Monday, December 9, 2013

GLII: 2013 Prices of stage LED lighting down by16% in 2013

According to Engineering LED Industry Institute (GLII) statistics, after years of development, the global market has begun to take shape stage LED lighting. Currently, the number of a certain size of the domestic LED stage light company has more than 100 (only production-oriented enterprises, does not contain trade enterprises ), in 2012 the annual output value of the domestic LED stage light nearly 1 billion year on year growth of more than 20 %.

Stage LED lighting includes LED Par Light, LED effect light patterns, LED moving head light, LED strobe and other application areas such as bars, discos, dance halls, TV studio, KTV rooms, and various types of stage and so on.

Because of the superiority of its own LED lighting, stage LED lighting have been gradually recognized by the market, the market demand has also been rapid growth in recent years.

2012, the annual global market LED stage light output value reached 960 million, an increase of 23%. Compared to 2011, although the decline in the growth rate of the market size, but is still among the fast-growing trend. GLII expected, with LED lighting technology continues to mature, stage LED lighting prices continue to decline, the next few years, the global LED lighting market is expected to growth stage at around 20 %.

With the use of traditional tungsten halogen and gas discharge lamp as the light source compared to the stage lights, LED stage lighting has many advantages, it is precisely because of these advantages, and the global LED lighting market was able to stage a sustained, rapid growth.

As we all know, the current penetration rate of LED lighting market as a whole is not high, one of the main reasons is that most LED lighting product price is too high - is the traditional lighting of the times, even ten times, so that many customers prohibitive.

Stage Lights aspects specific to the current average price of a traditional stage lights a few hundred dollars, while the average price of stage LED lighting at about two thousand dollars, differences between the two, which to some extent restricts the development of LED stage lighting market.

However, considering the LED lighting technology continues to evolve and mature, declining prices of LED stage lighting, as well as the continuous development of the domestic entertainment industry brought about a vast space stage LED lighting market, GLII believes that the future of the global LED market has a good stage lights prospects for development.

LED light efficiency rising, under the same luminous efficiency, stage LED lighting will be getting lower and lower energy consumption, energy-saving advantages will become more apparent. CREE February this year, announced that the company has reached the laboratory LED luminous efficiency 276lm / W.

Stage lights cooling technology continues to improve, life stage LED lighting will gradually be extended; constantly improve LED stage light dimming technology, combined with the use of relevant software, stage LED lighting can be achieved and can be applied to a variety of stage lighting needs.

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Philips introduces brand new smart colored bulb

Although no longer a Philips LCD TV's core product, but its proud "Ambilight" did not die. Instead, Philips will continue to try this technology for other products, and the introduction of the smart LED light bulb called a "lantern", can provide up to 16 million colors change. The following is a review of the smart Chip Chick colored bulbs.

Philips lights package contains three colored bulbs and a wireless control gateway, in the package where we were found a network cable and an AC adapter - they are used to connect wireless control gateway.

Philips lights installation with no difference between ordinary light bulbs. Installing the Wireless Control Gateway is also very simple, just access via the network cable to the router, power can be. Then, two-dimensional code scanning Philips lights on the package, you can download the iOS or Android version of the application, and find a wireless network control gateway; the entire process takes only a few minutes. ZigBee gateway via wireless control technology to control colored bulbs, each wireless control gateway operable up to 50 colored bulbs, and do not need to put them all in the same room.

Although many features of Philips lights, but do not require complicated setup. App by color selection box on the slide, each colored bulb can select up to 16 million colors, and non-interfering. At the same time, timeline based Philips lights also supports brightness and color programming. Through the program you can make Philips lights when going to sleep dim brightness and automatic sleep within a set time. If you are office workers, by setting allows Philips pre- lit lanterns greet your return.

Brightness, although each colored bulb consumes only 8.5 watts, but the brightness equivalent to 60 watt incandescent (600 lumens). Compared with incandescent lamps, Philips lights can save 80 % of the electricity. In terms of life, Philips lantern reached 15,000 hours of terror. In normal use, an LED light bulb can be used almost 15 years.

Overall, the performance of the Philips lights writer satisfied. I installed two lights in the bedroom lamp, the brightness equivalent to a 100 watt incandescent. When the phone is switched by light colors, Philips lights can be instantaneous response. Moreover, when the indoor network interruption, Philips lights can use it like an ordinary light bulb as normal.

Currently, a Philips lantern sells for $ 199 (including three colored bulbs + a wireless control gateway), the additional price of a package of colored bulbs for $ 60 (each wireless control gateway can control up to 50 colored bulbs).

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Analysis of competitive pressures in battery torch market

According to the reporter found that the current battery torch to do more good companies have surefire, Tiger Head, a long amount and so on. These companies are generally specialized in flashlight; in the field of LED lighting does not have too many other covered.

