Intelligent lighting enters rapid development
In the past few years, smart lighting was mostly "thunder and rain", and it was not really popular. By 2017, this situation has undergone a marked change. Smart lighting is no longer "tepid" and has entered a period of rapid development. According to the latest data from LEDinside LED display, the global smart lighting market in 2017 was close to US$4.6 billion, with a year-on-year growth rate of 95% and is expected to reach US$13.4 billion by 2020.
In recent years, with the popularization of technologies and products and the popularization of related concepts, smart lighting application scenes have become more and more abundant, including commercial/industrial lighting, outdoor lighting, residential lighting, and public lighting.
Smart lighting gives priority to public and outdoor development
According to the application field, we can see the market scale of global smart lighting. At the current stage, smart lighting or infrastructure construction still needs to rely on the public and outdoor areas. The biggest market among them is the “Smart City” construction industry.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the United States, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries all carried out the practice of smart cities, setting off an upsurge in the construction of smart cities around the world. Today, smart cities have entered the planning and construction phase as a whole, and there are more than 500 smart cities under construction worldwide. Among them, Europe, the United States, and Asia are relatively active regions for smart city construction. According to the report of the U.S. National Cities Alliance, about 66% of U.S. cities have begun to develop smart cities, and another 25% have not yet had a smart city system. They are also trying to explore this new trend. As far as China is concerned, at present, three batches of smart cities have been announced for a total of 290 cities; in addition, the construction of smart cities will be an important starting point for China's advancement of urbanization during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.
Thanks to the government's support and efforts to promote smart city plans in major cities around the world, smart city construction is expected to accelerate further in the future. Therefore, the application of smart lighting as an important component of smart cities in the public sector will also receive a priority.
Intelligent lighting system can improve the city's energy efficiency, bring real benefits to the city, and have immediate results. It can also use lighting equipment to capture more urban roads and spatial information and open up the data for “Going Up to Earth”. For street lamps with a wide distribution in the city, smart street lamps have the functions of automatically adjusting brightness, remote lighting control, fault active alarm, lamp cable anti-theft, and remote meter reading according to traffic flow, which can significantly save power resources and improve public lighting. Management level, saving maintenance costs. This also explains the increasingly hot phenomenon of smart lighting in urban construction.
Industrial and commercial applications for smart lighting
After the gradual promotion in the public domain, the social acceptance of smart lighting has improved. Because digital features can bring more new business models and value growth points, industrial and commercial lighting is the largest application of smart lighting. LEDinside data shows that in 2017, industrial and commercial lighting accounted for 60% of the global smart lighting market.
Intelligent lighting plays an important role in the field of industrial lighting. Industrial lighting is mainly used in large-scale single/double-layer industrial plant buildings, with large electricity consumption. With the industrial development needs and operator's safety, the lighting requirements are also very strict.
The lighting of the factory building can be externally connected to the lighting control node. The intelligent lighting system can preset the number and time of the lighting switch, and the brightness can also be set. The external lighting of the building can automatically adjust the appropriate illumination according to the brightness of the natural light source. The indoor lighting can also be based on different Demand, as the season and weather changes, automatically adjust the appropriate illumination, not only does not affect the operation, but also more humane and energy-saving, to avoid dizziness.
With the development of science and technology, industrial lighting gradually tends to be intelligent. For example, China's major e-commerce group Jingdong, Tmall, Amazon, Dangdang, etc. have established their own intelligent warehouses in key central cities, using high-quality storage lighting systems to increase delivery speed to attract customers. High-quality storage lighting system can not only improve the efficiency of warehousing and logistics operations, ensure the security of intelligent storage environment, but also reduce the maintenance costs and operating costs of logistics companies.
LEDinside data show that in 2018 the global industrial lighting market will reach US$3.934 billion. LEDinside believes that the combination of smart control and industrial lighting will change the use of lighting fixtures in the industrial sector, significantly increase the added value of lighting products, and provide the industry with long-term growth momentum.
As regards commercial lighting that focuses more on energy saving and social benefits, especially on commercial building lighting, lighting time is up to 12 hours a day and power consumption is very severe. Therefore, intelligent control can be used to achieve energy saving. And a large number of lighting requirements also bring another commercial application that combines intelligent functions. For example, LED lamps and lanterns can combine visible light communication technology, can realize the function of accurate positioning, assist the commercial application such as the product broadcast service of the store. Commercial lighting is also currently undergoing large-scale intelligent replacement.
Smart lighting grows fastest in the residential sector
It is undeniable that intelligent lighting plays an important role in improving the quality of life, improving work efficiency and improving management. With the improvement of living standards, smart home lighting applications will become more common and will become a new outlet for the development of the lighting industry.
As an entry point for smart homes, smart lighting is the area where the smart home market can start quickly. In the past few years, the market acceptance of smart home lighting was not high due to the lack of mature technologies and inadequate market cultivation. Nowadays, the smart home lighting industry has gradually entered the "fast lane of development." The intelligent control of home lighting has quietly advanced, and various intelligent lighting control systems for residential lighting are on the rise.
According to LEDinside data, residential lighting accounts for 23% of the global smart lighting market in 2017, and will increase to 31% in 2020. LEDinside believes that smart homes and smart lighting will promote each other and will make rapid progress in the next few years. Smart lighting will have the fastest growth in the residential sector.