by Commercial LED Lighting | Nov 2, 2016 | Architectural Lighting, Industry News, LEDs & SSL Design, Manufacturing Services & Testing, Smart Lighting IoT
In today’s LED business roundup, it’s “not so fast” on the LEDvance to China sale — while Silvair gets showered with dollars, Philips Lighting adds licensees, and IoT partnerships flourish. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Oct 31, 2016 | Architectural Lighting, Indoor Lighting, Industry News, LEDs & SSL Design, Manufacturing Services & Testing, OLEDs, Standards, Test Labs
OLED panels produce soft diffuse light with essentially a Lambertian distribution that is inherently pleasing, but efficacy remains a challenge and elevated ambient temperature can drastically reduce lifetime. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Oct 21, 2016 | Architectural Lighting, Features, Indoor Lighting, Manufacturing Services & Testing, Outdoor Lighting, Retail & Hospitality, Standards
Market transformation programs like DLC and Energy Star were initiated to deliver energy-effiency requirements to the industry, but John Burns of Global Tech LED explains how the energy push can lead to a reduction in light quality. The original version of this...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Oct 21, 2016 | Features, Manufacturing Services & Testing, Test Equipment
In this excerpt from an upcoming reference book entitled Handbook of LED and SSL Metrology, Günther Leschhorn and Richard Young explain the fundamentals behind luminous flux and radiant power measurements – a task critical in solid-state lighting (SSL) product...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Oct 19, 2016 | Architectural Lighting, Industry News, Manufacturing Services & Testing, Outdoor Lighting, Standards
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. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 22, 2016 | Architectural Lighting, Features, Indoor Lighting, Manufacturing Services & Testing, Outdoor Lighting, Standards
Maury Wright questions Shirley Coyle, new IES president and president of Cree Canada, on the forward direction of the lighting organization and on key issues such as outdoor lighting preference, glare, flicker, and color metrics. The original version of this article...