Global LED Harmonization

The LED technology is expected to become the primary lighting technology but there is still a lack of LED standards. Test samples and market surveillance show that many LED products do not perform as stated by the manufactures and there is not always a relation between quality and price. Such a market may destroy the consumer confidence and delay the market penetration and acceptance plus realization of energy savings. Therefore the IEA SSL cooperation 2010-14 started. The following results are obtained: globally harmonized quality criteria, creation of a global test method, execution of an international comparison (measurement at the same set of artifacts) including 155 lighting laboratories around the world and preparing the way for accreditation of lighting laboratories. The public authorities and governments participating in IEA SSL are very pleased with these results. It is decided to continue the cooperation five more years with the following tasks: 1) Application of new CIE test method, 2) Characterization of product lifetime, 3) Guidance on lifetime testing, 4) Interlaboratory comparison, 5) Market lessons learned, 6) Quality and performance tiers, 7) New features that impact energy consumption, 8) Benchmarking performance, 9) Lighting facts international database and 10) Best practice in MV&E.