Students start dorm lighting accessories company

After realizing how harsh and uncomfortable fluorescent lighting in dorm rooms can be, Iovine and Young Academy freshmen Nina Cragg, Jesse Walk, Andy Wood and Hana Morrison decided there was need for change. They took advantage of Glo Up, a company  originally created as a yearlong project for their “Disruptive Innovation” class, which requires groups of students to come up with a product and sell 100 units of it. The four decided they wanted to focus on making dorm rooms more inviting and comfortable. Wood was inspired to undertake the project because of his suitemate, who majors in lighting design, after watching him experiment with colored theater lighting gels in their room.

Osram warns that 2019 revenue will tumble

Osram issued a financial warning.In what has become a familiar occurrence over the last year, the world’s second-largest lighting company this time said that revenue for the fiscal year 2019 ending Sept. 30 will decline by between 11% and 14%, and that adjusted EBITDA margin for the year will fall well below the previously anticipated range, between 8% and 10% rather than between 12% and 14%.

Berkshire Lightscape Turns Focus To Lighting Up Park Square

Berkshire Lightscapes is honing in on a plan to add lighting to Park Square. The non-profit raised a little more than $100,000 for its plan to add lighting to City Hall, Dunham Mall, and Park Square. The Dunham Mall lights were added in the winter, decorating the walkway with rotating snowflakes, and Park Square is next. Dan Frering from Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer (N.Y.) Polytechnic Institute designed multiple concepts to highlight key areas of Park Square with new lighting.

This beastly LED light bulb puts out 4,000 lumens of eye-searing light

Due to the physical placement of LEDs within the bulb and the design of their electronics and heat sink, many LED lights are built with an unfortunate hang-up that causes light to shine primarily in one direction: away from the socket (i.e., straight up when installed in the typical lamp, or straight down when installed in a pendant). Is this what Thomas Edison had in mind? Absolutely not! SANSI proposes a solution in the form of its Omni-directional Bulb, a unique, unconventional, and exceptionally rotund lighting option that is designed to spread light more democratically.

Downtown library installs blue lighting to deter drug users

After a test run which began last year, the Spokane Public Library has installed blue lighting in the men's bathrooms at their downtown location. Sccording to a spokesman for the library the lighting has been successfully used in other cities to deter drug users, specifically users that inject drugs into their blood system. The blue lighting makes it difficult to find a vein.

NIST researchers boost intensity of nanowire LEDs

Nanowire gurus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that, thanks to a special type of shell, produce five times higher light intensity than do comparable LEDs based on a simpler shell design. Ultraviolet LEDs are used in a growing number of applications such as polymer curing, water purification and medical disinfection. Micro-LEDs are also of interest for visual displays. NIST staff are experimenting with nanowire-based LEDs for scanning-probe tips intended for electronics and biology applications.

Smart Cities Focus on LED Lights

Cities are upgrading streetlights to LEDs, but they are still on a slow road to the internet of things. Startup Telensa and Signify — formerly Philips lighting division — have installed a total of nearly 2 million LED streetlights to date, with Signify commanding a slightly larger share. That’s a drop in the bucket of an estimated 360 million streetlights worldwide. The two companies are just starting to see movement putting IoT sensors into the poles.

Lighting Upgrade Helps Protect a Priceless Work of Art

How do you properly illuminate a priceless work of art? Museums around the world have found answers to that very question. LOOP Lighting, a New York-based lighting design company, needed to do the same when it took on re-configuring the lighting system for the Nevelson Chapel at Saint Peter’s Church in New York. The midtown Manhattan church that houses the chapel, Saint Peter’s Church, was completed in 1977 as part of the development of Citigroup Center.

L.J. Star has a new hands-free LED light to improve inline brewery sight inspections

L.J. Star has introduced yet another great product for craft brewers — its exclusive LumiFlo LED light. Designed to improve visibility for inline sight inspections, the LumiFlo LED light is an innovative hands-free solution that can be easily attached to nearly any inline full view sight glasses in process fluid lines. Sight glasses are used to observe process steps in a wide variety of industries, ranging from heavy-industry chemical plants to sleek pharmaceutical facilities. Whether for witnessing mixing, verifying flow, observing reactions and documenting cleaning in material processing, utilities or food and beverage industries, fool-proof process observation depends on sight glass windows, sight glass flow indicators and efficient lighting designs.

HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) Presents A Bright Future with Smart Lighting and Innovative Technology

The HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) will be on stage from 6 to 9 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. It is expected that more than 1,400 exhibitors will gather at the fair, offering global buyers an exclusive sourcing platform for all finished lighting products, parts and accessories.

