LED home lights enter into the mainstream market

On Friday, the new exhibition came to an end in 2013, the 13th China Chengdu International lighting and LED Expo, although the scale is only 1/9 of the Furniture Fair in Chengdu, however, in this year’s professional show, we found there are more and more LED engineering firms manufacturers who began to enter the home range, LED various market phenomena entering into the smart era also began to appear in the show.

LED home lights enter into the mainstream market

The price is an inevitable trend, LED swirling into the homes of ordinary people

For ordinary families, LED lighting prices are a little high, However, the past two years, accompanied by lower prices, the price of LED lighting is an inevitable trend, LED lighting began to enter millions of households.

LED is starting to enter the exhibition in 2008, accounting for only about 20%. Because the technology is not mature, the price is very expensive, and mostly the cold light source, heat has also been a technical problem, the LED business in the exhibition even involved in home. And in 201o to 2011, LED advance to enter a peak period. On the fair show, 50% of the companies began to do the LED during this period, some companies began to do at home.

While this year’s exhibition, more than 80% of enterprises shows the LEDs. While for the led home lights enterprises accounted for nearly half. In his view, not only because LED is the general direction of future development, at the same time as the technology matures, the LED also began to diversify, the smart era.

From the modeling point of view, led home lights has begun to surpass the demand for conventional lighting, toward a multi-functional development and lead a more interesting life. Such as IKEA’s Si Boka night lights, made ​​two lovely elf shape. It built-in color-changing LED bulbs, fully charged after 4-5 hours of lighting; The appearance is soft rubber, it can easily peel off the charger, but also it can put on the bed corner lighting.

LED home lights are still treated as assisted light sources in residential lighting applications

In 2009, the leader of the global lighting industry – Philips, formally promoted LED home lights, listing LED residential lighting applications as one of their main developing directs in the next ten years. Meanwhile, another household lighting giant – OSRAM also promoted dimmable LED ceiling mounted lamps, to seize the market in an early time. All these implied the potentials and hopes of LED home lights dominating the residential lighting market.

 

LED home lights are still treated as assisted light sources in residential lighting applications

 

However, Professor Dahua Chen from the Lighting Research Institute of Fudan University indicated that “Although LED technologies have huge developing potentials in the lighting area, it still will take them decades years to become the mainstream in the residential lighting applications, mainly because of their bottlenecks in the research and development, and their immature in the product qualities.” Professor Chen did not hold out much hope on this part. LED can only play a supporting role in the household lighting applications.

 

LED is a type of solid-state semiconductor component, which can directly convert electricity to light. As the new generation light source, LED technology has many incomparable advantages: a. safe; LED must work under low DC voltage. LED home lights are much safer than other high-voltage lighting devices and more suitable for household applications. b. energy-saving; consuming only 80% energy but send out same light (same brightness/luminous flux) with incandescent lamps. Buyers can save their energy and money together. c. environmental friendly; LED is made from non-toxic materials, aluminum/aluminum alloy, causing no contamination to environment and recyclable. d. long service life. Theoretically, the average lifetime of LED chips can reach up to 100,000 hours (when light attenuation approaching 50%). Even LED lamps can have a working life of 50,000 hours. e. sturdy and durable; Basically, LED is just a small chip encapsulated in epoxy resin, then put into aluminum/aluminum alloy lamp fixtures. Compare with incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes, which are only under the protection of glass covers, LED lamps are much more durable. f. small sized; This feature enable LED lights to be made in multiple shapes and sustainable in various working conditions. This is also a designer-welcome feature, which provides more creative space for them. Some impressive lighting designs even can combine fixture designs with furniture designs, achieving the “invisible light source effect”. g. brightness and color adjustable; this feature can meet the special requirements of stage lighting as well as household lighting.