Putting LEDs In Motorcyle Tail Light

Maarten Tromp’s replacement of his motorcycle’s tail light with LED equivalents is a
great example of something that every hacker learns sooner or later: interfacing to and working around existing parts can turn a trivial-seeming task into a much bigger job than expected.

The 1999 Honda ST1100 Pan European motorcycle had no aftermarket options for an LED rear light assembly, and he wasn’t too keen on just installing a generic module to replace the original. Instead, he resolved to purchase and disassemble a used factory assembly, and replace the incandescent lamps with some equivalent LEDs.

LED lighting coming to all public Helena fixtures

In an effort to improve visibility and aesthetics, the Helena City Council voted to convert every public light fixture in the city to LED lighting.

The city council approved the resolution on May 24 which authorizes Puckett to sign a contract with Alabama Power to replace all 1,100 light fixtures in the city.

Some of the benefits from the project will include enhanced aesthetics and improved safety.

Global Lighting Fixtures and Luminaires Market to Reach $106.7 Billion by 2026

The Lighting Fixtures and Luminaires market in the U.S. is estimated at US$15.7 Billion in the year 2021. China, the world`s second largest economy, is forecast to reach a projected market size of US$22.1 Billion by the year 2026 trailing a CAGR of 6.7% over the analysis period.

Among the other noteworthy geographic markets are Japan and Canada, each forecast to grow at 4% and 4.2% respectively over the analysis period. Within Europe, Germany is forecast to grow at approximately 2.5% CAGR.

In European countries, rise in the number of governmental policies and regulations for the purpose of discouraging inefficient lighting usage and encouraging efficient lighting technology implementation is expected to fuel growth especially for LED & OLED lamps integrated fixtures.

Rapid urbanization and increasing construction activity are the two main reasons driving growth for the fixtures market in Asia-Pacific.

Litetronics Introduces New LED Stairwell Fixture for Commercial and Industrial Settings

Litetronics proudly announces the availability of its new LED Stairwell Fixture, a modern and high-efficiency linear lighting solution specifically designed for limited-use areas such as stairwells.  Equipped with a microwave occupancy sensor and daylight sensor, the fixture reduces energy use by automatically adjusting its output based on occupancy and available light in the space.

Ideal for stairways, corridors, storage areas, display spaces, and other areas of a facility that experience infrequent or limited use, the versatile Stairwell Fixture features adjustable color temperature (3500K, 4000K, and 5000K options) as well as adjustable wattage (with output ranging from 3,900 to 6,500 lumens), allowing installers to fine-tune the fixture in the field to best meet the needs of the application.  Users are further in the driver’s seat thanks to the convenient remote ability to adjust sensor settings such as brightness, sensitivity, hold time, and more from the ground level.  The fixture’s lightweight, two-piece design makes installation quick and easy, reducing overall project time and labor costs, and the fixture can be surface or suspension-mounted for added flexibility.  At the same time, the fixture’s high efficacy of 130 lumens per watt and ‘DLC Premium’ rating ensure its eligibility for utility rebate incentives nationwide.

The durable Stairwell Fixture’s shatterproof polycarbonate frosted lens and ETL ‘damp location’ rating support its use in some of the market’s harshest and most demanding applications, while its 100,000-hour rated life and 10-year warranty will ensure peace of mind for end users and channel members alike.

Lambeau Field Upgrades Lighting Controls With Crestron

 

Crestron has announced that it has become a lighting control vendor for Lambeau Field, the iconic home stadium of the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, WI. After an extensive evaluation, Crestron was selected to replace and upgrade the stadium-wide controls.

The Crestron installation is a cohesive lighting automation system that allows stadium management to update lighting preferences and monitor and control energy expenditures for the facility.

Lambeau Field has transitioned the vast majority of lighting in the stadium to Crestron, which now controls concourses, suites, club seats, event spaces, parking lots, and facade lighting from a single platform. The stadium also implemented robust information security standards that Crestron built into the makeup of its solutions using Active Directory® Credential Management, which integrates the authentication on a Crestron device with the stadium’s enterprise-wide IT infrastructure. Through Crestron monitoring, facilities personnel can proactively keep track of their system instead of having to react to situations, ensuring that on gameday, they know the system will work as intended.

Bulbs.com posted a strong first quarter in 2021

Bulbs.com began 2021 with an outstanding first quarter after recovering and persevering through a volatile 2020.

