Lighting

Goodlight is offering the leasing of LED lighting solutions to enable businesses to fund lighting replacement programmes from their operating budgets. Goodlight’s Bright Plan offers replacement LED lighting to be paid-for directly from energy savings.

Signify has been awarded the security certification for its connected lighting development process (IEC62443-4-1) by DEKRA. This confirms that the company's development of connected lighting systems is based on a certified secure development process and illustrates the company’s leadership in embedding security in all aspects of its innovations, products, systems, and services.

The Osram Opto Semiconductors PLPT9_450LA_E family of LASERs is in stock at distributor TTI Europe.

It has been announced that Full Spectrum LED products outperform conventional solutions, according to a study into the visual impact and perceptual performance of LED lighting by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP) in Stuttgart, Germany. 

Arrow Electronics has unveiled a smart horticulture solution based on an evaluation kit containing all the required hardware and software needed to evaluate and implement a complete indoor horticulture solution.  

TYRI Light Academy has launched on TYRI’s website and will provide insights, tips, knowledge and updates on new innovations in work lighting. The online academy offers tailored articles, videos and tools that will guide the user through the world of work lighting.

Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy once said that photography is simply painting with light. Light Revolution, a lighting and camera system manufacturer for the film, photography and photogrammetry industry, with the support of mechatronic drive motor specialist Electro Mechanical Systems (EMS), has taken the concept of painting with light straight into the 21st century for next generation of lighting system innovation.

New research from Future Facilities, maker of the 6SigmaET thermal simulation software, has revealed the top challenges and trends in the LED industry for 2020.

Employee discomfort, ill health and reduced performance can be linked to a poor-quality office environment, IoT sensor bundles can help to prevent this. Good quality lighting can already help to increase employee productivity up to 23%. Apart from lighting, there are other environmental elements that impact employee health and wellbeing.

Renesas Electronics has announced that Panasonic has adopted Renesas’ R9A06G037 Power Line Communication (PLC) IC for its new railway platform lighting control system.