2017-12-21

Osram is Driving the Future of Automotive Technology at CES

“At Osram, we recognize the impact that light, in both visible and invisible forms, can have on quality of life, and we strive to incorporate the benefits of light into a wide variety of technologies and applications to make everyday life safer, smarter and more enjoyable,” said Olaf Berlien, CEO of OSRAM Licht AG.
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2017-12-20

SYLVANIA SMART+ “Works with Apple HomeKit” Bluetooth Portfolio Breaks New Ground with Industry First Smart Filament Bulb

LEDVANCE continues to advance light by announcing the world’s first HomeKit™-enabled smart Filament A19 bulb. The HomeKit-enabled SYLVANIA SMART+™ Soft White A19 Filament Bulb (MSRP $31.99) combines the future of the Smart Home with the retro look of the past,and is available for pre order for Spring 2018 delivery on Amazon.
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2017-12-20

Osram Spotlights LED and Laser Solutions in Rinspeed’s Latest Concept Vehicle

Osram Opto Semiconductors is the exclusive lighting partner for automobile manufacturer Rinspeed’s Snap concept car. The Swiss-based think tank created Snap for a future defined by autonomous driving and urbanization. The autonomous concept vehicle, which features many of Osram’s LED, laser and optoelectronic sensing solutions from the ultraviolet (UV) and visible to infrared spectrum, will be launched at the 2018 CES Show in Las Vegas.
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2017-12-19

Vektrex Chamber Addresses Unmet Market Need for High-Power, High-Capacity Solution

Vektrex announced the successful completion of a 650,000 lumen test, conducted in the high-power Integrated Thermal Control System (ITCS) chamber. Total LED electrical drive power exceeded 10,000 Watts. While COB LED arrays were used for this test, other ITCS models support VCSELs and Laser Diodes.
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2017-12-13

The Zigbee Alliance and Thread Group Address IoT Industry Fragmentation with the Availability of the Dotdot Specification over Thread’s IP Network

The Zigbee Alliance and Thread Group announced the availability of the Dotdot specification over Thread’s IP network. This is the first time developers can confidently use an established, open, and interoperable IoT language over a low-power wireless IP network, which will help unify the fragmented connected device industry and unlock new markets.
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2017-12-13

Telensa Named Global #1 in Smart Street Lighting for Second Consecutive Year

Telensa, an expert in connected street lighting and Smart City applications, has been named as the global market share leader for the second year running in an independent study by Northeast Group LLC.
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2017-12-13

Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2018 Announces Its Show Theme: THINKLIGHT: Embracing Changes

The 23rd edition of the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (GILE), the most influential and comprehensive lighting and LED event in Asia, is set to take place from 9 ‒ 12 June 2018, at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, China.
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2017-12-11

Monocrystal Rated as “Integration Partner” by OSRAM

Monocrystal, specializing in synthetic sapphire growing and processing, received the status of “Integration Partner”, thus reaching the highest possible supplier grade with OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH.
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2017-12-08

Osram Broadband, Infrared Emitter Wins at 2017 ACE Awards

Osram Opto Semiconductors was a finalist in three categories at the Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards that took place last night at the San Jose Convention Center.
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2017-12-08

HKU Chair Professor Led Sustainable Lighting Systems Research Brings New LED Products and Theory Breakthrough

The research team stresses that sustainable lighting technology should incorporate a new principle that includes (i) energy saving, (ii) long product lifetime and (iii) recyclability of product materials. It highlights the important point that “energy-saving technology is not necessarily environmentally-friendly if it generates lots of harmful electronic waste within a short product lifetime”.
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2017-12-08

Evolve Media Group Joins Absen LED as Newest VAD Partner

During the recent LDI tradeshow and conference, Evolve Media Group and Absen, specializing in LED technology, finalized its VAD (Value Add Distribution) partnership.
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2017-12-08

PixelFLEX Brings Water to Desert with nuMedia Innovations

Designed to create seamless convex or concave curved video displays, TrueFLEX is an ideal solution for installations requiring an ultra finepixel pitch and a high-resolution LED video pallet in a flexible format.
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2017-12-07

Avnet Adds Universal Lighting Technologies to LED Solutions Portfolio in the Americas

Avnet and Universal Lighting Technologies announced a new agreement designating Avnet as Universal’s first OEM distributor authorized to sell the EVERLINE family of LED drivers and linear modules in the Americas. 
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2017-12-06

LeddarTech to Showcase the First 3D Solid-State LiDAR IC for Autonomous Driving at CES 2018

At CES 2018—from January 9 to 12 in Las Vegas, Nevada—LeddarTech will be presenting the LeddarCore LCA2, the industry's first 3D solid-state LiDAR (SSL) integrated circuit (IC) enabling mass production of automotive LiDARs, in the Leddar Ecosystem pavilion.
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2017-12-06

Fluence Bioengineering to Increase Adoption of LED Grow Lights with Financing Options and Expansion into Europe

Fluence Bioengineering announces the appointment of Kurt Davis to Director of Fluence Capital and Dr. Theoharis Ouzounis to Business Development, Europe. Both roles will serve as new gateways to speed the adoption rate of LED horticulture lighting solutions across commercial produce, cannabis and ornamental crop production worldwide.
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2017-12-06

