iF Award-Winning Product in Action: Smart Trail at Zaozhuang Jujube Forest, Shandong Laoling
The composite jujube forest system in Laoling, Shandong Province, is hailed as "China’s largest millennial primitive artificial fruit-bearing forest" and a significant agricultural cultural heritage of the country. Relying on this millennial jujube forest, Laoling has developed a stable ecosystem with forest and fruit industries as the core elements, and is known as a "Natural Oxygen Bar" and the "Hundred-Mile Jujube Hometown".
To maximize the economic benefits of the jujube forest, in addition to the deep processing of fruit products in the vertical sector, developing cultural and tourism industries centered on the jujube forest to boost the construction of the tertiary industry has become another pathway for Laoling’s prosperity. This is of profound significance for optimizing the local economic structure, expanding employment, stimulating domestic demand and improving residents’ quality of life.
The Smart Trail in Laoling’s Jujube Forest, Shandong Province, adopts Guangyun—the award-winning smart landscape garden light of the German iF Design Award developed by Sanxing Lighting. It creates an urban slow trail integrating landscape, smart technology and green development, which transcends the single functional attribute of lighting. This project drives the development of urban cultural and tourism industries, enhances residents’ travel experience, optimizes the urban living and investment environment, and contributes to the construction of an environment-friendly, smart and digital city.
Guangyun features a water-ripple acrylic transparent lampshade that enhances the texture of light, creating a striking visual effect of rippling water and shimmering light. It thus evokes a serene and peaceful state of mind, as if time lingers gently and life is calm and pleasant, enriching residents’ travel experience.
A frosted glass panel is fitted to the bottom of the lampshade. Leveraging the optical principle of diffuse reflection, it softens the light output, which not only meets functional lighting requirements but also eliminates discomfort caused by direct glare to the eyes, thereby creating a healthy and comfortable urban lighting environment.
The luminaire is integrated with a smart functional terminal featuring a network audio system and surveillance module, which improves the overall management efficiency of the trail and reduces the costs of manual patrols. It enables real-time broadcasting of news bulletins, public welfare advertisements and emergency notifications, playing a pivotal role in the overall security and management of the trail.
Powered by high luminous efficacy LED light sources, the luminaire is more low-carbon and energy-efficient than sodium lamps. Combined with its innovative minimalist European-style appearance, professional optical design and smart functions, it contributes to building a livable and walkable smart slow trail in urban and rural areas. This delivers a highly positive effect on optimizing the urban lighting structure, boosting the development of cultural and tourism industries, improving the investment environment, and advancing the construction of spiritual civilization.
