LED light source application of medical lighting now and in the future

Hospital lighting is mainly to meet the needs of diagnosis and treatment and the daily life of patients. It has the characteristics of brightness and comfort. It has specific requirements for light source and surrounding color to achieve the purpose of correct observation and treatment of the disease. The ideal medical illumination source should be able to continuously adjust the color temperature, illumination, and light density as needed. Compared with traditional light sources, LEDs can easily meet these requirements. According to statistics, at the end of 2010, the total number of medical and health institutions in China reached 937,000, and hospital lighting has formed a huge commercial market. The LED industry is beginning to lock in this new blue ocean market, and LED light sources are beginning to be used in medical devices . The 2012 “Top Ten Efficient Lighting Power Saving Technology Best Practice Cases” issued by the National Energy Conservation Center contains the case of LED integrated lighting solutions applied to hospitals.

In the past two years, LED special lighting has made great breakthroughs in the application of medical equipment. According to the statistics of medical lighting sales, the proportion of LED products in various fields of hospitals has increased in the past year. Among them, the application of LED inspection lamps in the national treatment room 10% of the LED headlights in the national operating room, emergency room applications accounted for 10%, LED viewing lights in the national X-ray equipment applications accounted for 25% of the market share. LED surgical shadowless lamps have been recognized by the medical community as a new generation of surgical equipment. Last year, LED surgical shadowless lamps accounted for 20% of the market share in the national operating room. Surgery shadowless lamps are expensive indoor lighting products, but the market is very large, with an average of 250,000/set, with an annual demand of 14,000 units and an output value of about 3.5 billion, equivalent to the output value of 3.5 billion 100-watt incandescent lamps. With the implementation of the policies such as “New Rural Cooperative” and “New Medical Reform”, the hospital is relocating at a rate of 15% every year. The market capacity is about 7 billion. The construction of green hospitals for energy conservation and emission reduction is particularly important. It can be seen that the timing of LED lighting in all areas of hospitals is maturing.

And the hospital is a large electricity consumer with 24 hours a day. If you change all the lights into LED lights, you can save a lot of electricity for the hospital, and it is also a call for national energy conservation and emission reduction. It is also possible to introduce the EMC model into the hospital, which will help the hospital to popularize LEDs on a large scale. The hospital consumes a lot of electricity, and it can bring profits to the enterprise through EMC.

Although it is more advanced, in China, the lighting products used in the medical field, except for indoor and outdoor functional lighting fixtures, belong to the category of medical equipment, and the entry threshold is high. The products of the production enterprises must pass the State Food and Drug Administration. license. General LED lighting companies are not suitable for the medical industry . And companies with medical device qualifications do not quite understand the characteristics of LED lighting, thus forming a blind spot, allowing foreign products to enter the virtual.