Viewing the market prospect of LED light source medical lighting from the technical characteristics

Used for lighting products in the medical field in China (except functional lighting) and production, the overall technical level is low, the brand concentration is not high, most of the hospitals for medical lighting products purchased from foreign countries, such as Germany, Martin hit between brands, the market is almost monopolized by foreign companies. Although the number of medical lighting products less than commonly used lighting, but the price is expensive, high market value, it is worth paying attention to.

In China, the medical lighting industry belongs to the medical device industry. According to 2008 statistics, there are about more than 7 thousand and 300 companies engaged in the production of medical devices, but can produce medical lighting products less than 3% of the enterprise, and the majority of enterprises only the production of low-end products such as viewing film lights. Until recent years, only LED as a light source of medical lighting products, and has been applied.

With the emphasis on health care, medical rehabilitation, environmental protection and energy saving, from 2007, China's LED medical lighting began. But due to high barriers to entry, technology risk, and the majority of medical equipment enterprises on the performance of LED, the use of technology do not know, for lighting products involving medical medical mechanism, light, machine, electricity, heat and other composite technology plus, only a few large enterprises and medical institutions to produce such products. In addition, the medical lighting product certification process is complex, so the progress of LED medical lighting is not ideal, and the demand is not suitable.

At present, there are nearly more than 3 thousand LED enterprises in China, many of them have strong research, development and production capacity in LED landscape lighting and functional lighting products. But they do not belong to the medical device industry, the lack of entry path.

According to the Ministry of health, health development statistics bulletin, in 2008, China has 27.8 medical and health institutions, including more than 20 thousand hospitals, more than 60 thousand health centers, streets, community clinics more than 17. These units are currently using the traditional light source lighting device, the market size is very large, only from the energy considerations, based on semiconductor lighting technology to upgrade the medical lighting has become inevitable.

However, we must know that medical lighting is a medical device, there are strict regulations and certification requirements, in terms of technology, safety requirements are very strict, compared with ordinary functional lighting, technical risk is greater. To this end, the approval of the license for the production of enterprises should be more stringent, but should not exclude non medical device companies, such as permission to enter the field of LED lighting companies.

LED lighting is currently from the landscape lighting to functional lighting, from outdoor lighting to indoor lighting, from the general lighting to special lighting extension, which is the technological progress, social progress is inevitable.

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