LED Expo Thailand 2018 Opened Up Growth Opportunities
LED Expo Thailand 2018, ASEAN’s largest exhibition on LED products & technology concluded on an affirmative note with new records. This key business and networking event that took place in Challenger 1, Impact Exhibition & Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand, served as the platform to showcase products and technical innovations from the LED industry.
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MaxLite Presents LiteBars™ as Linkable Lighting with Limitless Design Possibilities
Compact, linkable and easy to mount, LiteBars are the perfect solution for under cabinet, toe kick, cove, display, wall washing and other accent and indirect lighting applications. LiteBars can be linked for continuous runs of light up to 40 feet long, with near-imperceptible breaks in light. The ENERGY STAR certified bars are designed with a patent-pending, integrated connector that results in a separation of just 1/8-inch between linked bars. New-generation driver technology delivers smooth and even dimming performance across the entire connected run.
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Douglas Lighting Controls Introduces LitePak™ 2
Douglas Lighting Controls, a member of the Panasonic family of companies, today announced the introduction of its next generation LitePak™, a cost-effective, fully digital and dimmable lighting control solution designed for use in a variety of retail and commercial spaces, including gas stations, convenience stores, warehouses and auto dealerships.
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Elmos' LIN Controller for Flicker-Free RGB LED Applications in Vehicle Interior
The Elmos IC E521.36 enables a variable, cost-efficient and very space-saving design of RGB LED modules for the connection to a LIN bus. The device includes a powerful 16-bit microcontroller with 32 kbyte NVM, 128-byte EEPROM and a LIN transceiver that meets the requirements up to LIN 2.2. The integrated microcontroller can be programmed with IAR's widely used software development environment. The addressing in the network takes place with the integrated BSM auto-addressing (bus shunt method).
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Dutch Town Is First in World to Install Bat-Friendly LED Street Lights
Signify, the world leader in lighting, today completed its first bat-friendly lighting installation in a town. Rare bats in Zuidhoek-Nieuwkoop, in the Netherlands can now go about their nocturnal business undisturbed thanks to new connected LED street lights designed specially to emit light that does not affect their natural senses and rythms. The street lights use a special light recipe that is perceived by bats as darkness, yet which provides enough illumination for residents, helping make the roads and pavements safer, while being highly energy efficient. The project illustrates Signify’s leadership in developing innovative LED technology that is both smart and supports conservation and sustainability.
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Everlight Showcases new Signage LEDs at InfoComm 2018
Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry, will attend InfoComm US for the first time to demonstrate the indoor and outdoor components for LED signage, including all types of dimension, package, viewing angle and performance, such as EAPL1010RGBA0-ELB, EAPL1515RGBA0-ELB and EAST0707xx-ELB, demonstrating at booth C3657.
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Fulham Introduces EZ Exit Emergency Pathway Lighting Kit
Fulham Co., Inc., a leading supplier of lighting components and electronics for commercial and specialty applications, is expanding its HotSpot line with a new category of value-added emergency lighting products that extend building safety lighting. The new EZ Exit Lighting Kit is being offered as an add-on to conventional exit signs, lighting a path to safety using add-on linear LEDs lights integrated into existing T-grid ceilings.
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Luminus’ Spectrally Tuned LED Light Sources Create New Market Opportunities
Luminus Devices, Inc. has released its third proprietary spectral technology, PerfectWhite™, which closely replicates the visual characteristics of halogen lamps (3000 K). When compared to halogen, PerfectWhite was preferred by lighting designers in testing at both Light + Building and Lightfair.
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ULT's Everline PW Linear LED Drivers Offer Functionality and Flexibility with Wireless Programming
Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc., a global leader in lighting and a member of the Panasonic Group, recently introduced its PW Series of wirelessly programmable Everline LED drivers for indoor linear lighting applications.
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TE Connectivity Offers New LED Holders Compatible With Most COB-LEDs
TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity and sensors, has added the LUMAWISE Z45 LED Holder to its range of holders for chip-on-board (COB) LEDs. The new second-generation LED holder from TE is made in a high-strength, highly reflective halogen-free flame retardant thermoplastic (PBT). The Z45 LED holder is 5mm smaller in diameter compared to TE’s Z50 holder and uses adhesive for fast and easy assembly of the COB LEDs in the luminaire.
