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EarthTronics Natural White High Bay LED Series are 4000K with a high color quality rating of 80+ CRI. Available in both linear and UFO product lines, the natural white LED series offers a wide range of light levels from 13,000…
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Litetronics’ LED Smart Volumetric Troffer Brings Enhanced New Level of Control and Convenience to Commercial Applications
Litetronics’ new LED Smart Volumetric Troffer is equipped with an on-board sensor that supports both motion sensing and daylight harvesting, Litetronics’ new LED Smart Volumetric Troffer automatically adjusts light levels based on either occupancy levels and/or the availability of natural…
LED Rope Lighting by LEDtronics
LEDtronics’ LED Rope Light offers an energy-efficient replacement for neon sign lights, promising freedom from flicker, frequent burnouts, and broken glass that can occur with neon. The RNLD02SM series’ offers good night visibility with perimeter or border lighting for store…
MaxLite HighMAX LED LampsMaxLite HighMAX LED Lamps
MaxLite HighMax lamps are an easy and long-lasting replacement for HID bulbs in high/low bay fixtures and decorative post top luminaires. Designed to retrofit E39/EX39 sockets with a simple ballast bypass, the lamps deliver high quality illumination at 60 percent…
Lighting at Your Service: This Business Model Is Gaining Popularity by Craig DiLouie
Well-suited to financing lighting upgrades in large projects, lighting as a service (LaaS) is a lighting industry business model in which the owner purchases light rather than the hardware that delivers it. The owner pays a subscription over a multiyear…
Want to Make Your Home Smart? Start with the Lights by David Pierce
Someday your smart home might anticipate your every need, ensuring that everything from the room temperature to the artwork to the crispiness of your bacon is to your liking. Right now, the best it can do is turn off lights…
Become a Brand Leader at LEDucation 2020
Become a sponsor of LEDucation 2020 and receive additional exposure, strengthen your credibility, and create a lasting impression in one of the industry’s most successful educational and exhibition events on LED and SSL technology. March 17-18, 2020, New York Hilton…
Cyprus Aims to Replace All Streetlights with LED by 2020
Cyprus, the island country on the Mediterranean Sea, is on its way to improve energy efficiency by switching all conventional streetlights into LED. According to the report of CyprusMail, the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) has signed a contract to…
Sanitizing Light: LEDs Become a Disinfectant Technology
A new use of light emitting diodes (LED) has emerged. LED light is killing bacteria, fungus and mold, and the scientific community has validated the results. Lab researchers, diode fabricators and fixture manufacturers are working to market LEDs that are…
White Paper: Smart Buildings And Workplace Strategies for the Future by Current, Powered by GE
Connected lighting now has the potential to unleash additional productivity and revenue outcomes, thanks to space optimization and utilization, more informed real estate decisions and increased employee satisfaction with their work environment. The smart buildings evolution is top of mind…
Lighting Controls Association Now Offers Certificate of Technical Knowledge
Education Express includes a wide variety of educational courses about lighting controls technology, application, design, and commissioning. Completion of each course qualifies students to earn AIA LU/HSW, NCQLP LEU, CALCTP/NALCTP, NLCAA, NALMCO, and CEU education credits, with the amount of…
Bridgelux Achieves 200 lm/W with Third Generation EB Series™ Products
Bridgelux announced an expansion of its EB Series™ LED product family to include increased efficacy of up to 200 lumens/watt (lm/W), new 2700 K standard CCT options, new 90 CRI options, and new slim linear and square form factors. As…
Signify Buys 51% of Chinese LED Lamp Maker, as Sales Again Dip but Earnings Strengthen
CEO Eric Rondolat says the company is reversing an outsourcing trend, bringing manufacturing more in house. He hopes the Klite acquisition improves control of costs, supply, and intellectual property. In an effort to cut manufacturing costs, gain control of supply,…
Efficiency Breakthrough for OLEDs
The researchers from organic photovoltaic cell development company Nextgen Nano has discovered a means of producing OLEDs that demonstrate high luminosity at lower voltages. Certain organic molecules exhibited fluorescent properties at lower energy values, allowing them to illuminate at notably…
Austrian Sensor Company AMS is Interested in Osram After All
AMS’s renewed interest could challenge private equity firms Bain Capital and Carlyle Group, which together are working toward finalizing a €3.48 billion ($3.83B) acquisition of Osram. An Osram spokesperson told LEDs Magazine that Osram could not comment on whether it…
Electrical Wholesaling Top 10 LED Picks for July, 2019
Congratulations to the product managers and marketing teams from Emerson/Appleton, Eaton Lighting, G&G Industrial Lighting, HyLite LED, Legrand, Litetronics, Lutron, Newcandescent LED Lighting, Nora Lighting and Universal Lighting Technologies for having their products selected in this month’s Top 10 LED…
Korean Design Team Puts UV LED on Drone to Clean Subway Trains and Stations
UV LEDs cover a wide range of applications including light curing, medical treatment and disinfection. And now, UV LEDs are put on drones to spew UV light in subway stations and trains for sanitization. Equipped with sensors and UVC LEDs,…
Taiwan Makers Set to Offer UV-C LED Products
The UVC LED devices target kitchenware, maternity, and baby-care product segments, the sources said. Pursuant to Minamata Convention on Mercury, production, exports and imports of goods containing mercury will be banned beginning 2020, paving the way for UV-C LED to…
AOT Obtains 3-Year Patent and Trademark Licensing from Cree
LED packaging service provider Advanced Optoelectronic Technology (AOT) has disclosed it has obtained licenses for using US-based Cree’s patents and trademark during July 1, 2019-June 30, 2022. Apart from maintaining LED backlighting as mainstream business, AOT has stepped into developing…
Commercial Production of Inkjet Print OLED Panels to Realize in 2020
A number of flat panel makers in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China are developing inkjet print OLED technology, with Japan-based JOLED likely to be the first to roll out commercial inkjet print OLED products in 2020, according to industry observers.…
