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LEDs Magazine slates horticultural lighting conference for October in Chicago

by | Jul 19, 2016 | Agriculture & Aquaculture, Drivers Electronics, Industrial & Life Sciences, Industry News, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Networks & Controls, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Vegetables & Floriculture

Topics such as horticulture, floriculture, vertical farming, light recipes, and plant response to light will be explored in depth with speakers from academia, research centers, commercial growers, and SSL manufacturers at the Oct. 12 Horticultural Lighting Conference....

LED business news: Cree sells power semi unit, Sylvania socket survey, and NYC Lowline

by | Jul 18, 2016 | Business and Industry, Controls and Power, Drivers Electronics, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, Industry News, LED, LEDs Applications, Light Sources, Materials, Outdoor Lighting, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Substrates & Wafers

Cree will sharpen its focus on LEDs and SSL with sale of Wolfspeed, while LEDvance and Sylvania suggest a transition to smart lamps is coming and New York will build the solar-lit Lowline. The original version of this article can be found...

DOE issues research on LED downlights and on OLED lighting

by | Jul 13, 2016 | Indoor Lighting, Industry News, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, OLEDs, Research & Development, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Test Equipment, Test Labs

OLED lighting still holds potential, according to a US Department of Energy report on available products and promised improvements, while a Snapshot Caliper report on LED downlights reports lower levels of performance improvement relative to other SSL luminaire types....

Osram pushes ahead in smart lighting and technology with new chief technology officer

by | Jul 6, 2016 | Business and Industry, Controls and Power, Drivers Electronics, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, Industry News, LED, LEDs Applications, Light Sources, Networks, Networks & Controls, Research & Development, Services & Testing

Former Bosch executive has moved into the freshly minted Osram post. Meanwhile, CEO Berlien doubles as the chief financial officer for now. The original version of this article can be found...

The Power over Ethernet lighting picture gets bigger

by | Jun 30, 2016 | Business and Industry, Ceiling troffers, Commercial and office, Controls and Power, Drivers Electronics, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, Industry News, LED, LEDs Applications, Light Sources, Lighting Projects, Networks, Networks & Controls, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing

There’s so much PoE illumination at this data center that one vendor wasn’t enough. The original version of this article can be found...