Latest News: BSS LED Lighting attends Singapore LED ASIA 2012 – Technology Conference
To ensure we stay ahead of the competition and at the leading edge of our industry attending the three day Technical Conference in Singapore was an important step towards ensuring we understand the direction of the major LED manufacturers in the next 3 years.
Major manufacturers such as Cree, Osram and Citizen shared their vision of current and future aspects of LED technology.
LED currently account for around 10% of the worldwide market, this is expected to increase to approximately 40% by 2015. LED technology will improve and the manufacturers are aware that prices need to fall to make LED’s more affordable to the general public.
One of the key concerns of the major manufacturers was the need for specific LED standards and guidelines to ensure that the quality was maintained and the industry does not suffer with lack of quality caused by less professional manufacturers.
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About LED Lighting
LED development has progressed at a substantial rate over the past few years and now provides a real economical alternative to traditional incandescent, fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamps [HID]
At BSS LED Lighting, we provide a total solution for all types of LED Lamps with manufacturing facilities in Germany, UK and China.
We offer total solutions for all types of LED applications for Commercial, Retail and Residential applications, with specialist products developed for market sectors such as the Food Industry and Sports Field Lighting.
High Maintenance Lighting?
Being called “high maintenance” is probably something most of us would rather avoid, but compared to LED luminaires that’s exactly how High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting solutions could be described.
Unlike LED luminaires that can provide more than a decade of near maintenance-free sustained illumination, HID systems require much more maintenance over such time frames. The main reason for the differing maintenance needs between the two technologies is differences in the rate of lumen depreciation or the rate at which a light source loses light output over time.
While LED luminaires can be designed to have a very low rate of lumen depreciation that eliminates the need to re-lamp over their intended application lives, HID solutions are unable to avoid re-lamping cycles and the associated costs that come along with such required maintenance.
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A lighting design process is an effective tool that incorporates product specific lumen maintenance predictions for a given source technology to help predict some level of sustained illumination performance into the future. Lighting designs also assume that the lighting system selected will be properly maintained to avoid illumination levels that fall below their original design intent.
For even the best HID sources, it typically means re-lamping every two years for a normal dusk-to-dawn system that operates daily. Should you decide to delay re-lamping you have, in effect, decided to dip below the minimum illumination levels that you had originally set out to deliver.
It also means an increase in random lamp outages as lamps begin to burnout at a much faster rate and low light levels increasingly become no light levels.
Unfortunately as budgets become tighter it seems easier to delay or simply eliminate group re-lamping altogether as a means to save money. This, unfortunately, comes at the expense of safety and quality of life concerns.
LED luminaires offer a better solution.
In addition to the potential for significant energy savings, there is also the opportunity to significantly reduce maintenance-related expense. These combined savings can help avoid some of the tough budget decisions we face today.
So although we may not always have a choice in terms of avoiding “high maintenance” people, we definitely can avoid the “high maintenance” lighting systems of the past by incorporating LED solutions today.