According to the market the company Yole Developpement, estimates that global automotive lighting market is about $22.4 billion in 2015, is expected to reach $27.7 billion in 2021, before the size of the market; From 2015 to 2021 between the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.7%.
Yole Developpement in its latest LED the market research report "auto Lighting: Technology, industry and market trends" (Automotive Lighting: Technology, IndustryandMarket trends), points out that the market driving force from each car in the Lighting system continues to increase, and a large number of using LED headlights Lighting system, including the head lamp with line lamp (DRL) with 43% and 43%, respectively, in 2015 in revenue. 29% comes from taillight combination/central lights, car lights and turn signals.
Further in the future, Yole Developpement think what will see more new lighting such as OLED and laser technology will be integrated, advanced lighting system (AFLS) before the progress with other security features, and more and more to the trend of the lighting as a design feature.
Since like V10 Audi R8 and luxury cars were available for the first time in 2008 after the launch, all the LED headlamp design began in 2012, penetrating C - segment notch auto market, now lead to more in an emerging market. At present, almost all first-line operators in the development of the whole LED headlight system.
Pioneered in the laser head lamp of commercial vehicle is BMWi8 published in the fall of 2014, and the first to import the OLED taillight combination (RCL) of commercial vehicle is listed in the autumn of 2015 BMW M4 GTS. Laser head lamp can realize more (600 meters) long night vision function, and because OLED is light, flexible, and the advantages of large-area light-emitting OLED taillight group very applicable to from 2 d to 3 d light source design.
Yole noted, however, that the price between the two technologies still exist and the technical issues, must cooperate with OEM for reliability and service life of the requirements, such as to be effective.
New semiconductor/electronic component integration, not only realizes the complete electronic systems, such as solid-state lighting (SSL) + sensors and software, but also expanded the progress of advanced lighting function.
These features are expected to bring automatically according to driving conditions adjustment model of intelligent beam. Recently, the use of matrix LED system combining with the camera and image processing function, create more new lighting features, such as the adaptive front lighting and no glare lighting and so on. However, these combinations also makes this kind of system development more difficult, have to develop more new technical know - how. In fact, in order to develop a reliable and dynamic system, really need to have strong technical strength, especially in lighting, thermal management, idle sensor and data processing, etc.
Lasers and OLED lighting technology, on the other hand, may also change the present market pattern; At present, the new company has been relying on this new technology to the market challenge the top five manufacturers. In fact, in 2015 by Koito (Japan), Magneti Marelli (Italy), Valeo (France), Hella (Germany) and Stanley dominated (Japan), five companies occupy 80% of the total revenue auto lighting, and emerging companies are the development of new laser or OLED lighting system, including the integration of cameras and sensors new AFLS system components, such as the need to have a series of new technical ability, such as image processing.
In the study, Yole and points out several new entrants have show almost higher than the overall market average (+ 5.4%) double the growth rate, such as changzhou xing yu (China), Olsa (Italy) and big (China) and GrupoAntolin (Spain) and other companies.
In order to effectively with market leading industry segments and share more city, the emerging industry mainly focuses on the innovation system, and low cost solution, or aimed at emerging markets like China.
According to Yole observation, these new technologies and features may make OEM is closer to the equipment/component developers with secondary industry (e.g., second line), as a result, they may bypass more line operators to carry on the development and production, thus creating new supply/value chain.
Lines to OEM can directly with 2 or 3 operators is tie-in, develop more lighting applications and optical engineering. The OEM to completely control the development and production, specializing in a variety of related technologies at the same time.
