The next decade of lighting points to four trends

　　 In 1921, Hu Xiyuan, a national industrial and commercial person in China, successfully trial-produced the first domestic incandescent lamp, which opened up a domestic lighting service innovation that truly benefited the public; in the 1990s, Southeast University and Fudan University jointly developed energy-saving lamps The automated production line provides low-cost and high-quality equipment for the domestic lighting industry, making China's energy-saving lamp production accounted for more than 80% of the world's total production capacity; into the 21st century, China's lighting industry has achieved unprecedented development, and LED light sources are gradually replacing the traditional Light source, in urban landscape lighting, the application rate of LED light source has exceeded 90%...

　　 Today, it has entered the fourth era of the 100-year journey-the era of digital Internet of Things, the emergence of new materials and new technologies, The LED lighting industry is changing from the original technology-driven to application-driven.

　　 In 2020, the number of global IoT connections will reach 11.7 billion, exceeding the number of non-IoT connections for the first time. This historic breakthrough always shows the basics of 'more thorough perception' and 'more comprehensive interconnection'. Realization, 'Deeper Intelligence' is becoming the focus of the current development of the Digital Internet of Things.

　　 data from research institutions show that it is predicted that by 2026, the market share of smart lighting will exceed 25 billion U.S. dollars, with an average compound annual growth rate of 20%. There is no doubt that we are on the eve of the digital IoT era. This is a great opportunity and an unprecedented challenge.

　　The author believes that the next decade of the lighting industry will have at least the following four major trends:

　　Trend 1: From a single point to the overall situation. Although in the past few years, players from different industries such as Internet companies, traditional lighting manufacturers and hardware manufacturers have entered the smart home track from different angles, but the competition on the smart home track is not easy. It has now been upgraded from a single business solution to a platform-based overall solution. Recently, many lighting and lighting manufacturers are cooperating with Huawei in the smart home industry. Based on the Huawei Hongmeng system, they will jointly create more smart home scenarios with Huawei. It is expected that in the next three years, the closed-loop global intelligent application of enterprise production decision-making will emerge on a large scale throughout the supply chain, production, assets, logistics, sales and other links.

　　 Trend 2: Realizing cloud-native transformation. In the past, the manifest service contact between manufacturers was often limited to a single form, which represented the 'sale' relationship. In the era of digital interconnection, how to accurately calculate the barriers existing in the upstream and downstream, reduce the trial and error cost of the business, and improve the business application With the rapid deployment and iteration speed, manufacturers also need to build 'clouds.' As the core concept of the cloud computing era, 'cloud native' is a brand-new technical way for enterprises to use the cloud to help enterprises quickly enjoy the cost and efficiency advantages brought by cloud computing, and comprehensively accelerate the process of enterprise digital innovation and upgrading. It is estimated that 75% of global companies will use cloud-native containerized applications in commercial production within two years. In the lighting industry, there are currently many leading companies that have plans.

　　 Trend 3: New materials usher in a great explosion of applications. With the continuous expansion of application fields, new materials such as high-power LED white light rare earth materials and 100nm sapphire nano-film will play a huge potential in the field of LED lighting in the future, whether in manufacturing technology, economic construction and national defense construction. Taking the lighting technology of animals and plants as an example, at present, the electro-optical conversion efficiency of LED plant lamps is more than 20 times that of incandescent lamps, 3 times that of fluorescent lamps, and nearly twice that of high-pressure sodium lamps. It is estimated that in 2024, the global market size of plant supplementary light equipment applied to the plant factory sector will reach 1.47 billion U.S. dollars.

　　 Trend 4: 'Wisdom' becomes the standard configuration of future cities. Under the changing market trends, a comprehensive management service platform that gathers, exchanges, and shares city data and makes intelligent decisions on this basis, that is, city operation centers, will gradually emerge. The construction of a city operation center is bound to be inseparable from the 'smart light poleIt can be seen that 'smart' will become the standard configuration of future cities, and it is estimated that by 2023, the scale of the relevant market involved in my country's new smart cities will reach 1.3 trillion yuan.

　　 Bill Gates once said that people always overestimate the changes in the next one to two years, but underestimate the changes in the next ten years. This sentence cannot be more appropriate for our attitude towards the digital IoT revolution today.

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