Strategies in Light (SIL) conference co-chair and Strategies Unlimited research director PHILIP SMALLWOOD drives home that wireless standard protocols are reaching a critical decision point in this rundown of the connected lighting panel to be held during the event in Santa Clara this March.
Transcend launches broad-spectrum, LED tubes for horticulture applications
A custom phosphor mix applied on LEDs delivers spectral power distributions matched to specific plant types and stages of plant growth while also delivering white light.
Acuity, Microsoft to jointly show lighting-based IoT services for retail trade at New York confab
Indoor positioning using LEDs can help stores engage and sell to brick-and-mortar customers as if they were online.
LIFX adds Google Android voice control for smart lamps
Nothing can be more of a turn-on than talk.
Osram gives lamps division a name to help move it
German lighting giant says it’s still on schedule for April 1 “carve-out” of group now called LEDVANCE.
Soraa LED lamps make plumbing fixtures sparkle
The violet emitter and three-phosphor formulation used in Soraa’s SSL products are finding success in color-critical applications such as the Crosswater bathroom fixture showroom and in similar retail and gallery settings.
Boise Wyndham hotel makes transition to LED lighting
Heliodon Lighting found SSL replacement lamps or retrofit kits to allow the Wyndham Garden Hotel and Conference Center to make a complete energy-efficiency transition and to leverage rebates on the project.
Packaged LED news: Cree adds to XQ Series; Samsung adds 5630 LEDs
Cree’s new XQ-A LEDs are intended to enable more flexibility in products that require small-footprint white and color LEDs while Samsung’s LM561B+ and LM561C mid-power LEDs offer improved performance.
Osram CEO pushes digital services beyond lighting (UPDATED)
With offers for lamps group “days” away, Olaf Berlien outlines plans to add Internet connectivity and data-centric activities to company’s stable.
Philips terminates $2.8B sale of Lumileds LED business to China’s GO Scale
The LED business deal is nixed in the face of US national security concerns.