Increase LED added value: create intelligent lighting applications

“The business model of the product must also be combined with the life cycle. What if everyone has LED lights? How do you find a business in the future?”

Carlos LEE, Secretary General of the European Photonics Industry Association, expressed the above views and questions in the report “The Third Cycle of LED Development” made at the opening ceremony on the 6th.

Different application areas have different application requirements

The LED lighting market is not a very focused market, it is more dispersed, because the application of LED lights in each field has different needs. For example, commercial and industrial lighting will consider total cost and aesthetics, while residential lighting will consider light quality, light environment and how to use it.

About the penetration rate of the LED industry. At present, the penetration rate of headlights in the automotive industry is still relatively low, and the high penetration rate of the LED industry is a large-scale video display. However, we believe that the penetration rate of LED lamps in these different industries will have a green curve in 2012-2020. First of all, we can see that the automotive industry will increase the application of headlights from 1% to 27%.

Standards can better reduce costs

When people buy LED products, they don't know what standards they can refer to, so they find that cheap lights will choose to buy cheap lights. If the lights are broken, they will be disappointed and start to hate LED products. Not good for LED technology and the market. This is not to say that all products are of the same quality, but that consumers should know what he is buying and what expectations he should have for what he buys.

Increase the added value of LED lighting products to create intelligent lighting

Taking mobile phones as an example, everyone will change their mobile phones frequently. If they are not broken, they will change, but the new mobile phones will add a lot of functions. The same is true for TV, which has now become a flat-screen TV and a plasma TV. Therefore, a product to occupy the market to provide more added value and new features, this is also true for LED products.

The business model of the product must also be combined with the life cycle. What if everyone has LED lights? How to find a business in the future? The process of replacing incandescent lamps is very simple. I saw some CFL lights in the hotel. The CO lights can last for 6-9 years. Their light effects are actually good. It is very unlikely to change during the life cycle. It is very difficult. Convince everyone to change CFL, but letting everyone change the incandescent lamp will be simpler, but the life cycle of CFL is very long, but what about LED products? Therefore, we must add more added value to the LED products, because people can not directly change the LED lights because the lights are broken, they need more reasons.

At present, we have a lot of integration of lighting and electronics. For example, Apple phones can change the color of desk lamps when there is an Internet connection. This is the best example of the combination of optics and electronics. Therefore, we must fully think about how to make LED not only energy saving, but also bring more added value from the perspective of imagination and creativity.

Overall, LED revenues have slowed in 2012, but LEDs are no longer a major driver of development for tablets and backlights. We are concerned about general lighting, but the cost must be reduced by 10 times. If we can do this, we will face a huge profit space and enterprise development space, which is to combine lighting and sensors and ITC into one smart. Lighting market.

Regarding the future development of the LED industry, Carlos LEE said: "In the end, the current state of technological development and the future development potential are linked together. This cannot be solved by a company or a country independently. This requires global cooperation. ”