A total of 11 LED lighting and controls solutions from Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) were selected for the 2014 Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Report, which showcases the year's most significant developments in the art and science of lighting. Among the products selected were indoor and outdoor LED luminaires and advanced lighting controls that can be integrated to create a total lighting solution - ideal for reducing energy and maintenance costs - that delivers the finest quality of lighting tailored for a variety of facility needs.    

Acuity Brands, Inc. will showcase its latest OLED product offerings at the OLEDs World Summit 2014, Sept. 16 - 18, 2014 in Berkeley, Calif. Additionally, two of the company's OLED experts - Peter Ngai and Jeannine Wang - will be featured in the conference's "Path to Commercialization of OLED Lighting"education session on Thursday, Sept. 18.

A new holistic and interactive approach has been incorporated into the LED professional Symposium +Expo 2014 (LpS 2014). Multidisciplinary expert talks, hands on workshops and interactive group discussions will take place in Bregenz, Austria, from September 30th to October 2nd. Attendees will be inspired to create new designs and engineering concepts for future LED lighting systems in order to transform innovations to the next level.  

DRSA, a supplier of marine LED lighting, has recently secured over 12 major contracts to refit yachts ranging between 100 feet and 175 feet (30.48 to 53.34 meters) with LED lighting.

LightFreq - the revolutionary new way to bring light and sound to your home - has today announced its US $50,000 Kickstarter goal has been reached within just four days of its official launch. With funding now secured, the LightFreq will now be going into production, with backers expecting to receive their LightFreqs by February 2015. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lightfreq/733759399?token=aa557b8a

Ever since Asensetek announced the world's first " Handheld Smart Spectrometer - Lighting Passport" in 2013, it won the users' majority praise and trust. Today, we're even more excited to tell you that the Android App, "Spectrum Genius Mobile" (SGM) and "Spectrum Genius Essence" (SGE), have launched in the market. Along with it, the PC software, "Spectrum Genius Advanced" and "Spectrum Genius Standard", have also being improved with a lot of new features.

Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, partner with German company, GL Optic, to supply handheld and laboratory spectrometers and integrating spheres for next generation lighting quality control and research applications. Analytik report on The A+ Group using the GL SPECTIS 1.0 touch light measuring spectrometer for workspace lighting assessment and LED retrofit projects.

A revolutionary new gear can make urban biking a lot safer all around the world – it only needs a little push from the international cycling community.Useeme is a motion controlled LED wristband that is turned on automatically by standard cycling hand signals. The inventor is a Hungarian cyclist who brought the idea to life together with his family and now they turn to crowdfunding to start serial production. Their campaign on Indiegogo ends on August 9, 2014 and 200 people can still claim a perk to test the gadget before the official launch.

UK specification solar fairy lights designed to work in the British climate, with high quality LED bulbs, a high capacity soalr panel and powerful rechargeable batteries designed to harness the maximum energy from daylight.

Grandlite has launched a heavy-duty die-cast construction with modular LED light engine design. This slim-profile luminaire is perfect for parking garage, canopy or high ceilings applications. It provides an easy installation with quick mount structure for contractors to work safely and easily in the confined-space areas.

For the first time in the history of the National Hockey League, a U.S. arena will feature LED lighting, when PNC Arena—home to the Carolina Hurricanes—unveils the new, cutting-edge system for the preseason opener this fall. Dave Olsen, Executive Vice President and General Manager of PNC Arena, announced today that the Centennial Authority has partnered with Musco, which will install its innovative Show-Light Green™ LED system in the coming weeks.

The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition has once again provided an impressive demonstration of the growth of Asia’s lighting and LED market as well as the growing significance of the region to the international lighting community, reconfirming its role as the most influential lighting and LED event in Asia. In total, 2,621 brands (2013: 2,588) from 25 countries and regions exhibited this year, utilising a record-breaking 21 halls across 225,000 sqm of space.

Seeing is believing when it comes to Philips Lumileds proprietary CrispWhite Technology, which was on display at LightFair International 2014 and was awarded the coveted LFI Innovation Award in the category of LED/OLED Chips and Modules.

