For a long time, traditional light sources, high pressure sodium lamps and some metal halide lamps have been playing a leading role in road lighting. In recent years, LED has achieved certain success in other lighting fields, and the development of LED street lights has opened up a broader world. Compared with traditional light sources, LEDs have outstanding advantages in color rendering, energy saving, environmental protection, life span, and digital controllability. With the rapid development of domestic LED lighting applications, the price of LED street lamps will gradually decrease. As energy-saving products, LED street lamps will be increasingly used in road lighting.

　　National policies may promote the development of LED street lights

　　The energy-saving characteristics of LED street lamps and lanterns, governments of various countries are facing this point, "installing and saving electricity costs", policies have naturally begun  increase the installation of LED street lamps, many companies have already practiced in the domestic market, and will cultivate the global market in the future.

　　With the support of relevant mainland policies, in 2013, the mainland LED street lamp market is expected  exceed one million, reaching 1.32 million, accounting for 32% of the global share. If the technology category is not distinguished, the proportion of mainland street lamps in the world is only 15%. However, with the government's policy support, the development of LED street lights will soon become popular. Zhejiang Shiming Optical Technology Co., Ltd. pays attention  the development of LED street lights and technology transfer, and has invested a huge amount of money  establish a production base. Most of the products have been applied in large quantities across the country. Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China organized and implemented the "Ten Cities and Ten Thousand Lamps" plan, which has received positive responses from all over the country, creating a huge LED street lamp market, and some of Shiming Optics' domestic application pilot demonstrations of street lamps are also in full swing.

　　market survey

　　China has a large population, rapid urbanization, and rapid road construction. There is a great demand for outdoor lighting such as LED street lights and LED landscape lighting. According  a survey by an authoritative organization, China's outdoor lighting industry is growing at a rate of more than 40% every year. The output value in 2014 is expected  exceed 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, and it is expected  reach 4.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2015. The huge market share has attracted many companies, and at the same time it has intensified competition among companies. Surveys in Kolkata, London, Sydney and ron show that citizens prefer LED lighting. 68%  90% of respondents support the city-wide promotion of this technology. The security and visibility enhancement brought by LED lighting has attracted the most attention.

　　Experimental test

　　The life cycle of LED street lamps ranges from 50,000  100,000 hours, showing that LED street lamp investment is a high-return investment. The technology of LED street light is durable and the maintenance is small. The failure rate of LED products over 6000 hours of use is 1%. In the same time, the failure rate of traditional lighting products is about 10%. The lighting energy-saving test shows that LED technology is now mature and can be applied  outdoor lighting on a large scale, bringing economic and social benefits  the public.