Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, announced commercial availability of its latest generation of industry-leading LS, ES, and award-winning RS product families, delivering an increase in efficacy of up to 30% and a reduction of up to 30% in cost per lumen compared to previous product generations. Featuring the largest portfolio of LED arrays in the lighting industry, Bridgelux offers products for lighting applications ranging from the light output equivalent of a 20-Watt decorative lamp to that of a 300-Watt high...

Landscape Forms has released LEO, the novel, outdoor LED lighting solutions including pedestrian lighting of 12-16 ft height and streetscape lighting of 20-25 ft height. This has been designed by industrial designer John Rizzi. LEO uses LED light sources with a lifespan of 60,000 to 100,000 h producing more lumens with less wattage than conventional bulbs. It employs warm white LEDs liberating a more pleasant visual experience than cool white light. A Cyro-Acrylyte lens placed over the LED array alleviates and diffuses the light, providing an array of ligh...

Facility supports rapidly expanding LED fixture manufacturer Lumenpulse Inc. , a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today unveiled its completed Corporate Headquarters located in Montreal, Canada. The office debut was celebrated on the evening of December 1, with an exclusive event titled the "Evolution of Light." A select guest list, including architects, lighting designers, agents and partners, investors and members of the media were treat...

City decreases environmental impact by reducing energy consumption by 74 percent; replaces over 400 metal halide fixtures with LED technology. The parking garage at the City Hall in Austin, Texas, houses 750 parking spaces and must leave its lights on 24 hours a day, making for high energy usage and big electrical bills. After evaluating several manufacturers' LED products, city officials chose LED luminaires from Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry. By repla...

Starbucks located in the middle of the New York City’s Times Square Theatre District has undergone an LED lighting makeover. Starbucks joined forces with Focus Lighting, a New-York based architectural lighting design firm, and Florida-based LED Source on the store’s renovation.   The soft, warm hues featured in the store are made possible thanks to new LED lamps from Toshiba. The LED lamps are not only more energy efficient than traditional bulbs, they also have a longer life. Additionally, the bulbs don’t contain mercury or lead and so...

LED company PowerSecure (POWR) has designed  new SuperTube LED lighting fixtures to replace overhead fluorescent tubes in commercial applications. The  new SuperTube LED lighting fixtures have passed UL certification and have already been installed for a customer.  They are specifically designed for indoor T8 and T12 retrofit applications and offer 75% greater efficiency over traditional lighting. In the meanwhile, they can reduce maintenance costs due to a long lifespan of 10 years.  ...

Westland's Annapolis Park subdivision is to replace LED street lightings under the $20,000 remaining in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funds approved by the council . DTE owns the light poles and would replace 31 street light fixtures under a sole source bid. The new lights would be retrofitted onto the existing light poles and save an estimated $2,100 annually. In 2009, the city received $731,100 in grant funding that was used for energy retrofits at the Mike Modano Ice Arena — the single largest project — the Bailey Recreation Ce...

According to a member from the House Committee on Ecology, the House of Representatives would be able to save at least P3 million if all the offices of the 285 lawmakers will switch to using LED products. Western Samar Representative Mel Senen Sarmiento pointed out that LED lights is not only cost-effective but also contributes in the global effort to reduce carbon emissions. As a result, the Visayan lawmaker expected politicians and other public officials should "walk the talk" in as far as contributing the smallest amount of initiative to mitigate globa...

Honolulu based nonprofit Blue Planet Foundation is to build an 8-foot diorama that will use LED lights powered by the sun. It will be powered by a solar panel canopy designed and built by the Kaneohe-based solar design and installation company Sunetric. A battery pack will store energy produced by the panels during the day so the lights turn on at night. The Lego Enthusiasts Association of Hawaii and the University of Hawaii Solar Decathlon Team Hawaii are building the display. The public will have a chance to see the display on the lawn next to Honolulu Hal...

There is a 5,000-bulb illuminations display created by a acclaimed lighting artist in the grounds which will be switched on at 4pm on Saturday at the Holburne Museum. Bruce Munro's Field of Light can be viewed daily at the museum for free between 4pm and 7pm until January 8, with a magical display of colour and light flowing through the grounds and into its Garden Cafe. His inspiration came nearly 20 years ago while travelling in Australia, when he became transfixed by the way in which barren desert would burst into bloom after rainfall. Holburne director Alexande...

