作者：Blade

Resolve the technical problems of the development of LED streetlight

With the LED lighting market blowout market, LED street development becomes clearer. Public companies have viewed for the LED street lamp market situation, LED as a new type of solid-state light source, has been in more and more areas of lighting show energy-saving effect. Such as the alternative to neon landscape lighting, energy savings of 70% to 80% energy saving LED traffic lights.

It seems the high cost is not the only factor to hinder LED companies settled with market, companies still need to overcome the technical performance of the challenging problems. Although the LED panel light industry developed fast in recent years, yet it still lacks the the authority technical standards, resulting in the industry as a whole varies greatly, and the promotion of a wide range of very adverse. This is the LED technology to evolute than reality faster desire.

Relatively high technical difficulty LED streetlight, the problem of lack of technical standards is particularly evident. According to statistics, all of Shanghai there are about 500,000 street lights, including the urban area of about 350,000, semiconductor lighting, currently only a short demonstration section Wuning Road. Many excellent technical LED manufacturers and integrators do not know how to design a practical street lights, the application departments can not tell the specific requirements. Shanghai Semiconductor Lighting Engineering Research Center for example, a lot of manufacturers, in order to solve the LED heat problem, design a “hollow” lampshade. But for the street light, the poor shape “shelter” function is not suitable for the street lights.

Resolve the technical problems of the development of LED streetlight

Also an obstacle to the development of streetlight is application promotion. Summarized as follows:

1, due to the informal standards of  LED street lamp, it is not the general promotion of LED for street where several major parameters such as: color temperature, CRI (color rendering index) and glare has not been determined.

2, the price of LED street is too high. the streetlight building owners are bull system. This caused great difficulties to the LED street lamp promote the application.

3, the Ministry of Construction of the new street design standards develop “urban road lighting design standards” (CJJ45-2006), which started on July 1, 2007, but it did not mention the use of LED lights problem.

led lamp china color temperature is required to break the five major challenges

Along with the people of energy saving and environmental protection demand is more and more high, and the ten city ” semiconductor lighting project started, our country basically determined by led lamp china outdoor lighting for the main direction of attack. Among them, LED street lamp catch the attention and seen by the government to promote the application of lighting market which is important to cut a point. In the LED chip and packaging technology continues to progress, it is not hard to discover, many elevators, bus, the cabin of the aircraft, catering shop entrance, even including the 2009 National Day parade, numerous star concert, with LED as lighting protagonist, to brilliant quartet.

led lamp china color temperature is required to break the five major challenges

The application of these iconic milestone event are giving more prominence to the significant increase in the trend of white LED applications in China. Coupled with the issues of environmental protection and energy conservation under global attention, including North America, Australia, Japan and Taiwan are the development of energy-saving and carbon reduction regulations and lighting standards will contribute to the development of led lamp china applications market. This also means that the LED lights will immediately become innovative technology to dominate the field of road lighting, therefore, the people hailed the development of China’s LED Street Light golden years in 2009.

Analysis: in 2008, global LED street light penetration rate is only 0.5%, the penetration rate of LED street lamp in 2009 is expected to be more than 1%, up to 2.15% in 2010, the terms of each block will take about 110 street lights LED demand. According to the experts-terms, it is estimated that the demand of LED used in street lamps will be an increase of 167% compared to last year, and is expected to the LED penetration break through to 5%, will be the demand for rapid takeoff.

However, the led lamp china can achieve the same level with high-pressure sodium lamps, whether it is energy-saving and other issues in practical applications in industry, government, academic and research from all walks of life caused widespread debate. For a time, the Voice of praise and skepticism, and since, promote co-exist with a wait-and-see camp. This special collection of experts from different angles analysis of the views and recommendations of the LED street light industry, and strive to reveal hot LED street lamp truth for the majority of industry participants to resolve the problems facing the development of key technologies.

LED working lights overcapacity, GT plans to cut 25% of the United States of America

Photovoltaic and LED working lights equipment manufacturer GT Advanced Technologies recently announced that the company will lay off about 25% due to weak market demand in Asia, and its third-quarter revenue may be expected at a minimum level.

