Southport to get new LED street lighting before end of year

Southport Select Chair Gerry Gamage has signed a contract with Affinity LED Light LLC of Dover, New Hampshire, to convert the island’s 119 Central Maine Power street light fixtures to Smart Ready LED street lighting. The project will cost us approximately $50,000 but will save the community little under $17,000 per year. Over a 10-year period, that means the town will be saving nearly $170,000.

GoPro releases a flashlight

GoPro's magnetic multipurpose waterproof light, Zeus Mini, brings the brand's legendary versatility to lights. Now available on GoPro.com for $69.99, the rechargeable Zeus Mini features a robust magnetic swiveling clip and is compatible with GoPro's full line of camera mounts—making it insanely convenient for a wide range of uses.

Zeus Mini is waterproof to 33ft (10m), rechargeable and features four levels of brightness reaching up to 200 lumens with an included diffuser that delivers a cool 5000K color temperature tuned for GoPro cameras when using Zeus Mini for filming. The built-in battery lasts for up to 6 hours. Plus, if you're in a bind, there's a strobe mode to enable emergency signaling and visibility.

Clip it to your belt or backpack strap, snap it under the hood or drainpipe, or use it as a freestanding light just like you would a mini tripod. And, unlike a dedicated headlamp, you can illuminate a scene without blinding everyone you're with. But if headlamps are your thing, Zeus Mini clips easily to any hat, beanie or headband.

Savant Systems to Acquire GE Lighting

Savant Systems has signed a definitive agreement to purchase GE Lighting, a division of GE. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

For nearly 130 years, GE Lighting has been at the forefront of every major lighting innovation, from the dawn of incandescent bulbs to industry-first LED and smart solutions along with the world’s first voice-embedded lighting product.

Today, GE Lighting’s portfolio includes leading home lighting and innovative smart home solutions. GE Lighting will remain headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and its more than 700 employees will transfer to Savant upon completion of the transaction.

The proposed transaction will bring together this legacy and expertise with Savant’s best-in-class smart home solutions and renowned culture of innovation, creating a union of trusted and recognizable premium brands in the lighting and connected home technology markets.

UV sanitizer lamp zaps viruses

A Japanese company has moved up plans to mass-produce an ultraviolet lamp developed with Columbia University that it says renders viruses harmless without damaging people's eyes or skin. Tokyo-based Ushio aims to supply several hundred of the UV ceiling lamps by this summer, with a goal of starting mass production around October of a smaller type that can be added to lighting fixtures.

ODOT hopes street LED lights will save taxpayers money

The Oregon Department of Transportation says more than 8,000 streetlights in Portland to LED lighting will save taxpayers $700,000 to $800,000 a year. ODOT says their project to swap the lights begins on May 26 and will continue intermittently through the summer of 2021. Most of the work will take place at night to minimize traffic impacts.

LED Light Pulses Enter the Nano Realm

Quality assurance during high-volume production operations, such as the inspection of consumer packaged goods (CPGs), is possible only through the application of high-speed machine vision systems. Proper illumination is another important factor. Traditionally, xenon strobes or pulsed LED light sources have been the favored solutions for freezing part motion in high-speed imaging applications. Xenon flashlamps are brighter in terms of absolute photon output. As solid-state light sources, however, LEDs offer several advantages over xenon lamps. In addition to greater ruggedness, and longer lifetime, LEDs afford better control over the duration, intensity, and shape of the pulse.

Novel LED irradiation system aims to kill microorganisms with UVC light

A novel LED irradiation system developed by the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut aims to kill microorganisms with ultra-short wave UV light - without side effects. According to the Robert Koch Institute, 400,000 to 600,000 infections with hospital germs occur in Germany every year - about 10,000 to 20,000 people die from them. Since multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogens often cannot be treated with antibiotics, alternative approaches are needed. One promising physical principle is irradiation with UVC light, which can be used to destroy microorganisms without allowing resistances to develop.

Violet Gro Ag Lighting Announces Partnership With Cedar Valley Farms

Cedar Valley Farms, a family-owned hemp business, announced a partnership today with Violet Gro, a Colorado-based agricultural lighting company.

