The award further validates the emerging field of human-centric lighting, which is helping to drive the LED industry’s future.

Take these vendor reports and surveys with a grain of salt. But there are plenty of kernels of truth, too.

Alstroemeria grower Together2Grow has trialed an SSL system as a supplement to high-pressure sodium lighting in greenhouses and realized a 20% yield increase.

At last the retailer and Acuity will roll out the world’s largest lighting-based indoor positioning system, using Bluetooth but not VLC.

The US Department of Energy expects warm white LEDs to reach near efficacy parity with cool-white LEDs by 2025, but OLED performance improvement is trailing expectations.

The XLamp CMA chip-on-board LED family delivers more than double the lumen density of Cree’s existing Standard Density COB LEDs yet provide a lower-cost option to the company’s High Density products.

The US Department of Energy has released data on its latest Gateway SSL trial where tunable LED lighting in classrooms was thought by teachers to improve the learning environment.

Lighting’s march into IT and the IoT continues apace, as Osram picks up a strategic share of a Swiss startup that engages shoppers in brick-and-mortar stores.

Energy services company Fairbanks and IT company vXchnge report that a retrofit to LED lighting in a data center combined with autonomous controls has cut annual energy usage by 244,000 kWh.

A cycling jacket that illuminates when you hit the brakes could be coming. First, Osram will stitch LEDs into workwear.