FINE TUNING

摘要

LED lighting is characterised as a disruptive innovation: a new development that not only displaces an existing technology but also creates a new industry. It is well on its way to achieving the former, with LEDs finding new applications and being retrofitted into old ones. The new industry it is spawning is sometimes called Lighting 2.0, borrowing a naming convention from the world of information technology because it is where lighting and data communications overlap. If the two domains were represented in a Venn diagram, the space where they currently merge would be tiny, but in 10 years or so, it could represent a fifth or more of all lighting applications, with profound implications both for the lighting industry and for us as citizens.