Industry News
NEMA, Zhaga, and Wire Connectors in Street Lighting Control Systems
By Maria Bragina, General Manager, Sundrax Electronics In the rapidly evolving lighting industry, the demand for efficient and reliable connection options has led to the standardization of specialized connectors like…
Big Box Retailers Getting Smaller
Big box retailers are increasingly opening smaller format stores. Historically, the largest retailers have been continually increasing the size of stores, in some cases as large as 500,000 square…
Product Monday: World’s First Light-Producing Window Shutters
Radiant Blinds LLC, a Texas-based manufacturer of window treatments, recently announced the launch of Lumina Shutters, the world’s first light-producing window shutters, designed to enhance the ambiance of any work or…
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 &…
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