Cedar Valley Farms holds one of the 198 hemp production licenses for the 2020 growing season in the state of Ohio. With the propagation of its initial hemp crops for the season complete, they have cited Violet Gro's LED grow lights as their primary light source for their greenhouse operations, which include the 1,500 square-foot structure pictured below - as well as plans to utilize Violet Gro for an expanded 300,000 square-foot grow facility.

Violet Gro's lights are designed to produce agricultural lights that are exceptionally energy efficient (only 200W per 8' light bar) and have very low operating temperatures, lending themselves to significant energy savings when compared with traditional lighting solutions.

Osram adds LED for gesture control of car navigation systems

German company Osram has added a smaller infrared model to its Oslon line and is promoting it for gesture control of in-car navigation screens. The new Oslon Piccolo chip is about 25% smaller than similar Oslon Black offerings, with the Piccolo chip itself measuring 0.75 mm2 (packaged in a 1.6-mm2 footprint) compared to the Black’s 1 mm2. The LED’s shrunken dimensions increase the likelihood of its fitting into an onboard display screen.

Global market for smart street lighting is expected to be worth $992 million in 2020

Smart street lighting is solidifying its position as one of the most rapidly expanding technologies in the smart cities market. The strong business case and platform potential of smart street lighting continues to accelerate substantial commercial projects in cities and utility service areas globally, according to new research.

Signify, Telensa, and Itron each have strong product portfolios that are recognized in the market as being reliable, mature, and of high-quality, Guidehouse Insights says. These vendors have clear, compelling visions that are effectively communicated to the industry and a strong market presence through the deployment of large-scale connected street lighting projects in multiple world regions.

The global market for smart street lighting is expected to be worth $992 million in 2020, growing to more than $8.3 billion by 2029. Over the past 2 years, millions of control nodes have been added to street lights globally. With more applications being added to street lighting networks, new revenue streams are available to industry players and cities that capitalize on these opportunities.

LG to Enter the Battlefield of Cinema LED Displays

LG is joining the business of LED cinema screen to compete against Samsung, according to Aju News.

The company has registered a trademark for LG LED Cinema. Samsung’s cinema LED screens, under the brand Onyx, have been installed in some cinema across the world.

Bans of crowd-gathering activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic have heavily impacted on the demands of video walls.

New metric relating LED output to natural light

LED manufacturer Bridgelux has announced a quality-of-light metric for white LEDs, or even solid-state lighting (SSL) end products, called Average Spectral Difference (ASD) that is intended to provide a simple way for product developers, lighting designers/specifiers, and other lighting professionals to easily understand how the output of an LED compares to so-called “natural light.” ASD is based on details in the spectral power distribution (SPD) of an LED and how that SPD compares with the SPD of a reference illuminant that’s considered representative of natural light. ASD is expressed as a percentage with 0% representing performance equivalent to the natural reference.

Osram announces white and color Synios LEDs

Osram Opto Semiconductors announced the new Synios S 2222 portfolio of phosphor-converted, white, monochromatic color, and phosphor-converted color LEDs targeted primarily at dynamic color lighting installations. As the packaged LED model number implies, the LED components feature a 2.2×2.2-mm footprint. Members of the family can be driven over the range of 10 mA to 200 mA.

DLC Releases Updated Requirements for LED-Based Horticultural Lighting

The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) has released a draft update to the Technical Requirements for Horticultural Lighting as Version 2.0 (V2.0), with a proposed effective date of Jan. 4, 2021. V2.0 contains six key updates, which work to continue the industry transition from traditional lighting data and metrics to horticultural-specific lighting data and metrics to better represent horticultural lighting performance.

South Africans continue to use old fluorescent lamp technology

Electricity costs have tripled in the past decade and compact fluorescent lamps have in recent years played a key role in energy efficiency campaigns.

While the rest of the world has made the move to new technology and LED lighting, most South Africans continue to use old fluorescent lamp technology, losing out on the energy saving, environmental and cost saving benefits of LEDs.

Factors preventing the uptake of LED include installation and replacement costs and reluctance of consumers to change. However, this does open up replacement opportunities for local companies, as does solar lighting.

Original Thomas Edison "light bulb" patent archive sells for $75,000

Thomas Edison’s original patents surrounding the light bulb and an archive of 37 original British Patent Letters related to the incandescent lamp have been sold at auction for US$75,000. Though Thomas Edison would eventually hold more than a thousand patents, a number of the patents in this archive were unquestionably his most valuable, being among the most valuable patents ever granted.