And like Philips, Osram, NVC and other famous enterprises, although they have their own achievements in the LED lighting industry, but rarely get involved in the field of battery torches.

Reporters visited the Shenzhen major lighting stores and hardware stores found on the market, these big brands producing flashlight though, but not mainstream, but rather "long amount ", "Jager" and other brands dominated the market.

"In fact, those well-known lighting companies also produce battery torch, but relative to other products, they spend a flashlight above energy is very small." Experts told reporters, tech battery torch is not high, large enterprises are generally OEM is taking way.

In flashlight, in order to have a breakthrough in the design is not easy, and the hardness properties of the product if the product can do good enough, you can come out of a flashlight. Experts told reporters, flashlights most important is to solve problems concentrating almost no other technical limitations.

Because the technical threshold battery torch is not high, so many companies are involved in this industry. The big brands itself occupies technology; they did not need to talk to a length of the flashlight business dispute.

According to reports, LED lighting products OEM is widespread, OEM phenomenon in the field of battery torch is more serious, a lot of small and medium enterprises gave large OEM.

Philips is the intensity of these large enterprises to participate in a small, just give Jager, Surefire these companies to develop opportunities. According to statistics Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. Ming experts, companies sold more than 100,000 a month flashlight is a very common situation, these brands reach millions a year 's turnover is also not difficult.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Why are environmentally friendly outdoor products so popular?

Patagonia outdoor products manufacturing business from climbing pitons started, but in a particular rock climbing experience, he found a beautiful rock had long suffered because of " repeated knock Pitons, pull out, and then typing " process and suffering devastated, so he alerted the company 's main product is a step to destroy his beloved rock. Since then, he decided to abandon the cause of the Pitons and instead produced without the use of a hammer knock, will not leave marks on the wall rock wedge, not off in the future use of the rock climbing community wedge trend, but also the first step in a friendly environment.

Found himself in a familiar sacred natural sites have been vandalism; he led the outdoor product company as a whole -house energy savings from the start, to launch a series of Green Revolution:

Since the 1980s, Patagonia decided not to use plastic bags containing garbage, stop the supply of paper cups in the cafeteria, and a comprehensive shift to energy efficient lighting, an annual savings of several million plastic garbage and a quarter of electricity.

In 1994, Patagonia made the first internal environmental assessment report found that industrial cultivation of cotton greatest harm to the environment, so in 1996 the full use of all cotton clothing 100% organic cotton. Meanwhile, Patagonia was the first use of recycled plastic bottles made of polyester fiber company, each producing 150 jackets for the earth will be able to save 42 gallons of oil, to avoid emissions of 0.5 tons of toxic emissions.

They also unprecedented self- pay "global tax" - to donate 1% of annual turnover to support environmental groups, and called on more than 1,300 companies have joined the ranks, has so far contributed $ 25 million to more than one thousand non-profit organization.

Create a green brand, sounds bad, but an annual levy their own taxes by 1% of Earth, and the annual growth rate is limited to 5 % of the companies exactly how to make money?

Such subvert common sense of course impossible green companies a lot of money, but the magic is, Patagonia on many little maverick, even mouthing the industry 's environmental persistence, but all passed the test of the market, and even bring up a new wave of industry.

For example, in the mid-1990s, the original folder thermal underwear products all through training bags and cardboard wrapped in layers, but in order to avoid creating a pile of discarded immediately after unpacking the garbage, they decided to cancel the package directly to the underwear hanging hanger sell, more lightweight underwear curled up with a rubber band beam is placed on the shelf. There were a lot of people to warn them, Patagonia may be because the packaging is so uncompetitive lost 30% of sales.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Japan developed a deep UV germicidal LED battery light

A research team in Japan on the 10th announced the successful developed a deep ultraviolet germicidal LED battery lights. The new Deep UV LED battery lights use only batteries will be able to work this technology in Japan and the United States have made the basic patent. Compared with traditional low pressure mercury lamp, a small, energy-saving, environmental protection has long life and other advantages of the volume.

In the field of health care and food, often using low-pressure mercury lamp sterilization, but because of the mercury is likely to cause harm to the environment, so researchers have been hoping to find the excellent performance of environmental alternatives. Deep UV is a relatively short wavelength ultraviolet light, to kill bacteria and viruses more efficient.

Wavelength of about 260 nanometers deep UV LED battery light brightness, luminous efficiency and lifetime of the affected substrate crystal. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Tokuyama Chemical composition of the research team developed a high-purity aluminum nitride can be made crystal technology, and then get the current high-performance crystalline substrate to ensure the sterilizing effect of LED battery lights and life.

According to reports, this new type of deep- ultraviolet LED battery lights use only batteries will be able to work and available for portable devices and sterilization medium sterilization. This technology in Japan and the United States has made the basic patent. Tokuyama Chemical Company plans to further improve product performance, for in 2015 to bring products to market.