The market scale of LED poultry lighting reaches 10 billion yuan

The LED lighting industry has gradually developed into a segmented market through the development of blow-outs. At this point, Zhejiang's LED manufacturing companies have quietly made breakthroughs in new areas.

In recent years, the LED lighting industry has inevitably embarked on an old road of overcapacity, homogenization and low-price competition from a hot new market. How to kill the bleeding road and create new value in Haohao LED industry army? Zhejiang's LED lighting production companies seem to have found a breakthrough - smart LED lighting systems for poultry farming are quietly entering the market, creating a new world of LED.

Intelligent LED lighting to reduce the cost of poultry <br> <br> 1680 square meters in Tianjin, a chicken farm where 15,000 chickens a day bathed in LED lamp light, farmers do not have to bother to manually control the light intensity and illumination time . Using intelligent LED lighting systems not only reduces the cost of breeding, but also improves the survival rate of poultry.

Providing this technology for the Tianjin chicken farm is Hangzhou Longtop Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Longtop Technology). Pan Jinming, an associate professor at Zhejiang University and chairman of Hangzhou Longtop Biotechnology Co., Ltd., led the R&D team and has studied LED intelligent lighting systems for poultry farming for more than three years. Last year, Longtop Technology was established to bring technology to market.

Jiang Jinsong, deputy general manager of Longtop Technology, told reporters that the State Intellectual Property Office recently received “a request to negate Sharp's poultry raising system, poultry breeding methods, and multiple claims for lighting equipment for poultry breeding”. In the appeal letter, Sharp eventually lost its domestic patent application. Longtop Technology, on the other hand, has obtained two national invention patents for intelligent LED special lighting systems.

At present, most large-scale broiler breeding enterprises in China generally adopt a 24-hour light system. Under light stimulation for a long time, birds lack sufficient rest time, and their health status is poor. The mortality rate has remained high. The intelligent LED lighting system developed by Longtop Technology for poultry farming can significantly increase the sensitivity of poultry's vision to various wavelengths of light and significantly promote the growth and production of poultry. In the early stage of installation, the LED lights will be tested in the field. The control box and controller will be installed according to the actual conditions of the field, so that the light intensity and illumination time of the LED lights can change with different periods to achieve the smart effect.

Jiang Jinsong stated that in field applications, the slaughter weight of broilers increased by 5.06%, the cumulative egg production of a layer of eggs increased by 147.3 grams, and the average death rate during the demonstration period decreased by 2.1%. This is because the intelligent control of the LED light reduces the illumination stimulus to the birds and enhances their resistance. At the same time, LED lighting conditions have improved the efficiency of poultry feed utilization by more than 5%. With the same weight of chickens, LED lighting can reduce 3.21% of feed use. In addition, the experimental analysis of LED lighting breeding of poultry manure, found that the feces moisture content decreased by 11.3%, help to suppress the release of ammonia, improve the breeding environment.

"Cultivating a batch of broilers takes a total of 6 weeks from the hatching of chickens to the hatching. After replacing 120 energy-saving light bulbs with LED systems, it can save 1,117.824 yuan in electricity bills." Jiang Jinsong said last month's chicken farm in Tianjin It also expanded the application of smart LED lighting systems.

So far, Longtop Technology's poultry lighting intelligent LED lighting system has been applied in Zhejiang, Shenyang, Tianjin and other places. In September, a leading aquaculture company in Shenyang began to install and use the company's products.

Poultry LED lighting market reached ten billion yuan <br> <br> Coincidentally, specializing in R & D of new energy and new LED light source of Hangzhou-Hui Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., has introduced an intelligent LED lighting systems for poultry, and in Hangzhou Yuhang A large chicken farm has been applied in the district. It has received strong support from National Semiconductor Lighting Engineering R&D and Industry Alliance and Beijing Semiconductor Lighting Technology Promotion Center. At present, the system has been promoted and used in farms in Zhejiang, Anhui, and Fujian provinces, and the scale of application is continuously expanding.

For the entire LED industry chain, poultry intelligent LED lighting system has undoubtedly added a new application area, creating new profit points for enterprises in the industry chain. At present, the research and application of the world, such as the United States and Denmark, in this field has just begun. NextGen Lighting Inc. (NGI), a professional lighting manufacturer that provides agricultural, industrial and commercial lighting solutions. Thousands of pastures around the world currently use their LED lighting products.

Thus, the application of LED lighting in poultry breeding has become a global trend. From January to June this year, data from the Zhejiang Inspection and Quarantine Bureau showed that the export of LED light source products in the area was 292 million US dollars, an increase of 44.42% compared with the same period of last year; the growth rate of LED lighting products was 5.4 times that of similar products.

At the same time, the government's support for LED lighting companies is also growing. Recently, Jiaxing City has also issued “Some Opinions on Accelerating the Development of LED Semiconductor Lighting Industry”, proposing to accelerate the development of the LED (semiconductor light-emitting diode) industry. By 2016, sales revenue will exceed 10 billion yuan. This is Zhejiang's first LED semiconductor lighting industry local support policy. It is understood that there are 70 LED companies in Jiaxing City. In 2012, the output value was 2 billion yuan. From this year on, the counties (cities, districts) in Jiaxing City will concentrate funds for the development of LED semiconductor lighting industry for five consecutive years. At present, the municipal level has formulated specific subsidy standards. Different types of LED industry projects can receive a one-time subsidy according to a certain percentage of the investment amount. Among them, the substrate material, epitaxy, equipment, and chip R&D and manufacturing project upstream of the industrial chain can receive a maximum of 3 million yuan; the package, test project, and application project can be subsidized by up to 2 million yuan; for LED lighting demonstration projects 30% of the price of the lighting price subsidies, the maximum subsidy of 2 million yuan......

Under such a growth rate, Jiang Jinsong believes that the market scale of intelligent lighting systems for LED broiler breeding combined with sensor technology, embedded technology, and network communication technology can reach several hundred billion yuan. This is also a case for the LED industry. The new direction of development.

"Money" impressive, there are still some way <br> <br> relative LED lighting in the field of poultry farming applications, plant lighting has first made a Pathfinder. Huairen, an industrial analysis manager of the Photonics Association, pointed out that the annual growth rate of LED plant factory lighting output reached 62%. However, does the application of LED lighting in the poultry sector have the same "benefit"?

Poultry farming is a unique market for the development of LED lighting, as well as LED plant lighting. In contrast, the technology of LED plant lighting has matured, but the output value in China is only a few hundred million yuan, compared with the output value of hundreds of billions of yuan of ordinary lighting is still very small, the input and output is not proportional, This also allows a large number of companies in this market segment to "catch up." The technology of poultry LED lighting is in its infancy globally, and it lacks the third-party appraisal for its effect and whether it has a negative impact. Even if there are huge markets in the future, there is still a long way to go.

Jiang Jinsong said that at present, the country lacks standards, standards, and management and testing agencies for the entire LED industry. Therefore, the company spends a lot of time on research and uses a lot of experiments to prove the effect of the application in poultry farming. Tianjin's farms are very Good demonstration point. The company is still investing heavily in R&D in this area and will generate profits next year. It is a year that can be expected.

LED lighting has many characteristics. At present, LED lighting simply replaces the traditional lighting market, and it has not done innovation. It is inevitable that it will go to market segmentation. Poultry farming is a field that LED lighting companies are worth trying.