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The lighting industry continues to explore the potential for lighting solutions to benefit and optimize human health. Studies indicate light has physiological effects that go beyond vision. In recent years, the industry has focused on the effect of light on…
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Circadian Lighting: New Information on Lighting’s Health Effects by Craig DiLouie
Tagged with: circadian lighting, Craig Dilouie, ecmag, Health, physiological
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Horticultural LED lighting to grow at 17.8% CAGR from 2016-22: Yole
The 2016 horticultural lighting market (i.e. system level) represented a business of ~$3.1B, which should grow to ~$3.8B in 2017. The current business is mostly driven by greenhouse applications (~92% in 2017) and incumbent technologies (~79% in 2017), but a…
LED Lighting Market Growing At 14% CAGR & Will Cross US$ 105 Bn By 2023
In the last few years, as the world is witnessing rapid industrialization and urbanization, the government is working towards the development of various LED standardization which is helping the industries to adopt this technology. Phillips Lighting Holding B.V. (Netherlands), General…
Industrial & Commercial LED Lighting Market Likely to Reach $79.49 Bn
The global industrial and commercial LED lighting market was valued at $29.60 billion in 2016 and is projected to reach $79.49 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 14.9% from 2017 to 2023. Europe dominates this market at present,…
Automotive Adaptive Lighting Market to Grow at CAGR of 13% Till 2023
According to the “Global Automotive Adaptive Lighting Market Research Report Insights, Opportunity Analysis, Market Shares and Forecast, 2017 – 2023” report by Research and Markets, the adaptive lighting market has increased the safety through providing automatic settings for downlight and…
Lighting as a Platform Part 2: Creating the Smart Building by Martin Woolley, Bluetooth SIG
In a truly smart building, lights can be much more than just lights. These buildings are supported by lighting systems that have the potential to act as a distributed network of small computers and are capable of hosting all sorts…
Flexible Displays to Drive OLED Growth in 2018
Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) has released the first issue of its Quarterly OLED Shipment and Fab Utilization Report that raises the bar on OLED market insights. Covering all OLED suppliers and all applications, this new report provides shipments, prices…
Genius HTC Light Bulb Could Save Your Life
The new light bulb uses smarts from the HTC Vive VR headset technology to be more aware of its surroundings. The idea is for the bulb to detect if a person has had a bad fall, in a bathroom for…
Control the Lights from Your Phone at Hilton
Dubbed ‘Connected Room’, the technology allows guests to also control the temperature, the TV and the window blinds. Connected Room is live in one hotel but will be rolled out in coming weeks in several more, and will begin to…
Linear LED Lamps: Application and Interoperability Evaluation
Linear LED Lamps: Application and Interoperability Evaluation – CLTC recently collaborated with the Emerging Technologies group at Pacific Gas & Electric Company to evaluate linear LED lamps in a variety of luminaire applications, as well as identify cross-compatibility issues of…
Osram Is Driving the Future of Automotive LED Lighting
Osram is lighting the way to the future of driving. At CES 2018, it will continue to reinvent light by expanding and enhancing the experience for drivers, passengers and others on the road, turning invisible light into visible benefits: From…
DOE Announces $100 Million Open Solicitation for Transformative Energy Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $100 million in funding for new projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA E) latest OPEN funding opportunity. OPEN will support America’s top innovators through dozens of early-stage…
DOE Publishes Its Third-Ever US Lighting Market Characterization (LMC) Report
The agency uses it in part to guide its research and development (R&D) program. The latest version of the U.S. Lighting Market Characterization estimates the installed stock, energy use, and lumen production of all general-illumination lighting products operating in the…
LED Lighting at All Indian Railway Stations by March 2018
With the aim to cut power consumption, the Indian Railways announced that it illuminate all railway stations 100 per cent by LED lighting by March 31, 2018. Under the initiative, all railway staff colonies, stations and platforms will be lit…
LED Lighting Module Market Poised to Triple in Five Years
The LED lighting module industry is showing the emergence of innovative functions and the introduction of new market segments including automotive, smart lighting and horticultural markets. In this context, Yole Développement (Yole) estimates the market and presents its vision of…
LED Lighting Drivers Market to Grow Owing to Green Initiatives
The global LED lighting driver market, on the basis of driving method, is segmented into constant volume and current volume. In light bulbs, light is generated by a tungsten wire which only converts a small portion of energy into visible…
Jet-Lagged? Stop by the Circadian Lighting Lounge at Oslo Airport
Tunable LED lighting can help keep peoples’ circadian clocks in check, why not enlist LEDs in the war against jet lag? Without diving into the science, blue frequencies can stimulate, and ambers can relax In one of the latest developments,…
LuxReview: 10 lighting products we LOVED in 2017
Team Lux has cogitated, considered and, frankly, argued about the top 10 innovations in lighting this year. What were the stand-out innovations in lighting this year? At Lux Towers, we’ve had the heated debate, argued the toss and come up…
Edison Report: LightTrades™–The Best Products Launched in 2017
Every year, our team of judges picks the Top 10 Best Products from the too-many trade shows in our industry. This year we considered products from LIGHTFAIR, LEDucation, Strategies in Light, the IES Annual Conference, Hong Kong Lighting Fair and…
Zigbee Alliance and Thread Group Bring Dotdot Specification to Thread IP Network
The Zigbee Alliance and Thread Group reported the availability of the Dotdot specification over Thread’s IP network. The Zigbee Alliance is a foundation devoted to the establishment of wireless open standards for Internet of Things devices and networks. The alliance…
