Samsung targets a new market of "LEDs for photosynthesis"

Due to growth in demand for food production, indoor farming is growing in some of the thickly populated nations where they have less land to grow. For indoor farming/agriculture there is a need of sunlight substitute for photosynthesis. Until the invention of high brightness LEDs, the cost of such alternatives to sunlight was very expensive and highly power consuming making it not a economical option. With a capability of the LED to produce high flux of light at very low power consumption, and also cast of LEDs falling resulting into use LED light source for photosynthesis. Recently researchers also found that the spectrum of light has impact on Plant growth. Researchers have found that a particular bandwidth of the light produces more effective photosynthesis. This is different from what we generally use at home lighting and office lighting. The horticultural lighting industry looking for light source for a holistic plant development considering factors such as freshness of a crop and its nutritional content. By taking all this into consideration, the leading LED manufacturer Samsung has come out with plant-centric spectrum LEDs made specifically for indoor farming. Samsung has developed a true horticultural light source delivering 437 nm spectral peak photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) to improve plant growth and enhances crop quality. Samsung claims these p...