LED + SSL

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium recently published guidelines for converting to LED roadway lighting. The Model Specification for LED Roadway Luminaires is for cities, utilities, and other local agencies interested in saving money and energy by switching from traditional lighting technologies to solid-state lighting (SSL), which uses LEDs instead of [...]

Lighting Science Group recently announced that its World Bulb—an omnidirectional 60W equivalent A19 LED replacement lamp—has been selected as a 2012 International CES Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Award Honoree. The Consumer Electronics Association’s International CES Innovations Awards recognize outstanding design and engineering advancements across 32 consumer electronics product groupings—Lighting Science Group’s product was [...]

Visa Lighting has introduced The Shuffle, offering a way to explore form, dimension, color and space using a variety of light sculptures. Interchangeable diffusers—Ellipse, Teardrop, Straight, Switch, Picture Frame and “Vision to Visa”—can be recessed into walls or protrude into the space to provide illumination with an LED light box in white, fixed color or [...]

Hubbell Outdoor Lighting Inc.’s Roadway RM LED Series delivers an LED roadway solution producing 6087 lumens in a 3G-rated traditional cobra-head design. The Roadway RF LED Retrofit Kit provides a versatile solution to upgrade existing 100-175W cobra-heads in any NEMA compliant fixture.

Excellent IES presentations on the topics of light and color, and LED lighting. IES Color 1 Lighting and Color Introduction IES Color 2 Understanding Color and Appearance IES Color 3 Lighting Measurements IES LED 1 LED Sources IES LED 2 LED Luminaires

There are now more than 3,900 products registered with Lighting Facts, along with more than 300 manufacturers. The Lighting Facts label provides an at-a-glance view of an LED product’s basic performance attributes as measured according to the LM79 standard.

The deadline for “Intents to Submit” for the 2012 Next Generation Luminaires Indoor Design Competition has been extended. Written Intents to Submit are now due by January 13, 2012, and must be submitted online at www.ngldc.org.

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy Results of the latest round of CALiPER testing were released recently, and as usual they can tell us a thing or two about the current state of solid-state lighting. As you may know, DOE’s CALiPER program supports testing of a wide array of SSL products available for [...]

Cree, Inc. recently announced the commercial availability of high-voltage XLamp XT-E and XM-L LEDs. These new LEDs enable the use of more efficient, smaller drivers to reduce cost for compact lighting applications such as candelabras and retrofit lamps. The XLamp XM-L LED delivers up to 600 lm in Cool White (6000K) and up to 462 [...]