Britain’s intu joins £3 million Series A round in enModus, starts small pilots.
Vendors roll out compliant Bluetooth Mesh enablers for solid-state lighting products
Qualcomm, Silvair, and Silicon Labs are among the first companies to announce building-block products that are compliant with the recently announced Bluetooth Mesh standard, allowing developers of LED-based products to accelerate wirelessly-connected SSL products to market.
Zumtobel will illuminate huge London soccer stadium, but not the field, with LED lighting
Q: When is a lighting partner not a partner? A: When it hits the roof at Tottenham Hotspur’s mega sports and entertainment complex.
European Union organization says LEDs have no direct adverse health effect
The European Union Scientific Committee on Health, Environment and Emerging Risks published research stating that there is no health risk for healthy humans to be exposed to LEDs in the normal use of lighting and display products.
Philips architectural lighting turns modern Hanoi bridge into a colorful light display
The city’s traffic might be bad, but the view across the Red River just got more spectacular with the latest installation of Color Kinetics LED lighting.
Consumers can't spot the difference between bulb types when it comes to lamp recycling
Europeans are baffled trying to tell apart LEDs, incandescents, CFLs, and others. Recycling suffers as a result.
Lumileds announces high-power, single-die discrete packaged LED that delivers 1700 lm
The Luxeon V packaged LED can be driven at just under 5A and targets high-lumen applications including high- and low-bay luminaires, sports field lighting, and outdoor area lighting.
Wireless mesh controls augur huge savings, slash light pollution at Dutch chemical plant
With Chess Wise’s MyriaMesh, new LEDs turn on only when needed rather than staying lit 24/7 as the old fluorescents have done. It’s part of a lighting-as-a-service contract at the Chemelot site.
DOE again reports slow improvement in LED downlights, adds R&D grants
The US Department of Energy issued a Caliper Snapshot report on LED downlights that confirms a trend foreshadowed last year, indicating efficacy improvements have stalled in the category, and the agency also announced some new grants for R&D.
ASABE publishes a metric standard for LED-based horticultural lighting
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers has published the first in a series of three planned standards focused on horticultural SSL, with the first focused on definitions and descriptions of metrics.
