LED light bar into high speed development

In the past few years, the LED strip of smart lighting is mostly "thunder and rain", not really popular. In 2017, this situation has changed significantly, LED light strip intelligent lighting is no longer "tepid", into a high-speed development stage. According to the latest data from LED Research Center (LEDinside), in 2017, the global smart lighting market size was close to $4.6 billion, with a year-on-year growth rate of up to 95%, and is expected to reach $13.4 billion in 2020.

In recent years, with the maturity of technologies and products and the popularization of related concepts, the application scenarios of smart lighting are increasingly rich, including commercial/industrial lighting, outdoor lighting, residential lighting, public lighting and other fields.

LED light strip lighting in public and outdoor areas priority development

According to the application field, the global smart lighting market scale, at the current stage, LED lighting may still need to rely on public and outdoor infrastructure construction gradually spread out, and the biggest market is the "smart city" construction industry.

In the early 21st century, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries have carried out the practice of smart cities, and the global smart city construction boom has been set off. Today, smart cities as a whole have entered the planning and construction stage. There are more than 500 smart cities built globally, among which Europe, America and Asia are the regions with more active smart city construction. According to the National League of Cities, about 66 percent of U.S. cities are starting to develop smart cities, and another 25 percent of cities that don't already have smart city systems are exploring the new trend. In China, three batches of smart city pilots have been announced, totaling 290 cities; In addition, building smart cities will be an important step for China to promote urbanization during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.

With the support of the government and the efforts of major cities in the world to promote smart city plans, the construction of smart cities is expected to accelerate further in the future. Therefore, as an important part of smart cities, the application of smart lighting in the public domain will also get a priority development.

Smart lighting system can improve the urban energy utilization rate, bring practical benefits to the city, and have an immediate effect. It can also use lighting equipment to capture more urban road and spatial information, and get through the data of "heaven and earth". With a wide distribution of street lamps in the city, smart street lamps have functions such as automatic brightness adjustment according to traffic flow, remote lighting control, active fault alarm, lamp cable anti-theft, remote meter reading and so on, which can greatly save power resources, improve the level of public lighting management and save maintenance costs. This also explains the phenomenon that smart lighting is becoming more and more popular in urban construction.

Although the smart street lamp is in the early stage of development, the United States, India, the Middle East, China and other countries have launched smart street lamp plans. With the surge of smart city construction, the market space of smart street lamp will have infinite prospects. According to LEDinside, outdoor lighting accounted for 11% of the global smart lighting market in 2017.

In addition to smart street lights, smart lighting will also gradually penetrate into stations, airports, subway stations, underground parking lots, schools, libraries, hospitals, stadiums, museums and other public places. According to LEDinside, public lighting accounted for 6% of the global smart lighting market in 2017.