With 10,000 sensors and 100 people at Cisco’s innovation center, the networking giant practices what it preaches when it comes to IoT and connected lighting.

Strategies in Light and The LED Show, co-located from Mar. 1-3, 2016, will bring LED and solid-state lighting industry professionals and companies to the Santa Clara Convention Center en masse, providing opportunities for inter-business networking as well as a peek at the latest technologies, products, and other developments for LED-centric applications.

The LED Show chair James Highgate and speakers Randall Whitehead and Clifton Lemon discuss how to achieve balance between smart and beautiful LED lighting schemes in home and garden applications.

SSL lamp and luminaire developers can realize a 10% gain in efficacy with level lumen output relative to the Gen 2 products announced seven months ago.

A SmartCast LED controls project is delivering 70% energy savings in a North Carolina facility, while Cree separately struck a network- and controls-centric partnership with Cisco and has brought new LED-based BR30 and luminaire products to market.

Several test and measurement companies have instruments that are now capable of taking percent flicker and flicker index measurements for SSL products, and the US Department of Energy has found the products to be mostly accurate with a few notable exceptions.

A single high-power packaged LED has delivered nearly 1600 lm in a Cree laboratory demonstration that was based on the company’s SC5 technology platform.

New CEC lighting regulations for general-service and small directional lamps will result in improved color rendering with a tradeoff in energy efficiency.

Cisco’s new partner Molex teams with software firm amBX. At the same time, Cisco hints at lower priced, lighting-optimized Power over Ethernet switches.

At Strategies in Light, Stephanie Pruitt delivered a summary of the latest packaged LED market research that acknowledges an oversupplied market and faster-than-expected price erosion.