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SSL | Luminus Devices | Hospitality | Featured
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Apr 01, 2021
Luminus Releases Hospitality COB Series for Hotels and Restaurants
Luminus Devices has announced its new Hospitality COB series featuring high color rendering, precise chromaticity control and Warm CCTs. With LES sizes ranging from 6mm to 22mm, and lumen output from 500 to 5000 lumens, the Luminus Hospitality COB series is the smart choice for beautiful, warm light with excellent color rendering and 2 step SDCM color control standard.
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Smart Lighting | Avi-on | UL | IoT
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Mar 31, 2021
First Commercial Lighting Company Achieves IoT Security Rating
UL announced that Avi-on Labs, Inc. is the first commercial lighting company to be recognized for achieving UL's IoT Security Rating. This Platinum level IoT Security Rating, as evaluated by UL, demonstrates that the Avi-on Pro Commercial Lighting Control Platform product line uses industry best practices and meets critical benchmarks for Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity.
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Appointments | LightingEurope
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Mar 29, 2021
LightingEurope Board and President Elected
The General Assembly elected on 26 March a new Executive Board for a 2-year mandate. The Executive Board consists of an equal number of representatives of national lighting associations and corporate members of LightingEurope and has the role of implementing the LightingEurope strategy and work plans.
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SSL | Cree LED | Featured
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Mar 27, 2021
New Cree LED™ XLamp® XP-P LEDs Deliver Breakthrough Intensity
Our name has changed, but our commitment to superior LED technology, reliability, innovation, support, and service remains steadfast. The same teams with years of Cree LED experience are newly energized to help our customers improve their LED-based products and develop new applications.
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SSL | Measurement | Lisun Electronics
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Mar 26, 2021
Improve the Accuracy of the LED Flux Testing in the Sphere
According to the particularity of LED luminous flux measurement, unique optimization is adopted in the design of the integrating sphere for LED measurement combined with the diffuse materials of high reflectivity, which makes the system stability and accuracy have great improvement. The experimental results show that the system stability and consistency is much higher than other common LED test system. It is the system which is really suitable for LED optical parameters measurement.
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Human Centric Lighting | Lumileds | Bios Lighting | Featured
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Mar 24, 2021
New LUXEON® SkyBlue™ LED Solution Simplifies and Speeds Development of Human-Centric Lighting
Lumileds today announced the immediate availability of its new LED human-centric lighting solution – LUXEON SkyBlue. In partnership with BIOS Lighting, Lumileds has engineered a circadian lighting solution that delivers superior melanopic ratios at comfortable CCTs – 3000K, 3500K, and 4000K – with industry-leading efficacy and uniformity at the lowest solution cost.
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Trends | Signify | 3D Printing
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Mar 24, 2021
India’s First Tailor-Made 3D Printed Luminaires
Signify launched India’s first tailor-made 3D printed luminaires. This highly flexible and more sustainable form of manufacturing, using a 100% recyclable polycarbonate material, enables the company to produce luminaires that have bespoke designs or are tailored to customer’s exact needs and recycled at the end of their life, supporting a circular economy.
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Trends
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Mar 20, 2021
Photobiomodulation Technology in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
REGEnLIFE, a company specialized in the research and development of innovative photo-medical technologies for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, announces today the promising results of the pilot clinical trial evaluating its technology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
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Smart Lighting | Drivers | Cuvee Systems
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Mar 20, 2021
Universal Quad Mode Driver
Cuvée Systems has announced its Universal Quad Mode Driver ideal for both residential and commercial applications. This is the industry’s first universal driver that can dim by all 4 commonly used dimming methods: phase cut leading edge or trailing edge, 0-10V or PWM.