Manitowoc Public Utilities has announced the first-ever LED Holiday Lighting Contest to encourage the use of energy-efficient holiday decorations. The contest is open to all customers of MPU, and requires all lighting must consist of LED lights only. The entries will be divided into four categories: large displays (more than 5,000 individual lights); medium displays (1,000 to 5,000 lights); small displays (less than 1,000 lights); and most innovative (illuminated displays using less than 50 individual lights). In each category, entries will be judged on the basis of crea...

Researchers from the University of Washington and Finland's Aalto University have developed and tested a contact lens that wirelessly displays a one-pixel LED image on a contact lens. According to the research, the lens was tested on anaesthetized rabbits "with no observed adverse effects." The embedded display in the lens receives data wirelessly through a radio antenna and displays it using a sapphire chip with an embedded micro-LED. The entire system is powered by a silicon power harvester that draws energy from a battery up to 2 cm away. Unlike virtual...

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has presented at the inaugural ceremony of Genesis Photonics Inc.'s new plant at the Southern Taiwan Science Park in Tainan City, and stated that Taiwan is LED traffic lights throughout the country and will install LED street lights and indoor lights in public buildings in the near future. According to Ma, green technology is one of the Cabinet's six key development industries. Efforts to develop the industry have turned Taiwan into the world's biggest LED lighting and molding suppliers.   Furthermore ,he pointe...

Advanced lighting creates a customized, interactive and community-friendly entertainment experience  Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced an exciting new client installation at BC Place Stadium, a landmark -- and now gem -- of the Vancouver skyline. After over 25 years of hosting a range of sports, musical, cultural, community and exhibition events featuring everything from a Pope John Paul II address, and Madonna...

Lighting Science has designed the BayLight industrial LED light to replace existing High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting, matching the performance of conventional 400W HID systems, while offering up to 35% reduction in energy usage. The BayLight provides an L70 rated life of over 60,000 hours at 40°C and more than 100,000 hours at 25˚C. It is available in higher and hard to reach applications, such as large storage areas, where re-lamping can be costly and time consuming. Features as following: •    LEDs help to improve efficienc...

Nordson ASYMTEK announces that it has won the 2011 Global Technology Award in the category of LED Production Equipment for its Spectrum S-922 LED jetting system for dispensing silicone. The award recognizes the best new innovations in the printed circuit assembly and packaging industries. The award was presented at the Productronica Trade Fair in Munich, Germany on November 15th, 2011.  This was the fourth time Nordson ASYMTEK has won a Global Technology award. Nordson ASYMTEK's jet dispenser enables sticky silicon phosphor to be di...

Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth is to get an LED makeover, and currently it is under the process of test. According to Sundance's marketing director, there are more than 7,600 feet of LED cable to outline about 18 buildings, primarily along Main Street. It has taken workers about 5,000 hours to install the lights and 100 hours to program them. If testing goes well, the lights will be switched on after the Parade of Lights on Friday. The system is computer-operated and has 16 million color options with unlimited program combinations, such as lighting seque...

LED lamp manufacturer MSi, has supported Furniture retailer Talsma Furniture to replacing more than 700 traditional incandescent light bulbs in the Holland Michigan store with new LED bulbs. Benefits from LEDs, total energy savings are estimated at about 5,054 megawatts per hour every year, the equivalent of planting more than 1253 trees. The LED lamps have an expected life of 10 years, reducing landfill disposal....

Halifax based LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., a private company , has acquired the innovative intellectual property of Streetlight Intelligence Inc. of Victoria, B.C. According to Ken Cartmill, LED Roadway’s vice-president of business and product development, said in an interview , the acquisition of Streetlight’s wireless light management technology gives the company the ability to offer customers a full package that includes lights, lighting controls and energy monitoring systems. Cartmill wouldn’t disclose what LED Roadway paid for the Streetl...

Acuity Brands’ Holophane Launches Exclusive, Interactive Night Time Demo Unique demo site allows customers to experience a complete portfolio of outdoor lighting in real world settings   Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting, controls and daylighting solutions, announces the introduction of the Night Time Demo by Holophane®. The Night Time Demo is a unique demonstration program that enables customers to increase their outdoor lighting knowledge by walking through a series o...

Samsung Electronics America has rolled out seven lighting products, the first LED lighting solutions for the U.S. consumer market. Samsung's initial product lineup for U.S. households including A19, PAR20/30/38 and MR16 bulbs--all designed to easily replace traditional incandescent, halogen and CFL bulbs throughout the home are available through Lowes.com and at select Lowe's home improvement retail stores nationwide. Several features as following, A19 Bulbs is a directional bulb that is sized to easily replace a conventional incandescent bulb in any ...

