Technologies | Luminaires | Outdoor Applications | Nov 26, 2015

Gunshot Detection for Lighting Fixtures

Cities and their emergency responders will soon have a new way to deploy gunshot detection technology and be able to respond to incidents and react faster to protect their residents. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between GE Lighting and SST, Inc., developer of the ShotSpotter™ crime detection and location suite, lays ground to embedding sophisticated ShotSpotter technology into GE’s intelligent LED street lights. Read more »

Technologies | Engineering | Systems | Mar 21, 2014

Not Just Light Generation - Xicato Calls It "Internet of Lights" or Lighting 2.0

Xicato, in cooperation with Echelon will demonstrate a new integrated controls approach. What Xicato understnds when saying "Internet of Lights" is already explained shortly on their website. If you are interested in topic like this, don't miss LpR 43. Read more »

Street Lighting | Lighting Applications | Outdoor Applications | Jan 14, 2014

Cree LED Technology Lands at Munich Airport

MUNICH -- Cree, a market leader in LED lighting solutions, is providing LED technology to power the apron and exterior lighting systems of Munich Airport (FMG), the seventh largest international hub in Europe, serving 38 million passengers per year. Cree collaborated with ewo, a manufacturer of high-quality lighting systems for public areas, whose F32 flood lights are replacing high-pressure sodium lamps in the airport’s high mast systems. The F32 was specifically designed to seamlessly integrate into the existing apron lighting at Munich Airport, and each one is illuminated by as many as 288 Cree® XLamp® XT-E LEDs. Read more »