Lighting Design & Specification

Stanpro’s Jonathan Perlis to Chair EFC’s YPN Quebec Region

Starting in January 2019, Jonathan Perlis, Sales Representative at Stanpro, will become Chair of the Quebec region of EFC’s Young Professionals Network...

Signify to Illuminate Up to 15 London, UK Bridges with Connected Lighting

Speakers Sought for IALD Enlighten Americas 2019

The New Age of Contractor Sales

RGB Tape and Wireless Remote Controller from Standard

Karice’s Latest Luminaire — Olah Table Lamp

Changing Scene

Ultrasave Lighting’s Francis Chan to Retire

Francis Chan, General Manager of Ultrasave Lighting, has announced his retirement from the company ...

Pioneer Lighting Launches New Interactive Website

Pioneer Lighting Inc.’s new interactive website features easily accessible updated spec ...

Standard’s Photometric Data Now on Lighting ...

Standard’s photometric data files (IES files) have been updated and optimized and are now ...

Lumenpulse’s Strasbourg Cathedral Project ...

The appearance of one of Europe’s most important cathedrals has been transformed with a new, ...

MCEE 2017: 13 Companies Win New Product ...

A special jury of industry experts has chosen the winners of the New Product Competition at MCEE ...

BizVibe Expands Its B2B Networking Platform to ...

BizVibe has committed to creating a continuously improving platform for electrical and lighting ...

Cheque presentation for lighting energy savings

Lighting Energy Conservation Earns Retirement ...

A Hamilton, Ontario retirement and long-term care residence recently received an $18,000 incentive ...

Eaton Releases 2014 Schedule for the SOURCE ...

Power management company Eaton and its Cooper Lighting division have released of the 2014 SOURCE ...

Lind Equipment 30W Rechargeable Battery Powered ...

Lind Equipment’s LE965LEDC, the latest in its Beacon Light line of LED floodlights, is a 30W ...

Eaton’s Downlighting LEDs Add Brightness Control, ...

Eaton’s Cooper Lighting division has introduced new Halo Surface LED Downlights for new ...

Design

Energy Efficient Commercial Lighting: Lower Lamp ...

The ongoing sea change between fluorescent and light-emitting diode (LED) lighting technologies ...

Giant LED-Lit “Lampshades” Create Spectacular ...

On Cartier Avenue in Quebec City, 34 giant lampshades backlit with LEDs and decorated with works by ...

Renaissance Renovation: LEDs On

The sturdy rectangular structure was built in the late 1470s as part of the Vatican’s fortified ...

Public Lighting and the International Year of ...

The International Year of Light “is a global initiative that will highlight the importance of ...

Architectural Lighting Solutions for DND’s New ...

It is no secret that lighting design plays a central part in the atmosphere of an interior ...

First Graphine Lghtbulb Available this Year?

A lamp made with graphene, said by its U.K. developers to be the first commercially viable ...

Stimulating Neurons with Light

Researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have used optogenetics to ...

Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures Performing Arts ...

A single backbone fibre ring of LuminexGigaCore Ethernet switches unifies and simplifies all the AV ...

Semantic Lighting: Connecting the Physical and ...

The evolution of lighting technology is giving birth to amazing new possibilities. Where lighting ...

Lightfair International 2015 – Innovation and ...

From May 3 to 7, New York City’s Javits Centre hosted the 26th edition ofLightfair ...

LED Technology

LEDs: Partnering Savings with Sustainability

Mention LEDs in a conversation, and what first springs to mind is low energy use. But LEDs offer ...

9 Questions That Can Help Maximize the Value of ...

LED's Part 2The benefits of LEDs almost seem too good to be true, and in some cases may be. Rapid ...

UL Creates More Efficient Certification Process ...

Helping LED Luminaire manufacturers develop products and gain market access is the intent behind ...

Where No LED Has Gone Before

You may soon be able to add “growing space vegetables” to the list of uses for LEDs. Researchers at ...

Successful LED Retrofitting Strategies

Showing off your modern lighting advancements makes a powerful statement to customers. You’ll be ...

Acuity Brands Launches Latest Generation OLED ...

Acuity Brands, Inc. has launched a next-generation OLED product portfolio, including the ...

Eaton’s Halo LED Solutions Bring Energy ...

Halo light-emitting diode (LED) downlights from Eaton’s Cooper Lighting Division are featured in ...

Tunable White Will Be The Lighting Game Changer ...

LED keeps evolving. Six or seven years ago no one thought that LED was bright enough or ...

The Evolution of OLED Technology for Lighting

Although a relatively new technology, organic light-emitting diodes, OLEDs, are labelled today’s ...

In-depth Assessment of OLED Display Quality

Organic LEDs (OLEDs) are an interesting and promising new display technology. They provide a number ...

New Products

Contemporary Luminaire with Historical Inspiration

Peerless Electric’s new Architectural Rebell LED luminaire combines functionality and energy ...

Eaton’s Area Luminaire Offers an Efficient, ...

Eaton’s Lumark Caretaker light-emitting diode (LED) area luminaire is ideal for area and ...

Eaton Neo-Ray Index LED Pendant: An Alternative ...

Eaton’s new Neo-Ray Index light-emitting diode (LED) pendant luminaire from Cooper Lighting ...

Self-calibrating Universal Dimmer

Legrand’s Pass & Seymour Harmony Tru-Universal Dimmer comes with self-calibrating ...

New Versa-Series from Liteline improves safety in ...

iteline Corporation’s new 4” Versa-Series pot lights provide maximum safety and ...

Researchers Increase Fluorescent Molecules’ ...

Researchers at Duke University have developed a new method to make fluorescent molecules emit ...

Fluke 1000FLT Fluorescent Light Tester

The Fluke 1000FLT performs 5 essential tests in less than 30 seconds with one compact tool ...

Eaton Energy Efficient LED Luminaire for High ...

Eaton’s Portfolio surface-mount light-emitting diode (LED) luminaire from its Cooper Lighting ...

Eaton’s WaveStream LED Luminaires Feature ...

Eaton’s Metalux Encounter and SkyRidge light-emitting diode (LED) luminaire families are now ...

Legrand’s New AFCI Receptacle Helps Contractors ...

Aimed at the residential market, Legrand’s new Pass & Seymour arc fault circuit ...

Latest News

IEEE Task Force Works on Standard for Light Communications

Kathy Pretz

Soon enough, experts say, we’ll be getting secure, high-speed Internet access from our LED bulbs: in desk lamps, ceiling fixtures, streetlights, and vehicle taillights. The light-communications systems, relying on nanometer waves in the infrared and visible-light portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, are expected to transmit data generated by a microchip fitted into each LED bulb. The system has been coined light fidelity, or Li-Fi, by its inventor, IEEE Fellow Harald Haas.