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Cellular networks offer real benefits in connecting LED street lights (MAGAZINE)
The SSL industry is clearly headed toward connected lighting, and Shonika Vijay of Strategies Unlimited explains why the mobile data networks that link smartphones to the Internet may also be a good option for LED street lights.
Light+Building takes a smart route to connected lighting and services (MAGAZINE)
L+B 2016 featured more intelligent, connected lighting than ever, as Mark Halper reports, as well as examples of lighting companies branching out into services beyond illumination. Next, the lighting industry needs some end users to really prove the point.
Color tuning makes LED lighting more like an old friend (MAGAZINE)
Brent Protzman explains the different approaches to color tuning in SSL luminaire design and why LED-based color tuning can help deliver familiar, comfortable light.
Fragmentation in connectivity and power grids plagues SSL evolution (MAGAZINE)
Having just attended LightFair International (LFI), the key trends in LED-based lighting remain just as we have reported earlier this year starting with our Strategies in Light (SIL) wrap-up (http://bit.ly/1Y8jcbe).
LEDs bring quality and sizzle to baseball venues (MAGAZINE)
SSL products are delivering energy savings and better light for baseball players and fans, reports Maury Wright, and network controls enable special effects that enhance the experience of America's Pastime.
Understand the factors and adaptations that impact LED efficiency (MAGAZINE)
Alexander Wilm examines the factors that impact the efficiency of LED-based solid-state lighting systems, and considers product development options that balance application requirements and optimum efficiency.
NGL SSL Competition 2016 (MAGAZINE)
As Carrie Meadows reports, the Next-Generation Luminaires Solid-State Lighting Design competition continues to follow trending technologies and applications; thus this year the judges were also tasked with evaluating two new product categories - connected lighting for...
Retail abandons CMH lamps in favor of flexible solid-state lighting (MAGAZINE)
Tom Jory and James Zhai describe how LED-based lighting with spectral enhancement can replace legacy sources in demanding applications such as retail and hospitality.
Taiwanese networking companies join the smart lighting race
Edimax and ZyXEL hope to soon connect LEDs to home apps and routers in another example of information technology crossing over the lighting industry.
US DOE updates the SSL R&D plan for LED and OLED technology
The US Department of Energy has charted an SSL technology course intended to deliver in excess of 200 lm/W at the luminaire or lighting-system level by 2025.