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Business | Organization News | TALQ | White Paper | Aug 07, 2018
TALQ Consortium Releases a New White Paper
TALQ Consortium Releases a New White Paper The TALQ Consortium reveals in a White Paper published today many insights into its global interface standard and certification scheme for managing smart city applications including outdoor lighting networks. The document explains in detail not only the system architecture and data model, but also its functions and services. It helps cities, solution providers, project planners and other stakeholders understand the concepts and benefits of the Smart City Protocol. The full TALQ Specification Version 2.0 – allowing vendors to easily integrate the protocol in their systems - is available for TALQ member companies together with a powerful Test Suite. Read more »
Business News | Organization News | Zhaga | Memberships | Dec 17, 2018
New Zhaga Has Gone Live! - Offering a “Community Membership" to Serve New Groups
New Zhaga Has Gone Live! - Offering a “Community Membership" to Serve New Groups The Zhaga Consortium has widened its scope of work to address new growth areas in IoT and the service economy. To implement this move, a new Consortium Agreement has been written and members have renewed their membership. Next to component and luminaire manufacturers, the NEW Zhaga aims to expand its outreach to a larger group of companies and offers a new Community Membership. Read more »
Business News | Organization News | Zhaga | IoT Ready | Partnerships | Apr 02, 2019
IoT Ready Alliance Dissolves and Capitalizes on the Breadth of the NEW Zhaga Consortium
IoT Ready Alliance Dissolves and Capitalizes on the Breadth of the NEW Zhaga Consortium Zhaga and the IoT Ready Alliance are pleased to announce that they have agreed to align their efforts and to proceed as a single organisation under the Zhaga Consortium. The objective is to foster a harmonized, global set of interface specifications for sensor-to-luminaire integration and to remove confusion in the industry. Read more »
Business News | Organization News | DiiA | Certification | Aug 01, 2019
DALI-2 Certification of Sensors and Input Devices Is Now Underway
DALI-2 Certification of Sensors and Input Devices Is Now Underway The Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the global industry organization for DALI lighting control, has introduced DALI-2 certification for a range of products including light sensors, occupancy sensors, push-buttons, switches and sliders. These products, known as DALI-2 input devices, provide user-derived and environmental information to the lighting-control system. Read more »
Business News | Organization Statements | LightingEurope | Environment | Circular Economy | Aug 01, 2019
EU Policy Offers the Lighting Industry Risks and Opportunities
EU Policy Offers the Lighting Industry Risks and Opportunities The European Union is pushing a number of policy initiatives in the coming months and years that will have a profound impact on the business models of firms competing in the European lighting industry. Read more »
Business News | Dec 20, 2019
The Global Lighting Association Elects New Executive Committee, Foreshadowing Active Advocacy Programs
The Global Lighting Association Elects New Executive Committee, Foreshadowing Active Advocacy Programs The Global Lighting Association (GLA) met early December in Tokyo and elected an inaugural Executive Committee in anticipation of its incorporation as a non-profit association in Switzerland. Completion of the incorporation process is expected early in 2020. Maurice Maes, as a representative of LightingEurope, was appointed President. He is employed by Signify, formerly known as Philips Lighting, as Head of Standards & Regulations. Read more »
Business | SSL | Award | Dr. Shuji Nakamura | Jan 09, 2020
University of Louisville 's 2019 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy Laureate Goes to Dr. Shuji Nakamura
University of Louisville 's 2019 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy Laureate Goes to Dr. Shuji Nakamura The world-leading pioneer in sustainable energy technology Shuji Nakamura, PhD, professor of Materials at University of California Santa Barbara, has won the 2019 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy from the University of Louisville. The prize recognizes outstanding renewable energy ideas and achievements with proven global impact. Read more »
Business News | Organization News | DiiA | Tunable White Light | Certification | Mar 02, 2020
DiiA Debuts DALI-2 Certification of Tunable White LED Drivers
DiiA Debuts DALI-2 Certification of Tunable White LED Drivers The Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the global industry organization for DALI lighting control, has expanded the scope of the DALI-2 certification program to include tunable white color control. DiiA has added the color temperature Tc method of color control as a feature for DALI-2 control gear such as LED drivers. Commonly referred to as "tunable white", Tc allows control of the correlated color temperature (CCT) along the black-body line, from warm white to cool white. Read more »
Business News | Organization News | CALI | Zhaga | Partnerships | Jun 02, 2020
CALI and Zhaga Sign Liaison Agreement – To Drive and Promote Technology Advancement
CALI and Zhaga Sign Liaison Agreement – To Drive and Promote Technology Advancement The past decade has witnessed the LED evolution in the China lighting industry as well as progress in the work of Zhaga in standardizing interfaces of components of LED luminaires. Zhaga and CALI have identified areas of mutual interest and agreed to structure and strengthen their relationship and to foster closer cooperation through a liaison agreement. Consequently, the China Association of Lighting Industry (CALI) and the Zhaga Consortium (Zhaga) have signed a liaison agreement which entered into force by May 1st, 2020. Read more »
Business News | LiFi | Signify | EDZCOM | Sep 01, 2020
Signify and EDZCOM Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate LiFi Adoption in the Manufacturing Industries
Signify and EDZCOM Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate LiFi Adoption in the Manufacturing Industries Eindhoven, the Netherlands– Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, and EDZCOM, the Nordic market leader in Edge Connectivity, will join forces to introduce Trulifi by Signify, two-way wireless network connectivity through infrared and visible light, into industrial applications. The partnership will apply to Signify’s LiFi solutions, branded Trulifi, in the manufacturing industries. Read more »
General News | Oct 15, 2020
LightingEurope Calls for Renovation of Lighting Installations
LightingEurope Calls for Renovation of Lighting Installations LightingEurope strongly supports the call in the EU Renovation Wave Initiative published today to scale up renovation rates across the European Union. This will not only guide the uptake of innovative lighting technologies and future investment but will also be key to helping Europe’s lighting industry – 80% of which are SMEs – to recover from the economic impact of the current pandemic. Read more »
Business News | Organization News | Panel Discussion | Webinar | LightingEurope | Jan 27, 2021
The Digital Services Act: How to Address Product Compliance Online?
The Digital Services Act: How to Address Product Compliance Online? The proposed Digital Services Act published by the European Commission on 15 December is a unique opportunity to upgrade our European rules and make them fit for today's market reality. LightingEurope hosts an online panel discussion, one of the first opportunities for a public exchange of views on the proposed text and whether it closes the gaps in today's legislation. Read more »
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