作者：Blade

The biggest competitors for i-LED lighting is the traditional lighting

LED as its high efficiency, low energy consumption, long life, reliable, durable, environmental protection and other features, Governments and LED manufacturers are highly hopes for the development and the potential applications of LED applications. LED luminous efficiency of production now is 130 lm / W from the original 0.05lm / W. There is no doubt for starting development of large-scale industrial applications of i-led lighting.

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However, there is a kind of phenomenon for current LED market, many LED companies focused on the competition between the LED industry enterprises, and it seems LED market has been a Red Sea.

America Cree, president and CEO Chuck Swoboda yesterday in Huizhou, China accepted an interview with Engineering LED, LED lighting is not only competition between the LED chip enterprises. The biggest competitor is the traditional lighting. Remarks of Chuck Swoboda, worth LED industry insiders are serious thought.

LED lighting system technology has yet to be improved

Right now, the luminous efficiency of LED lights has reached 130lm/W, and it has exceed more than any kind of light source to meet in a variety of traditional lighting applications. i-led lighting is complex of high technology, the need to go through the package, optical, power drive, cooling and lighting with light LED used in lighting design. Every aspect of the design whether it is good or bad will have an impact on the final design of LED lighting overall on the lighting efficiency and cost.

At present, there is a system of practical application of low light efficiency, reliability and serious, the light fades, the high cost of the problem on LED lighting market production. Compared with the overall optical efficiency of LED lighting, there is no way to completely replace the traditional lighting.

It should be aware of that i-led lighting also failed to flex its muscles in the market. LED lighting application lumen efficiency, price does not make the broad consumer acceptance. We can not challenge the traditional lighting sources.

Enterprises should focus its resources to overcome technical difficulties to find the product innovation of subdivision applications, the LED luminous efficiency, reliability, cost to catch up with the traditional lighting products. Will it be possible to let the majority of lighting users accept the form scale industry applications; In addition, enterprises should accelerate the creation of brand LED lighting products and the unique LED marketing channels;

Nine home lighting design consumer demands trend analysis

The recent years on the market, the competition in the home lighting design mainly in terms of efficacy, styling, workmanship and new technology applications, material revolution. However, the lamps market consumer demand trend presented according to the below trend.

First, functional subdivision. People are on longer satisfied merely lighting lamps but lamps came into being applicable to a variety of requirements. Such as: Student lamp, writing lights, emergency lights, fluorescent glow lamps, dinner lights, different height floor lamps and other high admiration.
Second, modeling Luxury. Decorative lamps are increasingly used at luxurious high-grade office buildings, luxury hotels, restaurants and other public facilities, upscale. Magnificent high-end chandeliers, lovely crystal table lamps full of fun for people’s life.

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Third, respect for nature. Meet the people return to basics, respect for nature’s psychology. According to the survey, 30% of the lighting used a naturalized design, such as plum blossom lamp, tail lamp, lamp Peach, horses and other small animal shaped lamp. It uses a variety of wooden art sculpture, just as much as the real craft.

Fourth, rich colors. home lighting design market now synchronized with the rich and colorful life, multi-Phi “colorful” coat, red maple leaf, natural blue, coral, yellow, water plants green color, it looks elegant, warm.
Fifth, the combination use. To combine the lighting decorations and daily necessities is day-to-day popular fashion, such as ceiling fans, lights, round mirror lights, flashlights yellow lights, etc..

Six high technology.  As electronic technology has been widely used in the manufacture of the lamps, to adapt to the different voltages, it can adjust the third generation of lighting.

Seven multi-function. Electrified table lamp, with a music box table lamp, a bedside lamp doubles as a photosensitive phone self-control lights, indirect phone that night, the lights turn on automatically delay about 50 seconds after hanging up the call is completed and can automatically extinguished. Multiple functions in one light is in line with current consumer fashion.

Eight ,energy-saving. Energy-saving lamps are very popular among consumers. Such as the longevity of energy-saving lamps 3 LED lights core power, brightness can be selected. Meanwhile, the widespread adoption of new energy-saving light bulbs has become the mainstream of lighting technology.

Nine, Environmental protection. Environmental protection is a new topic of lamp production technology, which reveals their emphasis on the people’s living environment and believes that this is the main development direction for the future of home lighting design.

LED street lamps market is great but should not be over optimistic

The street market size of a country is relevant to the local road length and type, the standard of national living. Theoretically,

The number of lamps demand grows increasingly when the road length is longer and wider, the higher ratio of the important roads such as highway and so on. However, the lamps demand and the actual units will be influenced by the national standard of living. The country with a higher level of national life, people for the frequency of road use and road safety requirements increase and the quantity of the street lights devices is larger.

