[Lighting Japan 2015]What is the keyword for the next lighting industry?

The Lighting Japan 2015 was held on January 14, 2015 at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan.

At the key note session, Jeffrey Cassis, the senior vice president of Phillips, began the first presentation with the theme of “Delivering the Promise and potential of digital light” emphasizing the notion of digital lighting and connected lighting in terms of the critical issue of how to combine a lighting with a smart city and ecosystem. He also hinted the importance of OLED lighting mentioning that most of the Philips’ R&D is concentrated on OLED despite the fact that the LED lighting will take about 65% of the entire lighting market by 2018.

The second speaker Prof. Ching W Tang from the Hong Kong University expressed “the sympathy with his view on the digital lighting that the OLED lighting will play a critical role” and highlighted the key issue is preparing for the price competiveness. He mentioned that the efficiency of current OLED lighting panel is about 23% and there is a potential to improve up to about 30%. Also he added that there will be a huge renovation in the lighting market if the total efficiency of the OLED lighting panel increases more than 50%.

As demonstrated in the key note session, the key for the future lighting industry can be summarized as both connectivity and OLED. The concept of connectivity which was underlined by the numerous electronics and automobile companies at the last CES 2015 is becoming a primary trend in the lighting industry and it is anticipated to center around the OLED lighting.

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<Philips senior vice president Jeffrey Cassis>

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<Hong Kong Univ. Prof. Ching W. Tang >

[Lighting Japan 2015] Next lighting산업 Key word는?

Lighting Japan 2015가 1월 14일 일본 도쿄 빅사이트에서 개최되었다.

Key note session에서는 Philips의 Senior vice president인Jeffrey Cassis씨가 “Delivering the Promise and potential of digital light”라는 주제로 첫 발표를 시작 하였다.핵심 key word는 digital lighting과 connected lighting으로 smart city와 ecosystem에 lighting을 어떻게 접목 시킬 것인지가 관건이라 발표하였다. LED 조명이 2018년에 전체 조명의 약65%를 차지할 것이라 하였지만 Philips의 연구개발자금 거의 대부분이 OLED에 투자되고 있음을 언급하며 OLED lighting의 중요성을 암시하였다.

두번째 발표자인 Hong Kong Univ.의 Ching W Tang교수도 “Digital lighting에 전적으로 공감하며 OLED lighting이 중요한 역할을 할 것”이라며 가격 경쟁력을 갖추는 것이 핵심 이슈라고 강조하였다.또한 “OLED lightingpanel의 efficiency는 현재 23% 정도이며 약 30%정도 향상될 수 있는 potential이 있다.OLED lighting panel의 total efficiency가 50% 이상이 된다면 조명시장에 큰 혁명이 일어날 것이다”라고 발표했다.

Key note session에서 보듯이 앞으로의 lighting 산업의 핵심은 connectivity와 OLED로 압축될 수 있다.지난 CES2015에서 많은 가전, 자동차 업체들이 강조한 connectivity가 lighting산업에서도 핵심 트렌드가 되고 있으며, 그 중심은 앞으로 OLED lighting이 될 것으로 전망된다.

 

<Philips의 senior vice president Jeffrey Cassis>

<Hong Kong Univ.의 Ching W. Tang 교수>