Craig DiLouie

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) offers three new resources to help lighting professionals understand IES TM-30-15, which describes a new method for evaluating light-source color rendition. Created by an Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) task group to address the widely acknowledged limitations of CRI, which is simpler to use but less accurate, TM-30 encompasses several [...]

LIGHTFAIR has issued its call for speakers for the 2017 conference in Philadelphia. Content areas include: • Inspiration • Applications Research • Design Strategies – NEW • Design Tools & Technologies • Core Knowledge – NEW • Intelligent Lighting & Connectivity – NEW • Professional Development – NEW The deadline is September 9, 2016 at [...]

Philips recently announced a first-of-its-kind, large-scale lighting installation at a major university campus that leverages Power over Ethernet (PoE) as part of the recently opened Watt Family Innovation Center at Clemson University. As a founding innovation partner of the center, Philips implemented a PoE-based indoor lighting system combined with LED lighting to provide flexible work [...]

Hubbell Industrial’s UTB Series produces 28,000 lumens at a market-competitive cost, achieving this high output via new LED drivers and a unique OP16 opalescent reflector. Illuminated, the UTB provides a smooth opalescent appearance and is Hubbell Industrial’s highest lumens/W reflector. A direct replacement for 250W and 400W HID highbays, the UTB’s round, symmetrical design, makes [...]

Mark Lien’s June column in LD+A, “Forces of Change,” examines how LED technology is disrupting the lighting industry in six steps, and what we should do about it. My concern for lighting is that quality is already being further compromised by demonetization. Dematerialization may ultimately be controlled by Internet and telecom companies and/or trades integrating [...]

The Module-Driver Interface Special Interest Group (MD-SIG), a lighting-industry consortium, has published its LEDset specifications, available here. LEDset provides the lighting market with a standardized, multi-vendor, electrical interface for LED systems, which simplifies the process of matching LED modules with suitable drivers. Today, there are many different options on the market for communication and power [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) awarded its annual Thesis Prizes to Aditi Govil, MFA Lighting Design, Parsons School of Design and to Ukwatte L. Indika U. Perera, Ph.D., a research scientist at The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The Thesis Prize recognizes degree candidates of graduate-level lighting [...]

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy Aurora Lighting Design, Inc., in Grayslake, IL, made the bold step of installing an OLED lighting system during office renovations in 2014, becoming the first office test site for the use of [...]

Lanscape Forms’ AG400 Bollard, part of the FGP Collection, uses aiming angles, color rendering and glare reduction to shape and enhance lighting performance. Constructed of durable cast aluminum with galvanized steel base plate, the luminaire emits 550 lumens (50 lumens/W) of 3500K, 81 CRI light. Click here to learn more.