Industry News
Comcast Enters The Smart Cities Space, Including Lighting
Inside.lighting covers Comcast’s entry into the smart cities space. Comcast isn’t the first giant telecom to jump into smart cities and associated lighting. Verizon acquired Sensity Systems back in 2016,…
Four Major Trends In Lighting Controls
A recent article in Electrical Wholesaler reports on four major trends in the lighting controls market. Electrical distributors, sales reps and manufacturers need to recalibrate their sales and marketing strategies…
Product Monday: Decorative Pendants 3-D Printed From Recycled Ocean Plastic Waste
Fishing nets account for 46% of ocean plastic pollution, and Signify is now upcycling them to fashion new pendants, in their Coastal Breeze Collection. Crafted from salvaged fishing nets using…
Three Award Programs Currently Accepting Submissions
WIL Awards 2022 The WIL Awards highlight the achievements of women in lighting. They seek to celebrate outstanding women in the following categories for 2022: Light Art, Research and Education, and Engineering. The award makes these women…
US EIA Releases 2020 RECS Housing Characteristics With Some Lighting Use Data
The US EIA that releases the data is part of the US DOE. The 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) provides household characteristics and energy usage indicators for the estimated…
NEMA Publishes ANSI Standard For Standby Power Measurement In Lighting
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published American National Standard for Lighting Systems—Non-Active Mode Power Measurement ANSI C137.63103-2021. This newly published standard adopts IEC 63103, ed1.0 (2020-07) as a nationally acknowledged international standard with…
Light-Operated Computer Chip Implements All 5 Basic Logic Operations Without Electricity
The demand for next-generation computers that can quickly calculate and process a lot of information is rapidly increasing. A logic device is a circuit that obtains an output value by…
Product Monday: The Spire Leaf Pendant 9 From Boyd Lighting
The Spire Leaf Pendant 9 from Boyd Lighting is a beautiful focal piece and can be used to create large systems in grand spaces. It was designed by Jake Oliveira.…
Lighting the Sentient Building
My contribution to the March issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR describes cutting-edge research RPI is conducting to explore lighting systems that use artificial intelligence to act autonomously in providing optimal light…
Circadian Lighting Pioneer Says The Science Isn’t Ready Yet
Mark Halper has an interesting article in LED’s Magazine interviewing Russell Foster, the scientist who predicted the non-visual receptors in the eye that are involved in the circadian response to…
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