Industry News
MIT’s Super-Fast Cameras Capture the Travel of Light
Interesting look at photos passing through water, enabled by super-fast cameras developed by MIT.
Lighting Industry Roundup
Xicato recently published on its website TM-30-15 Color Rendering results for its entire product range of XTM and XIM modules. See the results here. Hubbell Lighting has launched a competition…
NEMA Current Conditions Index Plunges in September
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America fell 10 points in September, dropping to 42.5. Fifteen percent of panelists reported the business environment facing electrical…
Product Monday: Tiki by Impact Lighting
Impact Lighting’s Tiki pendant combines a parabolic downlight component with an inverted bell uplight component. The LED module is available in 3000K, 3500K or 4000K CCT and 80 CRI. Projected…
LEDucation Announces New 2016 Date and Venue
The Designers Lighting Forum of New York has announced that due to strong response by exhibitors and attendees, the 10th anniversary of the organization’s annual LEDucation event will be held…
CIE Publishes Position Statement on CRI
The International Commission on Illumination (CIE), which created and maintains the color rendering index (CRI) standard, recently published a position statement on CRI, its limitations, and whether and how to…
DOE Releases Common Definition of Zero Energy Buildings, Campuses and Communities
The U.S. Department of Energy reached a significant milestone in bringing the building community together by releasing a common definition of a zero energy building, or what is also referred…
Taking Stock of U.S. Street Lights
In late 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) published the results of a survey of entities across the United States that operate public…
Product Monday: MayaLED by Luminis
MayaLED by Luminis presents a family of site and area luminaires ranging from 1,000 to 13,000 lumens, with a new bollard complementing the existing line of wall-mounted and post-top luminaires.…
Brodrick on LED Package Diversity
Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy Central to any LED lighting product is…
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