The company posted Q1 sales of $5.7 million, which is up 17% over prior year and 10% ahead of plan. YTD profits were up 4x versus prior year and 2.5x ahead of plan. Early on the sales of disinfection equipment including UV-C products, sanitizing sprayers, and HEPA air purifiers, provided a boost in sales as many school systems across the country were planning for reopening to in-person learning rather than remote or hybrid models.

In the latter part of the quarter the company observed a resurgence of commercial customers seeking LED retrofit lighting projects. Commercial customers represented 86% of Q1 revenue, bringing the company's segment mix back to the normal 85/15 commercial versus residential revenue split that the company recorded pre-pandemic.

Another notable first quarter milestone for Bulbs.com was the $1.4 million in utility rebate sales. Bulbs.com works nationally with more than 30 utility programs including Duke Energy, MassSave, conEdison and CPS Energy. Sales that include utility incentives are beneficial to both the electric companies and Bulbs.com commercial customers. The company is on pace to surpass the $2.7 million in rebate sales from last year before the close of Q3 2021.

Astro Lighting Brings Capsule Collection to YDesign Group in Exclusive Partnership

YDesign Group announced an exclusive online partnership with Astro Lighting, bringing its limited-edition Capsule Collection to the U.S. on Lumens.com and YLighting.com only.

A creative collaboration between Astro Lighting Co-founder and Design Director James Bassant and Senior Designer Riley Sanders, the Capsule Collection presents three designs embodying Astro’s ideology that good design demands simplicity. Each piece is minimal yet functional and produced with exacting attention to detail.

 The Astro Lighting Capsule Collection includes:

Orb – An elegant wall light featuring a glowing sphere at one end of a curved arm and an adjustable magnifying mirror at the other. Designed with functionality in mind, the Orb is intended primarily to be placed next to a bathroom mirror. Designed by James Bassant and available at Lumens.com and YLighting.com.
io Pendant – A linear suspension inspired by the texture of ancient Greek pillars, io is a simple and minimal piece produced using gravity-fed glass extrusion, resulting in the cylindrical glass shade’s ridged surface. Designed by Riley Sanders and available at Lumens.com and YLighting.com.
Halftone – A striking wall light composed of an etched pattern on a clear acrylic disc. Its light radiates from the center, producing a compelling glowing ring when illuminated. Halftone is part wall art, part light fixture and can be layered to intensify its effect. Designed by Riley Sanders and available at Lumens.com and YLighting.com

The Capsule Collection will be available online exclusively in the U.S. from Lumens.com and YLighting.com through October.

Biden administration takes first step toward light bulb efficiency standard

The Biden administration is taking the first step necessary to instate an energy efficiency standard for light bulbs.

On Thursday, the Energy Department issued a pre-publication version of what’s known as a request for information asking stakeholders to weigh in on reinstating the standard.

In 2019, the Trump administration determined that it did not need to instate the updated standard for incandescent light bulbs.

Global Light Sensor Market Report 2021: Promising Opportunities in Home Automation, Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial, Entertainment, and Healthcare Industries

The global light sensors market is expected to grow with a CAGR of 9% from 2019 to 2024, according to new research.

The future of the light sensors market looks promising with opportunities in the home automation, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, entertainment, and healthcare industries.

The major drivers for this market are increasing usage of light sensors in smartphones and tablets and advancements in automotive electronics and outdoor lighting.

Companies active in this sector are AMS AG, Avago Technologies Inc., Broadcom, Stmicroelectronics NV. , Vishay Intertechnology. Inc, Apple, Inc., Sitronix Technology, Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. , Heptagon, Maxim Integrated Sensor Types, Inc.

Brilli Debuts World's First UV-Free Household Led Lighting Proven to Kill Viruses and Bacteria

Brilli announced the launch of its new Bright Clean line, the very-first home UV-free lighting fixtures tested to kill viruses and bacteria on surfaces. 

Powered by Vyv, the Brilli Bright Clean line-up of fixtures harnesses the power of LED lights to keep homes clean and well with just the flip of a light switch, requiring no special apps or software.

Vyv conducted a recent study with Microchem Laboratory confirming that Vyv's antimicrobial 405nm visible LED products are also effective against non-enveloped viruses, which are the most difficult class of virus to kill.

Unlike UV lights which are dangerous to humans, Brilli Bright Clean meets international standards for continuous and unlimited use around people, plants and pets.

Nanlux Evoke 1200 LED Spot Light

Nanlux has announced the Evoke 1200 LED Spot Light. As the name suggests, this is a high-power draw 1200W LED spot light with a 120° beam angle. It will be available in either daylight or tungsten versions.

