A layered approach to connected-SSL-enabled IoT applications that spans a local application layer through standard services to the cloud holds the promise of allowing a developer community to more quickly deliver new application functionality.

LM-80 LED test reports from the Citizen Electronics Laboratory are no longer being accepted for market transformation programs at Energy Star and DLC after Citizen was found to have falsified some test data.

Fans have experienced an early start to the 2018 MLB season, and those in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Kansas City are experiencing LED field lighting for the first time; and two teams will square off under SSL in a May series in Mexico.

An SSL retrofit is underway at the William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower in Nashville, and Osram Sylvania Lighting Solutions is partnering with the government to upgrade lighting in facilities across the state.

The commercial IoT lighting specialist teams with its close friend Aurora to release residential products in the UK and Australia, using ZigBee controls rather than Bluetooth.

Lynk Labs plans proactive effort to collect licensing fees for AC LED technology, while MLS has become the sole owner of LEDvance and more rumors swirl about GE Lighting and Current divestiture.

Broader smart city functions could come later, but the clever, cost-saving LED lights will at first stick closer to illumination purposes.

Like LED chipmakers, the OLED world is targeting new health-related markets. Both technologies continue to move beyond illumination.

Circadian lighting recommended practice task group includes members from SSL industry, academia, the US government, the military, and more with the goal of publishing a recommended practice document by May 2019.

A newly tuned light recipe has improved the quality among growers in Holland.