Exclusive Interview with Song Te from Qunhe Technology | Annual Review (Part 14)
Looking back at 2024, keywords such as global expansion, Healthy lighting, AI, green and low-carbon initiatives, trade-in programs, and the low-altitude economy defined the lighting industry, outlining its development trajectory. As a new chapter begins, looking ahead to 2025, where is the lighting industry headed? What development trends will emerge? How should we build a more stable and sustainable ecosystem for the lighting industry? And how should lighting companies adjust their strategies to adapt to market changes and challenges? This annual review focuses on innovation and confidence, inviting lighting experts who have worked in the industry for many years to discuss the future, explore high-quality development paths for the lighting industry in 2025, plan the direction for future progress, and jointly draw a new blueprint for the lighting industry.
本期，中国之光网独家专访到的是群核科技照明与智能业务线解决方案负责人宋特先生，在这辞旧迎新的美好时刻，宋特先生为广大照明同仁带来了一场关于行业未来发展的思想盛宴。他指出，过去一年，消费市场分层明显，优质客户群体对照明设计应用的认知日趋理性成熟。展望2025年，照明行业将在智能数字化、人因节律健康、跨界技术融合等方面加速发展，实现从跟随到引领的华丽蜕变。他还透露，拥有中国自主知识产权的云端照明设计工具——酷家乐Koolux专业照明设计软件，将于2025乙巳蛇年开启全民公测。 Song Te Director of Solutions, Lighting and Smart Business Line, Qunhe Technology (Kujiale) The auspicious snake heralds a new landscape, and the propitious elephant ushers in a new year! Dear colleagues in the lighting industry, hello everyone! I am Song Te, Head of Solutions for the Lighting and Smart Business Line at Qunhe Technology. The lighting industry has faced both challenges and opportunities over the past year. Amid the overall slowdown in the domestic economy, segmentation in lighting-related consumer markets has become increasingly evident. Wholesale distribution customers still dominate the industry's overall volume. It is important to note that the service system originally designed for engineering project channels is accelerating its penetration into lower-tier markets, while customer service systems centered on high-quality solutions and design services are becoming more rational and mature. The upgrade of terminal services in the industry faces a cross-state of market downturn and consumption upgrading, with different product strategies and service systems eliciting polarized responses in the market. Within the traditional lighting industry, homogeneous competition coexists with cross-industry intelligent competition; in the broader building materials sector, platform ecosystem competition and the integration of various business formats coexist. It is worth noting that the lighting industry is no longer confined to theoretical research in areas such as Healthy lighting, circadian lighting, and full Spectrum lighting. These studies are being successfully promoted and implemented through relevant industry standards. The integration of quantitative indicators like EML/M-EDI and technologies such as AI is leading the dual upgrade of the Industry / Supply chain and the consumer end. Based on the need for collaboration across the upstream and downstream of the lighting Industry / Supply chain, Qunhe Technology has proactively filled the gap. Leveraging years of technical accumulation and advantages in visual graphics technology, it has deeply laid out comprehensive professional lighting software service capabilities, focusing on overcoming bottleneck projects in lighting industry computational simulation. It has made a Chinese voice heard in the field of Lighting design software, helping to upgrade design service applications in China's lighting industry. In 2025, the development of the lighting industry will continue to accelerate in intelligent digitalization, human-centric circadian health, and cross-border technology integration. Frontier scientific achievements are constantly being implemented and continuously transformed into infrastructure for production and R&D development. China's lighting industry market will gradually transition from following to leading development. With the overall upgrade of the Industry / Supply chain, original lighting design tools can no longer meet industry development needs. Kujiale Koolux, a second-level professional Lighting design software based on the Qizhen rendering engine, combines industry design application scenarios and deeply explores market demands, providing practitioners with a lightweight, professional, cloud-based Lighting design solution tailored to China's conditions. Koolux positions itself as a super entry platform for the lighting industry design, seamlessly compatible with the infrastructure of Kujiale, Ku Space, and Villa Design under Qunhe Technology, while supporting users of mainstream third-party infrastructure tools like 3ds Max for collaborative lighting design across the supply chain. Based on physically accurate cloud-based lighting design tools, we are building a data chain ecosystem connecting practitioners in pan-spatial design. With the development of industry users, I believe that the deep application of AI in lighting-related vertical industries has a promising future. In today's lighting industry, science and technology as well as theoretical foundations are booming at an ever-changing pace. Nowadays, industry applications based on the theories of circadian lighting and Healthy lighting are poised for takeoff, about to usher in a glorious moment of full explosion. Kujiale kooLux, as a cloud-based Lighting design tool with independent intellectual property rights in China, will launch public beta testing in the Year of the Snake (2025). We sincerely invite colleagues from all sectors to jointly promote the upgrade and innovation of industrial design applications. On the occasion of the Spring Festival, we wish all lighting professionals bright dreams. The auspicious Snake ushers in the New Year! Expert Introduction Song Te Director of Lighting and Smart Business Line Solutions at Qunhe Technology (Kujiale) Specially appointed lecturer for China Light Network · Ming Classroom; Member of the Smart Lighting Designer Committee, Shanghai Pudong Smart Lighting Federation; Member of the Smart Lighting Designer Committee, Shenzhen LED Lighting and Display Association; Specially appointed mentor for the CSHIA Training Camp of the China Smart Home Industry Alliance.