2013-06-20
After the world's first 55-inch OLED produced by LG Electronics accepted pre-orders in January, Samsung 55-inch OLED TV will be put on sale for more than 10 million won in South Korea next week, and it is similar to LG's products. News also indicated that Samsung plans to launch OLED TV with a curved screen in South Korea next week. The pre-order for the world's first 55-inch OLED HDTV "55EA9800" from LG Electronics was available in the April 29, and it began being shipped in South Korea in June, it is priced at 15 mill...
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2013-06-20
FOREPI displayed three newly released products at Taipei International Optoelectronics Week, and FOREPI said that two of the three models adopt Package Free Chip technology the company exclusively developed, namely 3.5 watts / 350 lumens candle light and up to 10-watts / 2000 lumens bulb, and the third product is new chip used in headlights, the current products used in headlights were shipped in small amount in June, and it will begin to be shipped in large volume in July.
FOREPI said that the company publicly released in last September that it has developed a...
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2013-06-20
Recently, Bath & North East Somerset Council is celebrating that being the first local authority in the United Kingdom to replace all main road lights with LED street lights.
After this conversion, the energy consumption is expected to be decreased by over 1.5 Kilowatt Hours (Kwh) and the council is likely to save about £200,000 per year in electricity bills. For the environment, carbon emissions are expected to be reduced by more than 780 tones.
There were some intelligent lighting lanterns installed, which will reduce energy usage by adjusting their output ...
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2013-06-20
Lite-On Technology announced on June 19 that the Board has approved to appoint Mr. Danny Liao, the CEO of Lite-On IT, to serve as CEO of New Business Development of Lite-On Group, mainly responsible for the Group's long-term growth strategy and new Non-PC business development, with the focus on LED lighting, Automotive Electronics and Biotech and Medical industries. In order to accelerate the integration of the group resources and transition, the new businesses will play a vital role in driving the company's further secular growth and profit, looki...
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2013-06-20
Taiwan AcBel signed an investment collaboration agreement with Henan Shengmao Photoelectric through its subsidiary in Dongguan, they will set up a new joint-venture company attacking Chinese mainland LED lights and outdoor lighting markets, preliminary estimates suggest that the investment will reach billions of dollars, the output and market outlook will be a hundred times beyond the current situation. Shengmao Photoelectric is the leading enterprise of signal lights and LED lights in Henan Province, its market share is in the first place, and its products have been ava...
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2013-06-20
Philips recently announced that it will build 19 "Community Light Centers" throughout Kenya by 2015. These Community Light Centers are areas of about 1000 square meters as large as a small football pitch, being lit up by using solar powered LED lighting.
Philips East Africa Director Roeloi Assies, who made the announcement, said that the activity of building Community Light Centers aims at creating areas of bright light for people who live in rural communities without electricity, thus they can do social, sports and economic activities in the evening. He al...
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2013-06-20
Everlight announced on June 18 that its LED Lamp Beads receive certifications of four major international lighting brands, and it will enter the OEM system, it is expected that Everlight LED lighting will be doubled this year, the sales in June will continue to be higher.
Everlight not only builds channels in Asia with its own brand, also it plays a important role in the LED lighting components OEM in Europe and America markets, Everlight has obtained certifications of international lighting manufacturers successively, it will supply the LED light source to E...
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2013-06-20
Falmouth selectmen voted on June 17 on whether to participate in the Cape Light Compact’s LED Street Light Conversion Project, converting existing 2,900 street lights in Falmouth into LED street lights. Before the vote, CLC Program Manager Kevin Galligan said that Falmouth has more street lights than any other community in the Cape and Islands. In February, there were eight LED street lights installed in some place of Falmouth as a demonstration project, which were well received. If LED street lights are successfully installed throughout th...
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2013-06-20
Recently, Elmos announced a non-contact photoelectric sensor chip E527.16 able to recognize simple gestures such as approaching or swiping movements at a distance of up to approx. 25 cm.
The chip is based on the HALIOS working principle. HALIOS systems are unaffected by extreme effects of light, variable light conditions, or temperature fluctuations. No mechanical components are required. It is s a full-featured gesture recognition solution, and can be used for all types of lighting applications.
The corresponding E527.16 reference design illustrates the opportuni...
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2013-06-20
It is reported that an Australian venture company called LIFX plans to launch a LED bulb connected by Wi-Fi in this year. This LED bulb connected by Wi-Fi can be controlled via smart phone applications; each bulb is a computer running open source Contiki operating system.
A set of bulbs forms a wireless mesh network (wireless mesh network: the core guiding principle of Mesh is to allow all nodes in the network to send and receive signals), and connects with the Wi-Fi signal from outside world.
