by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 24, 2014 | Area and Security, Awards and Events, Business and Industry, Controls and Power, Drivers Electronics, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Industry News, LED, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Sources, Lighting Projects, Manufacturing Equipment, Networks, Networks & Controls, OLED, OLEDs, Outdoor Lighting, Smart Cities, Utility and municipal
Royal Philips has decided to divide its LEDs business into separate companies, making Philips Lighting an independent organization, while Hubbell Lighting and Totus Solutions combine LED lighting and security applications, and the DOE funds Pixelligent OLED research....
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 | Automotive & Vehicles, Features, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Engines, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, Services & Testing, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Standards, White-Point Tuning
Jianzhong Jiao summarizes the broad landscape of standards for LED lighting specific to automotive applications, which includes unique characteristics in terms of lumen maintenance, reliability, lifetime, and color spectrum. The original version of this article can be...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 5, 2014 | Agriculture & Aquaculture, Color Tuning, Facade & Entertainment, Features, Industrial & Life Sciences, Interconnect, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Engines, Materials, Optics, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
The energy-efficient, narrow-band emission of LED sources makes the lighting technology valuable in life science applications. Ken Marrin examines how solid-state lighting is being deployed in poultry-rearing applications to both reduce electrical expenses and boost...
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...
