In 2017,the lighting industry is developing rapidly

Jan 13,2018

In 2017, the rapid development of these fields has injected new vitality into the LED industry. Various new sights also herald the future of the lighting industry.

Landscape Lighting

From the Hangzhou G20 Summit, the Beijing Belt and Road Initiative Summit to the Xiamen BRICS Conference... China's landscape lighting projects have been competing once and for all. The guests, while promoting the economic prosperity of the city's night tour, also touched and enriched the cultural life of urban residents.

Because of the introduction of relevant national policies and the above-mentioned major activities, the landscape lighting project has been put on the agenda in recent years, and even became a local planner. The standard in our eyes. The multiple benefits in the near future have helped the landscape lighting industry to focus on the outbreak. The development of infrastructure, city night tour economy, featured towns, the Belt and Road, and PPP are important drivers for the rapid growth of the industry.

This seductive “cake” directly led many companies to compete in the layout landscape lighting market. The lighting company, which is on the market, won the bid in 2017 and the companies represented by Elijah, Alto Electronics, Mingjiahui, Feile Audio, Wuxi Lighting, etc. have been earning a lot of money overnight.

According to statistics, the scale of China's landscape lighting market reached 55.8 billion yuan in 2016. It is estimated that the scale of China's landscape lighting market will reach 67.8 billion yuan in 2017. Up to 21.5%, China has become the world's largest landscape lighting market. Experts said that in the next five or even eight years, it will be a brilliant period of “using value to create value”. Even industry insiders call it "a hundred years."

However, many cities blindly launched the urban landscape lighting project and applied other urban lighting projects. One typical problem caused is one side of the city. The architectural planning of the landscape lighting project is not uniform, uncoordinated, and discordant. It will also cause serious light pollution in the city due to the large area of lighting, which will bring adverse impact on the lives of urban residents.

We are pleased that Shanghai took the lead in releasing the "Shanghai Landscape Lighting Master Plan" in October and the "Hangzhou City Lighting Management Measures" will also be held in February 2018. Formally implemented on the 1st, landscape lighting is expected to enter the standardized track, and contribute to the healthy development of landscape lighting.

Smart Lighting

"Smart lighting" has been a hot topic in the LED lighting industry for many years. However, in the past, smart lighting was mostly "thunder and rain was small," and due to the lack of mature technology and insufficient market cultivation, it was difficult to land. In 2017, this situation has changed to some extent.

First, smart lighting will never only exist as a luminaire, but will become part of the smart home through our work and life. In 2017, the development of voice recognition technology and the popularity of smart speakers have opened a new door for smart home lighting, from Philips Lighting Hue to Jingdong “叮咚 Smart Speaker” and Baidu AI operating system DuerOS to GE. Introduced the voice control function for its own "C by GE" smart light bulb product...Intelligent lighting really began to humanize.

In the past two years, not only Mitsuo Aurora, NVC Group, Feile Audio, Op Lighting, Philips Lighting, Rieter's Letter, Shengdi Optoelectronics, Hongyan Electronics, etc. Companies have accelerated the deployment of smart (home) lighting, such as Huawei, Haier, ZTE, Jingdong, Baidu, Ali, Midea, Xiaomi and other cross-border giants have begun to enter the smart lighting (home) field. Since smart lighting involves many fields such as lighting, control technology, sensors, artificial intelligence, voice recognition, industrial design, and the Internet of Things, it is difficult for a single company to fully infiltrate, and multi-business cross-border cooperation is bound to be an effective way to promote the development of smart lighting. So whether these crazy cross-border giants can win the "ground" in the future, it depends on whether smart lighting products can really be accepted by consumers. Some smart lighting manufacturers in the physical store to increase the display of smart lighting products, "mothless" way for consumers to experience more in-depth smart lighting products, is a good way to popularize.

Secondly, why is wisdom street lighting so hot? This is because everyone regards it as an entry point for building a smart city. The street lamp covers the city's body like blood vessels and nerves. It forms the perception network needed by smart cities. Now, some integrated light poles can already realize functions such as lighting, one-touch calling, WIFI, environmental monitoring, personnel monitoring, vehicle monitoring, information release, video shooting, and car charging, such as Shanghai Sansi’s smart streetlights. However, even if there are operators to build smart street lights, the schemes involve different areas such as meteorology, transportation, urban construction, and advertisement management. These areas are affiliated with different agencies and departments in China, and the operators and the different departments involved are involved. As for the communication and coordination of business, it is not so easy to achieve a consistent operation. In addition, under the premise of ensuring the normal operation of the road function lighting, consider the various functional carriers other than street lamps, and do not reverse the cart before the horse. In short, the future of smart street lamps must be closely integrated with urban development and people's lives in order to produce maximum efficiency.

