With the advancement of urbanization in China and the subsequent upgrading of road traffic and urban appearance, the urban road lighting and landscape lighting industries have achieved rapid development, and their market size will further expand on the existing basis. In addition, urban cultural lighting will also become a trend in the development of urban lighting due to its multiple advantages of combining cultural and artistic experiences with functional lighting techniques.

Pay more attention to the embodiment of urban cultural characteristics

Due to the development of the national economy and the improvement of people's living standards, urban lighting is no longer a simple process of illuminating objects. Excellent urban lighting solutions must be able to integrate art, technology, and urban cultural characteristics through lighting, so that urban characteristics can be reshaped and reproduced at night, and the unique scenery of the city at night can be expressed. Promoting the integration of technology and art, utilizing natural and cultural factors to reproduce urban characteristics, will be reflected in an increasing number of urban lighting schemes.

Energy conservation and environmental protection are more valued

In recent years, urban lighting in China has developed rapidly, playing an important role in improving urban functions, enhancing urban environment, and improving people's living standards. However, the rapid development of urban lighting has also increased the demand and consumption of energy. According to relevant data, the electricity consumption of lighting in China accounts for about 12% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society, while urban lighting accounts for about 30% of the lighting electricity consumption. To this end, the country proposes to implement the "Urban Green Lighting Project", which adopts scientific lighting planning and design, uses energy-saving, environmentally friendly, safe and stable lighting products, implements efficient operation, maintenance and management, improves the quality of the city, creates a safe, comfortable, economical and healthy night environment, and embodies modern civilization.

Intelligent lighting is being increasingly utilized

The rapid advancement of urbanization has led to a significant increase in urban lighting facilities. According to relevant data calculations, from 2013 to 2017, the average number of newly built and replaced streetlights in China reached over 3 million sets per year. The large and rapidly growing number of urban lighting streetlights has made urban lighting management increasingly difficult. How to fully utilize high-tech means such as geographic information technology, 3G/4G communication technology, big data, cloud computing, and Internet of Things technology to solve the contradictions in urban lighting management has become an important issue in the current field of urban lighting management and maintenance.

At present, based on the original "Three Remote" and "Five Remote" systems, a dynamic intelligent comprehensive management system that integrates big data, cloud computing, and Internet of Things technology, using geographic information system (GIS) platform as the foundation, has begun to enter the field of urban lighting through upgrading and improvement. The intelligent lighting management system can input and summarize the information of the entire city's street lights (including lamp posts, lamps, light sources, cables, distribution cabinets, etc.), adopt flexible and intelligent control methods, and based on changes in pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the road, while meeting the needs of citizens' daily life and social security, automatically reduce the brightness of lighting or adopt a street light control method of freely combining one on one off and one on one side, to achieve on-demand lighting, energy saving and consumption reduction, greatly improve the level of urban lighting management, and reduce operation and maintenance costs.

Contract energy management has become a new business model for urban lighting engineering

Reducing urban lighting energy consumption and improving the level of urban lighting management have always been the focus of China's urban lighting management work. As a widely promoted energy-saving service mechanism in developed countries, contract energy management can pay for the full cost of energy-saving projects with reduced energy costs through the use of market means. This business model is applied in urban lighting engineering, allowing urban lighting management departments to implement urban lighting projects with future energy-saving benefits to reduce current operating costs; Alternatively, energy-saving service companies can provide construction, management, and maintenance services for urban lighting projects by promising energy-saving benefits or contracting overall energy costs.

Under the guidance and support of policies, some cities in China have gradually adopted the contract energy management model in their urban lighting projects. With the increasing recognition of the advantages of contract energy management, it will be widely applied in the urban lighting industry and become an important means for China to achieve green lighting in cities.