Espen Technology continues to expand its Sentinel family of emergency solutions for LED lighting, which includes Type A emergency ballasts for use with existing fluorescent ballasts, Type B emergency inverters for use with line voltage TLEDs or fixtures, Type C emergency drivers for use with encased LED drivers, and stand-alone emergency back-up kits. One of the most recent EM solutions added to the Sentinel family is an LED emergency driver.

The Designers Lighting Forum of New York and the LEDucation committee have announced the LEDucation 2020 Virtual Trade Show and Conference, being held August 18-19, 2020, is open for registration.

Pompeo Group has announced a free webinar to be held Wednesday, July 15 from 11 AM to 12 PM CST to help job searchers in the COVID era.

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is investigating the impacts of working from home or quarantining indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic on individual daily light exposures, and how this may be affecting sleep quality and psychological health. In May 2020, the LRC invited people who had been staying home due to the pandemic to complete a short survey about their sleep, mood, and daily light exposure. A total of 708 people responded, which some interesting results.

The Lighting Research Center has published a series of videos at its YouTube channel in which its experts talk about the future of lighting in the COVID era and beyond.

A-Light’s Align module-based architectural lighting system offers a highly configurable system designed to accommodate the changing needs of any space before and after installation.

Researchers from Israeli’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a new technique for long-distance eavesdropping on voice conversations by observing tiny vibrations these sounds make on the glass surface of a visible lamp.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently announced the availability of new resources to support employers, public officials, and design professionals with re-occupying buildings more safely.

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred fresh interest in UV-C as a way to disinfect objects and surfaces. Signify and the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) at Boston University conducted research that demonstrates effectiveness of the company’s UV-C light sources on the inactivation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.