Taiwan's ITRI LED lighting control agricultural production period is paying off

LED lighting applications in the agricultural sector more and more examples, according to a recent Council of Agriculture and the Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of the fruits of cooperation, to assist in Nantou water oats origin, for example, they use LED lighting to control the production of agricultural products period, and to prevent dwarf disease, from the original harvest twice a year to improve as the year harvest four times. In other words, four seasons a year you can eat fresh water oats.

COA said that in 2009 Taiwan's water oats planted area of ​​more than two thousand hectares, planted area of ​​Nantou County, 90%, about one million yuan per hectare output value of NT. According to the 2000 Puli water oats Tianfa Sheng rot and dwarf disease experience, the Council of Agriculture Agricultural Research Institute Assistant Professor Huang Jinxing found in the street as long as the illuminated area is under water oats, dwarf disease does not appear the phenomenon. They started the night light water oats planning, originally adopted in 2004, had metal sodium light, but the brightness is too strong, there are different blocks of light of different agricultural differences.

October 2010, the institute's water oats fields in the county to install LED lighting, an area of ​​about a subdivision, has been harvested in the spring of 2011. ITRI ​​was the second phase of the installation of LED lighting, water oats fields in expanding the area of ​​a farmer.

Taipower electricity according to the spreadsheet, Puli water oats consumption fee of about $ 50 million annually NT, calculated according to the institute's first phase has been saving 50%, after the second phase is expected to save 90% electricity.

In addition, ITRI also use help on plant photosynthesis spectral range, selected red, blue LED for lighting plan, forecast future water bamboo shoots are harvested all year round.

LED lighting applications in the development of agriculture, should be able to look forward to a positive investment.

Double the global market regulations to force the evolution of LED lighting to high-end

"July 2009, Obama met at the White House U.S. 8 LED Company's CEO, that can save a lot of Energy The LED Illumination Technology and the emergence of new products is excited about the future. Currently 22% of U.S. electricity is used for lighting, and LED lighting will be expected to promote this ratio reduced by 60%. "In an interview with Nanchang University, Professor Feng-Yi Jiang," China Electronic News "correspondent, said. Energy crisis and energy Environmental protection Awareness of the rise of the global LED lighting market continues to grow. As the LED industry set of technology and capital-intensive in one, the European Union, the United States, Japan, Korea and China Taiwan region and so constantly increase input to guide development of research institutions and enterprises focus on high-end LED technology and new products, to seize the LED lighting industry technical high ground.

    Gradually merged with the traditional lighting LED

Governments to actively develop environmental regulations prohibit the use of incandescent lamps. Traditional lighting giant introduced new LED light source, to accelerate the formation of new business models.

As the global lighting electricity consumption topped 20% of the total annual electricity consumption, of which up to 90% of the energy is converted into heat energy consumption, very cost-effective, environmental protection, energy saving considerations, LED lighting has quickly become a popular concern about the technologies and industry. At the same time, governments actively develop environmental regulations, laws and regulations in the market and the dual interests of stimulation, the size of the global LED industry was rapidly growing trend.

The advantages of LED lighting is self-evident. LED light-emitting efficiency is high, life is very long, its luminous efficiency can reach 2.5 times the fluorescent, incandescent, 13 times. Incandescent light-emitting efficiency is very low, only 5% of electrical energy into light energy, 95% of electrical energy into heat wasted. Relatively better than the incandescent lamp, 20% to 25% of electrical energy into light energy, but there are also 75% to 80% of the energy is wasted. Therefore, from energy efficiency point of view, these two sources of efficiency is very low. Therefore, LED lighting, the benefits are obvious. Australia in 2007 introduced the world's first regulations prohibit the use of incandescent light, the EU in March 2009 adopted a phase-out incandescent regulations. Therefore, the two traditional lighting companies on the international Osram And accelerated in recent years Philips LED lighting layout. They enter the market to promote the rapid development of LED lighting, LED technology is also accelerating the pace of progress.

With the LED lighting industry in the area of ​​rapid development, the traditional lighting giant hopes to introduce a new design of light leaving the more innovative lighting products. Therefore, LED lighting and conventional lighting in both areas are gradually combined to accelerate the formation of a new lighting business model, which is very conducive to the rapid promote the use of LED lighting bulbs.