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Nov 16, 2020
Category: Illumination

The computing industry has long operated according to the principle of garbage in, garbage out. Computer scientists know that the insights derived from the analysis of a database are only useful and reliable if the raw data on which they are based are sound...The same principle applies in lighting. No matter how much care is devoted to controls, LED drivers or to sophisticated secondary lenses, if the raw light source is compromised, so is the luminaire’s light output.


Oct 28, 2020
Category: Illumination

Colored lighting often plays an equivalent role in professional lighting design to seasoning, spice and herbs in the professional kitchen. Color elevates the user’s appreciation of a space or a structure, changing it from something effective and useful into an experience that the user enjoys, likes, or even marvels at.


Oct 15, 2020
Category: Illumination

It would be easy for self-congratulation to be the default attitude of an LED manufacturer. After all, when LEDs replace an incandescent light source, the amount of in-use electricity consumed drops by around 90%. This reduces the GHG emissions attributable to lighting, and helps to slow the pace of global warming.


Sep 30, 2020
Category: Illumination

The most widely used of these control functions is dimming, and so it is perhaps surprising that the design of certain types of dimming luminaires is problematic. This is because of a common but undesirable characteristic of traditional LEDs: in any typical reel of supposedly identical LEDs shipped to a luminaire manufacturer, the flux (brightness) of one, or a string of LEDs, when dimmed will be visibly different from the flux of its neighbor, even though both are connected to the same driver.


Sep 17, 2020
Category: Illumination

The LED story though is one of continuous innovation in LED technology, and since the turn of the century, innovation has led to a complete transformation: the white LED has become the lighting industry’s mainstream light source. So does that mean it’s job done? Far from it – the innovation in LED technology continues. In many ways, we have only just begun.


Aug 26, 2020
Category: Illumination

When you were young and learning to draw, were you one of the tikes who kept reaching into the crayon box to pull out the next color, working it onto a white page to see how it looked, blending and playing colors off one another or pressing hard then soft to see different effects? It is the same with LED lighting today. More options are better. In defining every color of the rainbow, like different flavors of ice cream, designers want more color choices to create more opportunities for great satiation.


Aug 20, 2020
Category: Illumination

The market for lighting products and lighting schemes is all about choice, variety and personalization. And the foundation for choice is laid by the light source – the LED. If there were only ever one, standard, uniform light source, the scope for differentiating the luminaire with optics, electronic controls or reflectors would be extremely limited. In fact, the primary focus of leading LED manufacturers’ investments today is on innovations which enable new lighting concepts and more choice to enable the industry to respond better to users’ different preferences.


Aug 3, 2020
Category: Illumination

Over the last twenty years, we’ve been party to an evolving discussion about light from LEDs. Most conversations center around light output and quality of light. In both cases, performance needs and requirements have spurred a continuum of innovation.


Apr 10, 2020
Category: Illumination

When attending a rock concert, the show’s lighting effects are sometimes as notable as the musical performances. Shifting beams of vibrant, ever-changing colored light and the blaze of precision spotlights add energy and excitement to musical concerts, particularly when the colors are rich and dynamic, and mix and blend organically to form their own spectacular dance.


Mar 31, 2020
Category: Illumination

A lot has changed for brick-and-mortar retail in the last decade, but contrary to rumors, traditional storefront retail is not dead. According to payment services company Fiserv, total retail sales during the 2019 U.S. holiday season grew 3.8 percent over 2018. While online sales in the U.S. are growing at faster rates than sales in physical stores – eCommerce sales during the 2019 holiday period grew 8.1 percent over the previous year – brick-and-mortar sales over the holidays posted growth of 1.4 percent over 2018.