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The Lighting Controls Association’s website has been relaunched in a Web 2.0 format (blog with Twitter, RSS, Facebook, YouTube) at www.lightingcontrolsassociation.org. This was a big project that required us to move a lot of content into the new format that is now easier to search, share, comment. If you have not yet checked out this [...]

Daintree Networks, Inc. recently announced the launch of its ControlScope Connected Partner Program, designed to encourage vendor collaboration and development. Through the program, launched today with its first five members, Daintree Networks works with industry-leading lighting vendors to create interoperability between third-party products, as well as with Daintree’s own ControlScope wireless lighting control platform. Companies [...]

The Lighting Controls Association is pleased to announce that EE301: Wireless RF Lighting Control has been added to the Association’s popular online Education Express distance education courses. Radio-frequency (RF) wireless communication is a significant emerging lighting control technology in both residential and commercial building applications. In a typical hardwired lighting control system, control signals are [...]

Lighting for Tomorrow is launching its 2011 competition-with a focus on lighting control devices and solid state lighting (SSL) fixtures and replacement lamps. Following up on last year’s competition, Lighting for Tomorrow will be looking at lighting control products including stand-alone, system-based, and whole house devices. Along with the promotion of residential lighting control devices, [...]

Products from Cooper Lighting and Cooper Controls have been selected as 2011 Top Product winners by Building Operating Management magazine. The winning products are the Halo H7 LED Collection from Cooper Lighting and the Venergy Energy Monitoring Web Tool from Cooper Controls. The Top Product winners were selected using an e-mail ballot to readers of [...]

The Lighting Controls Association is proud to announce that it has entered into a five-year agreement with the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) to sponsor a new Control Innovation Award as part of the IES’s prestigious Illumination Awards. The Illumination Awards recognize professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design. The new Control Innovation Award recognizes projects [...]

Active ES Lighting Controls has introduced LiteOwl, a lighting control device specially designed for use in individual, Cobra-style streetlight applications.

The University of California, Davis, has signed a co-exclusive license agreement with Philips to commercialize inventions that reduce the cost and increase the reliability of daylight harvesting systems. The license agreement covers a package of patents and patent applications describing strategies and technologies developed by the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) at UC Davis. This [...]

Loft, the latest addition to the Corelite line of architectural direct/indirect luminaires, introduces three new options including a new micro-linear prismatic lens for high efficiency up to 95% and superior brightness at high angles while obscuring the lamp image.