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The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) recently published a whitepaper on Power Over Ethernet, or PoE, now available for free download. The whitepaper describes the fundamentals of PoE, with explanations on the technology’s current state and the applicable codes and…
Signify, Cisco Team Up Again for PoE
Signify has teamed up with its old Power over Ethernet (PoE) collaborator Cisco to provide PoE to Atea, a $1.1 billion Norwegian systems integrator that is sampling several other Signify smart lighting technologies including visible light communications (VLC) for location…
Showcase Office Features Indoor Positioning, Li-Fi And PoE
A state-of-the-art office featuring a range of pioneering lighting technologies has been opened in Norway. New technologies within the Signify Interact system used in the building include a personal control app for the lighting system, what’s described as a highly…
Testing and Reporting Requirements for DC and PoE Lamps, Luminaires, and Retrofit Kits
Products powered by Direct Current (DC) and Power over Ethernet (PoE) must comply with the provisions of this document to be eligible for listing on the DLC Solid-State Lighting Qualified Products List (SSL QPL). DC/PoE products are defined as SSL…
H.E. Williams, Inc. Acquires Platformatics, Inc.
H.E. Williams, Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of Platformatics, Inc., a provider of network-based systems for the smart building Internet of Things (IoT) industry. The Platformatics solutions improve end-user comfort, productivity and safety through Power over Ethernet (PoE)…
Unveiled: The Downlight with Built-In Li-Fi
A revolutionary downlight which enables internet access through light rather than radio waves has been unveiled by French manufacturer Lucibel. The luminaire, which has a Cat 6 cable port and a built-in Li-Fi transceiver – can offer internet speeds of…
DLC 4.4 Goes Into Effect on 18 OCT
The DesignLights Consortium® (DLC) is pleased to release the final version of SSL Technical Requirements Version 4.4. This Technical Requirements update consists of new policies that will allow high performance, energy efficient horticultural lighting products, DC and PoE products, and…
Deco Lighting and Molex Collaborate on IoT and POE-Ready LED Lighting
Molex of Lisle, Illinois announced the addition of Deco Lighting’s PoE-Ready Vector 2 LED light fixtures to its design portfolio of Molex PoE-Ready products. The new fixtures are part of the collaboration between the two companies. Molex says that its…
PoE Lighting and Control by Hubbell Control Solutions
PowerHUBB is an enterprise-level PoE lighting and control platform that integrates luminaires, sensors, user interfaces and software for a scalable intelligent building control solution. The advantage of a PoE solution is its ability to simplify lighting and control installations by…
Virgin Media Samples Standard Electrical Wires for IoT Lighting at Technical Center
British broadband and cable provider Virgin Media is sampling the use of standard electrical wires to transport data to and from luminaires in order to control lux levels and collect information about facility usage at a technical center. The small…
PoE Connected Lighting System Energy Losses in Ethernet
DOE has released the results of an exploratory study investigating energy losses in Ethernet cables used between Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches and luminaires in PoE connected lighting systems. Testing was conducted at DOE’s Connected Lighting Test Bed in September…
PoE Resurfaces, at Danish Office Building by Mark Halper
Working with Cisco, Philips Lighting heralds a new Copenhagen office building as a Nordic first. As we’ve pointed out before, with all the talk about wireless LED lighting networks such as Bluetooth Mesh, it’s easy to forget that wires can…
DOE’s Connected Lighting Systems Efficiency Study — PoE Cable Energy Losses
Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology offers the ability to provide both low-voltage direct-current (DC) power and communication over a standard Ethernet cable—also referred to as a local area network (LAN) cable or Category cable. Light-emitting diode (LED) technology has reduced…
Power Over Ethernet Lighting Systems by Steve Mesh
Power over Ethernet (PoE) lighting is part of a brave new world. The ascendance of LED fixtures has given rise to some new methods of providing and controlling light in our environments. Since LEDs are low-voltage devices that use direct…
Leviton to Talk About Smart Lighting across Middle East
Leviton announced that the company will be running a series of seminars on various aspects of networking and lighting solutions across several countries in Middle East. The first of the series of seminars was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on…
Want to Know More About Power over Ethernet (PoE)?
Check out: LuxReview – • http://luxreview.com/article/2017/07/igor-answers-your-power-over-ethernet-poe-questions • http://luxreview.com/article/2017/07/can-i-install-poe-at-home-and-what-would-that-look-like-to-me- • http://luxreview.com/article/2017/07/what-are-the-practical-benefits-of-poe-and-what-can-be-powered-and-controlled-by-poe-today- • http://luxreview.com/article/2017/07/what-does-it-look-like-to-install-poe-and-who-can-do-it- • http://luxreview.com/article/2017/07/how-does-power-over-ethernet-poe-lighting-work-
New Standard Minimizes Cable Energy Loss for Power over Ethernet Lighting Systems
Today the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) released a new installation standard designed to ensure minimal energy loss for PoE lighting systems. ANSI Accredited Standards Committee on Lighting Systems published ANSI C137.3 American National Standard for Lighting Systems—Minimum Requirements for…
Philips Launches Wireless Smart Office Lighting Rather Than PoE to Reach the Masses
Philips Lighting today launched a wireless lighting-as-a-service (LaaS) initiative for commercial offices, hoping to convince building managers to implement smart Internet-connected lighting schemes that Philips has addressed to date with more expensive wired offerings based on Power over Ethernet (PoE)…
DOE Report on PoE Connected Lighting Systems
The new report provides a brief background on the development of the various PoE technologies, ranging from standards-based to proprietary, and illustrates the convergence of PoE power sourcing capabilities and LED luminaire power requirement. It then classifies PoE system devices…
DLC SSL Technical Requirements V4.4
Comments due Wednesday, August 22, 2018. The DLC now requires all comments to be submitted using DLC Comment Forms. • Horticultural Lighting: 2nd Draft Testing and Reporting Requirements for LED-based Horticultural Lighting • DC and PoE Lighting: 2nd Draft Testing…
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