Lighting Industry

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Bill Foley, VP Brand Management, Cree Lighting. The topic: trends in retail lighting. I’m happy to share his responses with you here. The interview informed an article I wrote for the February 2017 issue of tED. DiLouie: How would you characterize retail facilities as a market for lighting? [...]

Below is my contribution to the December issue of tED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED. Reprinted with permission. The lighting industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation driven by adoption of LED lighting and lighting controls. This demand in turn is feeding emerging trends including connectivity, spectral tuning, circadian lighting and the Industrial Internet [...]

Armstrong Ceiling Solutions and USAI Lighting have partnered to provide architects and designers with the opportunity to place LED recessed downlights at the intersections of acoustical ceiling suspension systems, allowing lighting to be placed where it was once impossible. The new integrated ceiling solution, Intersection Downlighting, includes an Armstrong Ceilings Intersection Downlighting kit with a [...]

Happy to announce the third episode in my WW2 submarine thriller series, BATTLE STATIONS, is now available for Kindle. A trade paperback and audiobook will be out shortly as well. I’ve been published in small press and by big houses like Simon & Schuster. This series marks my first foray into self-publishing, and it’s been [...]

Channel Marketing Group’s David Gordon contributed an editorial to the Electrical Trends website expressing concern about Verizon’s acquisition of Sensity Systems. He warns the acquisition may result in disruption to electrical disruption. Specifically: Acquisition of Sensity could lead to packaging of IIoT-friendly intelligent lighting, PoE, and lighting as a service to large corporate customers and [...]

The interNational Association of Lighting Management Companies (NALMCO) has launched a new lighting controls certification, the Certified Lighting Controls Professional (CLCP). The certification is based on the Education Express curriculum developed by the Lighting Controls Association. The announcement was made at the organization’s annual conference in Dallas, TX. The lighting industry is undergoing massive change [...]

LED A-line lamp shipments posted a 21.2% quarter-over-quarter decrease in the second quarter of 2016 compared to last quarter, but enjoyed year-over-year growth of 40.6%. Meanwhile, halogen A-line lamps shipments show virtually no year-over-year growth at 0.2%, but after a decrease in the first quarter, saw a 14.5% increase in Q216. Compact fluorescents lamp (CFL) [...]

Mark Lien’s June column in LD+A, “Forces of Change,” examines how LED technology is disrupting the lighting industry in six steps, and what we should do about it. My concern for lighting is that quality is already being further compromised by demonetization. Dematerialization may ultimately be controlled by Internet and telecom companies and/or trades integrating [...]

Besides covering the lighting industry, I also write fiction. My books have been published by big houses such as Simon & Schuster as well as small presses. You can check out my stuff at CraigDiLouie.com. I wanted to tell you about one of my series that’s a lot of fun to write and, I hope, [...]