GT: expected Q3 revenue of 110 million-140 million U.S. dollars

Tom Gutierrez, Chief Executive Officer of the company said: the Asian Bank does not intend to apply for any new loans for the purchase of new equipment. If the banks stop mortgage, I am worried that this would be a problem.

LED working lights overcapacity, GT plans to cut 25% of the United States of America

GT Company will be held on November 6 to announce the latest earnings report last month. The company had expected its third-quarter revenue of between 110 million to 140 million U.S. dollars. After adjustment, the company expects a loss per share of about $ 0.05 earnings per share of $ 0.02.

Gutierrez refused to disclose more details about the third-quarter earnings, but he said, obviously, if there are any big surprises, then we would have announced  it. According to foreign media reports, analysts on average expected earnings per share of $ 0.04 for the third quarter, on revenue of $ 125.4 million.

LED working lights overcapacity, GT plans to lay off

As of March 31st, GT company in the United States have a total of 460 employees and contract workers. In Asia, with 203 employees. Gutierrez said, the company will layoff the United States of America employee, and the cuts ratio is about 1/5, and the Asian region employee layoffs ratio is about 30%.

The company expects to save USD13,000,000 through layoffs, and the fourth quarter related to the reorganization of the expenditure of approximately USD4,200,000.

American analysts said,   announced layoffs can be said to be expected, but this is not surprising. He said that, due to excess capacity, PV and LED panel light service are faced with the periodic problem.

In addition, GT, said the company will integrate the existing business units – PV, polysilicon and sapphire – into a single department, and named for the crystal growth systems department (crystal growth systems).

Since the PV of the company’s customers are struggling to cope with the problem of demand weakness and austerity. GT had to restructuring.  As of the end of March, the company’s revenues reached $ 955.7 million, while the Asian market accounted for 95% of the company’s total revenue.

Analysis the led lighting market etentry point

Since October 1th  2012, our Country will gradually ban the import and sale of general lighting incandescent as power size phased . The incandescent eliminated route into the implementation phase, new lighting, especially LED lighting industry will continue to get the support of policy, led lighting warmly welcome the good opportunity.

Analysis the led lighting market etentry point

LED lighting market development is getting hot from the market point of view at present,the LED lighting industry will usher in a period of rapid industry development soon. First promotion area is also two item 2,3 from Foreign Country.But foreigners are cautious for LED street lights . So the boss of doing  blindly LED streetlights is likely to become a revolutionary pioneer.While the other two markets will train “leader” forces of many industry.

LED Street light is the hottest in the mainland at present.Under the promotion of  Ministry of Science and Technology of ten thousand ten cities ,many people headlong into this market at  the amazing enthusiasm in promoting. It seems the first field of lighting. At present there are 21 pilot cities in our country. We estimated that have one million.The Ministry of Science and Technology plans approved 50 cities next year. Estimated two million. This is Chinese characteristics! Also is to create the China Speed! But the overall product maturity is worried by people; maybe the  lighting field is the first to be made of a rotten market.Having repeating the initial suspicion of LED guardrail lamps, whether bubbles is more serious? Although very prosperous, very lively, it is foreseeable that the Government take the money, Eventually  will trained a number of good LED photoelectric technology company after 2-3 years.Maybe this is the ultimate goal of the government.

LED T8 tube light applications, there are close to commercial product launch from the current market product solutions to see.This  is a market of the first mature promote. Can do such as car parks, shopping malls, advertising back-light market. It is close to commercial application near the point (150) about present price and cost . Good product, in terms of optics, heat, and power handling are more mature program. The products are also closest to commercialization. Of course, the current market there are still have a large number of low-quality products. This is the biggest challenge. With the introduction of the U.S. Energy Star and EU standards, I believe that the  problems above will  have greatly improvement.That means the promotion of T8-LED Panel Light commercialization will begin.

The current view of the level of industry development, led lighting market is also not enough to break the traditional lighting concept and is still in the replacement type route. LED lighting must also rely on the government policy guidelines in replace type route inside. In other words, although some receive LED lighting developed to a sufficient degree of maturity in some areas
.But relative to the entire market, which is still in an initial stage of the prototype level.

“Say goodbye to incandescent bulbs, led lightings green living” Government action theme campaign was held in Beijing.

