Products + Technology

Columbia’s Bi-Level Luminaire is ideally suited for stairwells and other low-occupancy areas such as storerooms, restrooms and parking structures. The luminaire utilizes two 4-ft. T8 lamps controlled by a PIR occupancy sensor to provide design light levels during times of occupancy while adjusting levels down to acceptable minimums when the space is unoccupied. Click here [...]

On May 12, at the LIGHTFAIR 2010 Innovation Awards ceremony, four companies were recognized as the lighting industry’s leaders in innovative product design and technology. The awards program encompassed nearly 200 products debuting on the 2010 LFI trade show floor. This year, roughly two out of three entrants were based on LED or other solid-state [...]

To mark the occasion of New York Design week (May 14-May 17), Italian lighting manufacturer ITRE will create a “light lounge” in front of Pastis, a restaurant in the Meatpacking District. On display will be two interesting lighting designs: SIT-UP is a light source that doubles as a bench; multiple units can be arranged to [...]

Énergie has introduced a new lighting family called Palaron, inspired by the combination of room and light in the Roman Pantheon and designed by Sieger Design, emits light in all directions from its circular shape. Click here to learn more.

Alera Lighting, a manufacturer of architectural and specialty fluorescent luminaires for offices, schools, and institutional buildings, recently updated and expanded their express program including T5 standard lamp products, OSRAM 0.88 and 0.71 fixed-output programmed-start rapid-start ballasts, and dust covers for T8 or T5 standard products where applicable. Alera Lighting also provides “for record” drawings in [...]

The Stratus LED Linear Wall Grazer by Pure Lighting provides uniform illumination of textured walls and other vertical surfaces using warm or cool white LEDs. Mounted in the ceiling or on the surface behind a cove, Stratus evenly covers up to a 30-ft. wall down to the floor. Click here to learn more.

The FTO Series is “stripped of its cosmetic clutter,” according to its creator Lighting Services Inc. The product mounts to LSI track and creates fill light from its 54W T5HO lamping. Optional accessories include reflector, acrylic lenses (clear or frosted) and emergency backup ballast, which provides up to 90 minutes of illumination time at 390 [...]

Gigahertz-Optik’s hand-held P-9710-4 radiometer/photometer now features an external TTL trigger input function useful for remote timing of pulsed light measurements. In the P-9710-4 pulse energy mode, the measurement begins automatically upon the trigger input. The P-9710-4 is capable of measuring the pulse energy (joules, J/cm2, lux-seconds, effective candela) of single and multiple burst pulsed events [...]

Ledalite has introduced Shine, a family of highly efficient (up to 92%), uniformly luminous recessed general luminaires available in a wide variety of sizes and lamping options including T8, T5/T5HO and the TT5 compact fluorescent lamp. Check it out here.