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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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Opinions
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Mar 01, 2021
Future Strategic Directions for the Lighting Industry
As another wave of restrictions enters into force across Europe, it’s important to keep not only our chins up but also our eyes open, looking out at the next set of opportunities and challenges coming our way.
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Opinions | Commentary
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Feb 27, 2021
From Kelly to Double Dynamic Lighting
by Henrik CLAUSEN. Henrik has worked in the lighting sector for almost 30 years, collaborating with architects, interior designers and specialist lighting designers.
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Automotive | ISELED
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Feb 26, 2021
ISELED-Alliance Welcomes Five New Members
Well-known electronics companies from many industrial sectors are expanding the potential of innovative LED technology.
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Dec 30, 1969
XLamp® S Line LEDs Offer Highest Sulfur & Corrosion Resistance
Cree LED has expanded its portfolio of XLamp LEDs with new S Line versions of the XP-G3 Photophyll™ Select, XP-G3 Royal Blue and XP-E2 Far Red horticulture LEDs.
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Dec 30, 1969
Messe Frankfurt Expands Portfolio in USA and Acquires Stake in LightFair
Messe Frankfurt is expanding its portfolio in the USA. From now on, LightFair in Las Vegas and New York will be part of the Light + Building brands international network. In future, Messe Frankfurt will be organising the five-day trade fair together with an accompanying conference for the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES). The next edition of the architectural and commercial lighting trade fair is scheduled to take place at Las Vegas Convention Center between 4 and 8 May 2025.
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Dec 30, 1969
Thorsten Cramer new CEO of Ansorg GmbH – Shaping the Future Direction
Ansorg GmbH announces that Thorsten Cramer has been leading the company as the new CEO since March 1, 2024. With extensive leadership experience in the lighting industry at international companies, Mr. Cramer brings comprehensive expertise to the management.
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Dec 30, 1969
Joint Statement - European Stakeholders United for a Level Playing Field for Online Marketplaces and Effective Enforcement
The undersigned NGO’s, consumer organisations and business and trade associations are severely impacted by the role of online marketplaces in e-commerce. We are united to request a level playing field for online marketplaces and effective enforcement.
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Dec 30, 1969
Lumileds Broadens CoB Offerings With New Board Footprints For Absolute Design Flexibility
Though there are many standards in the LED industry, the footprint or board size for CoBs is not one of them. Over the years, companies that manufacture CoB holders and optics have largely designed their products to support the 3 board formats that are widely adopted by lighting manufacturers. With the introduction of LUXEON CS CoBs, Lumileds now offers a full range of LUXEON CoBs in each of the common board footprints.
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Dec 30, 1969
ABB and Zumtobel Group Partner to Advance Smart Lighting and Building Solutions and Direct Current (DC) Industry Applications
The companies will focus on integrating ABB's building automation solutions with Zumtobel Group's lighting management systems ABB and Zumtobel Group will also target innovation in the use of direct current (DC) technology in full-scale industrial applications to reduce energy use and lower CO2 emissions. The strategic partnership will support more efficient, sustainable and user-friendly commercial, industrial and institutional buildings.
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Dec 30, 1969
CBU-DA-1P: Casambi to DALI Control Device from Electrónica OLFER
Electrónica OLFER introduces our new product, developed by our I+D department: the CBU-DA-1P. This is a Casambi to DALI control device. To do this, the CBU-DA-1P uses Bluetooth Low Energy communications to receive a command signal from the Casambi App and convert this signal into DALI commands according to the selected fixture profile.
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