Responding to the development trend of smart living, a brand-new thematic zone, Innobuild, will be presented in the fair. It will introduce ground-breaking initiative for building technology, showcase practical construction tools, as well as smart and green building materials and hardware.

The Hall of Aurora will continue to be the spotlight of the fair, showcasing eye-catching and forward-looking quality lighting products and technology from some 200 top-notch brands include MLS, MOSO Electronics and SKY-LIGHTING.
Another highlight is the Smart Lighting & Solutions Zone, which will showcase advanced lighting systems, remote control and smart lighting solutions, with a special focus on “IoT Lighting Supply Chain” organised by the Shanghai Pudong Intelligent Lighting Association. The IoT Lighting Supply Chain will showcase innovative elements such as IoT platforms, artificial intelligence and smart lighting systems from renowned industry leaders such as Tuya and Broadlink. The Horticultural Lighting Zone will showcase a wide range of grow lights and garden lights.

How a wee Scottish village is shining a light — literally — on rising seas

Named for Lochmaddy's latitude and longitude, Lines (57° 59N, 7° 16W) is the creation of two Finnish artists, Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho. They've constructed horizontal LED arrays above low-lying areas and bridges that will be submerged if the Earth's temperatures continue to rise, and at corresponding high-water locations on the sides of endangered structures.

7 Mid-Century Modern Lighting Designs For Every Room

Mid-century designs have been pretty much having a "moment" since their conception. The styles from the '50s and '60s have been upgraded and modernized over the years, keeping the designs relevant and forever enviable. The lighting, in particular, is a striking throwback that will serve as the perfect retro touch no matter how modern the rest of your space is. From chandeliers to pendants to floor lamps, mid-century modern lighting can find a place in every room of your home.

Big Four Bridge goes dark after lightning strike knocks out LED lights

The Big Four Bridge connecting Louisville and Jeffersonville has gone dark at night after a lightning strike knocked out its colorful lights earlier this month. The pedestrian bridge was struck by lightning during a March 9 storm, which fried key LED light components, said Gary Pepper, director of facilities for the Waterfront Development Corp., which manages the bridge's lighting system.

The first “Trade Talks” webinar focuses on LED lighting

The first Soundings Trade Only “Trade Talks” webinar will be presented by IMTRA Corporation. It will be held Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 12:00 US EST. The free 30-minute webinar will focus on upgrading LED lighting for both a boat’s interior and exterior. The webinar will include lighting upgrades and include components that are needed in an upgrade, how the work can be profitable for boatyards, service centers, and mobile installers, and designing packages that make sense for the consumer. Here is the registration.

Food Bank for Larimer County to distribute free LED light bulbs

Efficiency Works plans to work with the Food Bank for Larimer County to provide free LED light bulbs to local food banks. Income-qualified customers in Fort Collins and Loveland can get free energy- and cost-saving LED light bulbs through the food banks locations. A delivery of 3,800 LED replacement bulbs will be made Monday at the Food Bank location at 1301 Blue Spruce Drive, Fort Collins.

Cree: Goodbye Lighting Products, What Does The Future Hold?

Cree has reached a deal with Ideal Industries to sell its Lighting Products business, thereby getting rid of its LED lighting fixtures, lamps and corporate lighting solutions. The reported deal tag comes in at $310 million, but involves an initial upfront cash payment of $225 million, as earn-outs of a maximum of $85 million can be achieved depending on the EBITDA performance in two years' time from now.

Tiny Waterproof Flexible LED Light, Now on Kickstarter

This $40 smart socket lets you control regular light bulbs with your smartphone

The home is getting smarter, and perhaps the easiest thing to give intelligence to is home lighting. There are plenty of smart lighting products out there – ranging from smart light bulbs to smart light strips to smart light switches, but iDevices has released a product that aims to give your previously dumb lighting some smarts without the need to replace all your bulbs or switches. That product is called the iDevices Socket, and it essentially screws into any regular light socket, after which you can, in turn, screw any regular light bulb into the socket itself. With the socket, those lights will get smart dimming controls and you’ll get the ability to control them with your phone or voice – plus the device has a nice nightlight built right into it.

‘Reverse trick’ for LEDs could keep future computers cool

In a finding that runs counter to a common assumption in physics, researchers ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away. The approach could lead to new solid-state cooling technology for future microprocessors, which will have so many transistors packed into a small space that current methods can’t remove heat quickly enough.

