Industry News
How Color-Tuning Brings Balance & Beauty To Exterior Design
By Valeria Palacios Klein CLD, Senior Lighting Designer at Coastal Source When people hear the phrase colored lighting in outdoor spaces, it’s likely they immediately think of bold, oversaturated…
7 Trends Redefining Buildings & Energy Management in 2026
By Dan Hollenkamp, COO at Toggled Dan Hollenkamp, COO of Toggled, shared the following seven trends that he believes will redefine buildings and energy management in 2026: 1) Smart Buildings…
Refinements to the Worthing Relationship – A Quantum Version of Wien’s Displacement Law
By Eric Bretschneider, Ph.D. Abstract Wien’s Displacement Law is a simple equation that allows calculation of the peak wavelength for a black body light source as a function of…
2025 State Of The Cannabis Lighting Market Report Released
Cannabis Business Times in partnership with Fluence have released the 2025 State Of The Cannabis Lighting Market Report. The report describes a decade-long shift toward LED dominance in cannabis…
55% Of US Now Has Horticultural Lighting Rebates
Horticulture lighting has rapidly evolved from a niche application to one of the fastest-growing sectors in the lighting industry, driven by falling technology costs, improved efficiency, and broader use…
6 New Lighting Standards: Zigbee, Recolight, CIE, & Zhaga
Zigbee 4 And Suzi The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) has released Zigbee 4 and Suzi to standardize secure, interoperable, and scalable IoT connectivity. These standards aim to make enterprise IoT networks…
AI Replaces Keyword Search With Conversational Discovery
AI is rapidly becoming the new default interface for internet search, shifting discovery away from short keyword strings toward rich, conversational exchanges that feel more like dialogue than database…
Six Lighting Award Programs Now Accepting Submissions
The following lighting award programs are now accepting submissions: IESNYC Student Lighting Competition Entry deadline: March 15, 2026 The IESNYC invites students from New York City Art and Design…
Product Monday: Increasingly Popular Cordless Lamps
An increasing popular lighting category is battery-powered, cordless lamps. Main purpose and benefits Cordless lamps are a flexible solution for adding light anywhere without depending on electrical outlets, making…
90+% Of Building Pros Piloting AI, But Only 5% Achieve Goals
JLL’s 2025 Global Real Estate Technology Survey reveals that artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in buildings has surged remarkably, with 92% of corporate real estate occupiers now piloting AI solutions—a…
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