Products + Technology

Cree’s FLEX Series LED Troffer offers five customizable inner-optic choices, standard 1% 0-10V dimming with optional SmartCast® Technology for intelligent lighting control, significantly reduced flicker, and design flexibility with various options.

FLOS’s Wirering is a simple, stripped-down luminaire that is midway between a wall and floor lamp. Highlighting parts often hidden by lighting designers, the luminaire uses custom belt-like electrical cable made of colored rubber and a ring of LEDs. The cable fixes to the wall through ABS joints in the same finish as the ring. [...]

Fulham Co., Inc.’s new Bluetooth Bridge 0-10V LED controller is the first in a series of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) components designed to connect luminaires into a Bluetooth mesh ecosystem. The new Bluetooth Bridge can be installed in any electrical box or LED fixture to provide wireless 0-10 dimming control and monitoring.

The Chinese state newspaper recently reported that a private aerospace institute in Chengdu plans to launch an “illumination satellite” into orbit by 2020. The artificial moon will be bright enough to replace street lights.

Using the cylindrical Flindt Bollard as his starting point, Danish designer Christian Flindt created Louis Poulsen’s new Flindt Wall, a circular wall-mounted luminaire that brings bold, sculptural illumination to both indoor and outdoor spaces. Based on the same carved-out design as the Flindt Bollard, the Flindt Wall continues this aesthetic, emitting a soft glow in multiple directions.

Litecontrol’s Vora 50L architectural recessed troffer utilizes laser-etched, acrylic light guides for edge lighting, resulting in uniform illumination across the entire surface of the luminaire. A center mixing chamber captures excess light exiting the opposite end of the light guides and recycles it uniformly within the chamber, which allows users visual access to a portion of the luminaire that is typically shielded with a diffuser.

Pickleball is a racquet sport that is growing in popularity, with many leagues and clubs beginning to stay open at night. Access Fixtures’ new line of complete pickleball court lighting packages, based on the company’s APTA LED luminaires, is designed for effective lighting of pickleball courts.

Acuity Brands, Inc.’s updated Slot pendant, surface, and wall mount LED family by Mark Architectural Lighting was designed to offer flexible design options.

Espen Technology’s hybrid Type A+B TLED replacement lamps, an expansion of the company’s UniFlex lamp family, can be powered by an existing fluorescent ballast (plug & play, Type A), as well as be directly wired to line voltage (ballast bypass, Type B).