Products + Technology

One of the key events at the Strategies in Light conference is the gala for the Sapphire Awards produced by LEDs Magazine, which recognizes excellence in LED lighting products, projects, and industry service. Click to check out this year’s winners.

Lunera’s Smart T8 delivers energy savings through its integration of LED technology, embedded microprocessors and an ambient light sensor; external occupancy sensors; and commissioning/energy/lighting management software. Together these create an open and cloud-connected solution, enabling Lunera and third-party applications to use the infrastructure beyond networked lighting controls for energy management optimization including occupancy-based HVAC control and peak power usage management.

Eaton’s Lumière Lanterra Architectural LED Series, a line voltage family of landscape luminaires, provides solutions for accent and flood, pathway, wall-mount, and sign lighting applications. Available in various sizes, mountings, beam distributions and correlated color temperatures (CCT), the family is suited for high-end exterior and interior applications for landscaping, hospitality, architectural landmarks and residential spaces.

Hubbell Lighting’s Captivate is an illuminated mirror solution suitable for a wide range of applications including healthcare, hospitality, commercial and residential. It is available in four standard sizes and three light color temperatures, all with a CRI>80). It is ADA-compliant with a low-profile housing and can be dimmed with 0-10V controls.

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.

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.

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.

Philips Gardco’s PureForm LED site and area luminaires offers medium- and large-pole-mounted area luminaires, a wall sconce, bollard, and post top defined by performance and a sleek, cohesive aesthetic.