Industry News
Chuck Swoboda on the Sale of GE’s Lighting Business
Chuck Swoboda, formerly CEO of Cree, provides his perspective on GE’s sale of its lighting business in a recent contribution to FORBES. He writes: The success of LED technology and…
IES Board of Directors and Staff Issue Statement Against Systemic Racism
The Illuminating Engineering Society has released a statement from its board of directors and staff stating its support of inclusion, the Black community, and the principle of uniting and speaking…
Product Monday: Wrap Luminaires by Columbia
Columbia Lighting’s new CRW Round Wrap and the CNW Narrow Wrap have been added to parent Hubbell Lighting’s tradeSELECT® collection of products, which are value-focused solutions with stock availability and…
LRC Releases Free, Open Access Horticulture Luminaire Calculator
The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a free, easy-to-use online tool that will assist growers to evaluate the performance, efficiency, and economics of a wide…
PNNL Study Targets Authentication Vulnerability of Connected Lighting Systems
The U.S. Department of Energy has released the results of a study examining authentication vulnerabilities in connected lighting systems (CLS). Particularly as emerging CLS incorporate distributed intelligence, network interfaces and…
DesignLights Consortium Issues Report on Networked Lighting Controls Interoperability
The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) recently published a report that illustrates the benefits of increased interoperability of networked lighting controls (NLC) for solid-state lighting manufacturers, electric utilities, contractors, building operators, and…
2020 LIT Design Awards Open to Submissions
Farmani Group recently announced the LIT Design Awards are now open to submissions. The LIT Design Awards was created to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting and lighting product…
Product Monday: Outline Family of Luminaires by Eureka
Eureka’s Outline family presents a range of modern luminaires with three different mounting types and a wide variety of head number and arrangement options. Outline brings a modern aesthetic to…
Alex Baker on Evaluating LED Product Life Claims
Part of my contribution to the April 2020 issue of tED Magazine was a short interview with the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Alex Baker, who has raised the alarm that lifetime…
The WELL Conference Cancelled for 2020
The International WELL Building Institute today announced that the 2020 WELL Conference, originally postponed from March to August 16-19 in Scottsdale, AZ, has been canceled. In a public statement, the…
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