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Light+Building 2016

メッセフランクフルトのLEDランプ展示会は、世界中から20万人以上の照明関係者がこの照明展を目的に集まる展示会は迫力があります。狭い日本を抜け出し、新しい発見ができる世界的なイベントです。ヨーロッパは照明業界のガリバーであるフィリップスやオスラムなどが本社拠点を置く場所でもあります。

フランクフルト市当局もこの開催期間中、市内の照明演出や照明イベントには大いに配慮し、連日各種の催しがございます。その規模・内容は充実し、まさしく街を挙げての「ライティング・フェスティバル」です。日本の展示会が小さく感じられます。

大きな展示会場がいくつもあり、日本の東京ビッグサイトがたった1社の展示会場となっているくらい、規模感は全く異なります。とてもスケールの大きな照明イベントなのです。

観光名所の多い旧市街地やマインツ川辺を中心に、市内数十ヶ所で各種の照明イベントが催されています。

それぞれのイベント会場へは無料巡回バスが10分おきに走っており、午後11時まで巡回してくれるので、照明関係者だけでなく、一般観光者にもこの見本市開催中実施されるルミナーレは楽しいナイトツアーショーでもあります。

ヨーロッパの街は全体に夜間は暗く、大都市フランクフルトにおいても日本や台湾の街のようなネオンやサイン灯は少なく、静かで薄暗いのです。

そんな普段の暗いイメージの街中に花を添える展示会は街中に活気をもたらしてくれてとても素敵です。

ルミナーレによるライトアップ効果は、よりあかりの楽しさや美しさが強調・再認識され、フランクフルト照明見本市の存在をより魅力あるものにしていると言えます。

下記写真のように、様々な展示ブースは比較的日本のそれと比較して派手さはなく、シックなイメージです。

特にデザイン照明はやはり本場の実力です！素晴らしい色の再現力と展示力に溢れています。日本では見ることが難しいデザインが豊富です。

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Smart Powered Building: Intelligent building networks, energy management and sustainability in harmony　

The intelligent power network of the future: networking buildings and the power infrastructure

In view of the increasing worldwide demand for energy and the climate-protection objectives, it is important that the energy-saving potential of buildings be exploited to the full. An important prerequisite for this is interaction between energy supply and the intelligent building. Only when energy consumption can be observed transparently is it possible to identify potential savings and take specific measures to increase energy efficiency. Intelligent energy-consumption measuring devices – so-called smart meters – collect and store the values metered, and all data can be read via electronic displays, internet portals or apps on mobile devices, such as smartphones. If the intelligent meters are integrated into a communication network, the information on energy consumption can be processed and used. The electronic meters supply the energy management, display and control systems in the building concerned with information necessary for intelligent process networking. Thus, smart metres are an important component for the smart grid, the intelligent power-supply network.

Smart-meter technology is a key to energy-efficiency

Electricity generation and consumption can be harmonised better using smart-meter technology. Through the visualisation of consumption data, the user can work out how to achieve greater energy efficiency, which is then managed by the building-automation systems. On the grid-provider side, intelligent metering systems ensure that metering and billing are simplified: time and / or load dependent pricing is possible. Thus, devices that can be set to switch on at a given time represent a significant energy-saving factor, e.g., heat pumps with heat-storage tanks are an option in this case. Moreover, intelligent metering systems make it possible to control flexible loads or decentralised electricity generating stations.

More and more buildings are playing an active role in the power network, e.g., photovoltaic systems on the roof or cogeneration plants. To achieve the planned increase in renewable energies and a high level of security and availability for the power network, it is essential that building systems be able to decide independently whether and when they consume the electricity generated or feed it into the network. This calls for intelligent energy management and monitoring systems that permit the systematic metering, collection, monitoring, evaluation and optimisation of energy consumption and generation. Another important aspect of tomorrow’s intelligent power network – with a growing share of renewable energies in the electricity mix – are storage systems, e.g., batteries in electric cars that can be used to store electricity until needed.

Open, standardised networking concepts are required for a smart grid to improve the interoperability and transparency of equipment and systems. A large number of existing communication standards must be integrated into the intelligent power network. For example, IT and field bus levels must communicate with each other – with the aim of creating a joint platform for existing island solutions. As the network grows, so will the demands on IT security.

Light + Building presents networking solutions and systems

Light + Building 2016 will spotlight the subjects of networking, resource conservation, energy efficiency and safety and security. Thus, the world’s leading suppliers from the fields of lighting, electrical engineering and home and building automation will present their market-ready systems and innovative solutions, which make it possible not only to reduce the energy consumption of buildings but also to increase the comfort level. The new Digital Building special show will illustrate the ways in which systems interact and are connected. Additionally, experts will give lectures on innovations, system interfaces and the prerequisites for tomorrow’s power network. Everyone wanting to take an in-depth look at the subject of networking buildings and the energy infrastructure has an excellent opportunity to do so during the six days of Light + Building 2016.

Where modern spaces come to life: ‘digital – individual – networked’

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