Craig DiLouie

Cary S. Mendelsohn, CLMC, has been elected chair of the National Lighting Bureau (NLB), the lighting education foundation.

The Illuminating Engineering Society has announced a call for presenters for its 2018 annual conference to be held August 9-11, 2018, at the Westin Boston Waterfront in Boston, MA. The deadline for submission if March 30.

The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) recently announced that Zachary Pearson, a candidate in the Master of Science in Lighting program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is the winner of the third annual IESNYC Scholarship.

Cree, Inc.’s ceramic-based XLamp® XD16 Extreme Density LED is designed to deliver up to 5½ times higher lumen density than the company’s previous generation of high-power LEDs, offering new opportunities for product innovation.

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) latest Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) revealed a majority of U.S. homes used more than one type of lamp, mainly a mix of incandescent and compact fluorescent. Adoption of LED lighting was increasing, however, with 29 percent of households reporting they’d installed at least one LED lamp. Click to learn more about the 2015 RECS.

Researchers at the University of Sydney have successfully transferred data carried on light waves into sound waves in a microchip. Why is this important? Shifting from optical to acoustical and back inside a chip is considered a building block of creating computers that use photons instead of electrons to move data.

An article recently published in the IEEE’s The Institute reports Li-Fi can pass data at 10 GB per second, about 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. According to Global Market Insights, Li-Fi is predicted to become a $75 billion technology by 2023.

A new Department of Energy report examines the energy-saving potential of LED lighting in these applications. Click to get the report.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Glenn Siegel, Director, Marketing and Product Management, Eaton Corporation. The topic: what’s new in LED downlights.