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Lighting Beyond Illumination by Dr. Heinz Seyringer, zumtobel group
Currently, lighting is at the same point the mobile phones were when the first additional features beyond the actual phone service were introduced. There are many new possibilities arising but nobody knows which of them will be the killer apps of tomorrow.
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Creating Growth for the Lighting Industry in Europe with new Opportunities
How to create growth for the lighting industry in Europe was the challenge in the strategy workshop of LightingEurope in May. With the economic climate improving, various opportunities around LED technology have been defined including lighting applications such as smart lighting or human centric lighting.
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IYL 2015 - Light is Live, Light is Culture, Solid State Light is Progress
On 20 December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). This was the culmination of a long and concerted effort by a large consortium of scientific bodies, working together with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), where the initiative was adopted by its General Conference
in November of the same year.
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Tech-Talks BREGENZ - Ewing Liu, Everlight, Technical Marketing Manager
LED manufacturers have different strategies and approaches for their product portfolios depending on from which business they are originated. Everlight has a very long experience in optoelectronics as packaging company. Accompanied by Christopher Keusch, Director of Lighting Business EMEA, Ewing Liu, Technical Marketing Manager at Everlight, talks about about the background of the company, the worldwide strategies and upcoming techologies.
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Exclusive Interview: Nobel Prize and Global Energy Prize Winner Prof. Shuji Nakamura
On June 19th, 2015 Nobel and Millennium prize winner, Professor Shuji Nakamura was awarded the Global Energy Prize in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Global Energy Prize is given to researchers in the field of energy efficiency and renewable technologies on a global scale. During the Global Energy Prize Event in St. Petersburg, Professor Nakamura gave an exclusive interview about the developments and future of solid-state lighting. Siegfried Luger, CEO of Luger Research, Event Director of the LpS 2015 and Publisher of LED professional, talked with Professor Nakamura about LED substrate technologies, violet and ultra-violet emitters, nano-technologies, OLEDs and laser technologies.
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LED Innovation will Offer a Human-Centric Smart Lighting Platform Enabling Enterprise IOT
After a century of analog electrical light, the lighting industry has spent the last decade in transition to digital light sources; LEDs, sought to replace the tungsten filament. LEDs are now embedded in all market segments in both residential and commercial applications. The predictions of early LED pioneers such as Dr. Roland Haitz have become reality today: more lumens delivered at a lower cost with increasing reliability and quality of light attributes. As a result,
the world of electrical light has accepted that LEDs will be its primary light source and contribute to saving significant electrical energy, reducing carbon emissions and providing increased safety and comfort in our homes, at work and even while commuting in traffic.
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Tech-Talks BREGENZ - Daniel Doxsee, Nichia Europe, Deputy Managing Director
Nichia is arguably the company with the longest history of manufacturing white LEDs. Recently, however, new competitors especially from China, have started challenging Nichia’s market share. Nichia’s role in strategic and technical solid-state lighting issues and its past, present and future were discussed with Daniel Doxsee, Nichia Chemical Europe’s Deputy Managing Director.
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A Confusing Situation that demands Solutions: Performance Specification
Product innovations are not the only consequence of recent advancements in the lighting market. These changes must be accompanied by a realization that the “old” methods for specifying the performance of lighting products no longer fully apply and need to be amended. From the perspective of DEKRA, an organization specialized in the testing and certification of SSL products, the current situation shows the following picture:
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Nobel Prize & Global Energy Prize Winner Prof. Shuji Nakamura Explains the Future of SSL Technology
In an exclusive interview with Siegfried Luger, the publisher of LED professional, Nobel Prize & Global Energy Prize Winner, Prof. Shuji Nakamura presented a clear roadmap of how solid-state lighting technologies will evolve over the next few years. He also gave his view of winning approaches and explained why he thinks this way.
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Tech-Talks BREGENZ - Prof. Mehmet Arik, University of Ozyegin, Turkey
Thermal management is an ongoing challenge and a topic of continued research and innovation. Prof. Mehmet Arik from the University of Ozyegin, Istanbul, also known as the ‘Edison of the 21st Century’, discussed core thermal issues and new innovative solutions, trends in cost reduction, packaging and
how we can learn from electronics to achieve better thermal management of the system as a whole.
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Tech-Talks BREGENZ - Prof. Jiangen Pan, Everfine, Founder & CTO
With ever-increasing demands on measurement equipment, it is becoming essential to meet user needs by providing combined solutions, which address optical, electrical and thermal issues. Prof. Jiangen Pan CEO, Founder and Chief Scientist at Everfine Institute of Optoelectronics, provided valuable insights on new compact solutions for LED measurements, his views and contributions towards global standards and how he works in his “thinking laboratory”.
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Tech-Talks BREGENZ - Dietmar Zembrot, LightingEurope, President
Rapidly growing technologies and emerging market trends in solid-state lighting encourage new innovations largely driven by applications and technological developments. Dietmar Zembrot, President of LightingEurope and Managing Director of TRILUX Group, shared his insights on changing value chains and business models, Europe’s competitiveness and the main driving forces for current SSL technologies.