Global Navigation Lighting Market to Garner Revenue of $41,706.1 Million

The global navigation lighting market is predicted to gain significance due to increasing safety regulations for airports. Asia Pacific region is predicted to dominate the market due to the use of advanced navigation lights technology.

Apart from the lights fitted outside the airplanes, the ground also needs to have a mixture of light emitting diodes (LEDS), strobe lights, halogens as well as high intensity discharge bulbs (HIDs).

The marine end-user segment is set to experience a rise in revenue from $19,693.1 million in 2019 and continue to grow further at a stable CAGR of 3.1%. The increasing use of navigation lights to assist in providing efficient directions to aircrafts and ships to help them avoid any mishaps has resulted in this growth.

ROHM Introduces New White Chip LEDs

ROHM Semiconductor recently introduced their new CSL1104WB ultra-compact, high luminous intensity white chip LEDs. The products are optimized for applications requiring high brightness white light emission, such as IoT devices, drones, and other battery-equipped applications.

In recent years, high luminous intensity (2.0cd) white LEDs have been increasingly adopted to improve visibility in a range of applications in the consumer electronics and automotive sectors. At the same time, the emergence of applications that mount multiple LEDs in a small space – such as IoT devices and drones – require high density mounting. This makes it difficult to achieve high brightness in a compact footprint.

The CSL1104WB series achieves a high luminous intensity of 2.0cd in an ultra-compact 1608 size (1.6mm x 0.8mm = 1.28mm2), which was previously difficult to achieve. The result is the same luminosity as the current mainstream 3528 size PLCC package (3.5mm x 2.8mm = 9.8mm2), but in an 87% smaller form factor.

Moreover, color variation is significantly improved, simplifying the color adjustment process by ensuring accurate white color chromaticity. This not only contributes to greater application space savings, but also improves design flexibility along with visibility through high density mounting of high luminosity LEDs, considerably reducing development load. In addition, qualification under the automotive reliability standard AEC-Q102 specifically developed for optical devices is planned, enabling a smooth application inside industrial equipment and automotive applications that are exposed to harsh environments.

KAUST fabricates red InGaN-based micro-LEDs

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has reported indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-based red micro-LEDs that they plan to integrate with green and blue micro-LEDs to create full-color micro-displays, according to Semiconductor Today.

Zhang’s team created and characterized a series of square devices with a side length of 98μm or 47μm. Their 47μm-long devices emitting light at a peak wavelength of 626nm were shown to have an external quantum efficiency (the number of photons emitted from the LED per electron injected into the device) of up to 0.87%.

Holland, Zeeland residents can get energy-efficient LED lightbulbs for free

Thanks to public rebate programs, Board of Public Works customers in Holland and Zeeland (Michigan) can swap out their old lightbulbs for more energy-efficient and cost-effective

Board of Public Works customers can request rebate applications for online at greenprojectsgroupllc.com.
The Holland BPW Energy Smart program offers up to 36 LED bulbs, while the Zeeland BPW can offer rebates for 25 bulbs.

Nichia Develops Next Generation Slimmed Down Mini-LED

Nichia has announced the development of the new and highly differentiated Mini-LED light source.

Nichia previously developed Nichia Light Cluster Type V, a Mini-LED light source used on ultra-thin LCD monitors.

Compared to Mini-LED light sources in the past, Nichia’s light source is able to achieve a full screen luminance at 1,000 nits under extremely low power consumption, and an ultra-high luminance at 2,000 nits for partial screen areas.

In addition, the 1,000 nits of partial dimming can also achieve a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. Because of these properties, consumers are able to enjoy realistic motions without having to worry about the power consumption. Furthermore, the backlight module is at the thinnest of 1.63mm in the industry, which achieves the slimming (above figures referred to 16 inch LCD) of Mini-LED notebooks.

Goleta releases video on lighting project

LED lights are coming to Goleta streets in late summer and early fall.The city will be replacing more than 1,300 High-Pressure Sodium streetlight fixtures throughout Goleta with new energy efficient LED streetlights. The city released a new video explaining this project featuring Public Works staff.

Boosting a blooming industry with LEDs

Spartan researchers are working to show how LEDs can help Michigan’s greenhouse specialty cut flower growers save energy and improve their crops.

Currently, the industry relies on what are called high pressure sodium, or HPS lamps, for supplemental lighting. But LEDs offer advantages that Lopez and others are working to showcase in MSU’s research greenhouses.

