Zhou Xuejun: L1 manufacturers to change the trend of L2 vendors

LED market in recent years, fierce competition in the price of the company's profits to reduce the profits can not be shouted, however, this trend also spawned many innovative technologies. The prediction of Lumileds Asia Marketing Director Zhou Xuejun ended at the end of October 2015 LEDforum, L1 vendors into L2 vendors, will become a trend gradually clear.

Lumileds Asia Marketing Director Zhou Xuejun ended at the end of October 2015 LEDforum to share his views on the LED industry. (all images: LEDinside)

Lighting system integration, stimulate the transformation of L1 manufacturers L2 manufacturing model

Lighting system integration has gradually become an important part of the industry, contributing to this trend can be discussed in 4 directions. First, manufacturers need to reduce manufacturing cost, search for the niche market to develop their own strengths, to avoid excessive competition in the market, the necessity of remarkable, but also need to meet the needs of customers, so that lighting can easily install.

The lighting industry, Zhou Xuejun predicted that there will be a shift to L2 manufacturers L1 manufacturing trends. Zhou Xuejun definition, L1 is the development of low and high power LED, CSP LED, color LED packaging manufacturers, and most L2 vendors are DOB LED.

According to Zhou Xuejun, the upstream L1 manufacturers, in order to make the goods into the L2 market is relatively easy to enter the L2 than L1. Mainly because L1 manufacturers to master the LED chip technology, voltage and color temperature and other project decisions.

The advantage of L1 manufacturers is to enter the field of L2 manufacturing, can reduce costs, in order to reduce the demand for customized waste of the lumen output. The difference between the lumen output of the LED lamp is critical, and the better the LED component can be more efficient than the general product of the lumen output.

Zhou Xuejun explained that if a LED lamp minimum lumen output reached 256 lumens (LM), but the lamp design requires only 250 lumens, then the formation of 6 lumens output waste. At this point, if the L1 manufacturers took over into the production of L2, can effectively control the waste, and designed to fully meet the needs of L2 lamps.

Another advantage is to tailor LED L1 manufacturers to enter the production of L2, providing greater flexibility. Zhou Xuejun said: LED manufacturers from L1 to L2 manufacturing will become a trend. This will be beneficial to downstream manufacturers, to create a more cost-effective, more efficient products. Compatibility between L1 and L2 products will become more important in order to allow midstream and upstream LED manufacturers to reduce production costs.

Zhou Xuejun added: "customized specifications according to specifications produced by the L2 / demand market in North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa (three referred to as EMEA) and South Asia (ASEAN) more and more, but also in the Chinese such demand is weak. "

In recent years, the rise of the Internet of things (IoT) industry will further stimulate the market demand for smart lighting products, especially higher lighting system integration is more important.

Zhou Xuejun explained: according to Intel forecast, from 2015 to 2020, there will be up to 15 billion to 200 billion smart products listed. An average person will interact with 26 smart objects. "

Low system compatibility limits delay the development of intelligent lighting products

Despite the rise of Internet lighting technology, the market is still filled with many uncertain variables. Referring to the wisdom of the lighting market outlook, Zhou Xuejun pointed out that the current number of intelligent lighting restrictions. He said: in the huge Internet of things system (IoT), digital lighting will be located in the dominant position of IoT it is worth pondering. We may just be a link to the Internet of things, and may even be marginalized. Unconventional lighting manufacturers have come to the fore in the smart lighting industry, such as mobile phone manufacturers, etc.. German Schneider motor (Schneider), the Swiss ABB group or even Google, the future are likely to jump out and become a leader in intelligent lighting industry.

Compared with the non lighting networking products, smart lights start slower, mainly because of the system differences. In contrast, other things electronic devices have mesh or self repair function, and the lack of flexibility and zero lighting fault tolerance, that is, once the lamp is broken, it must be replaced. "Basically, there is no elastic space for lamps and lanterns. Once the lamp is broken, it must be replaced manually. "

The expansion of lighting products is relatively low, but also can not update the operating system. In addition, the applicability and characteristics of lighting products can not be easily added directly through the phone or computer App. And the smart lamp is not easy to join or adapt to new features, update frequency is low and slow. Zhou Xuejun said: the wisdom of the lamp function at most only dimming and toning it. "

Another limitation is that the smart lighting system application interface (API) relies entirely on companies such as CISCO and Microsoft. By adding these application interfaces to the smart lighting products, you can control the lighting, color and RGBW.

The current wisdom of the lighting system compatibility and standard specification is not complete is a major problem in the industry. Zhou Xuejun said: at this stage of the lighting system is very old and does not support compatibility. Other IoT products are compatible with Zigbee and IP system standards.

In order to comply with the building regulations, but also the local adjustment of lighting products in order to improve the popularity of intelligent lighting products. For example, the current interactive lighting on the market framework, most of the current size of the T8 lamp design.

Zhou Xuejun said that the building standards will affect the size of the smart lighting products with the line, the need for building