Thousands of outdoor path lights sold at Home Depot recalled

Several types of Hampton Bay, Patriot Lighting, and Paradise outdoor path lights have a faulty plug blade that can remain in the outlet when the power supply is pulled from the outlet.

This can cause the person who removes the item to suffer injures from an electric shock.

The lights were sold at Home Depot and other hardware stores in the USA and online between March 2017 and May 2020.

Organic spacers improve LED performance

A team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratories has demonstrated that the choice of organic spacer significantly impacts LED performance.

By using organic spacers with atoms arranged in a ring instead of a linear chain, the scientists increased device efficiency by two orders of magnitude (to around 12 percent) and brightness by 70 times, with a luminance approaching that of typical green organic LEDs.

"The large organic spacers slice the 3-D perovskite crystal lattice into a 2-D layered structure consisting of graphene-like atomic sheets each less than a billionth-of-a-meter thick," explained Wanyi Nie, a scientist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Los Alamos.

Green bulbs light up Lexington thanks to a lamp company

Shannon Lamp Service is normally a custom shade and lamp repair shop with everything made right in Kentucky. They refocused when the pandemic hit. Governor Andy Beshear urged residents to shine green lights in tribute to those lost to the disease. They have sold nearly 900 bulbs, all the money is donated to the Bluegrass Community Foundation, which aids families and agencies who’ve lost out financially to the illness.

Washington National Cathedral lights up in support of the graduating Class of 2020

The Washington National Cathedral has found its own way of honoring support for the graduating class of 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many students won't get the same opportunity as past graduating classes to walk across the stage. Atmosphere Inc. has stepped up to partner with the cathedral to provide special lighting to light up not just the church, but hopefully the spirits of graduating students and their families.

Energy Focus Launches Controlled Lighting Solutions Targeting Retrofit Applications

Energy Focus launches EnFocus, a patent-pending lighting control platform that provides dimming and color tuning capabilities for existing buildings.

The platform is launched with two immediately available product lines: EnFocus DM, which provides a dimmable lighting solution, and EnFocus DCT, which provides both a dimmable and color tunable lighting solution.

EnFocus, which consists of EnFocus LED tubes and switches that communicate over existing powerlines, was designed with Energy Focus’s customers in mind – schools, universities, hospitals, military and government agencies as well as other commercial enterprises where occupant health, safety and security are critical considerations.

Energy Focus will be hosting a webinar on Wednesday, May 27 at 1:00 PM EDT to introduce the platform.

Outdoor-rated Prisma UV LED lighting series from Magmatic Atmospheric Effects

Magmatic atmospheric effects has introduced a new generation of advanced UV LED lighting products with weatherproof IP65 rating. Prisma is changing the quality of UV light projection while making it easier for designers and production houses to implement UV light into their projects.

Ideal for clubs, EDM events, glow paint gatherings, or any production with a UV element, Prisma’s IP65 rating and rugged yet sleek fanless design mean they can be used in even the most challenging environment.

Prisma effects use durable LEDs of the highest quality with special silicone lenses that are UV resistant and slow to degrade. Most plastic lenses on traditional UV lights will brown and deteriorate over a few years of use but Prisma’s silicone lenses will last for 25 years or more.

Liquid X’s particle-free conductive inks can print wireless charging electronics directly onto smart wearables

Powercast Corporation and Liquid X, a manufacturer of functional metallic inks with prototype-to-production design and manufacturing capabilities, announced a printed electronics venture to enable garment manufacturers to easily integrate wireless power functionality into durable, flexible, high performance and washable e-textiles.

The two companies’ goal is to enable cost-effective manufacturing of durable e-textiles, with battery-powered features such as health and wellness, movement monitoring, or LED-based illumination embedded directly into garments, that consumers can conveniently recharge over the air, and wash, without having to remove a battery pack.

Today’s smart garments often snap electronics onto the garment along with battery packs that users must detach before washing. With the combined technologies of Liquid X and Powercast, now manufacturers can integrate the electronics directly into the garment.