LEDs use less energy than the high-pressure sodium lamps, meaning the light-emitting diodes cost less to operate over time. This can translate to substantial savings, especially when plants require light for hours on end, day after day.

The lights also come in a variety of colors, compared with the singular warm yellow of high-pressure sodium lamps. And these colors can promote different growth properties in the plants.

Photo credit: Derrick L. Turner

Display Week 2021, World's Leading Event For Electronic Display Innovation Opens May 17

The Society for Information Display (SID) will hold the second virtual Display Week 2021, May 17-21. 

Display Week 2021 will bring together the brightest minds in the display industry to provide insight into the latest advancements, and showcase new technologies and products that will be hitting the shelves both in the US and internationally within the next few years.

Through more than 500 technical presentations, including posters and papers, presenters will share the newest thinking about these special topics: augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality; high-dynamic-range LCDs; machine learning for displays; and printed displays. New for 2021 are IoT displays.

Nora Lighting Gears Up Engineering Team for LED Product Development

Nora Lighting’s Executive Vice President Jilla Farzan announced that the company has brought onboard two new engineering staff members at the company’s headquarters in Commerce, California.

Daniel Hicks recently joined the engineering team, and Brady Trespuer was promoted to engineering from Nora quality control.

They will be working on new product development as the company continues to expand its LED product lines for architectural, residential, and commercial applications.

High Power UVC LED Array from Bolb Inc. Demonstrates 99.95% Inactivation of Airborne Virus

 

Bolb Inc. claims it has demonstrated 99.95% kill rate against aerosolized bacteria and viruses at up to 3,000 liters per minute flow rate with UVC light.

UVC light has been recognized as a universal, future-proof and chemical-free method to effectively combat mutating pathogens such as SARS-Cov-2. Solid-state emitters produced by Bolb Inc. brings benefits such as extremely high surface brightness, compactness, easy scalability, design flexibility and instant responsivity to a market traditionally dominated by mercury lamps.

The tests were performed against aerosolized human coronavirus HCoV-229E, a single-strand RNA virus that is recognized as a surrogate for SARS-Cov-2, and aerosolized bacteria Staph aureus ATCC 6538 in an enclosed air disinfection reference design equipped with a Bolb UVC LED light module featuring 40 W electrical input power and 2.5 W UVC light output power. In a test, single-pass disinfection efficiency of 99.96% was achieved for air flow rate 3,000 liter per minute containing aerosolized Staph aureus. In a separate test, the reference air disinfection unit demonstrated up to 99.95% inactivation against HCov-229E viral aerosol in a 30 m3 (1060 cu ft) volume in 1 hour.

Reducing blue light with a new type of LED that won't keep you up all night

To be more energy efficient, many people have replaced their incandescent lights with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. However, those currently on the market emit a lot of blue light, which has been linked to eye troubles and sleep disturbances. 

Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have developed a prototype LED that reduces -- instead of masks -- the blue component, while also making colors appear just as they do in natural sunlight.

LED light bulbs are popular because of their low energy consumption, long lifespan and ability to turn on and off quickly. Inside the bulb, an LED chip converts electrical current into high-energy light, including invisible ultraviolet (UV), violet or blue wavelengths. A cap that is placed on the chip contains multiple phosphors -- solid luminescent compounds that convert high-energy light into lower-energy visible wavelengths. Each phosphor emits a different color, and these colors combine to produce a broad-spectrum white light. Commercial LED bulbs use blue LEDs and yellow-emitting phosphors, which appear as a cold, bright white light similar to daylight. Continual exposure to these blue-tinted lights has been linked to cataract formation, and turning them on in the evening can disrupt the production of sleep-inducing hormones, such as melatonin, triggering insomnia and fatigue. To create a warmer white LED bulb for nighttime use, previous researchers added red-emitting phosphors, but this only masked the blue hue without getting rid of it. So, Jakoah Brgoch and Shruti Hariyani wanted to develop a phosphor that, when used in a violet LED device, would result in a warm white light while avoiding the problematic wavelength range.

As a proof of concept, the researchers identified and synthesized a new luminescent crystalline phosphor containing europium ((Na1.92Eu0.04)MgPO4F). In thermal stability tests, the phosphor's emission color was consistent between room temperature and the higher operating temperature (301 F) of commercial LED-based lighting. In long-term moisture experiments, the compound showed no change in the color or intensity of light produced. To see how the material might work in a light bulb, the researchers fabricated a prototype device with a violet-light LED covered by a silicone cap containing their luminescent blue compound blended with red-emitting and green-emitting phosphors. It produced the desired bright warm white light while minimizing the intensity across blue wavelengths, unlike commercial LED light bulbs. The prototype's optical properties revealed the color of objects almost as well as natural sunlight, fulfilling the needs of indoor lighting, the researchers say, though they add that more work needs to be done before it is ready for everyday use.