LEDnovation has placed a new addition to its EnhanceLite MR16-50W equivalent line featuring a 23° narrow flood beam angle at 3000K color temperature. This new lamp complements the EnhanceLite MR16-50, 11° spot already in production. All MR16-50s are designed for comparable replacement to 50 watt halogen lamps. LEDnovation also marks the release of the EnhanceLite MR16-35L for landscape lighting applications. Designed for use in IP66 rated outdoor fixtures, this is a robust lamp meant to see harsh environments. As with all EnhanceLite LED MR...

The River Walk, the City of San Antonio’s treasure and one of Texas' top attractions, will install more than 1.76 million multi-colored LED wrapping the trees and lining the street bridges along its banks. Local lighting consultant and renowned artist Bill FitzGibbons, developed the LED lighting plan for the City of San Antonio. Apart from the minibulbs, the eco-friendly lights incorporate the addition of multi-color programmable holiday accent lighting on all 22 street bridges at the River Walk. The lights will be wrapped on 170 trees lining the river...

Researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made a breakthrough on a novel single-layer design for building quantum-dot light-emitting devices (QD-LEDs) by stacking quantum dots within an insulating structure having the shape of an egg crate. The new QD-LED has been claimed to resemble a sandwich with a single active layer of quantum dots nestled in insulation and trapped between two ceramic electrodes and the dots kept apart from each other by the egg-create design. QD-LEDs can be used in lasers, general light sources, ...

Lately, Carmanah Technologies Corporation and Ruud Lighting, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cree,have discontinued their exclusive marketing agreement on November 6th, 2011. This agreement was established in May, 2008 and effectively paired Carmanah stand-alone solar power engines with Ruud Lighting's specification-grade BetaLED(R) exterior LED luminaires. The alliance between the two companies has resulted in Carmanah's portfolio of award-winning solar outdoor lighting products, including the EverGEN 30, EverGEN 1500, and EverGEN 1700 se...

Ohio –based company TCP has announced its LED lamp series of products earned the ENERGY STAR® certification, further confirming the company's commitment, with one of the largest number of ENERGY STAR qualified lamps in the industry. Vice President of Marketing at TCP, Jim Crowcroft, said that "We are excited that our LED series has earned the ENERGY STAR. Our LED strategy has been to produce products that exceed the ENERGY STAR requirements and provide them at a value price.  Achieving ENERGY ST...

Osram Sylvania has released s new survey about Americans’ awareness on light bulb changeover. According to Osram Sylvania’s new survey, Americans’ awareness about using LED light sources as replacements for regular bulbs is growing. Americans come to know that federal legislation will phase out “most traditional incandescent lighting by 2014.” And the poll found that 55 percent of respondents were aware of that fact, up from 36 percent in 2010 and 26 percent in 2009. According to Stephanie Anderson, a spokeswoman for Osram Sylvania, &ldquo...

Tivoli, LLC announces the publication of a new comprehensive venue and auditorium catalog.  Featuring a variety of specific wall, row, step, seat and guide lighting solutions for today’s venues and theaters, the 32-page, full-color glossy catalog is a complete resource guide with recommended solutions for today’s popular VIP illumination solutions.    The catalog, which includes Tivoli’s ADA, Life Safety Code and ETL compliant systems, is formatted for easy product look-up, and is organized by application such as “VIP Venues,&rd...

Digital Lumens has announced new 18,000- and 26,000-lumen highbay LED lighting fixtures -- all with integrated daylight harvesting sensors -- and enhancements to LightRules(TM), the Digital Lumens centralized control system that maximizes energy efficiency. The new products are designed for use in an expanded range of commercial and industrial environments, including those requiring an IP 65 rating for washdown capabilities, the new fixtures are a lumen-for-lumen replacement of existing T5 and T8 High-Intensity Fluorescents (HIF) and feature:     ...

Leading Wireless Lighting Controls Company Adds Six Members to Partner Program Daintree Networks, Inc., the leading provider of wireless lighting control solutions for intelligent buildings, announced that six new companies have joined its ControlScope Connected Program, the only program of its kind in the lighting industry. With the latest additions, this growing ecosystem now consists of 16 partners that manufacture a variety of products including sensors, wall switches, ballasts and LED drivers for lighting and beyond. Through the ControlScope Connected Pro...