The creative inspiration of "smart" bulb comes from a conv...
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2013-06-19
The demand for LED lighting in India market would increase by about 40% annually at least for the next five years, global chief executive officer of NTL Lemnis Arun Gupta said yesterday.
The size of the current lighting market in India is around 96 billion rupees (Rs.) and the LED lighting industry's share is around Rs.10 billion. According to the Association of Electrical Lighting Manufacturers in India (ELCOMA), the lighting industry in the country has increased by nearly 17% to 18% per annum over the past three years. Although the growth rate of overa...
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2013-06-19
The winners of LEDinside Aurora Award 2013 is officially released, after the strict assessment on technical prospective, efficiency, marketability, lighting quality, light design and compatibility conducted by professional jury and industry survey. LEDinside has prepared 26 LED awards, covering upstream to downstream LED fields. The specific Awards and winners will be listed as following: Jury's Special Awards Annual LED Product Awards Annual LED Equipment Awards LEDinside Aurora Award 2013 honors and recognizes outstanding aspect...
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2013-06-19
At the morning news conference yesterday, City Councilman Larry Reid said that the installation of energy-efficient LED street lights in the whole Oakland will save money in the long run and help reduce crimes.
Oakland has already begun replacing 30,000 installed high-pressure sodium street lights with LED street lights, following up a successful pilot program that in last fall the new LED street lights were installed in some place of the city.
City officials said that installing LED street lights will not only provide brighter and better lighting with less glare an...
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2013-06-19
Grote now introduces two LED signal lamps specially designed for installing on agricultural, construction, and other off-highway equipment. The new LED signal lamps adopt advanced lens optics to increase installation flexibility, meanwhile with no need for additional circuit boards and LEDs specifically designed for side illumination.
The LED fixture includes a double-side amber warning lamp, a single-side red stop/tail/turn lamp, and a control module that connects powered vehicles to towed equipment and application-specific harnesses. The lamps can be installed by bot...
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2013-06-19
Perry Oosting, COO of Vertu (British luxury mobile phone manufacturer), expressed in the interview with Tages Anzeiger when the previous partnership between Vertu and Apple was mentioned that although Apple has hoped to use sapphire glass screen on the iPhone, the plan ultimately failed due to the limitations of mass production. Oosting believes that the 3rd generation of Gorilla scratch-resistant glass produced by Corning is more suitable for iPhone. As a relatively expensive material, Vertu previously used sapphire glass screen in its phones.
Oosting also commented o...
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2013-06-19
The board of directors of San'an Optoelectronics announced on the evening of June 18 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Xiamen San'an Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd, intends to spend 280 million Yuan at most to purchase 20 units of international advanced single chamber machines or five units of four-chambers GaN MOCVD equipment and expand part of the LED chip production lines. In addition, the Xiamen municipal government and Xiamen Siming District government will offer subsidy to Xiamen San'an Optoelectronics for the purchase of 20 sets of MO...
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2013-06-19
Evolucia is expanding its Sarasota operations center by moving it to a 61,000 square foot facility located at 7040 Professional Parkway East. The new facility will be the global headquarters of the company and Center of Excellence for researching, developing and manufacturing high-performance LED lighting controls and fixtures.
In addition to corporate business functions, the facility will strengthen Evolucia's LED research, development and testing operations. Through its partnership with Leader Electronics and possible future cooperation with other companies in Ra...
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2013-06-19
Although Lite-On Technology's LED lighting components in 2012 benefited from the strong demand of brand customers, its annual growth in revenue increased nearly three times, but Guangzhong Chen, president of Lite-On Technology, said on June 18 that the current performance of LED business is still not satisfied, and Lite-On will actively expand plants this year, the overall production capacity of LED is expected to grow 20% to 50% over last year, also Lite-On IT recently merged into Lite-On Technology will access to the LED lighting terminal market, and they...
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2013-06-19
Wavien recently launched its hard-edge LED spot light (TruSpot), which using its patented Recycling Light Technology (RLT) to produce an exceptionally clean and sharp edge profile. However, on the current market, most medium base “spot lights” are actually narrow beam flood lights that produce undefined soft edges, diminishing the highlighting effect.
The TruSpot LED lamp provides a true spot light effect without the cost of custom spot light fixtures and installations. It is also designed to accept GOBO image slides in order to be used to project adver...
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2013-06-19
Recently, Sharp introduced 90-inch LC-L90LE757 LED TV in Europe, which is the largest commercial television in the European market. The height of this TV is over 1.2 m, and it adopts the cutting-edge Xgen 3D panel. This Sharp TV supports 1080p full HD resolution, and its refresh rate is 200Hz. In addition, Sharp added Smart TV feature for this TV, which allows users to run applications such as Skype, or browse the web. Users also can control the TV through Sharp's Android or iOS app, the application allows users to browse the Web on TV with ...
