On Dec 17, the City of St. Catharines, which sits in Southern Ontario, Canada, is switching its high- pressure sodium streetlights to energy efficient LED ones, reported CKTB.

Telensa, which provides end-to-end smart city solutions using its low power Ultra Narrow Band (UNB) wireless technology, has announced that work has begun on a major new deployment which will cover 55,000 LED streetlights over approximately 1,000 sq. miles across Gloucestershire, UK. The deployment, part of Gloucestershire County Council’s plan to replace existing sodium lights, is being led by Skanska, with LED luminaires from Urbis Schréder.  The new streetlights are wirelessly connected and controlled using Telensa’s PLANet Central Management System. 

Technical Direction Company are bringing Sydney-siders their large-format video projection technology to two Must See events this year.

St. James Cathedral in Seattle has used Lumenpulse’s innovative, patented Lumentalk technology to upgrade its exterior lighting system to flexible, high-performance LED luminaires with digital control. Lumentalk, a power line communication technology, uses existing electrical infrastructure as a bi-directional carrier for lighting control data, allowing the creation of networkable lighting systems, without the cost and disruption of having to re-wire for data.

Flip Chip Opto releases a first-in-class 2400 watt high-power LED Flip Chip COB. The 2400 watt Flip Chip COB is part of their flagship Apollo series based on the company’s patented 3-Pad Pillar Metal Core Printed Circuit Board technology. This technology allows a breakthrough in high powered flip chip LEDs, reducing the junction temperatures to 0.003˚C/W on Apollo 2400.

Bulbrite innovation combines vintage lighting with the benefits of LEDs resulting in the expansion of its LED Filament Series. Announced at the International Lighting Market, the traditional flame-style chandelier bulbs, tubular shapes and colored bulbs shined as the newest additions.

As the lighting industry continues to make the transformation from commodity lamp supplier to strategic lighting partner, the old financial structures and purchasing patterns are no longer fit for purpose.

YAH JUANG ENTERPRISE LTD launched newest product the RF dimmable track lights and the intelligent lighting fixtures with ZigBee control system at the 2015 Hong Kong international lighting fair (autumn edition).  The needs of intelligent lighting is substantially increase in this modern generation. And These new intelligent lights attract lots interests of customers at Hong Kong lighting Fair. After that YACG will exhibit these intelligent lighting fixtures at 2016 Frankfurt Light + Building Fair.

For the very first time at ISE, Calibre will move their tradeshow booth to hall 11 of the Amsterdam RAI.

This is an innovative and stylish series of COC (chips on cord) LED bulb which is designed with classic light bulb size and shape. With its special filament structure, it delivers 360° lighting distribution that is more similar to a normal incandescent than the other LEDs. It offers high luminous efficiency which reaches the highest energy efficiency class of A++ in European standard. It is an ideal replacement of decorative incandescent bulbs which can be widely used in homes, restaurants, shops and hotels.

Coping with global warming, for saving electricity, lighting sensors are now in widespread used at the areas with brief passing traffic. However, for some existing large spaces such as hallways of large apartments, hotels, office buildings, government offices, and automated assembly lines in factories, large parking lots, warehouses etc, it needs re-wired when installing sensors on existing circuits for achieving lights switching on/off automatically. It consumes much time and manpower. Therefore, Joint Security introduced “Wireless Lighting Sensor System”. This system consists of one “Controller” and many “Sensors”. It utilizes wireless transmission at 433MHz frequency to connect the controller and the sensors which greatly reduces the amount of wiring works. Besides, Joint Security designed battery-powered sensor which can be installed easier.

A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with applications spanning nearly all electronics products and electricity distribution infrastructures.

“We recently upgraded the software for Philips Hue to ensure the best seamless connected lighting experience for our customers. This change was made in good faith. However, we under estimated the impact this would have on a small number of customers who use lights from other brands which could not be controlled by the Philips Hue software. In view of the sentiment expressed by our customers, we have decided to reverse the software upgrade so that lights from other brands continue to work as they did before with the Philips Hue system.

EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS, a leading playerin the global LED and optoelectronics industry, announces the introduction of two new single channel 6-pin SDIP 1Mbit/s and 10Mbit/s transistor output optocouplers. With merely half the dimensions of comparable 8-Pin 6N13X devices, they are both suited for preferential use in space constraint industrial applications.

According to a Bloomberg report, Apple’s secret facility in Taiwan is working on display technology, most likely OLED panels.

