The professional lighting market is undergoing a profound transformation. This isn’t simply a matter of technological evolution — new chips, new efficiencies, new protocols — but a genuine shift in paradigm: in the way light is conceived, designed and experienced within spaces. Anyone working with lighting every day can feel it clearly. Client briefs have changed, designer expectations have risen, and the market increasingly rewards those who anticipate rather than follow.
After years of working alongside architects, lighting designers and electrical installers, we have a clear picture of where the sector is heading. Here it is.
Sustainability: from compliance to design choice
Energy sustainability in lighting is no longer a question of regulatory compliance. It has become an active design variable — one that clients request explicitly and that designers integrate from the earliest stages of a project.
On the technical side, this translates into two clear directions. The first is component energy efficiency: systems that consume less for the same luminous output, with increasingly long lifespans that reduce maintenance and replacement costs over time. The second is reduced installation complexity: fewer components means less material, less waste during installation, and fewer potential failure points down the line.
This is precisely where the choice of 48V as the reference voltage for LED strips on large runs comes in. The ability to power up to 30 metres of strip from a single feed point, with no voltage drop, is not just a technical advantage — it is a design decision that reduces components, simplifies the installation and lowers the overall impact of the system. An approach we fully embrace with our 48V LED Strips.
Smart building: digital control becomes the standard
Until a few years ago, advanced lighting control systems were the preserve of large-scale projects — major offices, airports, flagship retail. In 2026, the landscape has changed dramatically: digital lighting control has become an expected requirement even in medium-scale contexts, from retail spaces to professional offices, from medical practices to quality hospitality.
The DALI2 protocol is now the certified reference standard for anyone looking to integrate lighting into broader Building Automation systems. Its strength is not only technical — guaranteed interoperability between devices from different manufacturers, advanced management of sensors and inputs — but also architectural: it enables programmable light scenes, integrated with the management of other building systems, without vendor lock-in, and with the assurance that the installation will perform correctly over time, even as components are upgraded or partially replaced.
Our DALI2 Drivers — available in the TR24150/D (150W) and TR24200/D (200W) models — are designed to address this need directly: certified components, ready for integration into any DALI2-compatible control system, built for those who design today knowing that tomorrow’s buildings will be increasingly connected and intelligently managed.
Light quality: high CRI stops being optional
There is a topic we hear growing louder in conversations with designers: light quality is no longer measured solely in lumens or colour temperature. Colour fidelity — the ability of a light source to render the real colours of illuminated objects — has become an explicit specification parameter across an ever-wider range of project types.
In fashion retail, jewellery, quality hospitality, museum spaces, CRI is now a figure that clients ask for and designers must be able to guarantee. But the trend is extending to offices and high-end residential spaces too, where the visual quality of the environment is increasingly perceived as an indicator of value.
Our SL200 CRI97+ LED Strip — with 3 Step MacAdam colour selection and 240 LEDs per metre — was developed precisely to meet this shift: light that renders real colours with a fidelity that is visible, felt, and perceived.
Customisation: bespoke light as the norm, not the exception
The fourth trend we observe clearly is a growing demand for tailored solutions. Not in the sense of expensive custom products with long lead times, but systems designed to adapt precisely to the specific requirements of each project: lengths calibrated to the millimetre, free compositional geometries, installation flexibility that follows the architecture rather than constraining it.
Three concrete examples from our daily work: the OCTOPUS System, with its 3D flexibility on both axes and 100% customisable lengths in the Custom version, for those working on curved surfaces or complex architectural forms. The 6060 Modular System, which turns the constraint of the standardised suspended ceiling into an opportunity for composed luminous geometries. And the LINE48 system with the new T and X junctions, which allows the magnetic track to develop freely across any floor plan without linear constraints.
In all three cases, customisation is not an add-on — it is the design principle.