighting is a key factor for the successful growth of any crop. We will create more arable space in industrial and urban areas by combining the most efficient wavelengths with the best environmental conditions. Increase global crop production beyond conventional farming methods in a commercially and environmentally sustainable manner.