Making the shift from blue to red for better LEDs

Micro-LEDs are a promising technology for the next generation of displays. They have the advantage of being energy efficient and very small.

But each LED can only emit light over a narrow range of colors. A clever solution is to create devices that combine many different LEDs, each emitting a different color. Full-color micro-displays can be created by combining red, green and blue (RGB) micro-LEDs. Now, a KAUST team of Zhe Zhuang, Daisuke Iida and Kazuhiro Ohkawa have worked to develop a more efficient red LED.

Zhang's team created and characterized a series of square devices with a side-length of 98 or 47 micrometers. Their 47-micrometer-long devices emitting light at a peak wavelength of 626 nanometers were shown to have an external quantum efficiency—the number of photons emitted from the LED per electron injected into the device—of up to around 0.87 percent. Also, the color purity of the red micro-LED is optimum because it is very close to the primary red color defined by the industrial standard known as Rec. 2020.

BIOS Launches the Next Generation of Icarus LED Grow Lights

BIOS, a NASA spinoff in engineering horticultural lighting, announced its next generation of DLC certified BIOS Icarus LED Grow Lights.

With higher efficacy, industry leading uniformity and superior long-term performance, BIOS Icarus fixtures provide everything a grower needs to ensure successful production for years to come. By attaining the DLC listing for these products, growers can rest assured they are purchasing the most reliable, energy efficient and safest products available.

By starting with the plant cell biology and how plants respond to various wavelengths of sunlight, BIOS says it is able to deliver the perfect biological energy source that plants need to thrive. BIOS LED Grow Lights showcase high efficacy, industry leading uniformity, superior long-term performance and unmatched ease of use. Providing everything a grower needs to ensure successful production for years to come.

Sundiode Develops Stacked 3-colour Micro-LEDs On A Single Wafer

Sundiode, a Silicon Valley based company developing micro-LED technologies for display applications, announced the achievement of fully stacked 3-colour (RGB) micro-LED pixel devices on a single wafer.

In the stacked-RGB pixel technology patented by Sundiode and developed in collaboration with KOPTI (Korea Photonics Technology Institute), a single pixel features three independently controlled micro-LED subpixels that are stacked vertically to allow full-colour emission from essentially the entire area of the pixel.

This pixel technology results in a very compact pixel structure and a substantial reduction in the pixel-transfer processing requirement for micro-LED display fabrication. In addition, the operation of a full-colour micro-display consisting of a pixel-array typically sized smaller than a penny is significantly enhanced due to increased utilisation of the extremely small pixel area.

Portable LED Wireless Motion Light

Lumenology is a portable device that uses motion sensor technology to turn itself on when a person’s presence is detected. In addition, it can be used as a means of brightening a room, closet, or workspace to name a few.

Lumenology is completely wireless, which immediately implies increased savings and portability.

Lumenology includes a high-illuminance white LED light bulb that is enough to light up dark spaces while being easy on the eyes (i.e., 148 lumens). Specifically, it enhances vision without inducing any strain.

Market for smart lighting expected to grow at a CAGR of 23.1%

According to a global smart lighting market report the market for smart lighting was estimated at $11.93 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 23.1% during the forecast period from 2021 to 2025.

The growth of the market is attributed to factors including the development of smart cities, and the increasing trend of smart homes along with customization benefits supporting the smart lighting market, among others.

Some of the trends that can influence the growth of the market include cloud-based lighting controls, light fidelity (Li-Fi) becoming a brighter way to communicate, OLED panel shipments on the rise, LED filament bulbs combining incandescent bulb beauty with led lamp benefits, and lighting as a service (LaaS).

LED accent lighting for your brakes

Brembo wants to end the practice of dubiously painting brake calipers with the G Sessanta concept, an experimental caliper with LED accents added for both form and function.

At its core, the caliper is identical to the ones on your car, truck, or motorcycle in the sense that it was designed to hold pads that grip a rotor. However, the outer shell is fitted with strips of LEDs that motorists can customize wirelessly.

Brembo designed the concept for motorcycles, but it pointed out the basic technology can be applied to every application and type of caliper, so it can fit a car.

BBQ Dragon launches world's only double-headed LED grill

BBQ Dragon is one grill company that has a reputation for creating innovative grill tools. They have just announced four brand-new products, including a "Double-Extreme" Grill Light.

