The company adds a range of color- and CCT-changing luminaires to add ambience to gardens, yards, porches, driveways, paths, you name it. Just in time for summer BBQs. Almost.

Reports of the humble switch’s death might have been greatly exaggerated. Philips’ partners are adding familiar tactile buttons to augment app and voice commands.

The change reflects the industry’s new IoT lighting-and-beyond zeitgeist. Shareholder approval pending.

As the company declares it is ready to launch Li-Fi in its luminaires, a French real estate company starts putting the technology through its paces. But prime time will have to wait.

Chip-scale package (CSP) LEDs continue to evolve with Osram Opto Semiconductors and Samsung launching new products just prior to Light+Building.

All data, all the time: The company’s new Interact system continuously collects and analyzes information gathered from lighting and other sources.

It’s still early days at the E.Leclerc hypermarket, but the Zumtobel system is off to a good start. Not everyone’s interested, though.

New CEO Jacob Tarn has already put his mark on the organization with a focus on global presence and development of a supply chain and product-development approach that will serve the broad SSL market.

Both alliances are aimed at indoor positioning — one for retail stores, the other for healthcare settings.

The IoT lighting at HBMSU enables faculty staff to control and personalize light settings using a smartphone app, while students can be guided to rooms using lighting-based indoor positioning technology.