SSL-sector acquisitions and new ventures accelerate while financial reporting news is mixed across the LED component and lighting manufacturing spaces.

IoT lighting continues to evolve. This project is in the early stages.

The lighting design and technology community descends upon McCormick Place in Chicago, IL for the annual LightFair International conference and exhibition. Following is a selection of LightFair exhibitor announcements published through our online LED & Lighting Industry Guide.

Demand Lighting, Murata, McWong, and Alphabet Lighting join Silvair’s Bluetooth Mesh-centric ecosystem for IoT-enabled LED-based lighting at LightFair International.

In a human-centric lighting twist, Circadian Light’s luminaires switch from a blue pump to a violet one at night for health reasons.

Philips’ “Interact Landmark Scene” allows façade lighting managers to just phone it in when they want to change the look of a bridge, a building, or whatever.

Current, powered by GE and Hubbell Lighting both demonstrated LED-based continuous disinfection technology at LightFair International, significantly expanding the number of players in what has been a relatively narrow sector.

Lights for illumination? That’s so 2017. The latest Li-Fi project at Fraunhofer puts them to use for data transmission and nothing else, at distances up to 200 m. Available in Japan.

An analysis of supplemental horticultural lighting in greenhouses by the Lighting Research Center contradicts the conclusions in a recent Department of Energy report relative to the energy efficiency advantage of SSL.

The famous lighting name will live on in products, but not on the corporate escutcheon, as the industry’s IoT era makeover continues.