Lunera® Lighting, a leader in lighting innovations accelerating the transformation to advanced LED technology, today announced it will be featuring the Susan Lamp in its booth during the fourth annual Green Sports Alliance Summit. The Susan Lamp is designed to deliver superior light levels at a fraction of the power used by a metal halide bulb.  The Summit will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif., July 21-23, 2014. 

Cultivate’14, one of the horticulture industry’s largest tradeshows, served as the perfect venue to display Hubbell Industrial Lighting’s new NutriLED, an LED grow light.

ThedaCare™​ health system selected outdoor LED lighting from Acuity Brands, Inc.​ to address safety, energy and maintenance concerns at two of its leading campuses. Sixty high-performance D-Series LED luminaires from Lithonia Lighting®​ were installed in parking areas to replace 84 existing high-pressure sodium (HPS) and metal halide (MH) fixtures, delivering a projected annual energy savings of more than $40,000.  

ColorStars Group (CSTU) together with its subsidiary Anteya Technologies were awarded a street lighting project in Taiwan. The project is to retrofit a 9 kilometers long roadwith new LED street lighting system in the township of Yangmey of Taoyuang County. A total of 574 LED street lights will be installed and each street light is composed of 2 pieces of 120-Watt cobra head LED street lights and 2 pieces of 30-Watt reflective LED spot lights. The total value of the project is $45,172,600 New Taiwan Dollars or $1.5 million US Dollars. ColorStars' scope of supply is about US$1.0 million. The project will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Royal Philips has provided a gift of Philips LED solar powered lighting to the village of Thanh Son in Vietnam. The donation, which is improving the lives of villagers who have been in darkness for 30 years, is part of the ‘Philips Gift of Light’ - an internal engagement initiative in which Philips employees nominated and voted for projects around the world deserving of a Philips gift of light. During the coming months, projects will be implemented by Philips employees in 17 countries.

Stars and starlets gathered in the Bavarian capital. The Munich Film Festival is taking place this year for the 32nd time, and once again the program contains some exceptional films packed with famous names. The award for the best international production, to the value of 50,000 euros for particular ARRI products or services, will be presented for the second time jointly by Osram and ARRI. The Munich Film Festival, the second largest film festival in Germany after Berlinale, has been welcoming the Who's Who of the film world since 1983. Last year it attracted more than 70,000 visitors to the cinema screens, and this year's program promises a similar success story because in addition to independent productions from around the world there will be some major names there. A total of thirteen movies, including ones from cinema legends Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, featuring such stars as Nicolas Cage, Scarlett Johannson and Juliette Binoche, will be competing for the  ARRI/OSRAM Award in the CineMasters category. Famous names alone are no guarantee of awards, however, as was shown last year when the highly respected jury voted for "Heli", a gripping Mexican drug gang thriller from director Amat Escalante, as the best international film. The winner of the highest accolade this year will be revealed at 7 pm on July 5 at the Gasteig center in Munich. A long tradition in the film business "We have been working closely with the film industry for many years. Our products are used not only to put actors in the right light on set but also to project films onto cinema screens. Our passion for light is as fierce as the passion film-makers have for their productions. With the ARRI/OSRAM Award we want to add a little extra charisma to outstanding performances", said Hans-Joachim Schwabe, CEO Special Lighting at Osram. "As a traditional Munich-based company with almost 100 years of history in the film industry, ARRI has been a partner of the Munich Film Festival for many years. ARRI is a predominantly international company, so it is fitting that the first award, presented in 2008, was for the best foreign film. This year ARRI will be presenting the award together with Osram for the second time. We want the ARRI/OSRAM Award to encourage international producers to take on their next, hopefully successful project and build up a long-term relationship with us", said Franz Kraus, Managing Director of the ARRI Group.       ARRI, as a specialist in professional camera and lighting equipment and provider of film-making services, and Osram, as a lighting and projection expert, have been deeply rooted in the cinema and film industry for many years. This is borne out by the fact that Osram lamps are used in one in three cinema projectors throughout the world and that ARRI spotlights are used on every film set the whole world over. For their services to the medium of film both companies have been awarded a number of Oscars.