It is the world's only double-headed LED grill and utility light, the two super-bright LED's are mounted on separate goosenecks, so you can light two areas – the grill, and your prep surface, for example.

All four of the newly added products are available on their website at bbqdragon.com and online at major retailers like Target, Home Depot, and Lowes.

Experimenting with Tucson Night Lights

Since the invention and spread of artificial light, few locations on Earth appear entirely dark after sundown anymore. Even in a place like Tucson, Arizona dark-sky locations for astronomers the night sky is illuminated to a certain extent by artificial light sources.

Using satellites, scientists are starting to better understand the specific sources of this light pollution.

In a 2020 study led by Christopher Kyba of the German Research Center for Geosciences, scientists conducted an experiment with Tucson’s lights. They brightened then dimmed some streetlights for a few nights and used satellite images to observe changes in Tucson’s radiance. The results are not what you might expect.

Kyba and colleagues found that streetlights accounted for just 13 percent of the city’s total light visible after midnight. That number would jump to 18 percent if the city did not dim the lights. This means most of the light is coming from other types of artificial lighting.

ISLE 2021 to open in Shenzhen World on May 10, in China's LED Production Hub

ISLE, the International Large Screen Display, Audio-visual System, Signs and LED Exhibition, is set to open on May 10, in Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (Shenzhen World), a new venue just 7 kilometers away from Shenzhen Airport.

With latest technologies and solutions from 1200+ exhibitors, taking 80,000 square-meter exhibition area, ISLE 2021 covers the whole industry supply chain in large screen display, LED lighting, audio-visual system, signs and LED.

Highlights of ISLE 2021

Five Scenario-based Display Zones ISLE 2021 will introduce five segmented display areas, each providing a scenario-based solution for products like LED, Audio-visual and signs:

1. Smart Screen Application in 5G Rich Media, 2. VR/AR Award-winning Production, 3. Digital Signage, 4. Digital Creative Arts, 5. All-in-one LED Display. ISLE Online Showroom & All-Star Live Show ISLE Online Showroom is the channel created to provide 7 X 24h business surfing in 12 categories, 590 market segments with tens of thousands of products.

ISLE All-Star Live Show gives live broadcasting of the event and its major exhibitors. ISLE 2021

Hundreds of New Products Launch ISLE exhibitors are tech savvy and trend-setting. Hundreds of new products will debut in ISLE 2021, including:

LG: world's first AI Micro LED--"LG MAGNIT", with full black coating and chip on board technology.

Unilumin's 4th generation LED "UMini", with 20000:1 contrast, 180° visual angle, 2000nit brightness, 130% NTS color gamut and 40% more energy saving.

Leyard's latest micro-pitch LED display "TX series", with outstanding brightness, contrast, seamlessness. It has distributed signal processing features and support DCI P3 Color Gamut.

Absen will debut its new MicroLED with proprietary HCCI technology and packaged with inverted COB, to achieve a ultra-black surface coating effect and high ambient light contrast, with enhanced light efficiency and low power consumption.

Ledman's latest 8K Micro LED，with 125% NTS color gamut, 16BIT grayscale and 3840HZ refresh.

LianTronics "Vmini" display, with 170°+visual angle, 20000:1 contrast, IP65 protection to resist water splashing and dust.

AOTO "SID" All-in-one Display, features with 6mm ultra-thin frame and 19.8mm cabinet thickness. The overall weight of SID is 50% lower than peers. Efficiently integrated with AI algorithm, the optimal viewing brightness can be precisely adjusted.

Gloshine CL series for stage performance: with thinner and lighter cabinet, easy to install and dismantle, ±80° connection, multiple display can be connected to achieve 360° visual angle, giving stunning stage effect.

MAXHUB 150" All-in-One LED Display: with built-in interactive and mirroring technology - including multi-device screen sharing and synchronized writing - make the MAXHUB All-in-One LED Display an ultra-clear total solution.

Cedar Electronics' 0.4mm fine pitch COB display, and 2D/3D fusion DCI-P3 COB Screen for cinema.

Top Industrial Forums 20 industrial forums and workshops will be hosted during ISLE 2021, including China's Top Video-conferencing Products Appraisal, jointly hosted by ISLE organizer and LED Display Application Branch of China Optics and Optoelectronics Manufacturers' Association.

Heliospectra's MITRA LED Lighting Solutions Receives DLC Certification

Heliospectra's MITRA LED lighting platform has received its DLC certification. The new certification means MITRA customers meet the requirements for discounts on energy consumption and energy efficiency savings set by utilities in North America.