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Tech-Talks BREGENZ - Walter Werner Werner Mgmt. Services, CEO
The transition from traditional light sources to solid-state light sources has also affected
lighting controls. Nowadays we talk about smart lighting, human centric lighting and
software dominated lighting concepts. Dr. Walter Werner from Werner Management
Services, a highly experienced lighting controls expert, discussed the major trends in
lighting controls with LED professional, as part of the Tech-Talks BREGENZ series.
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Tech-Talks BREGENZ: Martina Paul, General Secretary, CIE (Article published in LpR #43)
With the rise of LEDs as the future lighting technology, the relatively stable lighting industry faces many changes and challenges. One of the main challenges is the ever increasing speed of transitions, something already seen in the semiconductor business. Standardization organizations are facing similar challenges. On the one hand they should define standards that will last as long as possible and on the other hand the standards need to be as clear and precise as possible. Martina Paul, Secretary General of the most important standardization body, the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) was invited to the Tech-Talks BREGENZ to discuss these topics.
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TechTalks BREGENZ - An Initiative for the "International Year of Light and Light Based Technologies 2015"
Luger Research e.U., publisher of LED professional, is starting an exciting activity for the Year of Light 2015 and the Day of Photonics on October 21st 2014: A series of 4-6 top-level meetings per year with the most important and innovative players in the LED/OLED technologies global market place.
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"Beyond LM Testing - A New Metric for Quality over Lifetime" by Thor Scordelis
In a recent blog post, the United States Department of Energy’s Jim Brodrick noted that solid-state lighting standards and testing methods “may not be glamorous, but they’re essential for the success of any technology, and SSL is no exception.” Certainly, this is true with respect to lumen quality, and for many years, the LM-80 standard, used to measure lumen maintenance of LED packages and modules, has sufficed. However, with the growing adoption of LED technology has come higher customer awareness and expectations. “Good enough” isn’t good enough anymore.
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Lighting Innovation - Dialog Semiconductor Introduces New smarteXite Technology Platform for Intelligent LED Lighting
Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC, solid state lighting and short-range wireless technologies, announced its smarteXiteTM platform, enabling a new generation of highly flexible, programmable LED driver ICs for smart lighting applications. SmarteXite, based on fully configurable logic, is the first LED driver technology to directly and easily support wireless connectivity, light sensor control and allow easy integration into lighting control systems. Arno Grabher-Meyer and Siegfried Luger, both from LED professional, talked with Stefan Zudrell-Koch, Business Development Manager at Dialog Semiconductor, about their new technology platform.
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The Transition to LED Lighting may Trigger a Cataclysmic Change in the Building Automation Industry
Andy McMillan, President of BacNet International shares his thoughts on the future of the building automation industry.
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Lumen Fortronic Forum in Italy – Interview with Franco Musiari
Franco Musiari, Technical Director at Assodel, talks about the Lumen Fortronic Forum in Italy, which took place in Milan on May 23rd.
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The Lighting Industry is Looking for a New Identity
Today, Siegfried Luger, publisher of LED professional, talked with Mr. Ed van den Kieboom, Conference Director Smart Lighting Event, and with Dr. Bruno Smets, Chair Conference Committee Smart Lighting Event, about the ongoing conference in Frankfurt.
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The Mandatory Basis for Professional LED Lighting - Guido Nattkemper, Director of LED Product Management at BAG electronics
Platform management speeds up development, simplifies complexity, helps to manage the supply chain and improves quality.
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What is the Next Wave in Lighting - is it Purely Technology?
Diversity makes lighting an exciting business. On the one hand you find people earning money with OLED doing one-off designs, then you have multi-billion Euro companies keeping their market share and reducing their workforce. How can this happen and what is next?
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It’s the Overall Solution That Counts, Not the Single Component
The LpS 2012 in Bregenz emphasized again that customers from the lighting industry are looking more for solutions and less for components. Without proper support and an understanding of the complete application, the lighting revolution will be prolonged.
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Solid State Luminaires Pave the Way for an Industry
From metal sheet forming to optoelectronic systems: Luminaire manufacturing began soon after the production release of incandescent bulbs and since then has been linked to the peculiarities of the used light source.
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LED Lighting Trends in 2012: The Rise of Lighting Solutions?
LEDs have already reached a sufficient “price/performance” level to enable massive adoption in LCD display applications. General Lighting applications will be the next and largest market for LED light sources. But the fact is that General Lighting can only take off if the cost/performance of LED based products can beat incumbent technologies. In that context, many of the lighting domain actors are developing new services in order to add innovation and value to Solid State Lighting, and differentiate them from traditional technologies. Will 2012 be the rise of Lighting Solutions?
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LED Technology – Changing the Component Business in the Area of Lighting
In an interview with LED professional, Volker Neu, the General Manager of LED at Vossloh-Schwabe Optoelectronic explains the influence LED technology has on the component business in the area of lighting. Internal and external changes and alterations are necessary to be able to adjust to new technologies. Innovations and standards are especially important for moving the business of LED solutions forward.
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