Surging Need for Energy Efficient Lighting Devices Driving Hospital Lighting System Market Growth

The lighting systems being used in hospitals are rapidly incorporating both artificial lights, such as lamps and light fixtures in corridors and lobbies and natural daylight, which is resulting in 45–70% light savings, which is, in turn, improving the energy efficiency of these lighting systems. Furthermore, LED lighting has several advantages over conventional lighting solutions, such as low power consumption, less maintenance requirements, design flexibility, safety, and long lifespan. Because of these benefits, these lighting systems are being increasingly used in healthcare settings, thereby driving the expansion of the hospital lighting system market.

Moreover, many medical care providers are taking measures in order to develop the infrastructure in hospitals in order to meet the soaring requirement for technologically advanced facilities, owing to the expanding patient pool. As energy efficient lighting systems reduce the stress burden on visitors, mitigate the chances of errors, and improve the interior environment of hospitals for both patients and staff, they are being increasingly incorporated in healthcare settings all over the world.

Depending on product, the hospital lighting system market is divided into recessed, surface mounted, hanging, wall mounted, and others, such as step lights, emergency lights, and exit lights. Surface mounted systems are the most commonly used lighting systems, as they enable optimal light distribution in installed areas. However, in the coming years, the demand for recessed lighting systems is predicted to rise rapidly, mainly because of the soaring use of LED-based recessed troffers in imaging and diagnostic rooms and LED-based recessed downlights in operating rooms.

Geographically, the hospital lighting system market will exhibit the fastest growth in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region during the forecast period. This is credited to the mushrooming urban population, especially in India, and the surging investments being made by private and public organizations in hospital lighting systems, especially in China. In addition, the governments of many regional countries are launching initiatives for encouraging the use of energy efficient lighting systems, which is further boosting the requirement for hospital lighting systems in several healthcare institutions and facilities across the region.

Surgical lighting systems have recorded positive growth over the past few years in hospital lighting system market; primarily due to growing number of lighting variations in the market. The surgical lights available in the market include ceiling mounted lights, mobile surgical lights, surgical headlights, and wall mounted surgical lights. These are made according to the requirements of the surgeons with respect to brightness, color rendering index (CRI), homogeneity, correlated color temperature (CCT), and shadow dilution. Hybrid operating rooms (OR) are also witnessing high demand for technologically advanced surgical lighting products, such as LED or OLED luminaries.

Furthermore, solid state lighting is one of the recent technologies that utilizes semiconducting material to convert electricity into lighting. It is gaining adoption globally, as it holds salient features to address challenges related to energy consumption and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Growing adoption of energy saving lighting systems in hospitals through innovative product technology and product design (primarily LED lighting), with minimum amount of greenhouse gas emissions which results in reduced global warming, is anticipated to drive the hospital lighting system market across the globe.

Moreover, lighting systems in hospitals are now adopting both natural daylight and artificial lights, such as light fixtures and lamps in lobbies and corridors of hospitals, which result in 45–70% of light saving, making these lighting systems more energy efficient. Moreover, LED lighting offers advantages over traditional lighting solutions, such as long lifespan, low power consumption, safety, design flexibility, and lower maintenance requirements. Due to these benefits, LED lighting has been increasingly replacing conventional lighting solutions in the healthcare settings, and hence driving the hospital lighting system market.

Furthermore, to cater the increasing demand for technologically advanced facilities by the growing patient base, the medical providers are taking necessary steps to develop proper environment in hospitals using efficient lighting systems, in order to minimize the stress of visitors, reduce errors, and improve conditions for both staffs and patients.

Hence, it can be safely said that the demand for hospital lighting systems will shoot up across the world in the coming years, primarily because of the surging need for advanced systems in healthcare facilities and the rising requirement for energy-efficient lighting devices, on account of the soaring concerns being raised over the escalating greenhouse gas emissions.