Returning from Frankfurt's 2012 “Light+Building†(the world's largest international lighting and construction technology exhibition), we noticed the following four industry trends and new technologies, and would like to share with you.
"Zhaga" is here!
The European-based "Zhaga" Alliance is an organization that standardizes LED light engine product standards and develops LED light engine product interfaces. Its mission is to achieve compatibility and mutual use of LED luminaires from different manufacturers based on "Zhaga" standard products. Transmutation.
“Zhaga†was established in February 2010. In order to cope with the continuous and rapid development of LED technology, the “Zhaga†standard also covers the physical link, optical, electrical, light distribution, heat dissipation and other major links, so the members of the organization Including LED light engine product manufacturers and LED luminaire manufacturers, as well as component suppliers (such as heat sinks and optical components), the alliance currently has 162 company members, mainly from Europe, Asia and North Africa.
At the Frankfurt exhibition, the "Zhaga" LED light engine interface standard products debuted, and there are more than 30
The company exhibited LED light engine products that support this standard. They have TRIDONIC, ZUMTOBEL, OSRAM, CREE, GE, LG, PHILIPS, Samsung, Panasonic, and other European, Japanese and Japanese LED manufacturers.
In just two years, the "Zhaga" standard products and manufacturers cover the mainstream LED manufacturers in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, and their development speed is really impressive. But unfortunately, at the exhibition, I did not find any domestic manufacturers to launch products that meet the "Zhaga" standard.
Therefore, for domestic LED manufacturers, now joining “Zhaga†may not be able to circumvent the specification and set up downstream application patent traps and standard barriers for enterprises. If they do not join “Zhagaâ€, the products they produce are not compatible with alliance members. The share may continue to shrink.
In the face of this situation, how should domestic LED manufacturers face it? I think that domestic LED manufacturers can fully join the “Zhaga†and guide their development in China to include Chinese standards or similar standards. Because China has a huge LED application market and strong production capacity, it can fully guide its development in China, and mature standards and successful foreign experience can also be borrowed. The so-called "the stone of the mountain can attack the jade".