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Business
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Mar 18, 2021
Atar Capital Acquires Universal Lighting Technologies and Douglas Lighting Controls from Panasonic Corporation
Atar Capital, a Los Angeles-based global private investment firm, announced today it has completed the acquisition of Universal Lighting Technologies and Douglas Lighting Controls from parent company, Panasonic Corporation. Both North American companies are market leaders in the industry, recognized for their award-winning commitment to quality and innovation in digital lighting design that provides end-to-end vertical lighting ecosystems.
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Smart Lighting & IoT | Smart Lighting & | T2M-Semi
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Mar 18, 2021
Smart Lighting Platform Licensed by Leading European Lighting Company
T2M-Semi, a global technology provider, announced the licensing of its partners’ Smart Lighting Platform “end to end” Management Solution to a leading European lighting company.
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Digi-Key
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Mar 17, 2021
Digi-Key Electronics Launches Enhanced Part Tracing for Cut Tape Printing
Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world's largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, announced that it has launched an enhanced traceability feature called Part Tracing for printing information to appear directly on cut tape products. This new development will enable engineers to better organize their components and also improve traceability.
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Automotive | Testing | Instrument Systems
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Mar 17, 2021
Short-pulse High-Power LED Testing
Optical measurement accuracy for high-power LEDs in advanced LED package designs calls for extremely fast and precisely triggerable spectroradiometers.
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Horticulture | Indoor Farming | Light Science Technologies
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Mar 17, 2021
Indoor Farming Laboratory Opened
Light Science Technologies (LST), one of the UK’s leading AgriTech firms, has opened its new, state-of-the-art in-house laboratory as it aims to revolutionise indoor farming by helping growers create the perfect plant recipe.
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LED | Featured | Nichia
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Mar 16, 2021
NICHIA’s Advanced Phosphor Technology LEDs Deliver Industry’s Highest Joint-boost in Color Rendering and Efficacy
NICHIA, the world’s largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LEDs, announces its H6 series. Implemented into NICHIA’s 3030 mid-power 757 package to start, the new family of LEDs delivers the highest multi-level boost in color rendition and efficacy whilst maintaining the outstanding lifetime expected from NICHIA.
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Human Centric Lighting | Market Assessment
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Mar 12, 2021
Light and Wellness Market Assessment
The DLC has released a request for proposals for a consultant to characterize the LED light and wellness lighting market as it pertains to commercial applications. Proposals will be accepted until March 29, 2021.
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Business | Featured | Events
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Mar 11, 2021
deLIGHTed Talks: Good Light – Good Life | May 11th, 3 PM CEST
The Good Light Group, together with the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR), the Daylight Academy (DLA), the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), and Luger Research (LR), are organizing and presenting the “Good Light – Good Life” lectures. The webinar explains how good light indoors contributes to health and well-being.
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Automotive | Osram Continental
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Mar 11, 2021
Exchangeable Light Engine for Automotive Headlamps
With its new eXchangeable Light Engine, OSRAM Continental is now extending and simplifying the integration of LED lighting solutions to entry-level vehicle classes. The automotive lighting specialist aims to create a new industry standard where LED headlights are to become the norm in automotive lighting – to make driving at night significantly safer.
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Hamamatsu | microLEDs | LED
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Mar 10, 2021
Inspection of micro-LEDs for Next-Generation Displays
Hamamatsu Photonics has developed a system for high-speed inspection of micro-LEDs on wafers to detect abnormalities in their external appearance, intensity and wavelength of their light emissions. This inspection system utilizes a photoluminescence (PL) measurement technique* that is based on our advanced image processing technology and a newly developed imaging module with our unique optical design technology.
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Business | Digi-Key | On-Semiconductor
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Mar 10, 2021
Digi-Key Electronics Named ON Semiconductor Global High Service Distributor of the Year
Digi-Key Electronics, the leading global electronic components distributor, was named ON Semiconductor’s Global High Service Distributor for 2020. This is the second year Digi-Key has been recognized with the Global High Service Distribution Partner Award, which honors the distributor that led channel sales, grew market share, captured increased sales of products and scored highly on overall process excellence in the evolving semiconductor market.