Design Lights Consortium (DLC) is a non-profit organization with the mission to achieve energy optimization by enabling controllability with a focus on quality, people, and the environment. DLC certification has become a strong third-party quality verification for customers and utility companies looking to verify energy-saving LED technology, including horticultural lighting solutions. Pinpointing "green" solutions and aligning growers with industry and trade allies in favor of sustainable growth.  

The DLC certification is often needed for commercial growers to qualify for states and Canadian provinces' power consumption laws and to meet eligibility requirements for utility rebates, leading to sizeable direct savings in investment for growers.

Energy-efficient solutions such as Heliospectra's MITRA platform considerably lowers the overall energy consumption compared to traditional solutions and the overall operational costs. MITRA is the horticulture market's first truly modular LED light solution.

Bridgelux F90 Series CRI90 deliver industry leading efficacy

Bridgelux announced the commercial release of its F90 Series LED products for commercial lighting which deliver a minimum CRI of 90 combined with industry leading efficacy.

Bridgelux F90 LED products use Potassium Fluorosilicate (PFS) phosphor technology licensed from Current Lighting Solutions, LLC for use in commercial lighting applications.For traditional LED technology, higher CRI results in a lower efficacy. By replacing broadband red nitride phosphor with narrowband red PFS phosphor, the F90 LED products can achieve today’s CRI80 LED efficacy with a CRI of 90. Lighting customers can simply replace their existing LEDs in their lighting products with the new F90 LEDs for CRI90 conversion. Bridgelux’s new family of F90 Series LEDs (Table 1) delivers a CRI of at least 90 and R9 of at least 50.

The F90 2835 0.2W LED has a lumen efficacy ranging from 170 lm/W to 210 lm/W to meet the DLC (Design Lights Consortium) V5.1 Standard for different lighting products including T8 lamps, troffers, high-bay, linear ambient, and case lighting.

ProSource Hosts Lighting Technology and Learning Center Grand Opening

ProSource, the U.S. residential tech buying group, hosted a welcome reception recently to celebrate the unveiling of the new Lighting Technology Learning Center at the Dallas Market Center.

The lighting certification program was announced last summer when the online Level 1 Certification went live on the proprietary ProSource University LMS platform. Hundreds have begun the training, and more than 40 members completed all units and are now certified.

The ProSource LTLC permanent showroom features interior and landscape solutions in a fully built smart space with lighting and controls. The Level 2 Certification curriculum takes the program to the next level with hands-on live experiential training, and nothing sells lighting like an experience.

RGB LED Rings Teach Old Dash New Tricks

There are many several so-called digital dash upgrades over the years that either augment, or completely replace, a vehicle’s original dashboard indicators with new displays. But this LED dashboard project takes a slightly different approach. Rather than replace the analog gauges entirely, rings of RGB LEDs of the same diameter were placed behind their matte black faces.

New Automotive Lighting Module 'Nexlide-E'

LG Innotek (CEO Cheol-dong Jeong) announced it has developed 'Nexlide-E,' an automotive lighting module that produces bright and uniform light.

This automotive lighting module is made of three parts. An LED package, which is a light source, is mounted on a thin substrate. Then, optical resin covers the package and substrate for protection. Lastly, a thin optical film is attached on top of the package to spread the light brightly and evenly. The module can be used as taillights, stop lamps, and headlights.

he Nexlide is LG Innotek's automotive lighting service brand that has the meaning of a next-generation light source. The name was produced by combining the words 'Next,' 'Lighting,' and 'Device.' LG Innotek provides automotive lighting module products as well as customized solutions such as optical device design, lighting design proposal, and more with the Nexlide brand.

The Nexlide-E is 63% brighter than the previous product and produces more uniform light. LG Innotek applied a high-performance and high-reliability optical film to improve the lighting performance. The company's micropatterning technique was used in the film to give a variety of lighting effects.

Due to its brightness, this lighting module can replace multiple automotive lamps with different brightness standards into one module. This can improve space efficiency and allow more design variations of a vehicle's lamps.

Will Micro-LED Displays be a Threat to OLED Displays?

Micro-LED, believed by many as the next-generation display technology, has been pursued by players of LED, display, OEM, materials and so on. It is also widely believed by many that Micro-LED displays are the replacement of OLED displays, especially in TV applications.

