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Human-centric lighting set to drastically improve workplace and individual performance (MAGAZINE)
The human-centric lighting concept is as old as humankind's place under the Sun. But putting it into practice via tunable LED lighting will be a challenge. Some people are already trying, as Mark Halper discovers.
Gooee broadens its IoT technology by going outside the luminaire
The smart lighting startup turns to Israel's PointGrab for occupancy detection sensors that are richer than what can fit inside a light housing for IoT applications.
DOE issues Caliper Snapshot on LED outdoor area lighting
LED-based fixtures are proving able replacements in outdoor lighting applications ranging to 100,000 lm while delivering benefits in energy efficiency and better beam control relative to HID lamps.
Osram takes adaptive LED headlamps to new level with Daimler, Fraunhofer, Hella, and Infineon
Automotive LED headlamps have proven to deliver new capabilities such as steering the projected light beam based on the road contour and oncoming traffic, but a new Osram design ups the ante with 1024 individually controllable emitters.
Cree ramps performance in red LEDs for horticultural lighting applications
Photosynthetic Photon Flux levels rise 21% in just a few months for the Cree XQ-E and XP-E Photo Red LED families intended to optimize photosynthesis in plant growth applications.
LED tech and business news: Lightrail, Lumileds, Google, and Philips
Illuminate has begun fundraising to push forward the San Francisco Lightrail LED art installation planned for Market Street, while Philips moves again to sell Lumileds; Lumileds adds mid-power LEDs; and Google enters the SSL sector with Hue partnership.
Cree ramps performance in LED families targeted at display and lighting applications
The newest Cree side-emitting RGB LEDs enable gaming machines to deliver greater visual impact while the company has also ramped efficacy in the XP-L2 LEDs for lighting applications by 15%.
Plessey demonstrates LED modules for low-profile directional luminaires at LPS
LED modules with a collimating reflector placed over each LED can enable luminaires such as downlights to be far thinner than the legacy form factor and thinner than most LED-based versions.
Lumileds adds horticultural LEDs spanning power levels and SPDs
Lumileds has delivered new high- and mid-power LEDs for horticultural lighting including a phosphor-converted purple LED that mixes the blue and red wavelengths critical for photosynthesis in a single emitter.
Create colorful and bright LED light with a matrix dimmer (MAGAZINE)
Keith Szolusha explores various approaches to driving RGBW LEDs in dynamic color lighting applications and explains that a matrix approach can deliver the requisite performance with a relatively small number of ICs in the driver circuitry.