Products + Technology

  By Jerry Chen, Co-Founder & CEO, Electrify AI has dramatically improved productivity in many sectors of the economy, and manufacturing is no exception. Among lighting manufacturers, the companies with the biggest productivity gains are the ones adopting digital twins. A digital twin is a virtual representation of your business. For lighting manufacturers, this includes [...]

  SOB LED strip lights stand for SMD On Board (or sometimes Silicone On Board), and it is a hybrid next-generation technology designed to bridge the gap between traditional SMD (Surface Mounted Device) and COB (Chip on Board) strips. How SOB Differs from COB Construction: While COB strips mount bare LED chips directly under a single continuous layer of phosphor [...]

  Korrus has introduced a comprehensive ecosystem of circadian lighting solutions designed to minimize circadian disruption across multiple environments. Historically, companies only provided piecemeal options—like a single bulb or an isolated fixture—making it difficult to fully equip a space. Because circadian lighting is essentially an “all-or-nothing” proposition for biological health, Korrus has launched an end-to-end line under [...]

  Artificial intelligence infrastructure is moving into a new constraint: communication. As GPU clusters grow to tens of thousands of accelerators, optical interconnects (photonic light-based communications) are becoming a system-level requirement rather than a supporting data-center component, according to Yole Group’s latest photonics analysis. Yole’s white paper, Photonics at the Speed of AI, argues that [...]

  Philips Hue Expands Connected-Lighting Platform With AI, Entertainment and Design Launches Signify is broadening the Philips Hue ecosystem with artificial-intelligence-enabled automations, expanded entertainment synchronization, a Nanoleaf integration and a new generation of decorative indoor and outdoor luminaires. The launches, announced September 3, are scheduled to begin reaching markets this month, with availability varying by [...]

  Reclaimed Blinds Illuminate Circular Design Potential Designer Reza Raeisifar has transformed discarded aluminum Venetian blinds into a modular family of luminaires that reframes an everyday shading material as a tool for directing, diffusing and sculpting artificial light. The Keker Collection uses reclaimed blind slats—components conventionally intended to block or regulate daylight—to create cylindrical lighting [...]

  Loxone is positioning its smart home and building platform as an integrated automation environment in which lighting operates alongside shading, HVAC, energy management, access control, security and audio—not as a standalone connected-lighting application. The company’s central proposition is a building that anticipates occupant needs and manages routine functions automatically through one coordinated system. For [...]

  The national controversy surrounding Flock Safety’s automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras is reshaping the conversation about public-safety technology. It is no longer limited to whether police should deploy roadside cameras. The larger question is how ordinary municipal infrastructure—particularly streetlights—can become part of an always-connected vehicle surveillance network. That issue is directly relevant to [...]

  Lighting is not a peripheral consideration in robotic machine vision—it is a core determinant of inspection accuracy, object-recognition reliability and production uptime. Camera performance and vision-algorithm results depend fundamentally on the quality, uniformity and controllability of illumination. Machine vision gives industrial robots the ability to perceive their operating environment, identify parts and features, and [...]