by AF 0204 e3 — February 10, 2010—A dozen lighting major lighting manufacturers are banding together to develop specifications for the standardization of LED light engines.
The new international consortium, called Zhaga, announced that it is forming and plans to conduct its first major meeting in March.
The group seeks to help speed industry innovation and adoption of the LED technology—and prevent market fragmentation that is likely to result from incompatible light engines.
An LED light engine, the group’s literature explains, is “an LED module with defined interfaces that do not depend on the type of LED technology that is used inside the light engine.”
The organization proposes to “standardize only what is necessary to enable the interchangeability of light engines from different manufacturers or of different light engine versions of the same supplier.” So, for example, regarding dimming, “the control interface can specify the required dimming level, not the dimming method.”
The 12 member firms in the group thus far are: Acuity Brands Lighting; Cooper Lighting; Infineon Technologies AG; Louis Poulsen Lighting A/S; Osram GmbH; Panasonic Corporation; Philips Lighting; Regent Beleugtungskrper AG; Schrder; Toshiba Corporation; Trilux GmbH & Co. KG; Zumtobel Group.
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