siliconindia | | May 20188IN MY OpinionBy B S Praveen, CEO & MD, BAG ElectronicsLocated in Pune, BAG Electronics is subsidiary of OEM Electronics which focuses on creating economic, sustainable and smart electrical products and solutions using advanced technology and highly skilled manpower. L ED lights, although first invented in 1962 by Nick Holonyak Jr. of GE in the U.S., really became pop-ular, just around 5-6 years ago, globally. Prior to that for almost 55-60 years, the Fluorescent (FL) technology ruled the roost. The old Incandescent bulb (in its present form with a tungsten filament) which be-came commercially available at the beginning of the 20th century, still is around and in huge numbers, mainly owing to it is very low initial cost of buying. The FL and the Incandescent lights had one thing in common - they needed certain parts which were spe-cific to them, and these parts needed expensive large scale equipment for mass production. The glass tube of the FL and the glass bulb for the Incan-descent, both needed expensive equip-ment, and these could only make those specific products. The tungsten fila-ment also needed specific equipment. Then the phosphor coating and inert gas filling ­ all these are not tasks that can be done by any backyard compa-ny. Due to this, only companies with high investment capabilities got into the lighting business, and they domi-nated the lighting industry landscape for all these decades.The LED technology, however, changed this scenario drastically. The LED technology basically turned the whole lighting business into an elec-tronic business. The need for having a glass tube or bulb, filled with inert gas, EFFECT OF LED TECHNOLOGYON LIGHTING INDUSTRY
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