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In 2014, New York City identified increased street lighting as a potential strategy to reduce outdoor nighttime crime in and around New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing developments...
A “superacid” much stronger than automobile battery acid has enabled a key advance toward a new generation of LED lighting that’s safer, less expensive and more user friendly...
Read more: “Quantum Dot” Lighting Technology Takes Forward...
This business case lays out a rationale for future-proofing buildings and provides tools that will enable building owners to think more strategically about how they are looking at their building management systems and make initial investments upfront for long-term benefit...
Light + Building opened its doors in Frankfurt am Main from March 18 to 23, 2018. Over 2,700 exhibitors from 55 countries showed their latest products and innovations for the lighting, electrical engineering, home and building automation, and safety and security sectors on more than 260,000 square metres spread across 25 exhibition halls. The event attracted 220,000 trade visitors from 177 countries...
The economic impetus to convert traditional incandescent and fluorescent lighting to digital LED is rapidly becoming inescapable. With proven energy saving rates of 60% and beyond, the return on investment is hard to beat among capital improvement projects...
Along with earnings updates, the last couple of weeks have brought lighting news from Cree, Philips, Hubbell Lighting and Eaton Lighting...
Read more: Lighting News: Cree, Philips, Hubbell Lighting,...
Virtual personal assistants provide many services to consumers, such as Internet lookup, playing music and video, and buying products. The most popular platforms are Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft Cortana. These assistants use speech recognition technology to execute user voice commands...
The earliest smart lighting was little more than sophisticated on/off and dimming controls — a market dominated by companies like Lutron, Leviton, Legrand, and a few others. Since then, if a facility upgrades its lighting to LED, adding sophisticated controls after the installation generates only marginal incremental energy savings and can pose technical challenges based on quality of installation and user knowledge...
Room-based lighting control systems have been on the market for some time now. You might think of these as the younger cousins to larger building-wide or even enterprise-wide lighting control systems...
A seven-month research project conducted by the University of Twente, VU Amsterdam and CBRE Netherlands confirms the relationship between people's working environment and their health, well-being and ability to perform...
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The American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Science and Public Health (CSAPH) has issued two reports related to nighttime lighting since 2012. The 2012 AMA Report CSAPH 4-A-12 report, Light Pollution: Adverse Effects of Nighttime Lighting, resulted in AMA Policy H-135.932, noting in particular the “need for further multidisciplinary research of occupational and environmental exposure to light-at-night”, the recognition of how interior lighting and the use of electronic media affect sleep disruption especially in children and adolescents, and the need for work environments operating in 24/7 fashion to have employee fatigue risk management plans in place. The IES supports the 2012 AMA Policy H-135.932. Read more: IES Report. . .
