by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 4, 2014 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Automotive & Vehicles, Color Tuning, Driver ICs, Drivers Electronics, Features, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, Interconnect, Manufacturing Equipment, Microcontrollers, Modular light engines, Networks & Controls, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Arguably the driver circuit is as important as the LEDs in terms of how well a solid-state lighting (SSL) system performs. Our collection here shows the diversity of the available ICs, even including a couple of AC-LED driver ICs along with the more traditional...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 4, 2014 | Drivers Electronics, Features, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Networks & Controls, Outdoor Lighting, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Thermal
Ella Shum and Manami Konishi report on plans for the October Yokohama conference that will focus on the SSL industry looking beyond lumens per watt as LED technology matures. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jul 22, 2014 | Drivers Electronics, Features, Indoor Networks & Controls, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Networks & Controls, Research & Development, Services & Testing, SSL Design
The convergence of smart building and connected lighting technologies will bring developers, designers, and customers together to achieve a brighter future, says Jes Munk Hansen, president and CEO, Osram Sylvania. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 5, 2014 | Accent fixtures, Area and Security, Awards and Events, Business and Industry, Ceiling troffers, Commercial and office, Controls and Power, Downlights, Drivers Electronics, Features, High-bay, High-mast, Hospitality, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, Industrial, Industry News, Interconnect, Landscape, LED, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Sources, Lighting Projects, Linear lighting, Manufacturing Equipment, Materials, Modular light engines, Networks, Networks & Controls, OLEDs, Optics, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, Parking, Planar lighting, R&D, Residential, Retail & Hospitality, Retail and museum, Retrofit lamps, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Street, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal, Track lighting, Tunable lighting, Utility and municipal, White-Point Tuning
The massive Light+Building fair revealed a seemingly unlimited variation in lighting product designs, but Maury Wright reports that the common themes that ran through the exhibits centered on efficient SSL sources, more innovative lighting including tunable features,...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 22, 2014 | Agriculture & Aquaculture, Automotive & Vehicles, Backlight, Signs, & Displays, Drivers Electronics, Entertainment, Features, Indoor Networks & Controls, Industrial & Life Sciences, Interconnect, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Materials, Networks & Controls, Optics, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Standards, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Quality of light was the predominant theme at Strategies in Light, reports Maury Wright, but the 2014 conference reflected a maturation of LED technology with speakers addressing a broad scope of topics, including new ways to approach the lighting market and...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Oct 22, 2013 | Automotive & Vehicles, Business & Markets, Events Reports, Indoor Networks & Controls, Manufacturing Equipment, Networks & Controls, Packaged LEDS, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Thermal
Ella Shum interviews Philips Lumileds CEO Pierre Yves Lesaicherre, asking tough questions about the increasingly competitive LED market, Lumileds’ plans for the future, and the challenge of serving a vertically-integrated lighting manufacturer and the commercial...