To recharge the battery, consumers simply place a Powercast RF transmitter in the closet or drawer where they store their smart wearable. It transmits RF energy over the air to the RF receiver embedded in the wearable, which then converts it to direct current (DC) to charge the battery.

Aputure Light Storm LS 60d and LS 60x LED Lights Introduced

During our cinema5D Virtual Show, we caught up with Ted Sim from Aputure to talk about their newly announced Aputure Light Storm LS 60d and 60x LED lights. The LS 60d is a daylight-only fixture with a maximum output of up to 50.000 lux at 1 meter, while the LS 60x is a bi-color light with a maximum output of 30.000 lux at 1 meter.

New LED lighting tested in downtown Birmingham

LED lights are being tested under the bridge decks recently constructed at I-59/20 in downtown Birmingham. There will be  24,000 linear feet of the mutli-colored LED lights when the project is completed and another 2,000 linear feet of general LED lighting. Stone & Sons of Birmingham is installing the LED as a subcontractor for Johnson Bros. Corp.. The lights currently alternate red, blue, green and light purple.

A new kind of copper OLED could change the TV and home lighting game

Researchers in Switzerland have found a new organic light emitting diode (OLED) material that could scale the technology up to inexpensively light entire rooms and homes for the first time. The results come from a new arrangement of copper electrons, CuPCP, that replaces more costly precious metal diodes (PHOLEDs). The secret to the Swiss team’s new material is a behavior called thermally activated delayed fluorescence, or TADF. Like a supercooled superconductor or a hot nuclear reactor, these TADF OLEDs must get to a certain temperature before they can operate as designed, and they use a supply of outside energy to get to that temperature.

Pure red LEDs fulfill a primary goal

Making pure red LEDs from nitride crystals is a goal that has so far frustrated engineers. However, these LEDs are vital for building the next generation of energy-efficient micro-LED displays to follow OLED displays and for creating lighting with color tuning. Now, for the first time, a team of electrical engineers at KAUST has succeeded in making these LEDs, Phys.org reports. Electrical engineers can already make bright LEDs using varying materials to produce different colors. But to improve display technologies, engineers must integrate the three primary color LEDs, red, green and blue, onto one chip.

Mount Prospect’s village street lights will soon be fitted with new LED fixtures

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Mount Prospect’s village street lights will soon be fitted with new LED fixtures, saving the village money in the long run and consuming less energy.

In April trustees approved a bid from Graybar to purchase LED lights and associated accessories in an amount to not exceed $47,855.25. This purchase will begin the process of replacing the current light bulbs with LED lights.

Edison Light Bulb Archive Heads to Auction

An important collection of 37 original British patent letters pertaining to Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb and the birth of incandescent lighting, dating from 1878 to 1884, is the expected headliner in an Internet-only auction ending May 14th at 8 pm Eastern time by One of a Kind Collectibles.

The archive also features patents for Joseph Swann, the English inventor also working on the light bulb at the same time; and George Westinghouse’s Chesbrough patent of 1878, which he used to get the contract to illuminate the Columbian Exposition, as chronicled in the film Current Wars.

GE Current sells CityIQ platform to Ubicquia

Ubicquia is acquiring the CityIQ smart city platform from GE Current, a Daintree company. The deal includes products, intellectual property (IP), operations contracts with municipalities, and employees that will move to Ubicquia.

The deal will expand Ubicquia’s smart-city portfolio while allowing GE Current to focus on LED-based lighting, Daintree connectivity, and the outdoor, solid-state-lighting (SSL)-centric connectivity LightGrid technology.

SWIT SL-100P Waterproof Flexible Bi-Color LED Light Announced

Signify supplies Russian vegetable farms with LED toplighting

Signify and supermarket owner RIAT launched a trial of indoor vegetable farming back in 2019 and the RIAT operation has now moved to commercial production.

The fully indoor facility that is reliant totally on solid-state lighting (SSL) is said to be matching the yield of greenhouses with supplemental LED lighting.

The indoor farm is located centrally in Ivanovo, enabling the company to distribute produce easily to its dozen stores in the regions.

New Chicago building rules should help save the birds

When at least 19 downtown office buildings began lighting up at night to honor doctors, nurses, grocery clerks and other essential workers during the pandemic, some residents of Chicago are worried that this might present a serious problem for migrating birds. Building lights can disorient birds and lead to their deaths when they fly into hard glass.

