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May 14th, 2019

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Adding to the connected home lighting products at CES, GE Lighting launched hybrid Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connected lighting and controls options, along with plans to enable third parties to deliver C by Ge-compatible products. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of GE Lighting.)

GE Lighting and LIFX add to Wi-Fi-based SSL portfolios at CES

At CES, LIFX added filament lamps, candelabras, and more while GE Lighting launched wireless switches, dimmers, and sensors and a plan for a C by GE third-party ecosystem.

Fresh color LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors break new barriers in ANSI lumen output for LED projector applications. (Photo credit: Osram Opto Semiconductors.)

Osram breaks ANSI projector brightness barrier with new Ostar color LEDs at CES

LED components that can deliver 3000 ANSI lumens in a projector application mean that small projectors will come to the market and into homes, delivering incredible video performance on very large screens.

RANDY REID. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of LumEfficient.)

Business talks will solidify SSL action plans at Strategies in Light

Industry editor and executive RANDY REID will take the stage to turn some straight talk into actionable business insights for attendees at Strategies in Light.

New Hue outdoor luminaires will help you get caught up in a light triangle. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Signify.)

Signify pumps up Hue with more voice controls, outdoor products, and enhanced ‘zones’

Unfazed by a recent setback, the company unveils new features at CES that span home entertainment, indoor lighting, and outside design and operations.

The chairs are moving around in the executive suite at Signify headquarters. Stéphane Rougeot is stepping down as CFO for personal reasons. René van Schooten will temporarily replace him, returning to the role he previously held, while also relinquishing responsibility for the Home business group. (Photo credit: Image by Nattanan Kanchanaprat via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)

Signify shuffling CFO and head of Hue

Amid the long and difficult transformation to the IoT, the company announces management changes. But at the very top, it offers CEO Eric Rondolat four more years on the board of management.

Signify’s WiZ Connected expands Wi-Fi networked-SSL portfolio at CES

Sensors, a dedicated remote, and an energy-use optimization app join the Wi-Fi-centric WiZ Connected portfolio, complementing previously-announced LED lamps and a WiFi Smart Plug.

2020 Sapphire Awards Illumineer finalists break barriers across specialties

LEDs Magazine announces the Illumineer of the Year finalists, one of whom will be lauded for seeking new levels of innovation in advancing novel, quality LED or SSL technology.

Shuji Nakamura’s company SLD Laser believes a laser is not just for lighting and is going to CES to prove it. [Photo credit: Image courtesy of Mark Halper.]

Laser light pioneer now moving in on Li-Fi

SLD Laser, founded by LED legend Shuji Nakamura, headed off to CES to show lasers as a data communications and sensing technology.

All market signs are pointing to potentially big profits for the SSL industry as horticultural lighting uptake occurs in the exploding market for legalized cannabis. (Photo credit: Image by JR Byron via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)

Horticultural SSL market explodes, driven by cannabis greenrush

Any way you survey the landscape, there is an incredible move by LED and SSL companies into the horticultural lighting space, and the clear lure is cannabis.

AMS got what it was looking for in gaining control of Osram, but now it has the stress of paying for it. (Photo credit: Image by Steve Buisinne via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)

With its Osram acquisition complete, ams now mulls how to pay for it

The Austrian sensor company will urgently ask its shareholders for approval to sell new equity and use the proceeds to finance the acquisition, as it comes up short in its bid to gain full cash control.

Horticultural boom will only grow more with thoughtful application of SSL systems and controls technology. (Photo credit: Image by syarhakim via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)

Rooting for big horticultural business in 2020 and beyond (UPDATED)

Preferring informed insights over broad crystal-ball claims, I’m sharing a few choice seeds of knowledge from the HortiCann program, and encourage the audience to start thinking about participating in the 2020 event.

California has won a round in the fight to bring lamps efficiency policy into effect. (Photo credit: Image by PIRO4D via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)

LED lamp efficacy policy fractures in the US market after court fights

California has temporarily won the right to place stricter efficacy requirements on all LED replacement lamps, while the US Department of Energy has essentially eased efficacy policy in other states.

Photo credits: Building image courtesy of Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture. Heat map courtesy of Enlighted. Eye by geralt via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes. Lightbulb courtesy of Pxfuel; used under public domain terms included in CC0. Atomic cloud by US Navy via Wikimedia Commons; used under public domain. Solar panels by Vera Kratochvil via PublicDomainPhotos.net; used under public domain terms included in CC0. Headshots provided by and used under speaker agreements for Strategies in Light.

Strategies in Light slates scenario planning for take-home tactics

Workshop leader CLIFTON STANLEY LEMON and his colleagues prepare for active building of strategic scenarios for lighting with participants at Strategies in Light 2020.

This SunTrac A19 LED bulb will be part of the Healthe circadian lighting systems at Watermark. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Healthe Inc.)

Retirement chain installing circadian lighting in memory centers

Watermark Retirement Communities starting with systems from Healthe Inc. in a few locations to improve alertness and sleep patterns - could expand to others.