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Poll: What Do You See as the Major Growth Trend Due To LED Technology Innovation?

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LEDs are seeing incredible interest and market growth. They offer clear advantages over incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lamps. As such, there is more design and innovation in LED-based product designs.

 

Poll Question: What Do You See as the Major Growth Trend Due To LED Technology Innovation?

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  • LEDs have reached the point of efficiency, where it makes good sense to replace all other forms of lighting.

    The overall power savings to the grid just might offset the use of electrical vehicles.

     

    DAB

  • We just re-wired a house during renovations, and all of the lights are LED now.

    This makes me wonder if all that power-sized copper wire is soon going to be out-dated - with such a low current requirement, you'd think much thinner/cheaper wire could eventually be used instead. This would require updates to electrical codes, and probably extra requirements to stop people doing silly things, so maybe the regular wire is not expensive enough to make it worthwhile.

     

    I also enjoy seeing automotive lighting designs changing with the new possibilities, as well as lighting options in homes getting away from the single-light-point type of lighting.

  • I don't know for sure, but believe that power electronics advancement in recent times may have a lot to owe to the advances in LEDs. GaN and SiC power devices became more commonplace only recently, and the knowledge was gained perhaps partially through the development of GaN and SiC for LEDs. Corroborating this is that Cree, a leader in SiC, developed LEDs first but now also offers SiC diodes and MOSFETs.

     

    Incidentally I recently needed a phone charger and saw one advertised as using GaN devices internally. I couldn't resist it. It runs barely warm : )

  •   Interesting question. Do smart light bulbs qualify as IoT lighting?  And vice versa?

    Where I live, incandescent bulbs are less common and getting harder to come by.  LED bulbs are the norm.

    I'm going with IoT lighting.  My guess is that once people get over the pseudo-post-COVID travel bug (meaning "binge"), they will continue to improve their homes, gardens, backyards - their small circle gathering spaces.  It's pretty cool to be able to control everything (in front of your friends) from your cell phone.

  • in reply to dougw

    "...Just imagine diverting all the transportation and energy costs to local automated farming. Instead of multilevel parking structures, have multilevel grow-ops..."

    Looks like Thailand could already be halfway there...

     

    Thailand Covid: Idle taxis used to grow food for out-of-work drivers

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58602767

  • LEDs are pretty much everywhere already.

    Automated lighting control will continue to expand as more smart people-spaces are developed.

    When vehicles have all gone driverless, vehicles will only need LED lights.

    But I think the biggest application will be in farming intensification and urban farming. As soon as power storage is economical, grow-light operations will expand, or even just to implement multi-tier high-rise farming during the day. Just imagine diverting all the transportation and energy costs to local automated farming. Instead of multilevel parking structures, have multilevel grow-ops.