The new Interlace LED suspension light fixture by LBL Lighting was chosen as the “Indoor Decorative” category winner at the 2014 LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards®. Held this year at the Las Vegas Convention Center, LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®) is the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference.

Visibility is key when it comes to playing indoor sports like soccer, lacrosse and tennis; and three intrepid Massachusetts indoor sports entrepreneurs at the Bass River Tennis Club, Fore Kicks, and Home Grown Lacrosse came to the same conclusion. Improved lighting on the playing surface, delivered by ThinkLite, a Massachusetts-based lighting efficiency leader, has helped differentiate their facilities and delight their members and players.

After successfully illuminating more than two dozen sports venues across North America with its revolutionary LED arena lights, Ephesus Lighting in partnership with Durham, N.C.-based Cree, Inc. and Duke University, is taking its innovative stadium lighting solution outdoors. Williams Field at Jack Katz Stadium, a multi-purpose outdoor facility that serves as home of the women’s field hockey team and is also used for campus recreation and club sports, will become the first NCAA Division I outdoor college sports venue to be lit with LED lighting. The ground-breaking announcement was made Tuesday by Amy Casper, CEO of Ephesus Lighting and Mike Cragg, Deputy Director of Athletics for Operations of Duke University.

INSTEON announced that its connected home devices are now available in Microsoft retail stores. Previously, INSTEON announced its all-new apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 and product availability on MicrosoftStore.com

Digital Lumens, the leader in intelligent LED lighting systems, today announced that its Intelligent LED Lighting System meets the recently updated requirements of the California Title 24 Energy Standards for indoor commercial and industrial lighting applications.

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today that Columbia Lighting has unveiled a new website and also now offers a free mobile app for both Apple and Android devices.

LED Roadway Lighting and its partner Silver Spring Networks, Inc., today announced they have been selected by Glasgow City Council to deliver the Intelligent Street Lighting requirements for their innovative Future City Demonstrator initiative. The project will leverage LED street lighting from LED Roadway Lighting's NXT range of luminaires and Silver Spring's IPv6-based smart city networking platform to integrate LED street lights, traffic cameras, and sensors into two adaptive lighting systems in the city center and along the River Clyde's "Clyde Walkway." The adaptive lighting systems will monitor vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic and dynamically dim and increase illumination accordingly, increasing energy efficiency, urban sustainability and improving citizen safety.

Peerless® Open LED luminaires​ from Acuity Brands, Inc.​ have been acknowledged as the sole recipient of the annual Most Innovative Product of the Year award from the LIGHTFAIR®​​​ International 2014​ awards competition. The LFI Innovation Awards®​​, judged by an independent panel of esteemed lighting professionals, recognize the best innovations from more than 500 of the world’s leading manufacturers across the lighting industry.

HELLA will be showcasing innovative lighting solutions using LED technology at the Interforst, the leading International Trade Fair for Forestry and Forestry Technology in Munich July 16 to July 20, 2014. As the partner of the German Center for Forest Work and Technology, known in German as the Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik e.V. (KWF), HELLA will be exhibiting its products in the Center's special display at the trade fair (Hall B6 / Stand 215). The focus here will most definitely be on the selection of worklights designed for use on forestry machinery. 

Lights are among the elements which form the lifeblood for homes and businesses across the world. In this age of rapid development and businesses working around the clock there is no task which is possible without adequate lighting solutions. The lighting elements have also evolved and consumers are looking for the ones which are economical and offer the best possible lighting solutions for their needs. LED lights are one of the raging elements which have stormed the markets recently. 

Power management company Eaton today announced that the McGraw-Edison TopTier™ light-emitting diode (LED) parking garage/canopy luminaire and the Metalux SkyBar™ high bay luminaire from its Cooper Lighting Division have been named winners in the 2014 LFI Innovation Awards® at LIGHTFAIR International (LFI® ). Presented at the LFI conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 3, the competition features the industry’s most innovative products and designs introduced during the last 12 months.