LED lighting opens a new era of green architecture

LED architectural lighting is a night lighting method that integrates LED light sources or lamps with building facades, indoor spaces, and landscape elements. Compared to the general lighting market, architectural lighting is a more professional application field. It requires LED lighting to be able to coordinate with the architectural landscape, and to provide various lighting design solutions adapted to the structure and style of the building. According to LEDinside's survey data, the global LED architectural lighting market in 2012 was approximately US$3.191 billion, accounting for 29% of the overall LED lighting market, and due to the various light colors, ease of design, and environmental protection and energy saving of LEDs. The features make the architectural lighting market more acceptable to LED, lower sensitivity to product prices, and faster market adoption. At the same time, under the circumstances that there are still many resistances in the current development of the general LED lighting market, the LED architectural lighting market has become another important "growth spot" for growth in the industry.

The types of LED lamps commonly involved in architectural lighting are relatively diverse, including LED light strips and LED digital tubes commonly used for contour lighting; LED flood light, flood light, neon light, and wall wash light commonly used for wall lighting; combined with ancient architecture Shaped LED corrugated lights; square pools, fountains used underwater lights; buried lights, lawn lights; and various indoor lighting and so on. Under the premise that governments around the world are advocating green building, the advantages of energy saving brought by LED lighting are increasingly valued, and the proportion of applications is increasing significantly. However, on the other hand, an urgent issue facing LED architectural lighting is: how to get rid of Instead of using simple design processes such as edging and beating, LED lighting and artistic creativity are perfectly integrated into one. This not only requires lighting designers to further understand the technical characteristics of LEDs; it also requires different industry manufacturers on the LED industry chain to work together to provide higher quality products and technologies based on specific market needs.

Speaking of the demand characteristics of the architectural lighting market, Zhang Weichao, marketing manager of lighting products in Greater China, NXP Semiconductors (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., summed up: “The specific needs of LED lighting products in the architectural lighting market include reducing color temperature deviations, increasing light output, and The matching of light sources, energy saving and environmental protection, saving the cost of customer use and maintenance; In addition, in the performance indicators, there are requirements for the input and output voltage and current parameters of the products, various safety and efficacy requirements, etc.; and the heat dissipation of the products is required. Performance, reliability, and system life should be increased, and the time to market should also be shortened."