The research report shows that in terms of the global LED lighting market, the market size in 2015 reached 45.82 billion U.S. dollars, and the penetration rate in terms of value will be 33.4%. This is mainly because the shipments of LED bulbs, tubes, and spotlights have multiplied, and prices have become more affordable. As a result of development, the annual growth rate of LED lighting output value is 48%. In 2016, bulbs will account for the highest proportion, reaching 36.8%, followed by lamps and spotlights, which will account for 43.4% and 33.3% respectively.

Analysis of the main application areas of LED

1. LED street lamp application field

According to data, in 2009, the number of global LED street light installations was about 2.5 million, with a penetration rate of 1%. In 2010, the global LED street light could reach 4.5 million, with a penetration rate of over 2%. The global LED street lamp market showed rapid growth after 2010, with a compound growth rate of 97.75% from 2009 to 2013. By 2013, the global LED street lamp market reached 2.159 billion US dollars. In 2013, the application of LED lighting was mature, and the overall demand was rising rapidly. From the perspective of LED lighting terminal products, at present, the development of LED street lamps has become a project worthy of attention in outdoor lighting.

The market size of LED street lights depends on the budgets of various governments, which is the biggest difference between them and general consumer products. But as an emerging industry, LED has formed a complete global industrial chain layout.

In terms of LED lighting terminal products in 2013, outdoor lighting projects worthy of attention are the development of LED street lamps. The biggest difference between this product and general consumer products is that the market size depends on the budget of various governments. Although the standard specifications of LED street lamps in mainland China are under development, and the "rule of man" situation is still heard, with the support of relevant central and local policies, the market of LED street lamps in mainland China exceeded one million in 2013, reaching 1.32 million, accounting for 32 million in the world. %.

2. Architectural landscape lighting application field

Because LED light source has a series of advantages such as energy saving, environmental protection, light and durable, rich color, simple and easy to control, low voltage safety, etc., it has a wide range of application markets in landscape lighting. The domestic landscape lighting market scale is about 200 billion yuan or more. A number of LED landscape lighting demonstration projects have been completed in cities such as Xiamen, Chongqing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang and Harbin.

Driven by the Olympic and World Expo LED demonstration projects, Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai and other places will continue to build a number of LED landscape lighting projects. The expansion of the demonstration effect of these projects will further promote the adoption of LED landscape lighting in other small and medium-sized cities, thereby speeding up my country’s LED landscape lighting. It is widely used in different regions and cities.

3. Application areas of traffic lights

The market size of  traffic lights is over 10 billion yuan. At present, my country's highbrightness LED urban traffic signal lights have also been widely used. In addition, LED also has broad application prospects in railway signals. The traditional signal machine uses a double filament incandescent bulb as the light source, and the bulb life is only 1000 hours.

The Chinese government plans to build an average of 1,700 kilometers of railway lines each year in the future. By 2020, the total length of my country's railway lines will reach 100,000 kilometers. High-reliability, safety and low-maintenance high-brightness LEDs will do a lot. In addition, railway signal and lighting products such as hand-held signal lights, passenger car bedside reading lights, and safety sign lights have also begun to use LEDs. Our country is in the high-speed development of highways, airports, seaports and other fields of signal and sign lamps, and it is also a market with great potential for LED applications.

4. Display application field

The display market has reached 50 billion yuan. LED display screens in my country started early, and a group of strong manufacturers have appeared on the market, and a mature industry with complete supporting facilities has been formed. At present, LED displays in my country have been widely used in public places such as stations, banks, securities, hospitals, stadiums, municipal plazas, concerts, and airports.

5. Small size LCD backlight

The domestic small-size (under 7 inches) backlight market is about 2 billion yuan. LED has been widely used and popularized in the field of small-size LCD panels such as mobile phones, MP3, MP4, DC/DV and PDA. With color-screen mobile phones, domestic packaging companies are actively developing technology research and development or introducing equipment to improve production capacity and product quality. Especially in recent years, small-size LCD backlight factories in Japan and South Korea are moving to China.

6. Automotive applications

The domestic LED automotive lighting market has exceeded 10 billion yuan. In 2006, China's automobile production and sales reached 72.709 million and 72.106 million, an increase of 32.76% and 30.02% year-on-year. With the improvement of the technical level of LED light-emitting components and the decline of product prices, LED combined tail lights, LED brake lights, LED turn lights, etc. will become the mainstream configuration of car lights in my country. In 2010, my country's LED front-mounted market (OEM supporting market), LED combined taillights, LED central high-position brake lights, automotive instrument backlights and other LED lights will reach 4 billion yuan. The next application trend of automotive LEDs will be automotive headlights.

7. Indoor ordinary white light lighting

There have been cases of using LED as indoor lighting in China, and the initial investment can be recovered with the electricity saved in 2-3 years. As LED performance continues to improve and prices continue to decrease, energy-saving and environmentally friendly LEDs will gradually enter the field of general lighting. Especially in public lighting places, places that require uninterrupted lighting due to environmental requirements, such as gas stations, underground parking lots, hospitals, star-rated hotels, business halls, commodity display counters, high-end commercial office buildings, and other commercial places, are also for higher prices. Acceptable, these places will be the first to adopt white LEDs as general lighting.

In addition, under the huge pressure of energy saving and environmental protection, foreign governments have adopted relevant policies to encourage and promote the application of LED lighting products. In December 2005, Japan promulgated a taxation promotion law to improve and increase energy use, which clearly stipulates that enterprises or institutions can use LED lighting instead of incandescent lighting to obtain 130% of the investment amount over depreciation, or a tax rate reduction of 7% of the investment amount. The EU began to implement the ROHS Act (the full name is the "Directive on Prohibition of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment") in July 2006 to restrict the use of mercury-containing fluorescent tubes; California legislators proposed to implement an incandescent lamp prohibition order by 2012 ; In February 2007, the Australian government announced that it would phase out incandescent lamps; Taiwan, my country, restricted the use of incandescent lamps in 2012.

8. Artificial light source for agricultural production

In agricultural production, the artificial light sources used for plant lighting and animal breeding and growth mainly include fluorescent lamps, high pressure sodium lamps, halogen lamps and incandescent lamps. For a long time, artificial light sources with high luminous efficiency, uniformity and good light quality have been the focus and direction of the industry's attention and efforts. Compared with traditional artificial light sources, LED has green energy saving, DC drive, small size, long life, fixed wavelength, light intensity, light quality, red/blue ratio or red/infrared ratio) can be adjusted, cooling load is low, unit A series of advantages such as high area cultivation.

9. Medical light source

Scientific experiments have confirmed that LED light sources have medical effects such as anti-inflammatory, sterilizing, inducing and promoting changes in human tissues, and affecting human biological rhythms. Therefore, there have been a large number of successful medical cases of LED light sources in treating skin, vision, wounds and beauty. For example, using the anti-inflammatory effect of LED red light to treat skin ulcers and assisting wound healing; combining blue and red light to treat mild to moderately severe acne; LED light source has a wide range of applications in human diagnosis and treatment, and it is expected to be medically-oriented in the future The LED market will gradually expand.

10. Aviation lighting source

There are many types of LED lighting aviation application products, such as aviation lights, aircraft interior lights, aircraft exterior lights, airport lights, obstacle warning lights, flashing lights, beacon lights, runway signal lights, etc. The internationally renowned Boeing Company has designated the LED lighting system for the main cabin of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner to provide passengers with more comfortable and leisure air travel. In addition, the system consists of LED ceiling lamps, side wall lamps, entrance lamps, corridor lamps and accent lamps, providing additional advantages such as lower maintenance costs and longer repair intervals.