Prospects of LED light source in the medical lighting market

The lighting products (except functional lighting) used in the medical field in China are generally low in production and technical level, and the brand concentration is not high. Most medical lighting products for hospitals are purchased from foreign countries, such as German Martin and Chuanghu. , The market is almost monopolized by foreign companies. Although the number of medical lighting products is not as good as commonly used lighting, it is expensive and has a high market value, which deserves attention.

In China, the medical lighting industry belongs to the medical device industry. According to statistics in 2008, there are more than 7,300 companies engaged in the production of medical devices in the country, but less than 3% of the companies can produce medical lighting products, and most companies only produce low-end products such as film viewers. It is only in recent years that medical lighting products using LEDs as light sources have appeared and been used.

With the society's emphasis on medical health, medical rehabilitation, green environmental protection and energy saving, LED medical lighting has started in China since 2007. However, due to the high barriers to entry, the technical risks are high, and most medical device companies do not know much about LED performance and use technology. In addition, the lighting products used for medical treatment involve composite technologies such as medical mechanism, light, machine, electricity, and heat. Only a small number of large enterprises cooperate with medical institutions to produce such products. In addition, the certification process of medical lighting products is complicated, so the progress of LED medical lighting is not ideal, and it is not compatible with the demand.

At present, there are more than 3,000 LED companies in China, many of which have strong research, development and production capabilities in LED landscape lighting and functional lighting products. But because they do not belong to the medical device industry, they lack access to entry.

According to the "Statistical Bulletin on Health Development" of the Ministry of Health, in 2008, there were 278,000 medical and health institutions in China, including more than 20,000 hospitals, more than 60,000 health centers, and more than 170,000 street and community clinics. These units are currently using traditional light source lighting devices, the market scale is very large, only from the perspective of energy saving, the upgrading of medical lighting based on semiconductor lighting technology becomes inevitable.

However, it must be known that medical lighting is a medical device and has strict regulations and certification requirements. It is extremely strict in terms of technology and safety rules. Compared with ordinary functional lighting, technical risk is greater. For this reason, the review of the permission of production enterprises should be stricter, but non-medical device companies should not be excluded, such as permitting LED lighting companies to enter this field.

LED lighting is currently extending from landscape lighting to functional lighting, from outdoor lighting to indoor lighting, from general lighting to special lighting, which is inevitable for technological progress and social progress.

The LED light source suitable for medical lighting meets the requirements of adjustable and controllable, high reliability and long life. It is the best solid light source to replace the current halogen lamp, mercury lamp and xenon lamp.

Since 2010, domestic LED surgical shadowless lamps have been used in some top three hospitals and exported to Japan, Australia, Philippines and other countries.

LED light source: energy saving and environmental protection with the lowest cost and obvious advantages

LED is the most energy-saving artificial light source. It can replace incandescent lamp, fluorescent lamp, sodium lamp (HID), halogen lamp, mercury vapor lamp and xenon lamp with LED light source, which can save 30% ~ 80% energy. At present, LED is the light source with the lowest cost in the life cycle of the light source.