Analysis of economic benefits of indoor and outdoor LED lighting: a case study of Toshiba Lightech product line

Toshiba (Toshiba) responsible for its lighting business of Toshiba Lighting & Technology (hereinafter referred to as Toshiba Lightech), has been in the spring of 2010 in Japan to launch 631 new residential energy-saving lamps, the number of leading many Japanese lighting industry product line, including the self selection of LED lamps or energy-saving fluorescent lamp product line, in addition, Toshiba Lightech also plans to terminate the sale of incandescent bulbs for residential lighting production.

In order to understand the cost of Toshiba Lightech indoor and outdoor LED lighting efficiency, compared with the following indoor LED lamp and fluorescent lamp uses the same total cost recovery time required, and outdoor LED security lights with the same purpose fluorescent lamp mercury lamp or the total cost recovery required.

The total cost of lighting including initial cost and operation cost, the initial cost refers to the cost operation cost of setting lamp; including electricity and the cost of replacing the light source, with Toshiba Lightech LED lighting as an example, compared with the same use fluorescent lamp or mercury lamp, the initial cost is higher, but because electricity is low. And almost no need to replace the light source costs, so the running cost is low.

Overall, with the embedded LED lamp and LED lamp indoor outdoor anti-theft Toshiba Lightech, although the initial cost is the same use fluorescent lamp mercury lamp or high 37~186%, but because the power consumption is significantly reduced, to save electricity, and for about 9 years without replacing the light source, so as to use the longer the economy the benefit is becoming increasingly obvious, this will help accelerate the pace of the popularity of LED lighting.