Casambi’s Updated Lighting Control App Enhances Daylight Management and Multiple Network Access in Larger Buildings

Provider of smart wireless lighting control technologies Casambi announces the introduction of a new release of their lighting control app for smartphones, smart watches and tablets.
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2017-12-06

RPI Study Demonstrates that Both High Yields and Nutritional Quality of Leafy Greens Can Be Achieved With LUXEON SunPlus Lime LEDs

The study, utilizing a variety of commercial LEDs, compared the effectiveness of different LEDs on the growth of red lettuce Rouxai. The best combined yield and antioxidant concentrations in the lettuce was observed using LUXEON SunPlus Series LEDs.
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2017-12-05

Deltavation Selects Gooee as Data Store & Analytics Platform

Following Gooee’s European launch at LuxLive 2017 in November 2017, the Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider and Deltavation announce a partnership that sees Gooee’s data store and analytics platform being integrated into Deltavation’s LED lamp-based linear, lighting, sensing and control systems.
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2017-12-05

Philips Lighting OEM wins at Lux Awards 2017

Philips Lighting have announced one win and one highly commended at the Lux Awards 2017 for their OEM business - Philips Lighting OEM UK. The Lux Awards are a recognized annual event designed to celebrate both creativity and sustainability in lighting.
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2017-11-30

PixelFLEX Creates a Unique Lobby Experience for Velocity Productions

“Since this would be a public-facing digital display for the lobby of their new building, they wanted an LED video experience, so we came up with a design using the TrueFLEX LED video that would truly get people’s attention,” said Scott Carman, Velocity Productions Vice President of Systems Integration and Business Development.
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2017-11-28

Wellington City Council Selects Telensa for its Smart Street Light Management System

Telensa, a connected street lighting and Smart City applications provider, today announced that it has been selected by Wellington City Council to deploy its PLANet intelligent streetlighting system. The project will start in November 2017 and is due for completion in June 2018.
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2017-11-28

2018 International Signs and LED Exhibition Presents One-stop Integrated LED Solution

The 2018 International Signs and LED Exhibition (ISLE 2018), taking place from March 3-6, 2018, will premiere its new Commercial Display Technology & Applications area, making it easy for buyers to build one-stop integrated LED solutions across multiple channels.
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2017-11-28

University of Adelaide Orders New Horticultural Lighting Solution from Heliospectra

Heliospectra AB announces an order from the University of Adelaide. The Plant Accelerator® at the University of Adelaide's Waite Campus has received a multi-million dollar investment to upgrade technologies and has selected Heliospectra LED Light Solutions to provide new LED lighting. The order is valued at $109,494 USD [SEK 909,000]. 
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2017-11-28

DECO Lighting Revamps Southern California Representation with LIGHT Sales Group

DECO Lighting has overhauled its Southern California sales representation and appointed LIGHT to cover the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.
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2017-11-24

Future Farm Releases LED Canada Update

Future Farm Technologies announced that its LED Canada division has made significant progress in the past quarter.
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2017-11-22

Work With the Right Chinese Supplier to Avoid Risk of Intellectual Property Infringement

According to the press, during the 21-day Canton Fair this October(122nd session), the Canton Fair Complaint Station for Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) and Trade Dispute handled 554 IPR related cases in total, 78 more than the number of the previous session.
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2017-11-22

AIXTRON Receives Energy Efficiency Award 2017

AIXTRON SE has been distinguished with the Energy Efficiency Award 2017 of the German Energy Agency (dena) in the category “Energy efficiency 4.0” for its digital measurement and remote monitoring of energy data as well as for carrying out extensive energy efficiency measures in heating and cooling systems.
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2017-11-21

UV-LED Technology Improves Display Manufacturing Throughput

Consumers globally are using touchscreen displays every day in a growing array of electronics, from TV to smartphones to mobile gaming consoles to in-car navigation systems. With heightened demand for touchscreens, electronic manufactures are increasingly turning to Phoseon Technology’s UV-LED curing for its many benefits in adhesives bonding applications.
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2017-11-21

Wipro Lighting collaborates with Cisco on Smart Lighting Solutions for Modern Workspaces

Wipro Lighting announced that it has become a Cisco Digital Building Solutions provider for connected lighting. This collaboration brings together Wipro’s Smart & Connected Lighting systems and Cisco® Digital Building Solutions that link various building services through a single, converged IP network.
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2017-11-21

Eight GREEN CREATIVE Products Selected for the IES 2017 Progress Report

GREEN CREATIVE, the commercial grade LED lighting manufacturer announces the selection of 8 products by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) for the 2017 Progress Report. These high-performance LED lamps replace a combination of incandescent, halogen and HID light sources.
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JBD, a pioneering MicroLED display manufacturer, has set a new standard with its Phoenix series microdisplay, achieving an industry-record white-balanced brightness of 2 million nits. JBD’s Phoenix - Native Monolithic RGB Panel Leveragin... READ MORE

Veeco Instruments Inc. today announced that PlayNitride, an industry leader in MicroLED technology, has qualified Veeco’s Lumina® MOCVD system for production of next-generation MicroLEDs, and also placed an order for two systems for ... READ MORE