Craig DiLouie

Cree, Inc.’s ceramic-based XLamp® XD16 Extreme Density LED is designed to deliver up to 5½ times higher lumen density than the company’s previous generation of high-power LEDs, offering new opportunities for product innovation.

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) latest Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) revealed a majority of U.S. homes used more than one type of lamp, mainly a mix of incandescent and compact fluorescent. Adoption of LED lighting was increasing, however, with 29 percent of households reporting they’d installed at least one LED lamp. Click to learn more about the 2015 RECS.

Researchers at the University of Sydney have successfully transferred data carried on light waves into sound waves in a microchip. Why is this important? Shifting from optical to acoustical and back inside a chip is considered a building block of creating computers that use photons instead of electrons to move data.

An article recently published in the IEEE’s The Institute reports Li-Fi can pass data at 10 GB per second, about 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. According to Global Market Insights, Li-Fi is predicted to become a $75 billion technology by 2023.

A new Department of Energy report examines the energy-saving potential of LED lighting in these applications. Click to get the report.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Glenn Siegel, Director, Marketing and Product Management, Eaton Corporation. The topic: what’s new in LED downlights.

Hubbell Outdoor Lighting’s award-winning GeoPak family has expanded to now offer two housing sizes in the popular trapezoid, radius and quarter-sphere shapes. With lumen outputs of up to 11,000 lumens, paired with high performance StrikeTM optics, this family is capable of replacing up to 400W HID luminaires.

Skeletal frameworks installed in some facilities form interior subspaces called bays, often characterized as high-bay (>20 ft. off the floor) or low-bay (<20 ft.). Such high-ceiling applications are common in industrial, warehouse, big-box retail, convention center, and gymnasiums. General lighting installed in high-bay applications typically involves high-output luminaires emitting 15,000 up to 100,000 lumens per luminaire. These luminaires often operate at least 12 hours per day, making them good candidates for energy-saving options for both retrofit and new construction. Click to read this article about trends in LED high-bay lighting.

In this video presentation created as part of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Indispensable Lighting Series, a group of industry leaders discussed the lighting design process, how best to improve the process, how best to interact with the other trades, and other pertinent lighting industry topics. Click to check out the archived presentation.