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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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...

Source: Courtesy of Dow Corning   As electronics designers and manufacturers continue to move toward smaller, faster and higher performing devices, the challenge of thermal management is steadily mounting. Less board space and increased operating frequencies are raising temperatures, and risking reduced device performance and reliability over time. To help electronics designers and manufacturers address these thermal challenges, Dow Corning is introducing two advanced new products to its proven line of Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs):  Dow Corning® T...

LED commercial lighting first came to the sweet spot of price, it will accelerate the penetration of lighting market this year, the commercial lighting market has been booming since the beginning of this year. As the LED commercial lighting has got support and preferential policies from governments around the world, many companies have accessed to the LED commercial lighting, which has become the primary market LED manufacturers have been actively developing. LED commercial lighting is expected to be the main driver of growth in LED output in next few years. Internatio...

NACTUS is a lighting module made of different optics  NACTUS is the first and unique Optical System using different optics with different geometries, combined and set together in the SAME SYSTEM. The core optics forming NACTUS are basically 6.  By acting on the optics while each module is injected, it is virtually possible to customize any application. NACTUS is a lighting module made of different optics, that can be used as a real single lens. The concept is simple: NACTUS maximizes the lighting beam through its optics, so creating a lighting beam of a certain power and fully configurable for the final application considered.

Source: Courtesy of Dow Corning   Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation,today introduced to the Asian market new Dow Corning® Dispensable Thermal Pads, an innovative newtechnology developed for more cost-effectivethermal management in LED lighting applications. The new silicone materials now enable LED lamp and luminaire manufacturers to quickly and precisely print a layer of thermally conductive silicone compound in controllable thicknesses on complex substrate shapes, while ensuring excellent thermal management...

Intermolecular announced on the 17th that it has signed a collaborative development program (CDP) and royalty-bearing IP licensing agreement with Taiwan Epistar, in order to jointly improve power of LED devices and reduce production costs of the latter. The engineers from Epistar and Intermolecular will take the advantages of Intermolecular's highly productive combination (HPC) technology platform based on this agreement to vigorously promote the development and manufacturing of advanced new materials and processing technology for LED products. "After a r...

Carmanah Technologies and its partner Sabik Oy recently announced that they have obtained the contract to supply solar LED marine lanterns for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). The one-year contract is worth over 1.2 million Canadian dollars and also includes an optional one-year extension. According to the contract, Carmanah and Sabik shall supply the M650 solar LED marine lantern for the 1.5 and 2 nautical miles applications, the M704-5 solar LED marine lantern for three nautical miles applications and the M708 for four nautical miles applications. &ldq...

Marl International announced that it will be offering the second generation of Citizen Chip-on-Board (COB) LED die, which are its brightest and most efficient ever production LEDs. The new LEDs are up to 33% brighter and up to 38% more efficient than the first generation Citizen COB LED die.   Marl International is offering new generation Citizen LEDs in a range of five types with light outputs from 100 lumens to 20,190 lumens, to replace a variety of light sources from a 10W incandescent bulb to a 300W mercury floodlight. The LED die can deliv...

Pacific Light Technologies (PLT), the maker in quantum dot downconverters for solid state lighting and displays, announces that Robert Walker, Ph.D. has joined their Board of Directors to aid the transition of the company from a development stage to the commercial phase of their growth. Robert Walker, a veteran of the solid-state lighting industry, brings a deep level of experience and understanding in the markets and applications of LEDs. Bob is currently CEO of an early-stage start-up, and from 2005 to 2007 was CEO of high-power LED lighting company Bridgelux...

Recently, Comcast announced partnerships with OsramSylvania, the new energy-saving LED intelligent bulb of OsramSylvania will be combined with Comcast's XfinityHome platform, which can realize that the lamps can be controlled remotely from anywhere of this platform. Users can use the smart devices to remotely control bulbs, and set the desired brightness, so as to achieve energy savings. The rated life of SYLVANIAULTRAiQTMLEDBR30 floodlights OsramSylvania provided is 35,000 hours, and it conforms to Zigbee: emoji: home automation standards, the wi...