First draft of a controls specification is out for review and will be the basis of a qualified products list that will likely be adopted broadly by utilities and other market-transformation initiatives.

IES RP-6-15 covers recommended lighting practices for recreational to professional sports fields and venues with specific guidelines for individual sports.

The company’s WICOP LEDs have been supplied into backlighting units for two years and now Seoul will supply the chip-scale package products for use in general SSL applications.

The home stadium of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team and Bridgestone Arena in Nashville are the latest major venues to adopt LED-based sports lighting to illuminate the playing field.

Upwards of 350,000 outdoor lights could be retrofitted to LED technology in Chicago, IL, with the scope of the project covering roadway to park lighting.

SSL A-lamps, spotlights, and strips connected via a wireless mesh network can be managed as smart LED lighting via Ayla’s Internet of Things platform including the Agile Mobile Application Platform.

License agreement will add to the short list of manufacturers selling phosphor materials to LED manufacturers mixing blue LEDs and yellow phosphor to yield white emitters.

Lumileds has announced its CSP-based FlipChip White LED intended for general illumination applications, while Plessey has developed a way to customize primary optics on a CSP LED in the manufacturing process.

The China Electronics Company portfolio of affiliates with LED-centric technology continues to expand with the parent of Forest Lighting buying an interest in Kaistar.

The low-profile primary optic and the SC5 technology platform behind the XLamp XQ-E High Intensity color LED family will serve applications such as façade lighting.