October 17, 2012, “Farewell to incandescent bulbs, light green living” action was held jointly by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, General Administration of Customs, State Administration for Industry and Commerce, State Home of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the Government Offices Administration of the State Council. The theme is to accelerate the use of energy-saving bulbs. Activities were held at the Chinese Academy of Engineering. More than 100 delegates to participate in the activities, they are from government departments, industry associations, research institutions, enterprises, media, etc.

"Say goodbye to incandescent bulbs, led lightings green living" Government action theme campaign was held in Beijing.

Xie Zhenhua, deputy director, in his speech, pointed out that the led lightings energy saving is a significant action around the world to promote energy conservation, to address climate change.

There are more than a dozen countries and regions in the international releasing out incandescent roadmap as well as push wide green lighting plan of action. Research report, global lighting electricity accounts for 19% of the total electricity consumption. State electricity for led lightings accounts for about 13% of the electricity consumption in the whole society. If our country with 1.4 billion incandescent replace to energy-saving lamps, the annual saving 48 billion, equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions of 48 million tons, potential energy-saving reduction. In order to improve energy efficiency and protect the environment, and actively respond to global climate change, from Nov. 11st, 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, General Administration of Customs, State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine associated co-published “China phased out incandescent roadmap”, which gives a clear goal. From October 1, 2012, we should ban the import and sale of general lighting incandescent to ensure the realization of the “second five” emission reduction targets of any

service and actively respond to global climate change and a positive step.

“Farewell incandescent light bulb · light green living” is a series of promotional activities, including government action, urban row, animals and rural areas in the field of action, Internet and posters propaganda. Since the start in September this year, activities has been gradually carried out throughout the country. In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Guangdong Heshan, people organized field cities in Action – Green Little Angel’s Painting activities; With Film countryside, in the whole

Play “say goodbye to the incandescent light bulb. led lightings green living” promo over 2100 villages of the country’s four provinces; in Beijing East Mall, Wal-Mart, Suning Tesco electricity supplier sites and stores carry “Farewell incandescent bulbs voluntary commitment and energy-saving LED Panel Light  lamps” green living promotional publicity columns; opened in more than 30 websites in Sina, 150 Send Topic micro-blogging forwarded views over five million people, which make great influence on the society.

The next step to carry out the led lighting industry work of the Union’s proposal

National Semiconductor Lighting Project R & D Industry Alliance, the sixth conference of members of the General Assembly is to discuss how to get closer to the theme, to meet business needs, to get closer to the industrial development. In the preparatory work, the Union has an extensive collection of the views of the member companies, and make discussions of the utmost concern from the enterprises, which reaches the goal of serving led lighting industry and LED Panel Light enterprises. Thanks to all the members proposed their suggestions on this assembly.

The next step to carry out the led lighting industry work of the Union's proposal

1, the establishment of an early warning mechanism

Union has a macro character, so it should establish an early warning mechanism, to give insurance tips and warn on the research and development of semiconductor lighting market conditions.

2. To lead the industry development by figures

Organize technical seminars on a regular basis, looking for experts in the led lighting industry for data analysis and interpretation, to explore the technical development trends and master the development of more advanced technology, and provides direction for the enterprise, reduce detours. LED emerging market and do some feasibility studies, provide data analysis for enterprises, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.

3, Playing the full role of the State Key Laboratory

Making full play in the State Key Laboratory of semiconductor lighting joint innovation, the first level is in technological innovation. Increase basic researches, common key issues to promote the standardization of interfaces; in the aspect of patent, discuss a mutually beneficial mechanism; in the aspect of organizational structure, it is recommended to increase investment, and the establishment of some branches.

4, Establishment of credibility mechanism to promote business cooperation

The Union shall establish integrity mechanisms. Through this mechanism, enterprises can enter the Union. When there are large projects, enterprises can work together and have a joint construction. The LED Market is miscellaneous. If companies choose to cooperate, rather than competitions, may be able to enhance their competitiveness, to grab more market share, but in many cases, enterprises are longing for cooperation, however, they cannot give a correct assessment to future partners.

5, A standard market with long-term development

Strengthen communication with the government, and it was recommended that the government should increase its efforts to support the led lighting industry, and these supports can give effective to promote to the healthy and orderly development of the market, rather than a problem for the market, such as to standardize the tender subsidy, to control actions of low prices to get bid, which is harm to industry.

