Over the course of 2017 packaged LEDs suffered only minor price erosion, although 2018 could prove to be a different story, while SSL lamp sales are near a peak but luminaire sales will grow through 2022.
BREAKING: Sapphire Awards applaud best-in-class SSL developments (GALLERY)
LONG BEACH, CA – Click through our image gallery to see who received top honors at the Feb. 14th Sapphire Awards Gala aboard the RMS Queen Mary…
PoE resurfaces, at Danish office building
Working with Cisco, Philips Lighting heralds a new Copenhagen office building as a Nordic first.
GE Lighting finds buyer for EMEA operations
The first stage of the lighting sell-off is a full circle affair, as the company goes back to the Hungarian name that sold it to GE in 1990.
Osram’s latest IR LED reduces red glow
The longer 940-nm wavelength means better performance for use in facial recognition, the company says.
Fagerhult still searching for new CEO during lighting industry transition
In the lighting industry, management and ownership continues to churn.
Eaton launches Bluetooth Mesh based residential smart SSL portfolio
The Halo Home family of smart lighting products includes basic LED luminaires equipped with Bluetooth Mesh technology along with controls and a bridge for Internet connectivity.
Surf’s up for Philips smart pole as Huntington Beach commits
The California city will be the first customer for the hybrid streetlight/cellular transmitter that the lighting company developed with American Tower.
Department of Energy research compares the IES TM-30 color metric to widely-used CRI Ra
TM-30 color fidelity metric proves far more accurate than CRI Ra when the LED source characterized includes more robust phosphor mixes or a mix of monochromatic color LEDs.
SSL delivers energy savings in horticultural lighting applications
The US Department of Energy said that a complete switch to LED lighting for horticultural applications would deliver 3.6 TWh in energy savings or $240 million annually in the US.