Philadelphia Museum of Art is swapping out 11,000 bulbs and fixtures for LED ones

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has reopened its Chinese galleries to literally glowing reviews after 10 months of renovations, during which a new LED lighting system was installed, among other improvements. Visitors can now better appreciate the colorful painted details on lacquered cabinets and vivid expressions on porcelain figures. Artifacts that were covered in grime at one point now gleam under the new lights, thanks to the work of a large team of conservators who worked around the clock to make sure the 7,000 objects in the museum’s collection were ready for their closeups.

DLC issues minor revisions to horticultural LED lighting regulatory policy

The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) has emerged as the most influential market-transformation program in the evolution of lighting to LED sources and has even now addressed niche applications such as horticultural solid-state lighting (SSL). The organization, with roots in northeastern US utilities, has moved far beyond its original focus on commercial and industrial lighting. Most recently, the DLC has issued a policy update relative to horticultural lighting with a temporary reprieve in terms of some reporting requirements but longer-term rigid policy in energy efficiency and efficacy related specifically to the horticultural niche.

You Can Power a Calculator With Some LEDs

Suppose you are getting ready to take a physics test. Everything is set—but wait! Your calculator battery died. What do you do? If you're extra crafty, you could grab an LED (light-emitting diode) and use it to get your calculator to function again. I know this seems crazy, but it's true. In fact, I did indeed run a calculator using some LEDs, which I will show you below. Of course, to really understand how this works we need to look at what an LED actually is. I'm sure you have a few in the smartphone in your pocket. Many video displays use LEDs. It's very possible you've got one screwed into your ceiling light. They are everywhere.

Optronics’ Purilite Light-Shield LED Lamps Will Reduce Exposure to Allergens and Pathogens

Optronics International will unveil its new LED-based Purilite Light-Shield decontaminating light. The LED technology promises to bring a revolutionary level of hygiene to vehicles everywhere, while improving air quality and enhancing worker safety in the process.

Many who work in, on and around vehicles are exposed to microscopic airborne pollutants so small that they evade the body’s natural defense mechanisms, penetrating deep into respiratory and circulatory systems, and causing damage to lungs, hearts and brains. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has developed ambient air quality trends for particle pollution, also called Particulate Matter (PM).

PM 2.5 describes fine inhalable solid particles and liquid droplets, with diameters that are generally 2.5 micrometers and smaller. These particles include many types of mold and bacteria found in vehicles transporting food. PM2.5 also includes soot emitted by diesel engines and APUs.

Purilite Light-Shield LED lamps generate a constant stream of negative ions, created by a proprietary coating applied to their LEDs. The lamp provides decontamination and sanitization functions, while producing optimal light quality for human vision, approaching the color temperature of natural sunlight.

Four smart LED light strips to make your house cooler

If you've got a reliable internet connection, smart lights are a cheap way to make your home rich-dude-penthouse levels of cool. You can adjust the brightness of your lights, and most devices allow you to set the mood by choosing from more than 16 million colors. Over the past few months, I tested some sweet lighting options that require no external hub and most work with your existing smart home assistants. One example is the Sylvania LED light strip is Apple HomeKit-enabled, meaning you can change colors and settings with Siri or through the app. It connects over Bluetooth, and comes with three 2-foot flex strips with adhesive on the back.

The 3 Best Light Bulbs For Bathrooms With No Windows

In any room without windows, choosing the right lighting is imperative. But, it's especially true with a bathroom. Not only is your bathroom a moisture-rich space (and moisture plus darkness equals bacteria), but whether you're shaving or flossing, you'll need light to see what you're doing. The best light bulbs for bathrooms with no windows, then, are bright, white bulbs that can illuminate your entire space. When looking at the light bulb specs, one of the most important things you'll want to consider is lumens. The term lumens refers to the amount of brightness a bulb gives off — for reference an average light bulb gives off around 800 lumens

America’s Light Bulb Revolution

Solar panels and wind turbines get a lot of attention, but a more inconspicuous instrument is helping to reshape America’s energy economy right now: The humble light bulb. Over the past decade, traditional incandescent bulbs, those distinctive glass orbs with glowing wire centers, have been rapidly replaced by more energy-efficient lighting. The shift has driven down electricity demand in American homes, saving consumers money and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. But energy efficiency advocates worry that the Trump administration could slow the pace of this lighting revolution.

The pros and cons of adding LED lighting to your photography kit

LEDs have clearly come a long way, but why don’t we see more of them day to day in our photography? As photographers, we use flash a lot of the time and we even use the occasional tungsten ambient light too. So is there a place for the LED light in our kit? For me, there are a couple of reasons I’m hesitant to switch to LEDs anytime soon. First off, they are nowhere near as powerful as flash, so they aren’t going to replace our strobes anytime soon. But we could most definitely use LEDs for ambient light shots in a controlled studio right?