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China LED street lamps market size will be about 80-100 ten thousand in 2009

China is basically the country with the lack of a national energy. With the economic development, there is more difficult in energy supply. In October 2008, the Chinese government launched the “Energy Conservation Ordinance of public institutions, and energy-saving products, equipment should be incorporated into the government centralized procurement catalog, and strict monitoring of the situation of energy consumption requirements of all levels of government units. At the same time, “Energy Conservation Ordinance ” also announced that construction units should choose the suitable renewable energy for heating, cooling, lighting and hot water supply. The implementation of these two regulations provides the legal basis for local government procurement LED and other energy-saving products.

In 2009, In response to the global economic downturn,China has promoted the public project economic plan and the LED investment plan is in line with their needs. Taking Guangdong an example, this year, Guangdong Province, began to carry out a large-scale implementation of the “thousands of thousands” of high-power LED street lamps industrialization demonstration and extension projects. That is: the total length of about 1,500 km, scale of approximately100,000 LED street lamps demonstration and extension projects constructed in Guangzhou, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhongshan, Zhaoqing,Shantou City. Ministry of Science and Technology is expected to promote the LED lights set plan of “Ten thousand ten cities” which also attracted the active participation of the 21 provinces and cities such as Beijing, Shanghai,  Shenzhen, Wuhan, Heilongjiang, Hebei.

LED lighting market opportunities and challenges

The national standards of the first LED lighting is recently released in China which will let the LED lighting field on hot filed become more “material”.From the statistics and messages given by the people in this field, the future of China’s LED lighting market is full of great opportunity. Bu the enterprises that want to be involved in this market should realize that there is much challenges in the LED lighting field.

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Opportunity is at hand

Just look at China’s civil lighting, there is a value of about 40 billion yuan market. Bi Bo Ling, CEO of Philips Lighting (China), reveals an attractive data in the interview with the media.He, as a representative of the lighting enterprises, views that the future of China’s lighting market is bound to be a a contested paradise.

Their confidence stems from the strong advantage of the lighting products and the attitude of the Chinese government.

Energy-saving advantages of LED lighting market products foreshadowed the leading position in the future industry. According to insiders, a 11-watt high-quality energy-saving lamps, for example, the figures prove the absolute superiority of the product: such an energy-saving lamps in 6000 hours can save over160 yuan and the lighting consumption is 294 kwh less compared with the 60-watt incandescent period life.

In recent years, the Chinese government is increasingly determined to implement the incandescent phase-out plan, including LED lights, energy-saving lamps which got the strong support of the government. In addition, the domestic large-scale construction of public facilities have been launched to increase the number of use of LED lighting products.

Enormous challenges hiding behind the opportunity

Chinese market with huge profit margins begins to be quickly locked by domestic and international lighting giant. However, there is high risk involved in this market. Extraordinarily the high current cost of LED products have become the critical of corporate R & D investment. A lot of people in the industry said that year 2010 is an important test of LED lighting market enterprises capital strength. Who will occupy the high ground, who will have the overwhelming majority of the market.

LED lighting industry kept the two major misunderstanding

With the Copenhagen Climate Conference at the end of 2009, the world sounded the clarion call of the energy saving and emission reduction. LED lighting as a new type of energy-saving, environmentally alternative technologies quickly became the focus of the government, the capital, and the business community. According to statistics, Up to the end of 2009, Chin-ahas developed the world’s most important production base of LED lighting. Under the impressive achievements, LED lighting industry has its inadequacies and its misunderstanding. The author analyzed as follows.

LED lighting industry is lack of upstream core technology

As  LED lighting is of  energy-saving and environmental advantages, in recent years, statistics show that LED lighting global output annual growth keep 20% or more.China has launched a green lighting engineering, semiconductor lighting project, “Ten thousand ten cities” plan in order to push forward the development of the industry. In 2008, the total output value ofChina’s semiconductor lighting is nearly 700 billion.

However, according to the introduction of the Chairman Wu Zhen Yue, Shenzhen Han Tian Technology company, there goes that despite the current Chinese LED lights industry investment and production can increase to accelerate, The LED lighting production enterprises is over 3000, but 70% of which is in the concentration of downstream integration application link which is lack of upstream core technologies. Also due to the enterprise which is generally in small scale and lace of standards, the product quality is uneven.

He believes that many cities carry out the LED lighting demonstration and alternative project now, but the LED road lighting is also limited to the slip road to the district, the pedestrian street, a limited range of applications, especially LED lighting products of varying quality.

