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Events | Lightfair | Oct 31, 2022
Lightfair to Move to Biennial Event Schedule
Lightfair to Move to Biennial Event Schedule LightFair, North America’s largest architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, today announced it is transitioning to a biennial event schedule beginning with the 2023 event, scheduled for May 21-25 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. As the major player in this vibrant space, LightFair’s updated schedule will better serve the industry’s manufacturing cycle, product marketplace and the overall needs of lighting professionals. Read more »
UV-C | Silanna | Oct 31, 2022
Far UV-C and Deep UV-C LEDs with New Tech
Far UV-C and Deep UV-C LEDs with New Tech Silanna UV has announced new far UV-C and deep UV-C LEDs that take advantage of the company’s patented short period superlattice (SPSL) technology for industry-leading performance in the difficult-to-obtain 230 – 265 nm UV range – including the highest output power in any mass-produced UV LED at 235 nm. Read more »
Automotive | Hella | Micro-Optics | Oct 31, 2022
FlatLight Micro-Optics Technology
FlatLight Micro-Optics Technology Smaller, more efficient, better: The miniaturisation trend is also unstoppable in the automotive industry because it reduces installation space and weight and thus ultimately saves energy. "In addition, a car must have character and emotional appeal above all," says Dr. Frank Huber, who as HELLA Managing Director is responsible for the lighting division. "Manufacturers are therefore looking for new design options more than ever. This is why the lighting and electronics specialist is launching HELLA FlatLight technologies, a new lighting innovation for rear combination lamps that combines functionality and design. Read more »
Lumileds | Business | Oct 17, 2022
Lumileds Announces Confirmation of Plan of Reorganization
Lumileds Announces Confirmation of Plan of Reorganization Lumileds Holding B.V. (“Lumileds” or the “Company”), a global leader in innovative lighting solutions, announced today that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has confirmed the Company’s Plan of Reorganization (the “Plan”). Lumileds plans to emerge from the chapter 11 process (“Chapter 11”) the week of October 31 following the satisfaction of certain administrative items before the Plan becomes effective. Read more »
OSRAM Digital Systems | Office Lighting | Featured | Oct 10, 2022
Why Offices Need New Lighting Solutions Now
Why Offices Need New Lighting Solutions Now Good work needs good light. On the other hand, offices in particular often consume unnecessarily large amounts of electricity – and money – for lighting. Read more »
Events | Delighted Talks
deLIGHTed Talks: Good Light – Balancing Health and Energy (Nov 3, 2022)
deLIGHTed Talks: Good Light – Balancing Health and Energy (Nov 3, 2022) The Good Light Group, together with the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR), the Daylight Academy (DLA), the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), and Luger Research (LR), are organizing and presenting the “Good Light – Balancing Health and Energy” lectures. The webinar explains the need for a day with Good Light and how we are able to balance health and energy issues in lighting designs. Read more »
Upciti | Signify | Street Lighting | Business | Sep 30, 2022
Signify and Upciti Announce Intent to Partner
Signify and Upciti Announce Intent to Partner Street lighting provides a strong foundation to make cities smart, livable and sustainable. Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, and Upciti, an expert in artificial intelligence and edge computing, today announced their intent to partner. The companies aim to help cities and utilities across the United States and Canada get added value, well beyond illumination, from their lighting infrastructure. Read more »
Silanna | Nano-Structures | UV | Sep 30, 2022
Silanna UV Makes Ultraviolet LED Manufacturing Breakthrough With Nanostructures
Silanna UV Makes Ultraviolet LED Manufacturing Breakthrough With Nanostructures A major breakthrough in UV-C LED technology from Silanna UV offers huge advantages for applications as diverse as disinfection, water quality monitoring, gas sensing, liquid chromatography, and chemical and biological analysis. The new manufacturing approach promises to make deep ultraviolet and far ultraviolet LEDs easier to make, more efficient at shorter wavelengths, and more reliable. With the renewed focus on air, water and surface disinfection following the Covid-19 pandemic, these next-generation UV LEDs are already attracting interest. Read more »
Fluence | Wageningen | Trends | Sep 30, 2022
Fluence Selected as Supplemental Lighting Solution for Wageningen University & Research Facility
Fluence Selected as Supplemental Lighting Solution for Wageningen University & Research Facility Fluence, a leading global provider of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions for commercial cannabis and food production, has been selected by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) as the LED technology partner for its new Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC). In NPEC’s state-of-the-art phenotyping greenhouse, VYPR DUO 3x2 fixtures are used to support research on genotype-phenotype associations. Read more »
ams OSRAM | TactoTek | Automotive | Sep 30, 2022
