Part 1: How Many Studies Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
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Part 1: How Many Studies Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

March 18, 2024 How studies in vision inform lighting standards at night By Noah Sabatier Changing a light bulb in our home is perhaps the most simple task in which we can still credit ourselves for performing household maintenance. The amount of thought such an operation receives rarely extends beyond looking for the most efficient…

Avegant Announces Breakthrough Spotlight™ Display Technology for Augmented Reality
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Avegant Announces Breakthrough Spotlight™ Display Technology for Augmented Reality

February 6, 2024 Introducing the world’s first LCoS light engine with adaptive LED illumination. Spotlight™ from Avegant display technology delivers up to 90% illumination power savings and 10x local contrast compared to conventional LCoS. Avegant announces Spotlight™ display technology – the world’s first adaptive LED illumination architecture for LCoS.  By dynamically illuminating regions of a LCoS…

Toggled COO Dan Hollenkamp’s Five Smart Buildings Market Predictions for 2024
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Toggled COO Dan Hollenkamp’s Five Smart Buildings Market Predictions for 2024

January 2, 2024 Dan Hollenkamp, COO of Toggled, recently made five very interesting predictions regarding the development of the smart buildings market in 2024. 2024 will be a big year for smart building rebates and incentives. If there’s one thing the feds, states and utilities all have in common, it’s a keen desire to get buildings operating…

Launching New Products Requires Sales Investment for a Successful Market Introduction
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Launching New Products Requires Sales Investment for a Successful Market Introduction

Gene Biben December 5, 2023 Leading manufacturers seek to bring new products to market on a regular basis as a means of driving sales. Further, these new products are based upon changes to the NEC (National Electrical Code), safety, productivity, new installation methodologies, or new functionality that they feel will benefit the market. For these companies,…

Official COP5 Position of The Clean Lighting Coalition on Decisions Regarding Mercury-Containing Fluorescent Lighting
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Official COP5 Position of The Clean Lighting Coalition on Decisions Regarding Mercury-Containing Fluorescent Lighting

November 20, 2023 The prompt global phase out of fluorescent lamps is technologically feasible and economically justified due to the rapid development of LED lighting over the last five years. Energy-efficient retrofit LED lamps can replace fluorescents in virtually all applications. If adopted, the cumulative (2025-2050) global benefits of phasing-out all fluorescents would: According to…

Discover Archi-Color from Meteor: Dynamic Color Changing Technology at Resorts World Las Vegas
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Discover Archi-Color from Meteor: Dynamic Color Changing Technology at Resorts World Las Vegas

November 8, 2023 This $4.3 billion property development features 3 hotels, more than 40 restaurants, multiple bars, a pool complex, a casino, and a 5,000-person music venue. Visitors also cannot miss the massive 100,000 sq. ft. LED display on the West Tower, which showcases upcoming live events, concerts, and promotions. Arrive in Style If you’re…

Siemens to Invest $500+ Million in U.S. Manufacturing
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Siemens to Invest $500+ Million in U.S. Manufacturing

Munich, Germany-based Siemens has announced an investment of US$150 million in a new high-tech manufacturing plant in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas to help power American data centers and critical infrastructure. The new plant will produce state-of-the-art electrical equipment and will enable accelerated growth of U.S. data centers, which is being driven by the exponential adoption of…

Appropriate Planning and Support for a Global Transition to LED Lighting: Position Paper by the GLA
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Appropriate Planning and Support for a Global Transition to LED Lighting: Position Paper by the GLA

November 2, 2023 The Global Lighting Association (GLA) is committed to the reduction of mercury (Hg) in the world’s-built environment through a successful worldwide transition to LED light sources and phasing-out the use of fluorescent lamps.   The fluorescent lamp was introduced as an improvement over incandescent and halogen lamps. The mercury vapor in the…

Leading the Way to LED Retrofits – Simplify LED Upgrades with the New Lutron Ballast Retrofit Kit by C-Flex
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Leading the Way to LED Retrofits – Simplify LED Upgrades with the New Lutron Ballast Retrofit Kit by C-Flex

October 19, 2023 Lutron Electronics, the global leader in smart lighting and shading control, is pleased to announce its new Lutron ballast retrofit kit by C-Flex. As the lighting market sunsets fluorescent technology to embrace the advantages of LEDs, and legislation restricts the sale of fluorescent lamps, Lutron continues its leadership position in the industry…

Enlighted Reveals New AI Capabilities for Building IoT
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Enlighted Reveals New AI Capabilities for Building IoT

Enlighted, a leading proptech company owned by Siemens, has announced the expanded use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its Location Intelligence solution and new additions to the Enlighted partner ecosystem.  With the introduction of AI models to Enlighted’s Real Time Location Services (RTLS) system, the accuracy of finding assets and personnel is improved to greater…

How Prepared Are Distributors for the Future?
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How Prepared Are Distributors for the Future?

Mark Lien, LC, CLEP, CLMC, HBDP, LEED AP and President of Augmented Illumination, knows a thing or two about lighting technology. Not only does he serve on multiple industry boards and executive committees on the topic, but he also has experience managing the educational centers for Hubbell and Cooper. Just last week, he received an…

Less Is More When It Comes to Casambi Controls
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Less Is More When It Comes to Casambi Controls

When looking at the electrical in a traditional lighting controls installation, there are some non-negotiables to ensure the lights run properly. At bare minimum, there’s a switch and a room controller which branches out to a network of hard-wired fixtures. In its full glory, there are dimming panels, timer panels, hubs, data wires and more….

UL Solutions Lighting Issues Standards Update
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UL Solutions Lighting Issues Standards Update

Lighting Standards Updates June 2023 Review UL Solutions recently presented a midyear review of changes in standards relevant to the lighting industry. For a quick update, here is a compilation of the latest updates provided in the webinar. For full details, please watch the midyear review.                 UL 153, the Standard for Portable Electric Luminaires…

WWE Headquarters Becomes Smarter
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WWE Headquarters Becomes Smarter

When World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) employees returned to the company’s Stamford, Connecticut headquarters full-time last month, there were impressive changes in their working environment.   California-based Enlighted, a leading proptech company owned by Siemens, was tapped by the WWE to support its vision of a smart, energy-efficient headquarters by implementing an intelligent lighting control system…

TALQ Consortium Releases New Version of Smart City Protocol
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TALQ Consortium Releases New Version of Smart City Protocol

The TALQ Consortium has published version 2.5.0 of its Smart City protocol. The continuous evolution of the protocol guarantees the adaptation of the interface standard on a global level to meet changing market needs. Version 2.5.0 introduces a new Lighting Asset Management profile, which addresses a long-standing demand from cities to be able to manage…

New Research Suggests Light Therapy Could Delay Heart Disease
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New Research Suggests Light Therapy Could Delay Heart Disease

While the theory has not yet been tested on humans, a University of Buffalo (UB) study published in the journal Lasers in Surgery and Medicine suggests light therapy might be utilized to slow down cardiovascular aging and significantly delay the onset of diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure. The benefits of…