Vantage Creates Keypad Alliance for Greater Freedom and Unity in Lighting Design and Control
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Vantage Creates Keypad Alliance for Greater Freedom and Unity in Lighting Design and Control

November 21, 2023 Growing Vantage Keypad Alliance Provides Lighting Designers and Integrators With Greater Interface Flexibility, Includes Luxury Partner Keypad Vendors Meljac, Forbes & Lomax, and Basalte Legrand’s lighting control brand Vantage announced its new Keypad Alliance. In addition to Vantage’s wide portfolio of keypads, specifiers and installers using a Vantage system can select the keypad options available within…

EarthTronics Reduces Carbon Footprint: A Look at LED’s Environmental Impact

EarthTronics Reduces Carbon Footprint: A Look at LED’s Environmental Impact

October 24, 2023 At EarthTronics, they take pride in their role as an innovative LED lighting manufacturer helping reduce carbon footprints since 2007. As climate change continues to threaten our planet, businesses and individuals need simple, impactful steps to lower their environmental impact. Upgrading to energy-efficient, sustainable LED lighting provides one of the most effective solutions. Dramatic Energy Savings…

Leading the Way to LED Retrofits – Simplify LED Upgrades with the New Lutron Ballast Retrofit Kit by C-Flex
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Leading the Way to LED Retrofits – Simplify LED Upgrades with the New Lutron Ballast Retrofit Kit by C-Flex

October 19, 2023 Lutron Electronics, the global leader in smart lighting and shading control, is pleased to announce its new Lutron ballast retrofit kit by C-Flex. As the lighting market sunsets fluorescent technology to embrace the advantages of LEDs, and legislation restricts the sale of fluorescent lamps, Lutron continues its leadership position in the industry…

LED Revolution 2.0
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LED Revolution 2.0

October 4, 2023 Craig DiLouie Everywhere, we see signs the LED revolution has won. An argument can be made, however, that this mature lighting technology is simply entering its next phase of market opportunity. Call it LED Revolution 2.0. Over 20 years, this technology utterly transformed lighting and control and the industry at large. It…

Anew LED Lighting from TCP: The Incandescent Lighting Alternative
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Anew LED Lighting from TCP: The Incandescent Lighting Alternative

August 16, 2023 You may already be aware of a couple new lighting regulations that affect both homeowners and business owners. First, California’s recent ban on CFL light bulbs followed a similar measure that Vermont passed in May. Now, the federal government has put incandescent bulbs on notice with standards for energy efficiency aimed at saving consumers billions of…

Grand Rapids, Michigan and Dimonoff to Launch New Smart Street Lighting Project in 2023
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Grand Rapids, Michigan and Dimonoff to Launch New Smart Street Lighting Project in 2023

July 24, 2023 The City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is set to embark on a groundbreaking transformation of its urban lighting infrastructure with the ongoing Dimonoff’s smart street lighting project. This project promises to revolutionize the city’s lighting capabilities, bringing forth a new era of intelligent and energy-efficient illumination. This ambitious project will see the…

Cycles Gervais Rioux Uses Verozza Lighting Products to Enhance the Customer Experience!
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Cycles Gervais Rioux Uses Verozza Lighting Products to Enhance the Customer Experience!

June 29, 2023 Cycles Gervais Rioux has been in business for 33 years. The current location on Avenue du Parc in Montreal, QC Canada has been open for five years offering high-end bicycles, cycling accessories, and providing maintenance services. Gervais recognized that there were some problems. For example, he noticed that the products were not…

Acclaim Lighting Amplifies and Accents John Hextall Bridge Giving it New Life
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Acclaim Lighting Amplifies and Accents John Hextall Bridge Giving it New Life

June 5, 2023 A new lighting system is bringing back the vibrancy and safety to the newly renovated John Hextall Bridge in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  Distinguished by its unique framework of steel structural members, the Shouldice, or John Hextall Bridge is a notable as an uncommon surviving bridge built by the Algoma Steel Bridge Company,…

Emily Carr University’s Creative Lighting Project with E.B Horseman and Mac’s II Agencies
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Emily Carr University’s Creative Lighting Project with E.B Horseman and Mac’s II Agencies

May 26, 2023 In partnership with Mac’s II Agencies, WSP, and Houle Electric, our company served as the distributor of products for Emily Carr University’s (ECU) indoor and outdoor lighting project. ECU, a globally renowned institution in the fields of art, media, and design, commenced construction on a cutting-edge campus in Vancouver in 2015. By the summer…

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Why Lumen Depreciation is Costlier Than You Think – Cree Lighting  

LEDs, like all light sources, lose light over time. The term used to describe this is sometimes referred to as lumen depreciation. In lighting design, understanding the rate of this decline over time can help determine the amount of light available at some point in the future. For a little historical perspective, the rate at…

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All Blue Light is Not Created Equal, Exposure to the Right Blue is Critical for Optimizing Circadian Rhythms

By PRWEB One of the excuses the lighting industry uses to avoid addressing the harmful effects of blue-enriched LED lights at night is “circadian science is not yet mature.” Now a publication in PNAS from Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has resolved one of the last remaining contradictions in the science – what color blue is responsible…

D4i: Standardizing Luminaire-Level Control
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D4i: Standardizing Luminaire-Level Control

November 23, 2022 By Craig DiLouie The DALI Alliance recently extended DALI-2, which standardizes interoperability and control of LED drivers and sensors, with a version that more finely addresses the needs of the Internet of Things, which calls for individual device addressability, connectivity, and two-way data exchange. Called D4i, the standard enables real-time data acquisition for measuring…

Smart Home Innovation Set To Accelerate With Matter
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Smart Home Innovation Set To Accelerate With Matter

November 9, 2022 In the month since Matter 1.0 was released, Matter momentum has continued to accelerate. Today members showcased their Matter products at a launch event in Amsterdam with a wide array of categories including motion blinds, occupancy sensors, weather devices, smart plugs, door locks, lighting, gateways, platform components, and Matter-based software applications. Since…

MaxLite’s C-Max Brings Future-Proofing to the Next Level

MaxLite’s C-Max Brings Future-Proofing to the Next Level

The pandemic demonstrated that we don’t know what the future will bring, but we’ve learned to adapt. For example, office spaces changed from rows of individual cubicles occupied on a daily basis to a hybrid layout of shared work desks that accommodates a rotation of employees coming in for a day or two. Just as the spatial needs of many offices changed after the pandemic, so did their lighting needs and energy goals.