Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/01dddd/advanced_lighting) has announced the addition of the "Advanced Lighting Systems Report 2011" report to their offering.

This new report provides analysis of the automotive lighting sector, including its key drivers, regulatory environment. It also provides a detailed look at the latest lighting technologies.

Background to this Research

The last few years have seen something of a revolution occurring in automotive lighting facilitated by a range of new light technologies. The lighting industry as a whole is moving rapidly from the incandescent and gas discharge based technologies that dominated the 20th century to solid state technology in the form of Light Emitting Diodes (LED), which are a point source light; Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED), which are an area source and the increasing use of lasers.

The benefits of moving to solid state light sources is clear as today something like all of the electrical energy generated is used for lighting, and this is on target for a 50% reduction by 2025 largely lead by the automotive sector. Furthermore, solid-state sources reduce the overall CO2 emissions by using less energy and have a significantly longer lifetime.

The revolution in optics and photonics has begun to offer OEMs an evolving toolkit` of options to improve safety, lower long-term costs, improve efficiency and add some unique design elements to vehicles.

Lighting has therefore been the focus of intense development in recent years, particularly amongst the European OEMs. The advent of LED technology that can be applied both to front and rear applications has allowed further development of adaptive lighting systems at the same time as facilitating a freedom of design that has rarely been available. Indeed, a number of OEMs are looking to the headlamp design particularly to add considerably to the visual DNA of the model and brand.

Key Topics Covered:

Energy efficiency
Design opportunities
Regulatory environment
Lighting technology
Light sources
Xenon High Intensity Discharge (HID) systems
LED technology
Optics technology
Distributed Lighting Systems
Headlamps
Daytime running lights (DRL)
Front/Rear/Side/Turning lamps
Fog lamps
Reversing lamps
Rear combination lamps
Centre high-mounted brake lamp
Licence plate lamps
Ingress/egress lighting
Instrument panel and switch lighting
Ambient lighting
Colour
Head-up display
Advanced lighting and vision systems
Mechanical Curve Adaptive Lighting (CAL)
Integrated Adaptive Front Lighting (AFL)
Active safety illumination
Progressive brake light warning system (PBLWS)
Vision Enhancement Systems
Automotive Lighting Suppliers & Products

Details are available at http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/01dddd/advanced_lighting