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LED manufacturers need to stop casting our own shadow (MAGAZINE)

STEVE BARLOW discusses the focus of Lumileds on innovation and quality as an opportunity to improve business potential going into 2020 and beyond.

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Materials and footprint options multiply in LED optics (MAGAZINE)

SSL remains a multidisciplinary development effort and optics can be as important as LEDs in delivering quality of light. MAURY WRIGHT surveys some of the latest LED-centric optics options for general lighting and specialty applications.

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SALC marks a move by pole owners to monetize assets as LED transition continues (MAGAZINE)

LED lighting has brought tangible cost savings to municipalities and utilities in outdoor applications despite high upfront costs, and MAURY WRIGHT reports that those owners of street and area lighting poles are looking to further leverage the asset.

FIG. 1. Different thermal design alternatives of the luminaire body are represented by different substrate-to-ambient thermal resistances in the compact thermal model. (Image credits: All images and tables courtesy of the Delphi4LED project, provided by Mentor.)

Virtual prototyping LED products across the supply chain speeds development — Part 2 (MAGAZINE)

ANDRÁS POPPE, ROBIN BORNOFF, GUSZTAV HANTOS, and JANOS HEGEDUS describe the process of creating a pilot implementation of an LED luminaire design using Industry 4.0 principles and virtual prototyping.

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LEDs Magazine salary survey: Compensation and benefits vary greatly (MAGAZINE)

Professionals working in the LED and SSL sectors appear to fare relatively well when it comes to salary, reports MAURY WRIGHT, but some of the results in areas such as benefits correlate to the fact that there are many small companies in the sectors.

Inspiration drives concept, followed by perspiration in implementation (MAGAZINE)

MAURY WRIGHT looks toward our latest content and upcoming events for a renewed outlook on the solid-state lighting industry.

Signify ups the CRI of office luminaires to 90

WELL, WELL, WELL: The company says the move from 80 is in line with the WELL Building standard for health and wellbeing.

LED lighting in the greenhouse at Beekenkamp in 's-Gravenzande, the Netherlands. Photo credit: Image by kees torn via Wikimedia Commons, used under the terms of CC-BY-SA-2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en).

Complaints gain traction regarding greenhouse lighting

Curbing light trespass may add another layer of complexity and cost to the horticultural lighting transition, but it’s important to keep light where it achieves the most benefit.

There’e a lot of hubbub inside Osram HQ these days. Among the noise: The company could be restructuring its Lightelligence IoT initiative. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Osram.)

Osram hopes Bluetooth enlivens wireless, as Lightelligence comes under review

In Europe, commercial users have resisted Zigbee. Meanwhile, in the bigger IoT picture, changes could be afoot in Munich.

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Strategies in Light 2020 expands scope on the value of SSL

Conference co-chair BOB STEELE provides a 360-degree view of the breadth of technology, applications, and business potential in the LED and SSL supply chain through the 2020 program’s structure.

In partnership with Synapse Wireless, Cree Lighting will offer new connectivity options in several of its LED luminaires, including this IG Series for parking areas. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Cree, Sapphire Awards product finalist, 2016.)

Cree Lighting taps Synapse wireless tech for outdoor area and industrial SSL

The SimplySNAP family of wireless lighting controls enables Cree Lighting to deliver integral connectivity options in some luminaires and supply the same technology in modules for outdoor applications.

This transceiver in the center of a headrest receives the infrared Li-Fi signal and wires it to a video screen mounted just below it on the seatback. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Signify.)

Signify wants to outfit buses with Li-Fi

A new alliance with Italian transportation interior specialist Ellamp targets trains, too. But will the technology ever get rolling?

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Energy-efficient lamps policy supporters push back

As the federal lamps policy rollback leads to lawsuits, energy-efficiency proponents draw big backers, including the state of California.

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Osram forays into Bluetooth wireless controls

The company is targeting office retrofits through a partnership with Silvair. Zigbee remains in the mix.