Huntkey Releases Dimmable Desk Lamp HL-E100

Huntkey, a leading global provider of power solutions, has recently released its dimmable LED desk lamp HL-E100 with 1 LCD screen and 2 USB charging ports.

The lamp is sleek, smooth and solid. It produces bright, crisp and non-flickery light suited for working, studying and reading. The lamp features an LCD screen on the front of its body. It is where the alarm clock is displayed, together with the time and date, and it is the reason that makes it a useful item on the bedside table. Below the screen, there are 2 USB charging ports sharing 2.4 Amps of power for the user to charge electronic devices.

Integrated with a touch sensitive dimmer inside, the lamp is steplessly dimmable which allows the user to fully customize the brightness from 35 to 700 lumens by touching the dimmer bar on the base. Apart from the brightness setting, the lamp produces flicker-free and anti-glare light to make it more pleasant on the user's eyes. This means the lamp can be used for a longer time every day with no harm to the eyes.

It also offers a 180-degree lighting angle on its head, as well as a 90-degree lighting angle on the arm. It can be perfectly folded and stretched to the position that fits the user's eyes.

Council approves additional lighting throughout Hattiesburg

Hattiesburg City Council members recently authorized work that would provide additional lighting and fixtures in five areas around Hattiesburg, for a total up-front cost of $7,600 and a net increase of $617.59 in the city’s monthly electric bill with Mississippi Power Company. The locations included in the lighting project are the Sunset-Arcadia Neighborhood, the Greenbriar area, Montague Street, the Carriage Lane area, and the Johnson/Sierra/Parker areas. (Photo: Sturmgewehr88).

Eaton’s LED-centric lighting unit will become independent company

Eaton has announced its intention to spin out its LED-centric lighting business into an independent publicly-traded entity by the end of 2019. The company made the announcement at its annual investors conference and further said that Goldman Sachs is serving as a financial advisor on the transaction. Eaton is a broad power-management company with 2018 sales of $21.6B (billion), and the Eaton Lighting Division (formerly Cooper Lighting) had seemed a symbiotic part of the larger power-management conglomerate.

Corsair made new RAM sticks featuring its tiniest LED lights yet

Corsair just launched the first RAM sticks featuring a new LED technology that fits 100 lights in the space where there were once just four. The Dominator Platinum RGB memory sticks, first shown off at CES last month, are now available. The result is more vivid colors that can be even more customizable than those in previous memory sticks. The new glamorous DDR4 RAM sticks also come with the possibility of marginally improved performance, too, according to Corsair, although we won’t know until the benchmarks are in. The condensed lights are supposed to draw less power, potentially allowing the sticks to run at tighter timings.

A Subscription-Based LED Light Bulb Kit Hits Westchester

In the age of subscription-based boxes and kits for everything from eyewear to clothes, pet supplies, and medication, one company is using this popular approach to tackle the lighting in our homes. One of the hardest parts of finding lighting that works is that you can’t easily test bulbs after hitting the hardware store and return what you don’t like. BFranklin aims to change all of that. Headquartered in Armonk and started by a team of local businessmen, including Richard Hulme and former New York Ranger goalie Mike Richter, BFranklin is using the Warby Parker approach to lighting.

Philips Hue Outdoor Sensor review

Philips Hue’s Outdoor Sensor plays a similar role to the Hue Motion Sensor, which has been available for indoor systems since 2016: It will illuminate outdoor lights whenever motion is detected. That makes it an ideal partner for pathway lights like Hue Calla as well as the company’s Ludere security lamps and selection of wall lanterns. As usual, you’ll need the Philips Hue bridge (sold separately or in a starter kit) to connect the sensor to your system. We took the sensor outside for a test spin. Here’s how it went.

How Bluetooth Mesh will Fundamentally Change Lighting Systems

Unlike wireless lighting systems like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Mesh is designed for large collections of devices, numbering into the thousands. Switches, HVAC, sensors, light fixtures, and shades can communicate with each other by forwarding a message, or command, across all the devices in that Bluetooth chain until reaching the destination to perform said operation. The communication comes from the originating device and travels from light fixture to sensor, to AC unit, to any other chain of Bluetooth Mesh enabled devices, like a Bluetooth highway or a body’s central nervous system, until the command reaches the lights on the 3rd floor.

