Craig DiLouie

My lighting column in the March issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR covers a new University of Illinois study that attempted to link daylight exposure to quality and duration of sleep among office workers: “Recently, a multidisciplinary team at the University of Illinois, Urbana-­Champaign, set out to determine the effect of daylight on the quality and duration [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy’s CALiPER program has released Report 20.4, which is part of a series of investigations on LED PAR38 lamps. Report 20.4 focuses on lumen maintenance, chromaticity maintenance, and catastrophic failure in 32 of the Series 20 LED PAR38 lamps and eight benchmark lamps, which were monitored for nearly 14,000 hours at [...]

Adding to its new Endurance collection, WAC Lighting’s Fin Exterior LED Luminaire is offered in three wattages and two color temperatures options, all in a single diminutive size. ENERGY STAR- and DLC-rated, Fin adheres with industry norms of an outdoor luminaire with an IP66 wet location listing. The company went one step further and created [...]

The HumanCentric Lighting Society has announced a conference to be held June 11, 2015 in Seattle. The group was formed to promote education about how next-generation lighting can deliver much more than energy savings, focusing on the impact of dimming and color tuning on human health and performance. Click here to learn more.

The World Health Design website published an article about the role lighting can play in supporting calming healthcare environments that facilitate healing. Check it out here.

Comprised of one or more LED modules together with an LED driver, variations in light engine output account for most of the variations in LED color temperature, brightness and other output characteristics. This can be problematic for manufacturers as well as end-users wanting consistent brightness and color. To alleviate this problem, many LED light engine [...]

In April, I contributed a feature story to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR that attempted to capture a snapshot of leading trends in LED luminaire design. Here’s an excerpt: In 2014, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to a group of scientists for their 1990s invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), [...]

Hubbell Lighting and TOTUS Solutions, a provider of outdoor lighting based security platforms, have teamed up on Spaulding Lighting’s award-winning Cimarron LED luminaire, which is now available with integrated surveillance, communication and control. Spaulding Lighting’s Cimarron outdoor luminaire is integrated with an Ethernet-controlled 360º hemispheric camera and communications platform. This system can surveillance and analytic [...]

This short course by Philips Lighting presents the basics of lighting application. Good fundamentals. Check it out here.