In the LCD regime, LCD manufacturing is shifting to mainland China due to cost competence, new line production efficiency, and industry chain support. Other regions have started to shift away from the LCD business. For instance, Samsung has announced it is ending the LCD business and will focus on its QD LCD & OLED. LG Display has halted its domestic production of LCD panels. Panasonic and JDI are getting out of the LCD business. AUO, Innolux, and a few other Taiwanese companies are slowing down investment in LCD or OLED.

In the OLED area, OLED panel production is dominated by Korean companies in terms of effective production capacity, technology maturity, upstream materials & equipment, downstream application, and supply chain completeness. For instance, SDC and LGD have supported upstream material and equipment companies, building good ecosystems. For the downstream applications, Samsung's small/middle-sized OLED panels are firstly supplied to Samsung smartphones, while LGD's large-sized OLED panels are firstly offered to LG TVs. Their brands can also provide enough attractions and feedbacks. Samsung and LG are dominating small/middle and large-sized OLED panels, respectively.

Another technology existing in the competitive market is quantum dot (QD) technology, mainly using its photoluminescent feature. By applying QD films in the LCD structure, the color gamut can be significantly improved. QD-based displays are catching up.

Micro-LED displays are composed of self-emissive inorganic LEDs, acting as subpixels. These LEDs are usually in the micrometer range, without package nor substrate, and therefore are transferred in a way different from traditional pick & place techniques. Micro-LED displays have value propositions such as wide color gamut, high luminance, low power consumption, excellent stability and long lifetime, wide view angle, high dynamic range, high contrast, fast refresh rate, transparency, seamless connection, and sensor integration capability, etc.

Each technology has its marketing features to attract end-users but from the graph shown below, some of the value propositions can be provided by alternatives such as LCD, OLED and QD, not Micro-LED only. There are some value propositions unique for Micro-LED displays.

However, not all the value propositions of Micro-LED displays can be realized based on the current technology maturity and cost expectation, such as low power consumption (the EQEs of very tiny micro-LEDs are low and final device power consumption can be much higher), extremely high resolution (similarly very tiny micro-LEDs are not mature and therefore it is very difficult and/or costly to achieve extremely high-resolution Micro-LED displays), etc. In addition, based on current status some value propositions may not be so significant for specific applications considering much higher cost. One example is the extremely long lifetime for mobile phone applications: Users may change their phone every 2 to 3 years, making the long lifetime less attractive considering the costs.

Therefore, whether Micro-LED displays can replace OLED or not, at least for the short to medium time scale, is a very application-dependent question.

Lafayette Utilities System LED Street Light Project announced

In an effort to improve street light visibility and energy stewardship, Lafayette Utilities System (LUS) is embarking on a city-wide street light project to upgrade the current phosphorous/incandescent/high pressure sodium lights to LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes).

The project to upgrade more than 21,000 publicly-owned street lights is scheduled to kick-off in late 2021. The LED street light project will improve nighttime traffic visibility and public safety, reduce electric consumption, decrease maintenance costs, and create possibilities for “smart city” functions.

Qatar Airways Introduces Honeywell’s Ultraviolet Cabin Disinfection Technology On Board

Qatar Airways becomes the first global carrier to operate Honeywell’s Ultraviolet (UV) Cabin System version 2.0.

The latest version of the Honeywell UV Cabin System has extended UV wings that treat both narrow and wide areas on board, reducing the overall disinfection time. This version also includes a hand wand that disinfects areas like the cockpit and other smaller spaces and is non-motorised leading to less battery consumption.

After receiving 17 units of the latest version of the Honeywell UV Cabin System V2, the devices have all undergone comprehensive testing on board Qatar Airways’ aircraft. The airline aims to operate them on board all aircraft turnarounds at Hamad International Airport (HIA).

Petersburg begins to replace street lights with LED lighting

Along with Dominion Energy, the city of Petersburg (Virginia) will begin a project of replacing street lights with LED lighting.

A total of 3,199 streetlights will be converted during a 4-phase process. The first phase will begin near downtown Petersburg.

The project is expected to be completed in spring 2022.

Cleveland's chronic street lighting issues show up

Cleveland's chronic street lighting issues appeared as the city is in the midst of being in the national spotlight hosting the 2021 NFL draft, News6 Cleveland reports.

Lincoln Heights Block Club Chairperson Henry Senyak has been reporting street lighting issues for more than a decade and said current problems are not limited to the downtown area.

Senyak sent a list of 17 crucial lighting repairs that are needed in the city's Tremont neighborhood to Cleveland Public Power in January, but said he's still waiting a definitive response.