It is understood that the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Environment and Sustainable Development Institute from 2003 began to plant seedlings in LED applications in plant research, design and construction in 2006 the first set of closed artificial Led Aquarium Light factory, and the development of the corresponding 504w led grow lights environment environmental control software and control devices. April 2009, the research group has successfully developed the first domestic case of intelligent plant factory, LED and fluorescent artificial light, and put into operation in Changchun.
Artificial lighting has become an important means of production plants, plants for many years in the field of artificial light used mainly in high-pressure sodium lamps, fluorescent lamps, metal halide, incandescent, etc., these sources highlight the disadvantage is that energy consumption, high operating costs, energy costs accounted for approximately 50% of total operating costs to 60%. Therefore, improving the luminous efficiency and reduce energy consumption has been the field of plant artificial lighting applications, an important issue. According to Ministry of Agriculture statistics, China's total area of Plant tissue culture in more than 20 million square meters, the output value of 20 billion yuan or so. With the continuous development of modern agriculture, agricultural lighting demand is still expanding, but followed by a significant increase in power consumption. With the continuous energy concept deeply rooted agricultural lighting, a huge market opportunity for the traditional agricultural and energy consumption lighting technology presents new challenges, more new agricultural development and application of lighting provide the perfect opportunity.