Japan, Europe and the United States to achieve the main lighting manufacturers to achieve international standardization of LED lighting products

Japan and the United States led the establishment of the lighting industry group Zhaga Consortium, the purpose is to easily design LED lighting products. Holland PHILPS B.V. (Philips Lighting), OSRAM (OSRAM GmbH), Panasonic, Toshiba and ELectric (General) and other veteran manufacturers have participated in the group. The plan is to standardize the optical engine (LED, drive and optical components) embedded in the LED lighting fixture and submit it to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as an international standard.

After the realization of standardization, there will be more and more optical engine compatibility, lighting manufacturers can easily purchase parts, and save the trouble of designing an optical engine alone. Low cost of lighting appliances will accelerate. For new companies involved in LED lighting appliance business, there are benefits to reduce barriers to entry.

Zhaga Consortium trademark

Figure 1: life and quality are not included in the standardized entries will be achieved through the Zhaga Consortium standardization is dedicated to the smallest entry in the LED lighting device optical engine. The parts related to the performance of the products such as life and quality are not included in the standardized items. According to the data produced by Zhaga Consortium.

In recent years, the demand for LED lighting products is growing, in order to take this opportunity to expand the LED lighting market, it can not take years to achieve standardization. Zhaga Consortium Secretary General Manno Tliffs (Menno Treffers) said, I hope the rapid development of standards within the Zhaga is the common idea of all members". The standard will be higher than the beam of 1000lm output power lighting equipment as the object, first shop and outdoor lighting products, and then promote the standardization of office and industrial use.

Maintain the balance of competition and market expansion

Zhaga will be designed to be used in the optical engine embedded in the smallest items to achieve standardization. For example, the unified mechanical interface (shape and lamp), thermal interface (thermal path etc.), electrical interface (power supply, insulation, grounding and control) and interface optical (light, color and light radiation characteristics), when not for life and quality product performance standards set (Figure 1). Requirements for performance requirements vary by country and region, and for manufacturers, performance is the key to achieving product differentiation.

The internal structure of the optical engine is not standardized. Although the beam standard is specified, the number of LED packages and the driving method for the beam will not be specified. Therefore, to improve performance and reduce costs will become the competition point of optical engine manufacturers.

The brightness and luminous efficiency of LED are still in the developing stage. After each time a new LED products, lighting manufacturers have to re design lighting appliances. It can be said that the future will be a standard to keep the competition space, but also can effectively expand the LED lighting market measures.