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Quantum Dots | Nano-Lit Technologies | Trends
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Mar 09, 2021
Quantum Dots Launch For The First Time In Lighting
Vancouver based, Nano-Lit Technologies lighting system adjusts wavelengths and colour temperature throughout the day to support the alignment of the body’s circadian rhythm to the day-night cycle. SENSO Lighting fixtures with Nano-Lit light engines address features within the WELL Light concept of WELL v2. The effect of light on people is an emerging area of study and to date we know more about its effect on plants than people in buildings.
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Smart Lighting | Bluetooth Mesh
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Mar 08, 2021
World's Largest Bluetooth® Mesh Lighting Control Installation
The 17 floors office building consisted of 3,685 Bluetooth mesh McWong TruBlu lighting controllers (installed in fixtures). Utilizing the TruBlu web app, EMC designed the project with 43 areas and 708 zones.
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Trends | Micro-LEDs
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Mar 08, 2021
Micro LEDs for Medical Applications
The team of Prof. Sekiguchi of Toyohashi University of Technology and ALLOS Semiconductors have engaged to realize high efficiency nitride-based micro LED chips for novel in-vivo neutral application.
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Trends | Micledi
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Mar 08, 2021
microLED Displays for Augmented Reality
MICLEDI Microdisplays raises EUR 7M from FPIM and KBC Focus Fund to accelerate the commercialisation of microLED displays for Augmented Reality.
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HLB Lighting Design | Appointments
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Mar 08, 2021
HLB Lighting Design – Barbara HORTON Retires, Carrie HAWLEY to Serve as CEO
HLB Lighting Design has announced that Barbara Horton, CLD, FIALD, Senior Principal and Co-Chief Executive Officer has retired. Senior Principal Carrie Hawley, IALD, MIES, LEED AP will assume the role of sole CEO following Barbara’s retirement.
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UV | Signify
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Mar 08, 2021
Signify and Innovative Bioanalysis Validate Effectiveness of Signify’s UV-C Lighting on Disinfecting the Air
Signify, the world leader in lighting, together with Innovative Bioanalysis, a CAP, CLIA, AABB Certified Safety Reference Laboratory in Costa Mesa (California) have conducted research that validates the effectiveness of UV-C disinfection upper air luminaires on the inactivation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Business | Featured | Cree LED
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Mar 04, 2021
New Name. New breakthroughs. All LED.
SMART Global Holdings, Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Cree, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:CREE) Cree LED Products business unit (“Cree LED”).
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General Lighting | Featured | LUXTECH
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Mar 03, 2021
LUXTECH Presents OneCut High-Efficacy: >200 lm/W LED Module
OneCut HE is LUXTECH’s most efficient linear/rigid white LED module to date; at 44” long it boasts >200 lm/W with cuttability every 5.5” to fit any standard fixture size. On board poke-in connectors, screw mounting holes, and intermittent solder pads make for reliable installation and maximum board yield perfect for DLC Premium fixture requirements.
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Business | Glamox
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Mar 03, 2021
Glamox has Acquired UK-based Wireless Lighting Controls Company
Global lighting specialist Glamox has acquired 100 percent of the shares in UK-based company LiteIP Limited. LiteIP is located in Southampton and designs, manufactures and supplies wireless lighting control systems.
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Appointments
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Mar 02, 2021
Acuity Brands Announces Trevor PALMER as New President of Acuity Lighting and Lighting Controls Business
Acuity Brands, Inc. announced Trevor S. Palmer was appointed President of the Company’s lighting and lighting controls business (ABL). Effective March 1, 2021, Trevor assumes responsibility for driving innovation across the Company’s lighting and lighting controls products, growing market share, and executing the digital transformation of the business. Trevor has over 27 years of experience in the building technology industry and recently served as Senior Vice President of Acuity Brands’ Digital Lighting Networks business.
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