The high cost of LED lighting is a one-sided point of view

At present, there exists a misunderstanding on the Social LED lighting industry. That is considered “LED lighting is a new technology, and it is certainly of high cost” which make LED lighting urgent breaking popularity in the domestic market.

Traditional lighting methods require the laying of the cable, which is the cost of a lot of money. At the same time, the life of the traditional sodium lights is short, generally lamps need to be replaced in a year or so, and late repair and maintenance costs are high. If these costs are considered, The cost between the LED lighting and the traditional sodium lamp is not too much.

Russia will be “New World” of China’s small and medium-sized architectural led lighting enterprise

LED companies in China was closed by the mainland market “internal problems” and “foreign aggression”, numerous large LED lights companies began to shift attention to two aspects:

One, try to get government grants, and try to support the market opened that day;

Two, more participation in government bidding projects to achieve business operations.

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But the above two points are circles around the government regulation, and it should be the strength of the company’s games. The industry believes that, under the case of a market downturn, to open the Chinese LED market is the subject that many LED companies are facing, especially China’s LED lighting market. At the same time, China’s architectural led lighting industry should not just be a big companies’ world. Although standardized mass production era, small companies do not have a strong competitive advantage, while in some certain segments of the field, the big company will not be flexible than small company.

LED inside lighting market believe, for example,  the two most important factors are restricting Chinese LED lighting market are price and market awareness. Affected by the awareness of the architectural led lighting market, China’s township and rural markets is still a “ruins”; urban lighting market restrictions by fluorescent lamps, it is also difficult to develop.

For the enterprise development center, the industry also gives a different view. Neo-Neon China CEO Mr. Chen Yueming said, thanks to the well-developed network platform, today’s market is different from the past. He said that the opened form of  LED lighting market is less and less important, while the value of the product itself is the fundamental driving force of enterprise development.

The Linsen said, to meet the practical use is the key LED R & D. According to the needs of the practical application of the product, we need to refine of R & D and production, which can reduce costs, in order to guide the sales prices fall, the market can get further open.

Many industry experts also gives his own views, and they believe that the projects in the pipeline is also a way for architectural led lighting market, but the requirements of the product is very high, and need the support of the engineering and technical aspects.

LED lamps causes of damage

To take high-power white LED as a new green lighting, it will have many advantages such as light conversion, high efficiency, low power consumption, long life, no maintenance, etc. And thus it gradually used in a variety of lighting in the field. The long life of the LED is based in the safe working environment. As far as LED lamps china lighting is concerned, there are two factors affecting the life. One is the over electric shock which is applied to the LED on the current exceeding the maximum rated current of the LED technology in the date sheet, including over-voltage caused by over-current shock; Another is overheating damage. Damage can be expressed as the immediate failure of the components and it may also occur through electric shock after the incident for a long time before failure and to shorten the working life of LED.

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LED lamps china causes of damage

LED lights failure first from the power supply and drive failure, the second is from the LED assembly failure. From the input power, it is usually damage to the LED power supply and drive through electric shock(EOS) and the load side of circuit failure.

LED components failure

  Transient over-current events is the maximum rated current flowing through the LED current in the LED lamps china technology data sheet, which may be the direct result of the large current or indirectly due to the high voltage generation, such as transient lightning switch over voltage event of power transient switching noise, power fluctuations caused by over current. These events are transient, very short duration. we usually referred to as spikes, such as “current spikes, voltage spikes. The transient over-current is caused by LED connected to the transient over-current power or hot plug.

LED lighting in the car, ISO7637-2 transient load-dump surge impact, it is a major threat to their normal work.
LEDs subjected to electric shock after the failure mode is not fixed, but will usually result in damage to the welding line. This damage is usually caused by a great deal of transient over-current, which will cause weld lines blown and may also lead to other parts of the damage near the welding line, such as sealing materials.

Cross-strait LED manufacturers called for the creation of a common brand

Cross-strait LED artery bypass meeting will be held recently, Taiwan and mainland China LED manufacturers industry heavy weights gathered, and the completion of a “cross-strait cooperation and pilot show, LED lighting technology norms and common standards and application technology research and achievements in Shanxi lighting demonstration Harbin in Cold reliability of semiconductor lighting research achievements demonstration “3 Letter of Intent signed.

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Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, Central Information Secretary Lu McCain said, From July, the mainland should first ban on the import, production and sale of high-powered incandescent, then ban extended to small power incandescent energy saving. In 2015, we can do the final assessment. If the effect is good, mainland China since October 2016, will prohibit the import and sale of more than 15 watts of incandescent light.