The coming revolution in LED lighting

A revolution in energy-efficient, environmentally-sound, and powerfully-flexible lighting is coming to businesses and homes, according to a paper in latest special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal. The paper envisions the future of lighting—a future with widespread use of light emitting diodes (LEDs), which offer a number of obvious and subtle advantages over traditional light bulbs. "We are at the verge of a revolution," says the paper's senior author E. Fred Schubert, a professor of electrical engineering and physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. "There are tremendous opportunities that open up with LED lighting."

New RGB LED Controller from TI

The LP5030 is intended to improve and simplify LED-based user interfaces in routers, handheld devices, and many other consumer-electronics applications. LEDs are the indicator of choice these days, and they also happen to be very straightforward components—or at least they can be straightforward. A basic on/off LED circuit requires nothing more than a typical digital output pin and a resistor.

LED display panels returning to Indy car chassis

A more advanced LED system will be in place on all Indy cars beginning with next week’s season-opening race, the March 10 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The LED displays are intended to better assist fans with understanding how each driver is performing in every session this season and to aid the efforts of the AMR IndyCar Safety Team in attending to disabled cars. The previous-generation matrix LED (light-emitting diode) system was discontinued midway through the 2018 season because of performance inconsistency on the cars. IndyCar contracted with a new manufacturer, MoTeC, to modify a system used in IMSA and apply it to IndyCar Series cars for 2019.

Understanding high efficiency of deep ultraviolet LEDs

Deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) made from aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) efficiently transfer electrical energy to optical energy due to the growth of one of its bottom layers in a step-like fashion. This finding, published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, can lead to the development of even more efficient LEDs. AlGaN-based DUV-LEDs are receiving much research attention due to their potential use in sterilization, water purification, phototherapy, and sunlight-independent high-speed optical communication. Scientists are investigating ways to improve their efficiency in converting electrical energy into optical energy.

Street lights throughout district being changed to LEDs

About 1500 street light systems across the (Otago) Clutha district will be converted from sodium vapour to more energy-efficient, low-maintenance LED lights. The work, expected to take about four months to complete, recently got under way in the Catlins and crews will progressively work their way through the district. Clutha District Council service delivery group manager Jules Witt said the work was being undertaken as the result of a government initiative to offer councils a subsidy for converting from sodium vapour lights.

The LED Lighting Revolution – What Next?

The LED revolution in lighting is here! The last 10 years has seen significant progress in all areas of lighting and this technology is now well established for many applications. Now is the time to ask how we can best apply this technology to different lighting scenarios.

The focus for installing effective lighting in industrial facilities is the need to provide a safe workplace with lighting that is adequate for the tasks to be undertaken. In order to do this, we must first understand how we see. Our eyes respond to both the quality and quantity of light provided for us. We see objects more clearly when there is a contrast between them and the surround, but if contrast is too severe, our eyes become fatigued and we may have difficulty adjusting to the task we are trying to accomplish. This talk will address the ways in which a suitable balance can be achieved.

LEDs provide an energy efficient way to fulfill all our lighting requirements. However, replacing existing legacy technologies (e.g. HID, fluorescent etc.) is not simply a matter of selecting LED lamps of equivalent lumen output. We need to understand the way light is distributed from different LED fixtures. IES files provide us with a method for modeling layouts that provide the required lighting, while mitigating unwelcome aspects such as glare. Model layouts need to consider the light produced by reflection from surrounding surfaces, such as ceilings, walls, machinery and floors, and this is not always readily available, so it is often useful to test sample fixtures in situ. It is also important to understand the temperature limitations of LED fixtures and to make choices appropriate to the thermal conditions expected in the facility.

LED provide an exciting path to solving all our future lighting needs. The challenge is to make choices to ensure that the lighting we select is appropriate to the tasks at hand.

Weed is growing into a big market for this Dutch lighting firm

The world’s biggest lighting company has been selling equipment to the horticultural industry for decades, building up its business outfitting greenhouses to grow plants like tomatoes, lettuce, and roses. Lately, demand for a new crop has exploded onto the scene: pot. “Where it’s legal, we participate,” said Eric Rondolat, chief executive officer of Signify NV, a spinoff of Amsterdam-based Royal Philips NV. “Worldwide we see an evolution in the thinking of cannabis production.”

European Research Facility Invest in Heliospectra's LED Lighting Solutions

Heliospectra AB announces an order from a leading medicinal plant research facility in Spain. The research company is expanding its greenhouse production and has placed an order for Heliospectra's fully adjustable ELIXIA LED lighting solution. The order value is SEK 2,0 million (€ 189,000).

The research facility is expanding their greenhouse cultivation facilities and will be using Heliospectra's ELIXIA solution to grow and research medicinal cannabis.

Delivery will take place and be visible in the accounts during the first and second quarter of 2019.