TRENDS IN LIGHTING
Photometric Design for Solar Street Lighting: From Wattage to Road Performance
In many solar street lighting tenders, luminaires are still compared by wattage. A buyer may request a 40 W, 60 W or 100 W solar street light, assuming that a higher wattage automatically means better road lighting. Yet wattage only describes ...
BUSINESS & EVENTS
LUCI and TALQ Join Forces to Advance Sustainable, Interoperable Urban Lighting
The TALQ Consortium, a global standardization body enabling interoperability in smart cities, and the LUCI Association, the international network of cities on urban lighting, announced their collaboration to support cities on their path towards more ...
PEOPLE & AWARDS
Signify Earns 14 iF Design Awards
Signify has received 14 iF Design Awards in 2026 for excellence in product design and user experience across its professional and consumer businesses. The awards span a wide range of innovations, from connected home lighting to systems and services ...
LED/SSL & GENERAL LIGHTING
Gaggione Introduces HADAR: A Modular Optics Platform for Architectural Lighting
French optics specialist Gaggione has launched HADAR, a new modular family of architectural optics designed to simplify beam control while increasing flexibility for luminaire manufacturers and lighting designers. Available in three sizes—HADAR35, ...
SMART & CONNECTED LIGHTING
Connectivity Standards Alliance Kicks Off Unify, Where the IoT Industry Decides What Comes Next
The Connectivity Standards Alliance (Alliance) officially welcomed attendees to Unify, its premier public event created to accelerate the adoption of open standards across the Internet of Things (IoT). Taking place in Austin, Texas, Unify brings ...
HUMAN CENTRIC LIGHTING
Bright Days, Dark Nights: Translating Science on the Non-visual Effects of Light into Public Health Guidance
Clear, proportionate guidance on light and darkness can help people and institutions structure daily environments to support circadian alignment, sleep, alertness, mental health, and wellbeing.
HORTICULTURE LIGHTING
Photophyll™ Select LEDs Expand Spectrum Flexibility
Photophyll™ Select LEDs are redefining spectrum design for horticulture luminaires. Purpose-built to replace conventional white LEDs in two-channel white-plus-red systems, the technology delivers a higher proportion of useful green photons while ...
AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING
Melexis Integrates On-Chip DC/DC Power to Simplify LIN RGB Automotive Lighting
Melexis announces the MLX81119, an 18-channel LIN RGB LED controller with an integrated DC/DC converter, designed to simplify and optimize automotive lighting systems. By generating the LED supply voltage locally on-chip, the MLX81119 significantly ...
UV/IR
PureFize Presents Field-emission Cathodoluminescent Approach for Next-generation Far-UVC Devices
Swedish UV technology company presents breakthrough results showing deep-UV emission below 240 nm from a scalable, phosphor-tunable device platform.
RESEARCH & TRENDS
Bright Days, Dark Nights: Translating Science on the Non-visual Effects of Light into Public Health Guidance
Clear, proportionate guidance on light and darkness can help people and institutions structure daily environments to support circadian alignment, sleep, alertness, mental health, and wellbeing.