Chicago has been a leader in the Lights Out program that encourages building owners to turn off unnecessary lighting during times of bird migration. Environmentalists and the Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago have worked closely together to make the program a success.

Kenall Introduces New, Virtually Impenetrable Light Fixtures for Correctional Facilities

Kenall Manufacturing has introduced a new family of virtually impenetrable lighting fixtures that have no access points of any kind, including doors and hinges.

Created specifically to keep staff and inmates safe, these luminaires are impervious to vandalism and contraband concealment.

Challenged by a customer to create a truly vandal-proof fixture, Kenall engineers created the Mighty Mac SSAS ceiling mount luminaire, the CCS (corner-mount), WCHS (wall-mount) and WCUS (wall-mount with uplight). The heavy-duty housings are manufactured from a single piece of steel, virtually preventing entry once the light fixtures are installed.

Inside, long-Life LEDs are designed to last for up to 85,000 hours (10 years) of continuous use, service-free. Lenses are made of the toughest materials available and kept in place with a special bracket system fastened to the housing with through-studs. The entire fixture is secured to the wall or ceiling surface with 6 high-security bolts, making it virtually impenetrable.

Nanoleaf Taking Limited Pre-Orders for Hexagon-Shaped Smart Lighting Panels

Nanoleaf has been working on new hexagon-shaped lighting panels to add to its triangle and square-shaped lighting panel options. Like the Nanoleaf Canvas and Aurora, the Hexagons can be tiled together to create unique patterns using a small number of lights or multiple packs of light panels. The panels are designed to attach to the wall in an interlocking pattern using adhesive.

LED lights halve unwanted fish in nets

A simple technique to illuminate the exits in trawl fishing nets can almost halve the numbers of unwanted catch, potentially protecting both the environment and fishermen’s livelihoods, a team from Bangor University found.

The research, published in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, inverts an old fishing technique of shining a light on water to attract fish into a net.

Top 10 Reasons to Choose Plug-in Wall Lights

Aside from the beauty and glamour, plug-in wall lights also serve to enhance night vision and provide security around the home. Ecopower Light Discusses top 10 reasons to choose plug-in wall lights.

The use of light is an essential part of any home decor. Aside from the beauty and glamour, it also serves to enhance night vision and provide security around the home. The positioning of a light source is one of the most essential considerations in determining the effectiveness of a light. Plug-in wall lights enjoy the most flexibility in this regard.

What Are Plug-in Wall Lights?

This is a type of light that has an extension wire at the end of which is a plug. Unlike other types of wall light wiring, they do not require professional installation, nor does it present any risk. Feel free to attach them anywhere; bedsides, in the kitchen, over a desk top in the library or anywhere else. They offer more versatility than ordinary wall lights.

10 Reasons You Should Consider A Plug-in Wall Light

1. Easy to Use

Since its discovery until the present time, the ease of using such a light fixture surpasses that of other lights. This is not only because of the design structure and the simple process of plugging it into a socket. The real reason is that they are less cumbersome and do not require outside assistance.

2. Easy to Transfer

The portable nature of plug-in wall lights makes them easier to transfer from one location to another. The ease of installation and removal, and their portable nature makes them adaptable to different home arrangements. Whenever there’s a need for changing the position of lights, just remove a plug-in wall light from the socket and move it to another location.

3. Serve Better Purposes

As a result of their portability and ease of operation, plug-in wall lights can be more versatile. They can act as a lamp on the table for reading purposes. They can be used as a bedroom light to ease accessibility in the room. Placing them above the kitchen table can make food preparation easier, among several other tasks.

4. Licensed Professionals Not Required

Plug-in wall lights come with a wire and a plug that makes them easy to connect to a socket. Therefore they require no outside professionals to tackles the job. This spares the homeowner stress and extra cost.

5. Less Risky to Use

One of the most important advantages of the plug-in-wall light is its inherent safety. Most of these fixtures present less danger in terms of being exposed to naked circuits or connected wires that risk electrocution. They are also less risky to operate. Homeowners need need only inspect the plug for dryness, then connect it to an empty socket to provide power.