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Luminus Enters UV-C LED Disinfection and Sterilization Segment with Two 280 nm Emitters
Luminus Devices, Inc., has expanded its ultraviolet (UV) LED portfolio with two new 280 nm devices intended for the medical and health and well-being product segments. The standard footprint 3535 surface mount emitter is a 350 mA device with peak output up to 60 mW. The second ultra-compact emitter is 1.3 mm by 1.3 mm and only 0.85 mm tall; it delivers 3 mW at 20 mA and peak output of 11 mW at 100 mA.
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Luminus Adds "Horticulture White" to Horticulture Offering that Includes UV & Far Red
Luminus Devices, Inc., a global manufacturer of high-performance LEDs and solid-state light sources, has expanded its horticulture LED portfolio with new SST-20 series white LEDs to complement the extensive range of discrete wavelengths from UVA (365nm) to Far Red (730nm).
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Functional Intelligence for Smart Lighting with Mobile Apps
OSRAM is innovating commercial lighting with mobile apps designed for lighting professionals and end-users. Easy configuration means you spend less time installing.
OSRAM’s user-friendly apps empower users with switching, brightness adjustments and the ability to change color temperature from their smartphone.
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LEDs – The Future of Horticultural Lighting
Greenhouse farms may not be a new technology but with an every growing world population and the move towards sustainability, intensive yet highly efficient and standardized food production will increasingly become the norm in future years opening a potentially huge new agricultural sector that incorporates the latest technologies from the bioscience and engineering fields. Advancements in lighting, heating, watering and control systems have allowed the construction of vast, artificially lit, indoor greenhouses.
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WHITE PAPER - Intelligent Buildings: Smart Lighting as the Backbone for Buildings Automation
With a growing focus on human-centric workspaces, building owners and operators are looking beyond energy efficiency, and considering smart lighting as the backbone for advanced building automation applications.
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Flicker-Free Control of Individual LEDs in Matrix Headlights
LEDs combine design flexibility with practical, robust circuitry, enabling automotive designers
to produce striking headlight designs matched by exceptionally long life and performance.
Keith Szolusha, Sr. Design Leader for LED driver products at Linear Technology, and now part of
Analog Devices explains how automobile designers are increasingly incorporating LEDs in lighting
because they can be arranged in distinctive eye-catching designs - helping distinguish new models
from old, or high end from economy.
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WHITE PAPER - From The Economist: IoT-Enabled Buildings are Still in Construction
Facilities management companies are investing in IoT to transform buildings worldwide. Smart devices—from smart lights to sensors in soap dispensers—are providing valuable data to help companies optimize business operations, improve space utilization and more.
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WHITE PAPER - 4 Key Considerations for Your IoT Strategy
The digital universe is expected to grow exponentially. Much of this data will be generated by billions of IoT devices. Do you have an IoT strategy that’s ready to take advantage of these data? Download this whitepaper and get details on the 4 key considerations for building a strong IoT foundation.
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Key Principles for the Ecodesign Framework to Continue to Deliver Substantial Energy Savings
The European Parliament adopted today an own-initiative report on the implementation of the Ecodesign Directive, while the European Commission is now more than halfway through the 2016-2019 Ecodesign Work Plan.
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OpenAIS Symposium on IoT Lighting – Final Project Results
Last week saw the OpenAIS project, supported by the EU Horizon2020, host their finale symposium in the famous De Witte Dame, in Eindhoven. Delegates from all over Europe came together to participate, experience and discuss the results of the project.
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Light is the Efficiency Booster
In order to cut costs while providing high-quality light, many luminaire manufacturers today rely on robust LED components and intelligent control technology from OSRAM. Our future-proof lighting systems reduce the power consumption as well as the maintenance effort.
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Crestron Unveiled SolarSync™ Color Temperature Daylight Sensor
Crestron, a global leader in commercial lighting control technology, unveiled SolarSync (GLS-LCCT), its new daylight sensor with correlated color temperature (CCT) and a luminous intensity meter.
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New IOT-READY™ Alliance to Establish Industry Standard for IoT Sensor Installation in LED Lighting Fixtures
Industry-leading organizations like Enlighted, Tridonic and DesignLights Consortium™ are working to establish a standard for “IoT-Ready™” light fixtures that can easily be upgraded with sensors and connectivity modules after installation.
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Philips Lighting Acquires Chinese Urban Lighting Company LiteMagic Technologies
Philips Lighting (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Shenzhen LiteMagic Technologies Co., Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer and seller of lighting luminaires and control systems for urban and façade lighting.
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High Bay LED Driver of Efficiency 95%
LIFUD just launched its 1ST generation of high bay driver, LF-FHBxxxYD/YE, for European market and Asian Pacific market. There’s a 12V cable reserved for connecting the driver to smart modules like sensors, Zigbee modules, DALI modules, etc. This 12V cable makes it flexible to meet various demands of smart control application.
