At the moment, the corporations in mainland distribute intelligent lighting are primarily some new LED lighting enterprises. The sale of intelligent lighting products has made up near 30% of overall sales in 2011 by Shenzhen Juzuo Industry Co., Ltd targeted at Japan market. Xiaoling, the general manager indicates that it is very common for intelligent products (automatic reaction, light-adjusting and color-adjusting) as high-end products in Japan market.
Theses enterprises spare no efforts into the research. Kingsun Optoelectronic Co., Ltd invested 7.65 million for project research and development totally in LED intelligent street lamp and power supply key technology, making up 51. 69% of the whole research and development input in 2011. According to the plan, it will newly increase another 11.3 million yuan for research. Among 15 LED lighting enterprises whose revenue are over 100 million yuan, relevant intelligent R$D expenditure takes up over 30% of overall R&D expenditure for 12 of them.
Taking the factors of cost and sales volume into account, the traditional lighting enterprises mentioned nothing about intelligent lighting. Listed companies like Leishi Lighting and Foshan Lighting didn’t have the information about intelligent lighting from the public data. A traditional manufacturer said, the main reason is that LED lighting still at the phase of individualism.
An expert indicated that although there are some Chinese corporations already doing the intelligent lighting research, more environmental protection only remains at simple color adjusting and temperature adjusting. Real intelligence should undertake from the control system.
Zhang Longxin summarized the development of LED lighting market into 3 phases: the phase of substituting traditional lighting, integrate the system to be more intelligent and more energy-saving and cross-industry integration (including Internet of Things, far-end control and intelligent furniture and so on). But now LED lighting market is still on the first stage.