Craig DiLouie

Royal Philips is piloting with retailers an intelligent lighting system that provides a personalized shopping experience. The system uses intelligent LED in-store lighting to communicate location-based information to shoppers via a smartphone app which they can opt to download. The lighting communicates with the app to send special offers and information to the shopper, relevant [...]

The Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition (NGLDC) recently announced the outdoor category winners for the 2013 competition. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Association of Lighting Designers, the NGLDC was created to recognize and promote excellence in commercial LED lighting products. In 2012, the competition began evaluating [...]

I just received notification from NCQLP that my LC certification has been renewed. Proud to be LC!

The IES is seeking experts to present at the 2014 Annual Conference located in Pittsburgh, PA. Individual presenters, groups and panels are all encouraged to submit topics that fit within the list of tracks: Art & Design; Science & Research; Education & Practice. Sessions will typically be 45 minutes in length with 15 minutes for [...]

LIGHTFAIR will return to New York City in 2015 after its east-coast event took place in Philadelphia in 2013 and 2011 while the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center underwent major renovations. The 26th annual LIGHTFAIR International event will be staged at the Javits May 3-7, 2015. The 2015 location decision resulted from the unanimous vote [...]

Focal Point’s Nivo is a luminous and frameless 2×2 LED luminaire with surprising dimension. Whether flush with ceiling tiles or extended up to 7” into the room, Nivo uses the ceiling as a canvas to infuse texture, pattern and rhythm with light. Combine different diffuser depths, try a creative layout, or add bold dimension in [...]

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy Next to energy efficiency, long life is probably the most publicized of solid-state lighting’s (SSL) potential advantages, and plays a key role in any cost-benefit analysis. But understanding how LED lighting products fail, and communicating [...]

The Lighting Controls Association (LCA) has updated EE203: Lighting & Commercial Energy Codes, a course in its popular Education Express program. Residing at the Association’s website, Education Express provides in-depth education about lighting controls and controllable ballast technology, application, system design and commissioning. Commercial building energy codes regulate the designed energy efficiency of nonresidential buildings. [...]

Cooper Lighting recently announced the release of the 2014 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE, located at Cooper’s Peachtree City, GA office, offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its many different applications. Most classes are offered multiple times throughout the [...]