Channel breakthrough LED wishing to enter the rural led lighting market

LED, how to breakthrough price and channel is a realistic question for a lighting enterprises. Reporter found in rural areas recently, two or three line market becomes the LED enterprise in the channels for the development of new territories. How to let LED Panel Light enter into a ” high quality and inexpensive ” products and to successfully enter into the two or three line market, perhaps LED enterprises urgently need to solve that problem.

Channel breakthrough LED wishing to enter the rural led lighting market

Channel breakthrough: LED eager to ” illuminate” the rural LED lighting market

Since last year, with Europe and the United States market downturn, the domestic market has gradually become a large enterprise brand in one of the main battlefield. ” high price, high quality ” for the characteristics of the LED lighting, with its scale, industrialization of application, the price also is reduced greatly, and the exploitation of rural market is possible, it is understood that many LED enterprises regard the rural market as a future attack way.

Rural market attractive prospects also received industry recognition. A survey shows that: at present, China’s rural family is commonly used in incandescent lamp, the power consumption is 8 times of LED lighting, and two times of fluorescent lamp. With the energy crisis growing, energy saving has become a global consensus, and LED lighting does not contain mercury, and not easily broken, if wasted, it also can be recycled, so it becomes the world the preferred model of green lighting products.

Almost all businesses including LED businesses are of the view that China ‘s agriculture of LED lighting market within two years will see the benefits. From now on, vast rural area will become the largest market for LED lighting. ” Liu Zhu said, in foreign markets confronted freeze, the domestic real estate market downturn, line one two three city led lamp market impacted much.

With the rapid development of rural economy, the improvement of people’s living standards, farmers on the life quality of lighting requirements are improved. But comparatively, rural consumption is still insufficient, if LED prices are too high, even though the energy is also difficult to promote. Therefore, how to maintain the advantage in price is the key for LED enterprises to participate in market competition.

all lighting competing inside and outside, huge market how to change?

According to the forecast data, in 2012 the global LED lighting penetration will reach 13%; 33% in 2015, Following the LED Panel Light  commercial market expanding, global LED lighting civilian market has started, the size is five times than the commercial market. China all lighting is the world’s largest market, accounting for 17% of the global lighting market share.

all lighting competing inside and outside, huge market how to change

 

In recent years, the rapid development of the domestic LED industry, the state has issued a series of policies to support related projects, and recently decided to arrange 22 billion financial subsidies to promote the development of energy-saving lamps and LED lighting industry. Such a large market space and support efforts attract a number of domestic lighting manufacturers to join the LED lighting industry, but because of the industrial chain deformity and dislocation of production. From the second half of 2011, many companies closed down one after another, the entire LED all lighting industry faced with a large area of ​​the shuffle.

At the same time, huge market temptation also stimulated a number of Europe and the United States, Japan and other foreign and Taiwan-funded enterprises, subordinate to the domestic market. On May, OSRAM signed with Wuxi, to plant new assembly line in the local. At the end of 2013 completed and put into production, the main LED chip GE lighting package casing; Chengdu innovation center is formal operation, on July, Xi’an innovation center will also be established; Panasonic at the beginning of this year in the Chinese market sales of LED lamps, August, September will also cut the Chinese LED light source market.

Facing the huge market place, how to seize the opportunity to attack from both inside and outside of talent showing itself. And to share a cup of a thick soup from inviting market becomes a major problem as many domestic LED lighting enterprises are facing.

In order to better meet the 2012 domestic semiconductor lighting industry pattern changes and market demand, and guide the industry chain downstream and domestic and foreign counterparts between benign competition, the organizers of the exhibition layout planning, site will be launched four theme exhibition — ” materials and manufacturing equipment. “, ” commercial lighting, outdoor lighting. ” ” area” and “Ten City show ” pilot city results display area, concentrated display of semiconductor all lighting industry in the areas of the latest products and technologies.

Impetuous is the natural enemy of independent innovation of the street light

The global promotion of low-carbon life, so LED becomes a new generation of environmentally friendly light source. At present, China has named semiconductor LED lighting included in the medium-and long-term technology development plan, which has been initially formed wafer production, chip preparation, encapsulated integrated LED application industry chain. In addition, our national focus on the promotion of LED Panel Light industry. In mid-October, the nation’s first LED theme park settled in Guangdong Science Center, the “Guangdong, Hong Kong and Taiwan LED industry Design Forum held at the same time.

