The particularity of emergency power supply lies in that it is a hidden product, which is not in working state in many times. As a result, most people do not understand emergency power supply, so they think it is special. As a marginal area of the lighting market, what is the difference between emergency power and LED driver? How big is the market? Is it worth it for Chinese companies to plough deeply?
The difference of emergency power supply and LED driver
From the technical perspective, the biggest difference between the two is that the emergency power supply can provide stable lighting in the case of power failure or some specific circumstances. For example, when the power failure or the power grid fluctuates greatly, the emergency lighting can replace the main light source. This is also the biggest characteristic of emergency power supply, on the one hand, this field belongs to a recessive channel, usually does not appear in the eyes of the public; On the other hand, the emergency part belongs to the fire department management, which belongs to the edge part of lighting system.
Since the emergency power supply has to manage both the power supply and the driver, it has higher technical requirements than the ordinary LED driver. At present, there are some enterprises in China making emergency lighting power supply, but most enterprises are still making emergency lighting power supply based on traditional lighting, and even directly copying the traditional fluorescent lamp power supply and applying it to LED lamps. Few company can make the deep R&D and production of the lighting emergency power supply based on the LEDs’ own characteristics like Phenix Lighting
Application field
The applications are including factories, mines, shopping malls, underground parking lots, stage and other industrial and commercial places, and wind, marine, power stations and other energy fields. These applications have very high requirements for product performance, especially reliability. For example, for gas stations, different geographical locations have different requirements. Some places require the emergency power supply to work under -20℃ to -30℃. Phenix low temperature LED emergency driver series 18430 X can work under -40℃ and the emergency time is over 90 minutes. Just because of the reliability of the products, many customers from North America and Europe tried every effort to find Phenix Lighting to develop related products.
Market volume
In China, the fire Department has relevant regulations. In commercial, industrial and mining places, one out of five lamps must be an emergency lamp, while in the North American market, one out of three lamps must be an emergency lamp. If the market volume is measured according to this standard, the foreign lighting emergency power market is at least 4 billion US dollars. Considering the number of enterprises engaged in the field of emergency power in China, it is obvious that this market has not been fully developed.
Market Features
The biggest feature of market segmentation is customized service. The geographical location of each factory, mine and gas station determines the specific parameters of the product, which needs to be matched by enterprises. Up to now, a fairly part of business of Phenix Lighting is to provide customized products, and the product development is carried out according to the specific environment of customers’ application scenarios. Based on the technical advantages in emergency power supply, Phenix Lighting has established long-term and stable cooperative relations with many well-known companies in North America and Europe after years of deep research.
Development direction of emergency power supply
As the name implies, once the emergency power supply needs to be activated, it must be a relatively urgent situation. However, how to ensure that the emergency power supply, which is mostly in standby state, can work normally when needed is another important task of the emergency power supply.
In addition, automation and intelligence are the main development direction of emergency power supply in the future. The intelligence of emergency power supply is slightly different from that of ordinary LED drive power supply, which focuses more on assisting management. Many places applied to emergency power supply, either the environmental conditions are harsh such as mining sites, north and other low temperature areas, or geographical location such as oil shelf, Marine lighthouse, maintenance and maintenance is difficult, automatic testing and wireless remote real-time monitoring of the working state of the power supply is not only humanized, but also a realistic demand.
Phenix Lighting is the earliest emergency solution provider in China serving global leading onshore and offshore wind energy companies such as VESTAS and GE. The automatic testing function of the products has saved a lot of maintenance cost after the lighting fixtures are installed. At the same time, Phenix Lighting also has the world’s leading technology reserve in wireless remote monitoring with independent intellectual property rights.
Post time: Dec-20-2022