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Cree Expands SmartCast Intelligence Platform; Collaborates with Synapse Wireless
Durham, North Carolina-based LED lighting firm Cree, Inc. reports that it is expanding its SmartCast Intelligence Platform™ to include connected wireless capabilities for smart building solutions. Such smart building solutions can provide building automation and control network (BACnet) connectivity, advanced lighting controls, and building analytics.
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American Bright Introduces NEW EzyLED
American Bright, a global LED lighting solutions manufacturer, today announced a new series of EzyLED 3030. EzyLEDs are connected in parallel, and directly driven by a conventional 12V /24V DC source. For this series of low-to-medium powered LEDs, the IC is built into the LED chip design which dramatically reduces the additional circuitry and eliminates the need for on-the board IC driver and other passive components. Without the need for extra resistors, bridge rectifiers and current regulative diode, inventory management is dramatically reduced making this an ideal solution due to its simplicity and ease of use.
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Cree® XLamp® CMT LEDs Deliver up to 45 Percent Higher Lumen Density than Competition
The new CMT LEDs extend Cree’s metal-based chip-on-board (COB) LED technology to the most prevalent COB form factors. Cree’s XLamp High Current LED Arrays provide up to 45% more lumen density and up to 17% higher efficacy, and feature an innovative metal substrate technology that delivers higher reliability than competing metal COBs. With more than 6,000 hours of LM-80 data, the expanded family of LEDs enables lighting manufacturers to upgrade designs for track, downlight and outdoor lighting.
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BJB Launches Innovative Single-row LED Optic Series for Linear and Area Lighting with Slim Design and Integrated Fixing Elements
Optics are a critical part of the lighting system, especially when it comes to efficiency and precision beam control. Even the most efficient light sources would be rendered useless without high-quality optics. They enable the designer to extract light from the source and precisely direct it through key vertical and horizontal planes. Optics can mitigate light loss and ensure that the pre-defined light distribution for specific applications and standards are maintained.
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Osram Accelerates Its Technological Shift and Explores Future Markets
“The first half of the fiscal year was challenging due to various factors. However, the long-term growth trend remains intact, while the reorganization and the technological shift are continuing,” said Olaf Berlien, CEO of OSRAM Licht AG.
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Osram Launches First Product in New SensiLUM™ Wireless Integrated Sensor Product Family Designed for Smart Building Applications
Osram, a global high-tech lighting company, today announced the launch of SensiLUM™, a wireless integrated sensor product family. SensiLUM sensors, which will debut at LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) 2018, enable occupancy detection, daylight harvesting and individual or group control of luminaires over a mesh network based on ZigBee® standards. The SensiLUM sensor fits into an industry standard ½-inch knockout in any luminaire. It is compatible with the ENCELIUM® EXTEND Networked Light Management System (LMS). Osram will be located in Booth #1002 at LFI, the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, to be held May 8-10 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
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Accredited Quality for Colorimetric Quantities
Since 2009 Instrument Systems has received accreditation to DIN EN ISO / IEC 17025 for photometric tests and now offers its certified measurement solutions with the flexible scope of application of Category III.
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Smart Control with GRE’s Dimming Modules
Smart and sustainable technologies have been on the forefront at the international lighting events. With the advance of smart devices and return on investment requirements, the smart building is widely becoming the new standard building model.
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Thermal Simulation Tool for LED Design Requirements
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are used and accepted in many areas of lighting technology today.
But without the right thermal design, LED lamps would not be viable. Chris Aldham, Development
Manager at 6SigmaET explains why keeping key components within narrow temperature limits is often
critical, why this makes thermal simulation important to LED device designers, and how to select the
right thermal management simulation tool for this task.
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LFI 2018 Award: Ledra Brands's Wireless Beam Shaping Downlight
TOP Three Twitter Video Tweets from Lightfair International in Chicago
Most viewed LFI 2018 video tweets @LEDprofessional.
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LFI 2018 Award: Crestron's SolarSync Outdoor Sensor
International and Cross-Industry Projects such as OpenAIS are Absolutely Crucial to the Success of Connected Lighting
Interview with Jens Herter, Coordinator Alliances & Funding at Tridonic.