TactoTek and ams OSRAM Cooperate to Optimize RGB LED to Drive Innovations in Car Illumination
TactoTek and ams OSRAM Cooperate to Optimize RGB LED to Drive Innovations in Car Illumination Finnish IMSE pioneer TactoTek and ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical solutions, today announced that they are co-operating to help revolutionize the car interior market by delivering thin, seamlessly integrated, three-dimensional illuminated structures. The companies have developed a demonstrator with the new RGB side-looker LED OSIRE E5515 from ams OSRAM, which thanks to TactoTek's in-mold structural electronics (IMSE) technology can be integrated into automotive interior in a space-saving design. Read more »
Nichia | Dynasolis | SSL | Sep 23, 2022
Fraunhofer IBP Study Confirms the Performance of Human Centric Lighting Solutions
Fraunhofer IBP Study Confirms the Performance of Human Centric Lighting Solutions Nichia, the world’s largest LED manufacturer and inventor of high-brightness blue and white LEDs, has commissioned the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP, to analyze its Dynasolis solution. The solution consists of a combination of Nichia's cyan-colored Azure LED and the multiple award-winning H6 LED family, which can adjust both color temperature and melanopic illuminance. Dynasolis can be adjusted within a color temperature range of between 2700K (with little to no cyan) and 10000K (with a larger share of cyan). Read more »
MetroSpecs | SSL | Sep 20, 2022
Shape Enabling LED Technology
Shape Enabling LED Technology MetroSpec Technology®, the leading American manufacturer of custom FlexRad® LED light sources, announces its new FacetCore™ geometry set for architectural LED light fixtures requiring uniform lighting. With FacetCore, fuller light fills can be achieved while providing even greater uniformity. Geometries optimized for 90 degrees to 360 degree projection are realized using 1, 2, 3, or 4 sided wrapable facets. FacetCore geometries radically simplify various fixture types, eliminating mechanical parts and electrical wires and interconnect. They are a powerful solution - supporting lengths up to 16 feet without the need of a splice, utilizing available space minimally with ease. Read more »
Signify | SpaceSense | WiZ | Smart Lighting | Sep 20, 2022
Groundbreaking Motion Detection Turns Your Lights On and Off Without the Need for Sensors
Groundbreaking Motion Detection Turns Your Lights On and Off Without the Need for Sensors Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, introduces a new app, features and products for its WiZ smart lighting system to enhance users’ daily convenience. The new offerings include SpaceSense™, a motion detection technology for your lighting system that doesn’t require any sensor to be installed. The new WiZ app V2 and the SpaceSense™ feature are available from end of September 2022. Read more »
DALI Alliance | Awards | Smart Lighting | Sep 13, 2022
DALI Lighting Awards 2022 Open for Entries
DALI Lighting Awards 2022 Open for Entries The DALI Alliance, the global industry organization for DALI lighting control, announces the call for entries for the DALI Lighting Awards 2022. With a closing date of December 2, 2022, the DALI Lighting Awards 2022 will highlight and recognize the best use of DALI control applications and solutions in lighting projects across the world. Read more »
Energy Focus | Appointments | Sep 13, 2022
Energy Focus Recruits Lesley Matt as CEO
Energy Focus Recruits Lesley Matt as CEO Energy Focus, Inc. (NASDAQ: EFOI), a leader in sustainable, energy-efficient LED lighting control systems and products for the commercial, military, maritime and consumer markets, today announced that Ms. Lesley Matt will join the company as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective September 12, 2022. Read more »
Zhaga Awards | Smart Lighting | Sep 13, 2022
Zhaga Launches Smart City Sensor Awards
Zhaga Launches Smart City Sensor Awards The Zhaga Consortium is launching the global Zhaga Smart City Sensor Awards to address the needs of many cities that have installed Zhaga-D4i certified streetlights. The awards encourage and recognize excellence in smart city sensors that can be installed on streetlights using the Zhaga Book 18 standard and are suitable for Zhaga-D4i certification. Sensor manufacturers, innovators as well as universities and students are encouraged to submit their applications by 16 December 2022. Read more »
LED | SSL | Nichia | Sep 13, 2022
Light + Building: LED Technology Innovations from Nichia
Light + Building: LED Technology Innovations from Nichia At Light + Building 2022 in Frankfurt, Nichia, the world’s largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LEDs will shine the spotlight on a number of ground-breaking LED technologies that are setting the pace in the global lighting industry. As Nichia continues developing for a brighter world, visitors to the exhibition will see the latest fruits of its cutting-edge R&D. Read more »
Nichia | Sep 12, 2022
Nichia Launching Significantly Improved UV-C LED
Nichia Launching Significantly Improved UV-C LED Nichia, the world’s largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, will start mass production in December of another new high radiant flux UV-C LED to help target the inactivation and sterilization of various bacteria and viruses, specifically industrial water and air applications. Read more »
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