Alstroemeria grower Together2Grow has trialed an SSL system as a supplement to high-pressure sodium lighting in greenhouses and realized a 20% yield increase.

The US Department of Energy expects warm white LEDs to reach near efficacy parity with cool-white LEDs by 2025, but OLED performance improvement is trailing expectations.

At last the retailer and Acuity will roll out the world’s largest lighting-based indoor positioning system, using Bluetooth but not VLC.

The XLamp CMA chip-on-board LED family delivers more than double the lumen density of Cree’s existing Standard Density COB LEDs yet provide a lower-cost option to the company’s High Density products.

The US Department of Energy has released data on its latest Gateway SSL trial where tunable LED lighting in classrooms was thought by teachers to improve the learning environment.

Lighting’s march into IT and the IoT continues apace, as Osram picks up a strategic share of a Swiss startup that engages shoppers in brick-and-mortar stores.

Energy services company Fairbanks and IT company vXchnge report that a retrofit to LED lighting in a data center combined with autonomous controls has cut annual energy usage by 244,000 kWh.

A cycling jacket that illuminates when you hit the brakes could be coming. First, Osram will stitch LEDs into workwear.

The Horticultural Lighting Conference in Denver yielded a broad LED entry from Seoul Semiconductor into the application sector while Osram, Lumileds, and Cree used the event as a chance to showcase recent announcements.

IoT specialist Evrythng also takes a seat on the Gooee board in a move that strengthens the smart lighting firm’s smart building offerings.