Electronics For You is a flagship magazine of EFY Group. Recently, EFY has published a latest report for the LED lighting industry in India. Although LED lighting technology has a lot of advantages compared with other traditional lamps, like longer service life, more environmental friendly, more energy efficient, and less health-hazarded, LED products still cannot be mass produced in India as a result of the over-expensive initial production costs. Therefore, in India, almost every LED makers are eager to create a kind of LED lighting products that are completely competent for commercial operations, just like incandescent bulbs does. They still need innovations on the road to achieving this goal.
The luminous efficiency and output luminous flux of LED lights doubled every 36 months, as well as the total performance, which is consistent with Moore’s Law. In the past few years, LED lighting technology has been improved in many aspects: performance, color and quality. Based on different application solutions, the color temperature can be fixed within the range of 2700K to 6500K. And 70-95 for color rendering index (CRI). The life cycle of White-ray LED lighting applications have reached up to 100,000 hours, which dramatically reduces maintenance and replacement costs.
The report pointed out that the entire LED lighting industry is very optimistic, full of innovations:
1) Omni-directional LED lights, just like incandescent lights does. If LED lights want to be the benchmark of general lighting industry, omni-directional lighting is necessary. Only the omni-directional LED lamp technology is able to provide solutions for multi-directional lighting modes. As a matter of fact, the LED lighting industry in India was followed this direction all the time, from the very early stage of development to now, from the simple equivalent LED lighting technologies to traditional lamps, from single-color LED lights to RGB LED applications, from lamps to intelligent lighting system.
2) Organic LED. It is expected that this kind of LED lights can be the most environmental friendly lighting technology in the future due to their small size and high performance.
3) Clever design. This provides an alternative for traditional incandescent lamps, similar parameters and output optical energy.
4) Non-contact phosphor technology. This technology was mainly invented to reduce the cost.
5) AC LED lamps. These lamps can maintain the same output optical output with DC LED lamps. There will be no need to conduct the AC to DC conversion.