Currently, intelligent LED lighting industry is just in the beginning stag in China. Many domestic LED enterprises treated this emerging market as a big chance and spent a lot of energy and money on the research and development. Kingsun-China spent 7.65 million yuan on development of intelligent LED street lights and incidental power supplier technology in 2011. It accounted for 51.69% of all development plans. In 2012, Kingsun-China intended to heavy the investment in this area. There are 15 LED lighting enterprises in China had annual sales more than one billion yuan. Among which 12 enterprises started relevant research and development in intelligent LED lighting industry.
“Presently, most of our researches for intelligent LED lighting technology are concentrated on dimmable RGB products. Systematical intelligent LED lighting technology has not been touched yet. In this area, we were far behind our overseas competitors.” Said Longxin Zhang. Chairman of Guangzhou LED Lighting Association. In his opinion, Chinese LED manufacturers developing intelligent LED lighting technology is just for commercial purposes. Demand for automatically controlled RGB lamps started to emerge in recent years. In order to occupy the best place in this new born market, domestic LED enterprises rushed into this area without any deep considerations and full preparations, which is rather dangerous. This only means that Chinese LED manufactures are not fully understand the significance of intelligent LED lighting products. On the contrary, foreign LED companies behaved much better than us. They focused on long-term effects. Their purpose to develop intelligent LED lights products is to improve people’s life qualities.
Some LED enterprises have promoted their intelligent LED lighting products. These products realized intelligent operations mainly though power suppliers. Thus, this kind of “intelligence” is low-tech and easily made. Only those who has realized intelligence though integrated circuits can be named intelligent products. Meanwhile, the real demand of this type of products in Chinese market has been over estimated. Economics department of Fudan University published a survey report recently. This report indicated that the permeability of intelligent LED lighting products in mainland market is less than 2%. Demands are focus on dimmable LED landscape lights, dimmable LED street lights and their monitoring system.