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Cree Brings Highest Reliability to Broadest Family of Metal COB LED Designs
Cree announces an expansion of the XLamp® High Current LED Array family with new CMT LEDs that extend Cree’s latest metal-based chip-on-board (COB) LED technology to the most prevalent COB form factors. In addition to providing up to 45 percent more lumen density and up to 17 percent higher efficacy, all Cree® XLamp High Current LED Arrays feature an innovative metal substrate technology that delivers higher reliability than competing metal COBs. With more than 6,000 hours of LM-80 data available, the expanded family of LEDs enables lighting manufacturers to immediately upgrade their designs for DesignLights Consortium® and ENERGY STAR® eligible applications, such as track, downlight and outdoor lighting.
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Samsung Electronics Offers LED Component Solutions for Horticulture Lighting
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced digital component solutions, today announced that it is now offering LED component solutions that have been optimized for horticulture lighting. The company’s new horticulture LED lineup features a newly developed “red LED” package, as well as additions to key existing Samsung “white LED” package and module families to include horticulture lighting specifications.
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LG Electronics Unveiled Blue Light Reducing Technology at LFI
LG Electronics USA is introducing energy-efficient LED lighting troffers with new LG “Safe Blue” technology, a first-of-its-kind innovation designed to help reduce light sensitivity, eye strain and fatigue. Demonstrated this week at 2018 LIGHTFAIR International industry trade show (Booth #1131), this new technology reduces the amount of blue light wavelengths that are common in conventional LED and standard lighting options. This cutting-edge solution can help improve occupant comfort in various commercial settings such as schools, hospitals and office buildings.
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TE Connectivity at LFI - The Next Generation of Solutions for Horticultural Lighting
TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity and sensors, will demonstrate how it is illuminating the industry with its latest connectivity solutions for horticultural lighting at Lightfair International (LFI) in Chicago, USA from May 8 – 10, 2018. At the TE booth (#2563), visitors can see how the company’s solutions are helping lighting installers and manufacturers grow their business with TE’s latest components for horticultural lighting.
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Osram - 40% Increased Efficiency of Green LEDs Improves Battery Life of Fitness Trackers
The significant drop in light output (green gap phenomenon) exhibited by green LEDs has often been the cause of efficiency problems and high costs in customer applications. For its indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-based green LEDs, Osram Opto Semiconductors has now succeeded in reducing the typical forward voltages by around 600 mV drastically. With a simultaneous increase in optical output power, customers instantly benefit from improvements in efficiency of up to 40 percent compared to predecessor products across the entire UX:3 portfolio from Osram.
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Molex and Deco Lighting Announce Collaboration
LED fixtures bring architectural lighting, quality, versatility and IoT / PoE-readiness to the Molex lineup
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Silvair Announces New Partners and Expands the Range of Interoperable Lighting Components Based on the Qualified Bluetooth Mesh
Chicago, May 7, 2018 - Silvair, a pioneer in lighting control technology and a leading provider of qualified Bluetooth mesh, announces that together with its partners it will be extending the range of lighting products supported by Silvair’s technology. An ecosystem of interoperable products unified by the Bluetooth mesh standard is, therefore, expanding to redefine the smart lighting experience in commercial spaces.
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LensVector Showcases Dynamic Beam Shaping at LFI
LensVector will change the scene at Lightfair International this May as luminaire manufacturers and control companies demonstrate breakthrough Dynamic Beam Shaping technology.
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Matrix Platform with Integrated Light Guides for Visual Comfort and Breakthrough Output and Efficiency
Lumileds announced today that its Matrix Platform light engines can achieve breakthrough lumen outputs and efficiencies, using its next generation Integrated Light Guide Technology. The revolutionary Integrated Light Guide Technology provides non-pixelated illumination for visual comfort and the flexibility to select tailored light distribution patterns in the design of indoor and outdoor luminaires.
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Multi-Pixel LED Technology Opens New Horizons for Smart Lighting Applications
The evolution of Multi-Pixel LED technology has initiated a giant leap in the development of intelligent
lighting systems which are most visible in the automotive industry. Now the first hybrid LED provides
smart headlights with more than 1000 individually controllable pixels. Ralph Bertram, who is working on
advanced LED device concepts, and Norbert Harendt, who is developing optics solutions for general
lighting at Osram Opto Semiconductors, show that automotive lighting is just one of the potential areas
in which intelligent selective pixel control can be applied. Options for the use in general lighting, such as
information display for outdoor, indoor, retail or industrial applications, are very versatile.
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A.A.G. Stucchi Presents New IP66/68 Connectors
A.A.G. Stucchi, an Italian company and leader in the lighting components industry, is ready to present 2 new series of IP66/68 connections: 3800 series of mini connectors and 610 series of distributors. The two product series have their very compact design in common.
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