Craig DiLouie

The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of organizations creating open, global standards that define the Internet of Things (IoT) for use in consumer, commercial and industrial applications, recently announced with the EnOcean Alliance, a leading consortium for battery-less, wireless smart buildings and smart homes, that the two organizations will cooperate on combining the benefits of [...]

LightRules Mobile by Digital Lumens provides users a simple and convenient way to control and manage lighting settings from their mobile device or tablet. It works with the iPhone, iPad and iTouch running iOS8 or later. Support for Android devices will follow. Click here to learn more.

Acuity Brands, Inc. has acquired for cash certain assets, including all proprietary technology and other intellectual property, of GeoMetri, LLC, a provider of a software and services platform for mapping, navigation and analytics. “GeoMetri technology brings a key component into our digital lighting platform, augmenting our positioning services which now include over 10 million square [...]

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Shipments Index, a measure of demand for lighting equipment, increased by 4.8% year-over-year and by 4.4% quarter-to-quarter during 2015Q3. The increase was driven by the fixtures component of the index, which gained ground on a year-over-year basis, while the emergency lighting, ballast and lamp – large and miniature – components recorded offsetting [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) recently announced the 2016 Lumen Awards are open for submissions now through February 8, 2015. A signature program of the IESNYC, the Lumen Awards celebrate excellence in lighting design. Note that starting this year, the IESNYC Lumen Awards and the IES Illumination Awards are now two [...]

The 2016 Next Generation Luminaires™ Outdoor Competition has officially launched. Online Intents to Submit are due on January 18, 2016, and the judging event will take place in March. The 2016 Outdoor Competition application categories include: Luminaires for Pedestrian Scale Focused Evaluation • Pole-mounted Pedestrian Scale (12′) • Pole-mounted Decorative Streetscape (20′) • Bollards • [...]

U.S. Architectural Lighting has expanded its Razar LED Generation family with three new low-profile, wall-mounted luminaires that extend only 12 in. and vary from 9 to 23 in. in width. These 23-198W wall-mount luminaires are designed to replace 35-400W HID luminaires. They’re available in five asymmetric distribution patterns that are field-rotatable in 90-degree increments; 3000K, [...]

The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (“PATH” or “Act”), which was signed into law by President Obama on December 18, 2015, featured a number of tax provisions, including an extension of the Commercial Energy-Efficient Buildings Tax Deduction (Section 179D) by two years from December 31, 2014 to December 31, 2016. The text [...]

As has been the case a few times already this year, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) dipped in November. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate 9- to 12-month lead time between architecture billings and construction spending. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the November ABI score was [...]