Industrial and commercial accounting for 60% of smart lighting, fastest growth in the residential sector
At present, the global smart lighting market still has to rely on the continued expansion of public infrastructure. The biggest driver is smart city construction. With the support of the government, major cities in the world are pushing for smart city plans. The pace of construction is expected to continue to accelerate. Therefore, smart lighting is Applications in the public domain will be given priority.
Under the leadership of the government, the social acceptance of smart lighting has improved. Smart lighting has the advantages of energy saving, convenience, and easy control. The rise of the Internet of Things also allows companies to introduce the necessity of networked lighting. Therefore, lighting is used in commercial and industrial applications. In the market, the demand for intelligent lighting is rapidly growing. LEDinside data shows that in 2017, industrial and commercial lighting has accounted for 60% of the global smart lighting market. Under the digital development, smart lighting will bring more new businesses to these two fields. Mode and value increase.
In contrast, although the actual number of households adopting intelligent lighting is still small, as the consumer's living standards increase, related policies are promoted (such as smart city extension policy) and the promotion of manufacturers, the application of smart home lighting will gradually Popularization. LEDinside estimates that residential lighting will account for 23% of the global smart lighting market in 2017 and will increase to 31% in 2020. In the next few years, smart lighting and smart home will develop in parallel and will become the fastest growing. Application area.
Networked lighting and key manufacturers under the smart city development
In recent years, global lighting manufacturers have adopted different strategies to speed up the transformation and upgrading, and have given up on low-profit general lighting one after another to attack smart lighting with higher profits and better prospects. Currently, manufacturers that have developed rapidly include Philips Lighting, OSRAM, Cree, GE, LEDVANCE, LIFX, Acuity Brands, etc. Chinese manufacturer OPAL Lighting has achieved interoperability between lighting products and remote control of smart terminals through product development and cross-border cooperation (eg, launching a smart home product suite with Huawei); Chau Ming Technology and others promote smart streetlights. Currently, they mainly undertake Chinese government-related projects. The Chinese Taiwanese company Lite-On Technology announced in August 2017 that it will join the Stanford Digital City Alliance Program. In addition to street lights, it also develops intelligent monitoring solutions. The camera used with the communication module.