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Lighting As Industrial Machine Vision Infrastructure
Lighting is not a peripheral consideration in robotic machine vision—it is a core determinant of inspection accuracy, object-recognition reliability and production uptime. Camera performance and vision-algorithm results depend fundamentally…
Illinois Passes Its Dark Sky Bill Into Law
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker officially signed the Dark Sky Act legislation (Senate Bill 3037) on August 7, 2026, with the law scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2027. Key Provisions…
Remote Work Findings Challenge RTO Assumptions
A new study of 7,704 employees at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center adds a significant data point to the ongoing return-to-office (RTO) debate—one with implications for…
Battery Energy Storage System Market Growing
There are different scales of battery energy storage systems (BESS): Utility Scale Commercial & Industrial Building Scale Residential Scale Utility Scale BESS U.S. utility-scale battery storage is expanding at…
A New Software Platform For Lighting Manufacturers
I recently learned about a new type of software for lighting manufacturers that strattles many of the typically siloed configurators, CRMs, PIMs, spec sheet generators, AI analytics, branded portals…
FRA’s $5.3 Billion Program Creates Lighting Opportunities
The Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) $5.3 billion investment package incorporates lighting upgrades across its select passenger rail projects through on-board fleet modernizations, passenger station overhauls, and enhanced grade-crossing safety infrastructure. Administered under…
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