The UK is paying more attention to the impact from China’s easing economy upon the global economy. China’s economic slowdown has spurred Chinese enterprises to increased overseas engagement after a long learning period, Chinese enterprises will have significant impact on the global market within five years, a BBC report cited Donglei Wang, President of NVC Lighting and ETI saying.

LG Display will initiate its OLED lighting business operations, which was acquired from LG Chem, and focus on promotion as its next growth engine, reported Business Korea.

Gooee, the original ‘Full-Stack’, smart lighting ecosystem provider that connects OEMs to the Internet of Things, has developed, out of Silicon Valley, a multi-protocol enterprise IoT gateway that connects lighting and sensing devices to its cloud platform.

Recall Summary Name of product: JHBL LED Fixtures Hazard: The metal hub used to mount the light fixtures to the ceiling can break and allow the fixture to fall unexpectedly, posing a risk of injury from impact.

They are big. They are bright. They made their way down Broadway yesterday for their first appearance of the year. It’s the 2016 numeral delivery at Duffy Square, a skip and a hop away from Times Square in New York City.

The Minack open-air theatre in Cornwall, built on a craggy cliff overlooking the sea at Porthcurno, is the last place you would expect to see SGM’s award-winning G-Spot strutting its stuff. Situated just four miles from Land’s End, and constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea, this unique theatre has been staging performances in front of up to 800 people for 85 years.

CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) has just revamped their collection of architectural lighting with upgraded technology and finishes for existing collections and a number of new designs. The latest generation of Architectural Lighting fixtures, engineered and manufactured to the highest standards, offers lighting options defined by a dynamic blend of light and shape. The new line of luminaires features energy-saving LEDs and an array of finishes to complement any environment. All fixtures are UL approved for wet or damp locations.

Amerlux CEO and President Chuck Campagna announces that the company currently offers 116 point-source lighting fixtures that are compliant with Title 24 regulations for nonresidential buildings including retail, hospitality and commercial applications. The California Energy Code, or Title 24, Part 6 of the California Code of Regulations, was established in 1978 in response to a legislative mandate to reduce California's energy consumption. The standards are updated periodically to allow consideration and possible incorporation of new energy efficiency technologies and methods.

Top two U.S. chemical companies Dow Chemical and DuPont signed an agreement in an all-stock merger of equals to merge into an enterprise worth US $13 billion, reported Guangdong LED. This is one of the largest international business and industry merger. After the merge, the new company will trail behind German BASF to become the world’s second largest industrial company, while becoming the largest global chemical company.

Ecobuild Southeast Asia with its comprehensive showcase of sustainable construction products and solutions will be held on 12-14 April 2016 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Malaysia. Themed “Driving Productivity in Construction”, it will be hosted by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Malaysia and held in conjunction with the International Construction Week (ICW) 2016.

LED A-line lamps posted another strong showing in 2015Q3, surging 237.2% during the quarter on a year-over-year basis. Halogen A-line lamps posted a year-over-year increase of 33.0%. In contrast, incandescent A-line lamps decreased by 31.5% while compact fluorescents lamps (CFL) dropped 28.0 percent. Compared to 2015Q2, LED shipments rose 17.2%, while halogen A-lines increased 4.6%. CFL shipments saw a quarter-to-quarter decrease of 16.3% and incandescent A-line lamp shipments decreased 16.5%.

Organic semiconductor materials are already being employed today in solar cells and organic LEDs (OLEDs) amongst others. Until now, however, little was known about how the doping molecules are integrated into the chemical structure of organic semiconductors. The Molecular Systems Joint Research Team of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin at BESSY II have now analysed this with surprising results. The molecules are not necessarily uniformly dispersed in the host lattice, as it is usual with inorganic semiconductors, but instead form what are known as co-crystallites. 

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) announced that ANSI Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) C136 published ANSI C136.38-2015 American National Standard for Roadway and Area Lighting Equipment—Induction Lighting. This standard defines the electrical and mechanical requirements of induction type light sources for use in roadway and area lighting luminaires. Induction lighting is a class of fluorescent lamp technology, with two classes of induction lamps commercially available: toroidal (ring) lamps and re-entrant cavity lamps.

We have heard it for a while now – “with the advent of LEDs, retrofit lamps are on their way out, and the future belongs to dedicated products such as integrated fixtures”. Today I’d like to take another look at this prediction.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) commends the U.S. Department of Energy on its Dec. 2, 2015 decision that mandatory energy conservation standards for high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps are not technically feasible or economically justified. Furthermore, the DOE determined that higher energy conservation standards for HID lamps would not yield significant energy savings for the nation.