by Commercial LED Lighting | Jan 25, 2017 | Architectural Lighting, Automotive & Vehicles, Backlighting Signs & Displays, Facade & Entertainment, Industry News, LEDs & SSL Design, Specialty SSL, Strategies in Light
In an interview with SIL co-chair Bob Steele, SoraaLaser’s Paul Rudy describes the future of SSL and applications that will be advanced by evolving laser light sources. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jul 22, 2016 | Backlighting Signs & Displays, Business and Industry, Controls and Power, Drivers Electronics, Features, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, LED, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Sources, Modular light engines, Networks & Controls, OLEDs, Outdoor Lighting, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, SSL Design, White-Point Tuning
Networks and smart lighting remained in the spotlight at LightFair 2016, but Maury Wright reports that lighting designers and specifiers may still care more about the quality of LED-based products than value-added, lighting-centric features. The original version of...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 9, 2016 | Backlighting Signs & Displays, Driver ICs, Drivers Electronics, Features, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Microcontrollers, Modular Drivers, Networks & Controls, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Street, Test Equipment, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Alexander Wilm examines the factors that impact the efficiency of LED-based solid-state lighting systems, and considers product development options that balance application requirements and optimum efficiency. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 9, 2016 | Backlighting Signs & Displays, Drivers Electronics, Features, Indoor Networks & Controls, LEDs Applications, Microcontrollers, Networks & Controls, Outdoor Lighting, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, Smart Cities, Street
The SSL industry is clearly headed toward connected lighting, and Shonika Vijay of Strategies Unlimited explains why the mobile data networks that link smartphones to the Internet may also be a good option for LED street lights. The original version of this article...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 9, 2016 | Awards and Events, Backlighting Signs & Displays, Business and Industry, Color Tuning, Controls and Power, Downlights, Drivers Electronics, Features, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, LED, LEDs Applications, Light Sources, Modular light engines, Networks & Controls, Outdoor Lighting, Retail & Hospitality, SSL Design, Tunable lighting, White-Point Tuning
As Carrie Meadows reports, the Next-Generation Luminaires Solid-State Lighting Design competition continues to follow trending technologies and applications; thus this year the judges were also tasked with evaluating two new product categories – connected...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 28, 2016 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Backlighting Signs & Displays, Driver ICs, Drivers Electronics, Facade & Entertainment, Features, Indoor Networks & Controls, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, Networks & Controls, OLEDs, Services & Testing, Smart Cities, SSL Design, White-Point Tuning
Conference speakers largely agreed that the race to the bottom price-wise is inevitable in LEDs and lighting, reports Maury Wright, but ideas for new value-added applications and services that can deliver prosperity to the SSL sector abound. The original version of...