Impetuous is the natural enemy of independent innovation of the street light

Imitate and simple-build substitution is the bane of the LED street lamp

At present, LED applications and R & D is just to have simple replacement from LED and traditional light source. Almost all LED manufacturers follow the traditional street lamp design ideas, the pursuit of tens of watts, more than 100 watts of power LED street lamp with HPS lamps shape, installed the same way or compatible LED the street light and installed almost all HPS light source suitable for the “snake-heads (Tablet snakeheads) lamps as the standard design and manufacturing, rather than as a starting point for research and development to the law of the street light.

Second is invalid illumination problems. Currently, the majority of the public space, such as corridors, foot ladder, parking, bathrooms, elevator, across the street. Generally rely on the pass with a long time lighting, where is sometimes empty, so the energy is consumed. Therefore the most energy efficient technology is not on the wattage of the lights, but how to make the lights become more intelligent, more humane. When nobody used, it can enter a “sleep” state, and some people emerged, it will slowly wake up.

In addition, there is the visibility problem. The zebra crossing effects and serious air pollution, rain foggy weather environment caused the lights not bright enough on the ground, therefore, to reduce energy consumption, and not influence the ultimate goal of the street light visibility, the most important main direction is to strive to improve lighting uniformity. Good illumination uniformity can be appropriately reduced the average brightness of the lighting, which can achieve the same recognition to identify objects of visual effects, while at the same time to achieve the purpose of energy saving.

Market competition in Japan LED lighting bulbs

As the technology matures and falling prices, LED ( light emitting diode ) lights in Japanese market is in short supply because it enjoys a long life span and small power consumption, but also attract the Japanese well-known major motor manufacturers have entered the field, which led the market competition turning to a hot topic today.

Market competition in Japan LED lighting bulbs

It is reported there is LED lighting bulbs as early as about 10 years ago in Japan , but the technology is not very mature. The bulb brightness is not enough, which can only be used for emergency indication etc.. Thereafter, due to technological advances, the Japanese manufacturers develop brightness to replace incandescent lamp Since then, LED bulb gradually recognized by consumers, also accelerated the commercialization process.

At present, the Japanese market LED lamp service life is about 40000 hours, which is as 40 times comparing to the equivalent incandescent lamp bulb and 6 times to fluorescent lamp. The power consumption is only about 1/8. obviously, it can save energy . In addition, LED bulb prices is going down to,just as half of the original price, only 4000 yen (1 dollar closes around 88 yen ).
Brightness increases, price fall ,so that’s why it attracts people’s attention. It has the first sales peak in this summer. Many large electronics store are out of stock because of the low price .LED lighting bulbs manufacturers can not keep up the order and pour out one’s endless grievances.

Not only the manufacturers intensify efforts to develop production, also attracted many electrical manufacturers to enter this field.
Toshiba Co of Japan is the first R & D LED Panel Light bulb manufacturers, and put the products on the market firstly in 2007. the company announced further strengthen the LED light bulb business this year and plans to invest 100 billion yen for the equipment investment, reach 3500 billion yen in 2015, and the overseas market share increased to more than 30%. The company can adjust brightness of LED lamp.

Panasonic Corp of Japan in September of this year decided to enter the home LED lighting market in late October and planned to launch 10 ” EVERLEDS ” series LED bulb. The company said, the series of LED bulb enjoys energy saving and high performance. For normal family use, annual charge of electricity is only 300 yen, which is less than 2000 yen comparing with incandescent lamps . The company will also introduce unique small LED light bulb.

In addition, sharp, Mitsubishi Motors as well as NEC and other large motor company also entered the LED lighting bulbs market, it is expected that the future market competition will be more intense.
Environmental protection and energy conservation has become the main topic, all countries are making great efforts to promote environmental protection and energy saving products, many countries have formulated the plan to stop production of incandescent lamp. Japan’s major motor manufacturers are at large participation and strengthen LED bulb business, mainly to see the new lighting equipment market and its prospect.