Supermarket Shelf Lighting Design Points

The supermarket Shelf lighting usually bears the function of the basic lighting, the main task of the basic lighting is to provide sufficient and uniform illuminance level for the shopping area, the carefully designed basic lighting system can create a pleasant and comfortable environment for the whole supermarket, from the physical to the psychological, to meet the needs of customers happy shopping.

Supermarkets generally lack natural light, so artificial lighting plays an important role in supermarkets. Good supermarket lighting, first of all, should enable customers to have basic visual ability and a certain square guidance in a large open space; Secondly, good and purposeful display of goods and provide necessary information; Finally, lighting accounts for a high proportion of supermarket operating costs, so the energy efficiency of lighting system design is as important as the lighting function and lighting quality.

Decathlon Shelf Lighting Design Features

A good lighting design scheme, designers should start from the application scenario and customer needs, adopt the most appropriate technology and products, make full use of professional knowledge, rich experience, creative space interpretation and on-site coordination ability, to achieve the functionality, comfort, economy and sustainable operation of the entire system. So, how should the shelf lighting be arranged? Let’s take a look at Decathlon’s cloth lamp situation:

Using mobile phone software to test the illuminance, the illuminance below the light strip is about 800lx, the illuminance in the middle of the two rows of light strips is about 650lx, the uniformity is OK. However, on the display shelves, the vertical illumination is almost only 200lx.

Shelf Lighting Pattern

This arrangement is not the most efficient way to use the lighting system. It also wastes energy in some areas, like the lighting at the top of a shelf. Second, the lighting system cannot provide uniform illumination vertically for the display and transmission of information. This affects the appearance of the goods, the sales experience, and the visual display.

So how do you think about that? This has to be understood from the activities of people in the supermarket space, people who visit the supermarket will have two basic actions: search (quick browsing) and select (carefully scrutinizing). There is no doubt that the visual target object of these two actions is the commodity on the shelf. Therefore, the lighting design should find a way to illuminate the goods on the shelf.
The correct approach: the light belt is arranged in the middle of the two rows of shelves, so as to ensure the basic lighting of the channel, while ensuring the vertical illumination level of the shelves on both sides, and avoid the uneconomical waste of light.

So the light distribution of the lamp should look like this:

Selection Of Lighting Distribution

Decannon chose a T8 bracket, which has a herb-shaped control panel on both sides. The underground layer of the light belt is a concave aluminium reflector, (commonly found in outdoor floodlights), while the first layer contains a mirror-like aluminum reflector, (poorly made, with obvious double shadows and rainbow effects), and the second layer is white steel.

This light distribution, using this way of lighting, we can understand why the vertical illumination level of the shelf is so low.
So, when lighting along the center of the shelf, what kind of light distribution curve lamps are most suitable? For the fluorescent belt, the answer is: batwing.

Imagine a large space for LED. Make full use of its small size and the lens characteristics to combine aisle basic lighting with shelf vertical lighting. LED light belts should be easy to produce, but our manufacturers are still focused on lamp tube replacement products.