Several Zhaga-standardized engines were released at the Light+Building 2012 fair held in early April in Frankfurt, Germany. As a member, Taiwan Epistar’s Chairman B.J. Lee thought that interface standards that Zhaga Consortium, which consists of over 195 individual LED companies around the world, is working on for LED light engines will make LED lamps prevalent in three years.

In Lee’s opinion, architects have been loath to design LED lighting fixtures into their works all because of the inconsistent interface specifications among LED light engines, which make interchange between the engines out of the question.

Zhaga standards, he noted, make the engines from different companies compatible one another, eliminating the hindrance to replacing engines from one company with engines from another.

Lee estimated Zhaga interface standards will begin to make LED lamps popular in 2015.