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2013-06-19
LED lighting industry alliances in Taiwan and Mainland China yesterday came to an agreement on a series of specifications for LED lighting products in the next two years.
The Cross-Taiwan Strait Agreement is to unify standards of LED light-emitting modules and other important components used to make LED lighting products, the Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance (TLLIA) said.
At the press conference, TLLIA chairman Chien Fen-ren said that in these years, LED lighting products have been specified by a variety of standards set by manufacturers ...
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2013-06-19
An on-the-spot meeting to promote the application of LED lighting products in Guangdong Province was held on June 14 in Foshan. Yunxian Chen, Vice Governor of Guangdong, stressed at the meeting that the next step is to adhere to promote LED lighting, strictly control the access requirements and ensure that the LED lamps used in this renovation project must be involved in the recommended directory of LED benchmarking system. According to the introduction from Jingtu Ye, Deputy Director of Guangdong Science and Technology Department, Guangdong Province start...
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2013-06-19
Even at high temperatures and high currents the MicroSideled 3806 from Osram Opto Semiconductors ensures stable light conditions on the display. The brightness of this light emitting diode, which is available in white and blue, remains constant throughout its lifetime, and the color rendering leaves nothing to be desired. They also offer particularly impressive efficiency so these semiconductor light sources are ideal for portable devices such as tablets and smartphones. Thanks to its excellent efficiency, the MicroSideled from Osram Opto Semiconductors is the ideal energy...
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2013-06-19
After Philips transferred its Audio and accessories businesses to Japanese companies, this consumer electronics giant has completely taken off the "electronic" coat. It was pointed out in the latest news from Philips that the "Royal Philips Electronics of Netherlands" has been replaced by "Royal Philips of Netherlands".
Recently, Philips Lighting being one of the main businesses of Philips revealed in Guangzhou that Philips's LED sale is expected to take up 50% of its total business volume in 2015.
In accordance with the earnings...
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2013-06-19
Recently ShineOn successfully demonstrated its DiscLight(TM) LED Light Engine, which is the world's first wholly integrated LED light engine without any external electronic components.
ShineOn's DiscLight(TM) LED Light Engine integrates a high voltage CMOS based driver IC with multiple LED chips on one substrate. Due to its creative control algorithm and special IC configuration, this integrated module can directly connect to 110V or 220V AC power line, and drive the LED array without any excess electronic components such as inductors, ...
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2013-06-19
According to the latest report from United States Department of Energy (DOE), in the past two years, the installation of LED lamp in United States increased 10-fold from 4.5 million units in 2010 to 49 million units in 2012, it is estimated that $ 675 million can be saved in energy costs every year. By 2030, LED lighting is expected to account for 75% of the total lighting sales, the saved energy can be provided for 26 million American families.
Ernest Moniz, Minister of DOE, said that the efficient lighting industry not only can save money for consumers, but also ...
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2013-06-18
According to LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, the Q2 supply for medium-power LED for lighting applications remains unstable. While the current market demand still came from warm white LED, the shortage situation won’t be eased until July. Hence, the price of medium-power LED for lighting application has declined by 1~3% in this quarter and that of high-power LED has declined by 3% as well. With backlight applications being impacted by the lack of strong demand and the Chinese government’s subsidy on TV market has been ended, TV manufacturers are conservative about the 3Q13 stock, and are less willing to place long term purchase orders. Overall, the prices of LEDs for backlight applications showed a slight decrease, which are below 5%.
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2013-06-18
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2013-06-18
Topco held its Shareholders conference on June 17, Dr. J. W. Kuo, the chairman of Topco, expressed on the conference that car LED lights and indoor lighting would be its two main development directions in this year, also Topco plans to access to the hottest plant factory in near future, and integrate its LED and other related materials to provide a complete solution to shipping.
Dr. J. W. Kuo said that Topco LED elements are mainly directly sold to Taiwan light factories, such as TYC and Depo. As for the interior lighting, Topco also developed its own indoor ...
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2013-06-18
Dialight recently announces that its Vigilant Series L-864 LED medium-intensity beacon system has accessed to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification for wind turbine applications.
Inside the housing of this beacon system, there is an integrated GPS controller and complete monitoring system to form a more rugged, weather-resistant unit. Global GPS synchronization can ensure precise synchronized flashing of multiple beacons. The precision, patented optics design offers maximum aerial visibility and safety.
The vigilant beacon is the latest additi...
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