The most prominent progress of smart streetlight in 2017 is that with the development of NB-IOT next-generation network technology, more and more NB-IoT smart street commercial projects are fast Landing. In addition, various parties in the smart street are trying to introduce new business models such as joint investment in PPP and value-added services and revenue sharing.

As experts say, technology should be rigorous, but we must not use current ideas to frame the future of smart street lamps. The evolution of society, economy, and technology will bring about Various possibilities, there are innumerable possibilities for the direction of development of an industry, which is also its charm.

About Smart Lighting Another area of application that has not attracted enough attention is smart buildings. Most buildings still use traditional lighting controls. Intelligent control is one of the mainstream technologies in today's architecture development. Intelligent lighting automatic control system not only saves energy, reduces maintenance costs, improves lighting quality, but also enables intelligent lighting control of buildings to provide people with a healthy and comfortable working environment. From this perspective, the smart lighting market has great potential. A typical example is Philips Zero Lighting's near-zero energy demonstration building at the China Academy of Building Research (CABR) in Beijing, which uses PoE's smart, connected office lighting technology.

Plant lighting

A major form of plant lighting is plant factories. This year, plant factories can be said to have breakthrough development. Many giant giants such as Jinshajiang, JD.com, Softbank, etc., and vegetables produced by Panasonic, etc. have also been sold in supermarkets. The vegetables of the Sanke Plant Factory of the Zhongke Branch have been on the Bric State Banquet, and even plant cultivation systems have followed workers. Fly into space and board a scientific expedition ship. The global plant factory has also conducted a lot of explorations on the business model. The appearance of farm restaurants and new retail has also given new inspiration to the development of modern agriculture. The fires in plant factories have become more and more prosperous, and they are rapidly entering into commercial research and development. At the application level, the industry has an attractive prospect. The seriousness of food safety issues, the reduction of water resources and land desertification, soil pollution, the increase in urban population, and the decrease in the application cost of LED technology have even more demonstrated the commercial value of plant factories. Therefore, it has become a new blue ocean for the development of LED lighting industry. .

Plant factory is considered to be a true agriculture 4.0 technology. At present, China has mastered the five core technologies of plant factories, namely "LED energy-saving light source creation, light and temperature coupling energy-saving Environmental control, nutrient solution culture, vegetable quality regulation and intelligent management and control, and LED lighting technology in the "core of the core" technology, is still in a leading position in the world, the national level is also very recognized the development of plant factories, And got some capital investment. However, plant factories still have problems such as higher initial construction costs, higher energy consumption, and higher vegetable prices. At this stage, basic research, technological breakthroughs, reducing costs, strengthening promotion, and establishing sustainable profitable business models are all very important. In addition, the plant factory is a system integration project that requires technology accumulation in plant cultivation and many fields, and therefore requires cross-border cooperation. In short, the future development of plant factories is puzzling, and experts say that after three to five years, plant factories will spring up like bamboo shoots. What is certain is that under the impetus of many favorable conditions, under the imperative of social development, and in the continuous creation of cross-border innovation, China's plant factory R&D and industrialization will surely shine and become one of the world's plant factories. Industry power.

Healthy lighting

2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to three American geneticists, Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rothbach, and Michael Young . Because they discovered the molecular mechanism of the circadian rhythm, which is often referred to as the biological clock, causing people to discuss health. This is undoubtedly an inspiration to lighting people, but also an opportunity. In fact, the research results are closely related to lighting. Melatonin secretion has a clear circadian rhythm, light color and light intensity will affect the secretion and release of melatonin, such as the study found that the human body clock is the most sensitive to the blue wavelength light, the appropriate increase in blue light, can achieve fatigue relief effect.

In recent years, problems such as blue light damage, strobe light, human rhythm disorder, damage to the human eye and light bio-irradiation caused by LED have become increasingly apparent. This has made the industry aware of healthy lighting. Popularization cannot be delayed. In addition to the continuous deepening of research on the mechanism of the impact of light on human health and the continuous introduction of the standard of healthy lighting, this area has gradually become a focus of attention and layout of LED companies. According to industry insiders, both the domestic and international light health industry technologies and markets are at the starting line of the same initial stage, which can expand the market space to a huge extent and is a huge blue ocean market. At this time, LED companies accelerated the improvement of LED light quality and health care lighting technology.