How long will it take to complete the innovation of lighting technology?

Introduction: LED lighting technology development has gone through 10 years, the market has also been difficult to promote the product to the general user. Look at the sales statistics of LED lighting products announced major research institutions in 2013, although the data are different, but we will find the row in front of the sales are basically LED lamp, bulb, lamp and lamp products.

At the same time, starting in 2010 the introduction of a series of LED lighting products for the standard, in the form of appearance and interface products more stringent requirements and before we are familiar with the incandescent light bulb, candle bulb, lamp, fluorescent lamp and lamp products are very similar, and in many aspects, such as optical methods are more is a reference to the original source and lamp set. Perhaps a lot of companies have been doing the traditional lighting, everything is so natural, it seems only for the luminous body, and nothing else. But for many from the LED light source to do lighting enterprises, which should not be very good taste: after years of innovative design, various function research, it was found that many creative products were praised.

In particular, the rapid rise in LED general lighting market, the more confused: a circle, what seems to be back to the traditional lighting routines, LED light source and many different characteristics of congenital original, why do the same? When will the LED lighting products go beyond the traditional lighting, have their own unique appearance and innovative applications? Here, we look at the end of 2013 and the distribution ratio of LED lighting products, LED lamp, bulb, lamp and lamp together accounted for about 75%, mostly in commercial lighting products. Now the country has begun to gradually ban the incandescent lamp production and sales, which is obtained from the relevant information, the state will soon stop on energy-saving lamps subsidies to promote LED lights, this series of policy will greatly enhance the application of LED in the proportion of ordinary families. While the domestic LED lighting products, bulb lamp, lamp and ceiling lamp category accounted for the majority, it indicates that the substitution of LED products will continue to play a leading role. In addition, do lighting engineering companies know that LED engineering products distinctive mostly custom development, huge investment, reusable, enterprise scale is difficult to expand, quality assurance is also difficult, so from the point of view of sustainable development, this kind of customized products will exist for a long time, but is not the mainstream market.

In fact, standing in the customer and market perspective it is easy to understand this phenomenon, as ordinary users and the general lighting designer group, the main product is familiar with the principle of evidence-based, mature, and a good price. The various advantages of LED as a new type of light source, no doubt, but all kinds of product form, uneven product quality, thousands of production enterprises, so that the majority of users at a loss, it is difficult to choose, but also more difficult to have new standards can make everyone happy and harmonious, and use the original way to do some the optimization and upgrading easier for everyone to adapt to and accept, so instead of LED products closer to the traditional lighting form has been growing rapidly.

Although similar bulb lights and spotlights the LED product because the volume limit, do large power replacement technology is very difficult, but is not suitable, because it is easy to standardization, easy to use lighting form before the renovation replacement, both ordinary users, or lighting designers, and standard setters for the lowest risk more willing to follow the footsteps. In front of the bulb, lamp and lamp industry standard or national standard, recently there will be panel lights, lamp and other standard GB or launch, this situation has been further strengthened. From the scale of the development of LED industry, this situation is conducive to the rapid growth of LED products, but for innovative applications, but it is a kind of constraints and adverse.

The old experts, these years also and many of the world for a lighting LED lighting view, mostly agree that LED should not and the existing lighting form, the reason is very simple, copy the existing light source model, can not give full play to the advantages of LED light source. I believe that people who have done LED lighting should have discussed this topic, but also certainly did a lot of similar attempts. This can be said to have a breakthrough in the case mostly in the case of some unique lighting engineering, some creative, dare to try the lighting designer, some unique advantages of sensitive to capture the LED illumination light source, lamps and lanterns, put some creative creative space and their own together, create many of the magnificent light effect. It can be said that these applications are emerging in recent years, and it seems that the era of LED beyond the traditional lighting has come.

In LED innovation beyond the application inside, the engine is the most promising concept of innovation. But it is understood that the current implementation of LED light engine is not ideal, in addition to technical reasons, more should be the cause of market acceptance. Even in foreign countries, but also popular alternative products. So the light engine to be widely accepted by the world, there should be a long way to go.

A lot of advantages and characteristics of LED, the more is to substitute the existing form as the carrier, silent is embedded in it, including some modular technology, various dimming techniques in this "new wine in old bottles", slowly permeate in lighting applications we are in. Is a highly innovative light engine technology, LED lighting technology and subsequent highly integrated electronic, are in the process of constant evolution, continuously expand the market application, perhaps 5 years, 10 years, or even longer. It took us 10 years to replace the LED product with a unified standard, creating opportunities for large-scale promotion.

Perhaps we will be used for 10 years or longer, so that the full range of innovative applications of LED products gradually accepted by the world, the formation of a consensus in the industry, and gradually become the mainstream of the market. We LED lighting people have to be patient, while the edge of innovation and development, only to have the opportunity to wait until the arrival of this day, will usher in a new era of truly belongs to the full innovation beyond LED lighting applications.