The cross-strait LED industry bypass meeting will have a breakthrough development. The continent will unite Taiwan and India, Russia and other countries to uniform LED manufacturers lighting standards and specifications. The meeting further expand cross-strait LED pilot cities. At the same time, the two sides in the industry reach a consensus on the establishment of cross-strait LED lights common brand. We expected that agency in personnel  will come to Taiwan for further discussions on the mainland.

The representatives of the people in Taiwan said, the above significant measures will make the continent lighting market to re-shuffle. Therefore, if the continent is scheduled implementation as it is expected, it will bring Taiwan LED lighting industry a favorable foundation for the development. Technical cooperation from the bypass plan cross-strait LED industry is expected to deepen a equity cooperation, through the joint venture shares of the LED lighting industry, we hope that it can create a common brand, like the “China card” lighting products.

It is understood that the mainland LED manufacturers technology catch up with international companies within two years. Right now, it can offer LED lighting package components with 130 lumen per watt . In order to promote energy-saving LED products planned for this year, The Countries plan to let the Ministry of Finance allocate 2.2 billion yuan, within one year period to promote energy-efficient lighting products. Among them, There are about 10 million down-lights and spotlights to promote LED indoor lighting products, and about 1 million street lights and tunnel lights to promote LED outdoor lighting, which are installed primarily include industrial and mining enterprises, hospitals, schools, railway stations, airports, docks and roads and other important places.

There is future to invest in high-end LED lighting modern

In recent years, LED technology is widely used in the field of lighting modern. Other LED industry is also quick to become popular. However, many companies are lack of lack of competitiveness in technology, and the expected profit is not high. A lot of capital into this market will inevitably result in profits diluted which will cause disorder competition industry this year.

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Many industry experts also said that the LED industry has turned out the signs of overheating which need to be alert to the problem of excess capacity; Another strong entry of foreign giants, domestic manufacturers should speed up in the new round of competition in technology development and patent protection.

It may overdraft the next 3 to 5 annual production capacity

On February 2, the first batch of new industrialization demonstration base award which optoelectronic industry base occupy three seats and LED industry has become a key industry of national development. At the same time, LED initial investment of 100 million yuan can plant low threshold, and stimulate launching LED project.
Public data shows that the total investment budget of LED lights project launched all over the country has exceeded the LED project has a total r 20 billion yuan in the first half of 2009 alone.
In 2009, the domestic LED enterprises have announced the financing to expand production.

In addition to the replenishment of expansion, public financing has also become the urgent needs of the development of lighting modern business. According to the National Torch Plan Key High-tech enterprises in Guangdong Country Star Power (hereinafter referred to as the country star power) had told the media that the company has submitted the application for the listing of small plates, waiting for the Audit Commission.。

According to expert analysis, from a statistical point of view of opened construction and planned construction projects, the production of the LED can at least overdraft the next three to five years of production and the market. After a large number of LED projects are completed, lighting modern industry will be overcapacity, disorderly competition in the market, lack of talent in China.

The using of Solar power low voltage LED lights have great potential in western area

World concerns about the security of energy supply and action to address climate change promote the rapid development of renewable energy technologies and industries worldwide, such as photovoltaic, wind power generation in the annual growth rate of more than 20%. Renewable energy has become an important alternative energy to diversify energy sources to address global climate change and achieving sustainable development.

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The energy-saving advantages of the solar lighting

With the economic development, China’s electricity for lighting will greatly improve the research and application of green energy-efficient lighting and appeal more and more attention. Solar low voltage LED lights as a cold light source products, is with a higher cost, green, safe, reliable, stable quality, long service life, easy installation and maintenance features, and can be widely used in green lighting, road lighting, advertising light boxes lighting, urban landscape modeling lighting and home lighting systems, solar LED lighting, one-time investment in higher development bottleneck.

At present, lighting consumption is about 20% of the entire electricity consumption. Reducing lighting electricity is an important way to save energy. To achieve this goal, the industry has developed a variety of energy-saving low voltage LED lights equipment, and achieved some certain results. However, the requirement is also far from the “green light”, the development and application of more efficient, reliable, safe, durable new light is imperative.

By the end of 2006, China’s renewable energy capacity total 200 million tons of standard coal (excluding traditional biomass), accounting for about 0.5 percent, which took a solid step  on the achievement of the renewable energy accounting for 10% of the national total primary energy consumption. At present, China will promote the development of the domestic PV market according to the following ways: First, Starting sending electricity to the village of Engineering; Second, Using the photovoltaic power generation, such as the World Expo, Olympic Games; Third, Building PV power plants in the desert; Fourth, the mobilization of some cities to start roof plan; 5, Studying to improve the competitiveness of PV tariff policy

In western China, the non-trunk solar lights, solar garden lights gradually become certain scale. With the vigorous development of solar lamps, the “green light” will become a trend.