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Bluetooth SIG Releases New Standard For Bluetooth NLC
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) recently announced its full-stack standard for wireless lighting control, Bluetooth Networked Lighting Control (NLC). It is designed to meet the scale, reliability, and security demands…
New USDA Program Can Pay 50% Of Rural Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Upgrades
Rural Energy for America is a new program of the US Department of Agriculture. The program provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small…
New Glass Could Cut Embodied Carbon By Half And Is 10X Stronger
LightNOW has recently covered advances in green aluminum, copper, and textiles. There has now been a large advancement in creating more environmentally friendly glass. Researchers at Penn State University…
10 Trends In Lighting-HVAC Integration
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the coming lighting-HVAC control integration tsunami, here. The following are 10 trends in lighting-HVAC control integration: IoT Integration: The Internet of Things (IoT)…
Trends Impacting Residential Lighting
By Jeffrey R. Dross, Principal, Lighting by Jeffrey Change occurs in every industry. Social and aesthetic trends drive much of it. Consumers are always looking for something “different;” the architecture…
Nobel Prizes In Both Physics & Chemistry Involve Light & Quantum Mechanics
The Nobel Prizes awarded, this month, in both Chemistry and Physics had some things in common. Both involved scientific breakthroughs involving light, as well as distance scales so small that…
Nebraska Children’s Hospital Lighting Design Lets Kids Be Kids
I’m pleased to share my first article published in the October issue of Lighting Design + Application (LD+A), the magazine of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES). Children’s Hospital &…
Q3 2023 Acquisitions
Here is a quick summary of seven acquisitions in the third quarter of 2023: Signify acquires Douglas Lighting Controls assets. Details here. Bukas Lighting Group acquires iWorks. Details here.…
The Copper Mark, And The Sustainable Copper Paradox
In a previous post, I’ve discussed sustainable aluminum as a path to further improve the sustainability of lighting. Another important metal to the lighting industry is copper. Copper is…
White Random Lasers May Deliver What Phosphor-Converted Lasers Can’t
Some LightNOW readers are likely familiar with the existing white light laser approach of a blue laser diode (LD) pumping a phosphor to make safe, high intensity, white light.…
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