What is the last time you shopping for vanity mirror? There are a lot of mirrors with led lighting built in. Some mirror lights feature simple front lighted single color led that connects to external wall switch. Other high end vanity light features built in dimmable led lights to change the light output and color temperature as well. The product boundary between a vanity mirror and lighting fixture is gettering so blurred when some companies tries to integrate more technology into their key traditional products.
There are still a lot great lighting products in the market for vanity lighting application. Their business focus come to a better lighting fixture design that can mix with different artistic style for both retrofit and new build needs. The light fixture can be a phase dimmable fixture that works a limited wall dimmers.
When there is great customer needs there comes innovation like smart mirrors. Smart vanity with mirror that has built in LED lights, with dimmable control on lumen output and color temperature.
The customer has the option to only install one mirror with power cord that get the modern look design and great lighting in bathroom. The smart mirror feature touch sensor, full range continue dimmable, color temperature configurable and anti-frog.
It is very challenge for both the traditional lighting company and vanity mirror company to design this type products as the company tend to play the game in their most comfort zones. This type of market opportunity will attract some entrepreneurs to create new startup company to deliver this type unique products.
we have seen similar products that with feature like mirror with integrate digital clock, temperature /humidity display, Bluetooth speaker , Wi-Fi connectivity to get weather forecast.
This is very true for other smart home products that a led lighting company start to design and learn to integrate new technology Bluetooth smart speaker into their lighting products by work with a lot external component supplier who are the experts on the technology.
For lighting company, it needs to pay attention to certain other players in the market who are not their traditional competitors.
For example, Amazon owned Ring has released smart connecting motion sensor enabled flood light that can connect with other Ring products via Ring Bridge to get notification and controlled via Alexa voice assistant.
For lighting company, it needs to spend more time to research the market and truly understand the unsatisfied customer needs with open mind to try something new and get out of their comfort zones.
This means more collaboration with other technology provider as the lighting company focus deliver the best technology solution not only the best lighting.