Metro lighting is an attractive market for lighting manufacturers, and many LED enterprises are racing to seize the metro lighting market.

        However, in order to ensure the safe operation of the metro, it has a strict requirement on the lighting products. It not only requires energy-saving, high brightness, long life, but also must ensure uninterrupted illumination.

          In 2008, Hong Kong’s metro first introduced LED light source as metro interior lighting, which opened the prologue of LED lighting area of metro lighting. In 2011, the related national departments issued technical specifications of LED lamps for metro lighting, opening the road of standardization for LED lighting.

         A hydropower management engineer who takes charge of Shenzhen Metro Line 2 said that, considering the diversified demand of metro lighting, LED lighting is undoubtedly the best choice for the metro, which has incomparable advantages on energy saving, stability and durability. Meanwhile, the antiknock characteristic of LED is ideal for metro’s operating environment. To the problems existing in metro lighting system, LED provides an energy-saving and high reliability metro lighting solutions.

       According to the investigation, there are 48 metro lines in the country, and 28 cities are building the subway. But among the domestic metro network, taking Shenzhen Metro as example, except for Line 2, other metro lines are still adopting traditional lighting, thus the potential of LED lighting in metro lighting market is quite huge.