LED three market segments have great potential

LED light source applications are not limited to general lighting. In the field of agriculture, LED lighting can be applied to vegetable production, and the quality and output are greatly improved through special LED lamp head lighting. In the field of automobiles, LED lamps for vehicles have low energy consumption, high reliability, long service life and environmental protection, which can improve safety in bad weather and at night. It is the new blue ocean of LED lighting market. In terms of medical treatment, from outdoor to indoor, from special to general, LED in medical lighting site continues to expand......

Agricultural lighting: "plant factory" will bring innovation to agriculture

With the continuous development of modern agriculture, the demand and energy consumption of agricultural lighting are expanding, which also poses new challenges to the traditional agricultural lighting technology. As a new generation of light source, in addition to the characteristics of environmental protection and energy saving, compared with artificial light sources such as fluorescent lamps or high-pressure sodium lamps commonly used in traditional agricultural fields, LED has the characteristics of adjustable light quantity, adjustable light quality, low cooling load and allowing to increase the cultivation amount per unit area. It is a very suitable artificial light source for closed agricultural production environments with environmental control, such as plant tissue culture rooms.

It can be predicted that the application of LED will bring more innovations to agriculture. For example, "plant factory" is considered as the advanced development stage of facility agriculture, which integrates modern biotechnology, information technology, artificial environment control and other high technologies. Not only the output is many times higher than that of land cultivation, but also it can be produced in non-arable land such as Gobi, desert, island, water surface and even urban buildings, it is also considered to be an effective technical means to solve population, resources, environment and other problems in the future.

In our country, agricultural lighting has begun to use LED, such as the establishment of solar photovoltaic LED plant factories in some domestic agricultural demonstration areas. The Chinese government has accelerated the application of LED in agricultural applications through the support of scientific research projects. For example, during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, a project has been set up through the 863 plan, and several LED agricultural research projects will be supported during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period. Some local governments also encourage the introduction of energy-saving and efficient LED agricultural lighting application projects in the park by establishing agricultural science and technology demonstration parks.

In fact, plant lighting has long been popular in Japan and South Korea. The sales market of LED plant lights is concentrated in Japan, South Korea, China and the United States, Europe and other countries and regions with fewer agricultural personnel. However, with the increase in the penetration of LED plant growth lights, the Chinese market has entered an explosive period. According to the survey, the global LED plant growth lamp output value began to show rapid growth in 2013. Although the output value is only 10 million US dollars, it is estimated that it will exceed 35 million US dollars in 2014 and is expected to challenge 0.3 billion US dollars in 2017. In addition to some applications in agricultural applications, LED applications in the agricultural field of related technology research and development is also increasingly concerned.

In general, whether it is from the perspective of promoting the development of modern agriculture, or from the perspective of achieving energy conservation and environmental protection, the application of LED in agriculture is of great significance, and the status and development needs of agriculture also provide development opportunities for LED.

Automotive Lighting: The New Blue Ocean of LED Lighting Market

In recent years, with many advantages such as increased luminous efficiency, low energy consumption, high reliability, long life, small size and environmental protection, the application of LED in automobile interior and exterior lighting is increasing day by day. It has moved from the initial less important automotive lighting applications, such as cockpit lighting, parking lights and dashboard backlights, to broader applications such as headlights and combined taillights.

It is understood that the average growth rate of the domestic LED automotive lighting market before 2010 was 13%, while the growth rate of the LED lamp market in the past two years was as high as 40%. Last year, the domestic automotive lighting market exceeded 20 billion yuan. The gross profit of automotive LED lighting products is 3-5 times that of ordinary LED products. This market segment has attracted more domestic and foreign companies to get involved. On the one hand, Taiwan enterprises have tested the water, blowing up the transformation to automotive lighting boom. Last year, established companies such as Jingdian, Canyuan, Youda, and Dongbei extended their business tentacles to international automobile brands, actively invested and built factories in the mainland, and accelerated the pace of development in the field of LED automotive lighting. On the other hand, as the big brothers in the field of automotive lighting, such as Haila Group, Osram, Philips and other European and American enterprises, naturally unwilling to lag behind Taiwan enterprises, have carried out a fierce attack on the automotive lighting market with the help of their original channel advantages. it is not lively to invest in building factories.

With the gradual development of the domestic automobile industry, the cake of LED automotive lighting market has gradually been favored by people, and it is known as the new blue ocean of LED lighting market.

Medical lighting: from special to general, favored by the industry

From 2007 onwards, China's LED medical lighting began to start. In China, the medical lighting industry belongs to the medical device industry. Compared with ordinary functional lighting, there are more stringent regulations and certification requirements, and the technical and safety rules are also extremely strict. Due to the high entry threshold of the product, the high technical risk, and the fact that most physical therapy equipment companies do not know much about LED performance and practical technology, only a small number of large companies cooperate with medical institutions to produce such products. Therefore, the progress of LED medical lighting is not ideal and does not adapt to the demand, which is the biggest resistance to the development of medical lighting.

It is understood that the application categories of medical lighting include: functional lighting inside and outside hospital buildings, I .e. functional lighting except for medical resources, medical guides and other information display accidents; Peep lighting, that is, lighting for lesion detection and observation; Surgical lighting, used to provide high-quality lighting tools during surgery; Disinfection and sterilization radiation light source; Phototherapy, phototherapy light source; Pathological detection light source, etc.

From outdoor to indoor, from special to general, LED in medical lighting site continues to expand. According to the prediction of relevant research institutions, from 2010 to 2017, the application of LED in surgical lighting is expected to grow at a high rate of 76.4 per cent per year. With the gradual development of LED applications in biological, medical, health and other fields, the huge market potential of LED applications in the medical field has gradually been paid attention. Although, compared with general lighting, medical lighting has certain particularity in terms of lighting demand and market access, but many enterprises still increase horsepower and march into medical lighting.