Prognostics & health management for LED-based applications

Abstract

Traditional lighting is focused on the prevention of hardware failures. With the trend towards controlled and connected systems, other components will start playing an equal role in the reliability of it. Here reliability need to be replaced by availability and other modelling approaches are to be taken into account. System prognostics and health management is the next step to service the connected complex systems in the most effective way possible. In this keynote we will highlight the next frontiers that will need to be taken in order to move the traditional lighting catastrophic failure thinking into a thinking more to-wards new ways how system (degraded) functions can fail or be compromised.