Alliance with American Tower could spur the use of street lighting as the backbone of smart city and IoT services.

The University of California system in conjunction with the California State Department of General Services has launched the Million Lamp Challenge with bids due Sept. 20.

Another day, another IoT alliance between a major lighting company and a leading networking firm.

EDF’s Citelum connecting city services including lighting, in project with French giants Bouygues, Suez, and Capgemini to improve urban operations and gather data.

It’s a car! It’s a home! It’s a wireless lighting control system! The latest in IoT illumination, on display at the Frankfurt Motor Show, of all places.

Fillet-enhanced CSP LEDs add reflective side walls to maximize light extraction from the top emission surface, thereby matching the new components to directional and other high-output applications.

The Ceramos C CSP LED has a compact footprint, making it a good match for camera flash applications, while the new Osconiq brand includes mid-power LEDs masquerading in high-power form for architectural and horticultural lighting.

Announcements at and around LightFair included new COB LEDs from Cree, new horticultural LEDs from several manufacturers, and notification that the Energy Star ban of the Citizen test lab for LM-80 data had been rescinded.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) in AWS GovCloud (US) now reports the time stamp when an IAM user last used their access key.  

Amazon EC2 C5d instances deliver C5 instances equipped with local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. These instances are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage like video encoding, image manipulation and other forms of media processing. It will also benefit applications that need temporary storage of data, such as batch and log processing and applications that need caches and scratch files. With the option of NVMe-based SSD instance storage, C5 customers now have additional storage choices for their most compute-intensive workloads.