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Real-world results shine a light on PoE
A successful smart building requires intelligent project collaboration, and our latest webcast surveys the benefits of PoE via case study.
Dec 5th, 2019
Office installations like this one outfitted by Circadian Light can operate with greater lumens per watt now that Circadian has replaced its violet chip with a different violet chip that is twice as efficient. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Circadian Light.)
Circadian doubles the efficacy of its nighttime blue-free engine, signs Acuity to use it
The human-centric lighting specialist has parted ways with Plessey to find a more efficient violet chip.
Dec 5th, 2019
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Acuity Brands acquires indoor-mapping specialists LocusLabs
Acuity adds LocusLabs indoor-positioning technology to its Atrius IoT IP portfolio with the promise of vivid and realistic 3-D maps of indoor spaces layered above location services.
Dec 3rd, 2019
The Signify LED lighting system illuminates, gathers data, and analyzes it for this Pilkington Automotive warehouse in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Signify.)
Pilkington Automotive taps smart lights for space analysis
Signify outfits German warehouse with LED luminaires connected to data-gathering sensors that help managers improve processes at the sprawling auto glass facility.
Dec 2nd, 2019
Mwright Headshot Updated
LED-centric controlled environment agriculture grabs attention, but misunderstandings endure
Horticultural lighting is poised to grow exponentially and it’s fantastic that so broad a set of journalists and interested parties are paying attention, but we have to get the message right.
Dec 2nd, 2019
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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.
Nov 19th, 2019
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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.
Nov 19th, 2019
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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.
Nov 19th, 2019
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.
Nov 19th, 2019
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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.
Nov 19th, 2019
Mwright Headshot Updated
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.
Nov 25th, 2019
Signify updates its Philips brand office LED luminaire portfolio with high-CRI and high-R9 value products to meet the WELL Building standard lighting objectives for human wellbeing. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Signify.)
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.
Nov 25th, 2019
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.
Nov 21st, 2019
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.
Nov 20th, 2019