6. Cost Effective

For the least expensive and most reliable source of movable room beautification with regard to light sources around the home, plug-in wall lights are no doubt the winners. They are not only relatively cheaper to acquire as compared to other types of lighting, but they can perform several functions, thereby reducing the cost of of acquiring multiple lighting.

7. Fashionable

Plug-in wall lights come in many different designs that complement a variety of interior designs.

8. Versatility of Designs and Colors

Above and beyond the fashionable shapes for which most plug-in wall lights are known, they also come in different colors and structures that make them attractive complements to a range of room designs.

9. Easy to Acquire

They are plentiful and come in a range of different patterns, thus guaranteeing much freedom of choice.

10. Emit Less Heat

Unlike every other kind of lighting, plug-in wall lights emit less heat and do not warm up a room unnecessarily.

French Company Aims At Making Stage Lighting More Cost & Energy Efficient

French company Minuit Une developed a new lighting system that's less bulky and less energy-consuming than the current market standards, whether that's LED or classic light bulbs.

A new set of products is able to emit light from a single source in multiple direction – replacing the need for a large number mono-directional fixtures to achieve similar effects.

The technology behind this so called IVL Lighting: four light plans from a laser-based light source are split at very high speed by a smart system of mirrors.

UVC lighting could be crucial in fight against COVID-19

As tens of millions of Americans try to prevent catching the coronavirus, one company is turning its talents to using high-tech to defeat the virus. A former NASA scientist Maxik now heads Florida-based Healthe Lighting. The company has developed the Cleanse Portal. It has the look of an airport security screening device. But the portal uses 12 to 20 seconds of exposure to a UVC light to neutralize the COVID-19 virus.

New 4000K and 5000K PL - L Type B LEDs from EarthTronics provide up to a 58 percent energy savings

EarthTronics, dedicated to developing innovative energy-saving lighting products that provide a positive economic and environmental impact, introduces two new high-efficient EarthBulb PL - L Type B ballast bypass LEDs offering great light output to replace 22.5” long 2G11 base PL - L fluorescent lamps for commercial, industrial, institutional, manufacturing, retail, school and warehouse environments.

Designed for applications with frequent on-off where energy savings is required, the 17-watt EarthBulb PL - L Type B LEDs are available in 4000K and 5000K with a 300° beam angle, providing 2200 lumens and a CRI of 82. Saving up to 58 percent compared to fluorescent PL - L, the LEDs include an internal universal driver for direct wire use on 120-277VAC power supplies that eliminates ballast maintenance and compatibility concerns.

To install the 17-watt EarthBulb PL - L Type B LEDs, simply direct wire the line voltage past the fluorescent ballast directly to the lamp socket. The EarthBulb PL - L Type B LEDs are suitable for dry and damp locations in addition to open and enclosed fixtures.

Disinfection of personal items is now a practical option with UV-C LED

AquiSense Technologies has launched the PearlSurface 24G9, one of the first UV-C LED surface disinfection products designed for health care applications such as reuse of N95 facemask and other PPE.

The PearlSurface 24G9 offers advanced benefits specific to LEDs, including mercury-free lamps, instant-on operation and low cost of ownership, while providing high-power density, homogeneous disinfection of target objects.

AquiSense will offer this product under the current US FDA enforcement relief to deal with immediate COVID-19 emergency use and will simultaneously submit a premarket approval application.

Aqara launches its new Smart Wall Switches in the U.S.

Several months after Aqara launched its main product line on Amazon.com, the company has widened its presence on Amazon.com by launching its latest Zigbee 3.0 wall switches. Moreover, along with the switches, Aqara is launching its famous Cube, a small-yet-powerful device able to control the whole range of other smart home devices.

Aqara Smart Wall Switch comes in four versions differentiated by the number of rockers or buttons (Single and Double Rocker) and the support of Neutral wire (With Neutral and No Neutral). Its features include: newest Zigbee 3.0 protocol, integration into the most popular ecosystems present on the market (such as Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant), timer function, support of automations via Aqara Home app and many more. For those who care about electricity bills, it offers a power consumption statistic available via the app along with remote controls available from anywhere in the world.

Another product being launched, the Aqara Cube, is a small and unique piece of tech that incorporates various sensors to support 6 different gestures, which can control any other Aqara smart home devices. Its clean and compact design, which can fit almost any surface, will make its use frequent and intuitive.