#led revolution

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The LED light revolution has only just begun

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IKEA will be All-LED by 2016, Here's What That Means For The Lighting Industry

Yesterday, I was tweeting my butt off about the sweeping change going through the lighting industry. The LED revolution is underway and while legacy brands will have trouble making the transition it's clear retailers are already on board. Recently, IKEA announced it will offer only LED lighting by 2016. That's an aggressive time table, and it further proves that rapid inception of LED into American homes and businesses isn't an "if" but a "when."

Here are three things to consider in context of the larger lighting industry.  

This is good news for competitive LED manufacturers.

IKEA is an iconic brand for millennials. As a generation that's been classically underpaid and under-employed, inexpensive semi-DIY IKEA has become the furniture retailer of choice. The next generation of home furnishing purchasers will be conditioned to see LED as a default choice, not some kind of alternative. In short, anything that lifts LED's profile to consumers is probably a good thing.

This is bad news for LED quality hawks.

IKEA is a brand known for making furniture affordable. Critics have said that IKEA furniture is only affordable because it's poor quality. My take from a lighting perspective is that I've rarely seen great LED or lighting products in IKEA. They are merely serviceable. As someone who likes LED technology, I want to see high quality LED go mainstream, my concern is that lowest-bidder LED will make poor lighting quality the norm for IKEA-goers.  

Seeing LED-integrated fixtures in the mass market is a good thing

IKEA won't simply offer LED bulbs. They will offer pendants, under-cabinet lighting and decorative fixtures with LED engines, in fact they already do. This is a good thing because it will open shoppers up to the idea that LED doesn't have to be simply a replacement bulb. It can take myriad forms and do an infinite number of things.  Seeing is believing and people will see what's on the floor in IKEAs all over the world. 

What's your take? What do you think IKEA going all-LED will mean for the industry?

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LED There be a Lighting Revolution

The LED Lighting Revolution is Happening Right Now - Join Us!

It is no coincidence that the symbol of enlightenment, bright ideas and 'seeing the light' is globally symbolized by a glowing light bulb. This analogy has never been more fitting and appropriate than it is now, with LED technology at the break-through of entirely new dimensions of what lighting is, should be and can do.

As LED lighting technology is referred to these days as the future of lighting technology, a ray of hope for sustainability measures and the most convenient saving methods for consumers aiming to reduce energy spendings, this alone is reason enough for it to increase in popularity.

In addition, the magnitude of the many technological LED innovations hitting the global market these days comes with immense opportunity and predictions of LED lighting technology's future and role on our planet.

Standing right at the tipping and turning point between analog and digital and the gap between costly and saving, hazardous and sustainable, LED lighting technology is only at the beginning of the enormous possibilities that lie within it.

Read more about LED innovations & possibilities, LED investments, and the appeal of LED technology in our full news article on the LEDLuxor news site.

As always, we at LEDLuxor welcome your comments, suggestions and questions and encourage you to get in touch with us should you want to do so.