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AMA Issues Guidance on Harmful Effects of High Intensity Street Lighting

Strong arguments exist for overhauling LED roadway lighting systems, but conversions to improper LED technology can have adverse consequences…

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Illumination Project to Animate Calgary Underpass

Calgary city councillors have approved a plan to illuminate a downtown underpass variously described as “scary” and “a space of fear…

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IESBC Announces Its 2016 Vision Award Winners

The Illuminating Engineering Society of British Columbia (IESBC) has announced the winners of its 2016 Vision Awards…

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LEDs vs. the Zika Virus

Could LEDs be the solution to controlling the Zika virus? Lighting Science Group thinks so. It’s already testing LED-based bug traps with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s entomology lab…

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Can LEDs Help Grow Food in Canada’s North?

LED-based technology originally conceived to help feed astronauts in space may help grow fresh fruits and vegetables in Canada’s north, according to a recent Toronto Star article by Amy Pataki…

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Light Up Your Cruising Nights

Informed estimates are that barely 10% of Canadian pleasure craft have underwater lighting but in Florida it’s a far higher percentage…

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Halifax Introduces Smart LED Street Lights

Nova Scotia’s capital city is in the process of converting and connecting 43,000 LED street lights…

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LED Growth Exploding

Our friend Bill Attardi at Energy Watch shared interesting data he obtained regarding the exploding growth of the LED market…

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Adaptive Lighting Systems Part 3: Scheduling

The lighting control strategy we’re reviewing today is a low-hanging fruit when it comes to energy savings…

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Light-Activated Tool Helps to Better Understand Diabetes Drugs

Researchers at the University of Birmingham (UK) have developed a light-activated tool to show how drugs need to be adapted to combat type 2 diabetes…

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Light and Technology in a New Language — LFI 2016

This was the theme for Lightfair International 2016, taking place in San Diego from April 24 to 28…

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Lighting as a Service: Navigant Global Market Analysis and Forecasts

According to a new report by Navigant Research, the stage is set for the rise of lighting as a service (LaaS)…

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Flicker Explained

With the wide acceptance of LEDs for use in general lighting, light flicker has become a concern in some situations…

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Adaptive Lighting Systems Part 2: Daylight Harvesting

Continuing our review of advanced lighting control strategies enabling smart and adaptive lighting systems, this time we’ll look at what is known as daylight harvesting…

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Lifetime Breakthrough Promises Low-Cost, Efficient OLEDs

With just a tiny tweak, researchers at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, greatly increased the device lifetime of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that use a recently developed class of molecules to convert electricity into light, with the potential for increased efficiency at a lower cost in future displays and lighting…

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Relamping Standard’s Warehouse

In August 2015, Standard relamped its warehouse in Ville Saint-Laurent, PQ, improving workplace safety and energy costs…

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This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.

Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.