When selecting your lighting fixtures, performance, efficiency, and longevity are often top priorities. But there’s another critical factor that’s sometimes overlooked — impact resistance, measured by an IK rating. Whether your lighting is installed in a rugged industrial facility or an exposed outdoor environment, understanding IK ratings ensures your fixtures can handle the job safely and reliably.
2025 has been a year full of major events and changes, both in Canada and abroad, creating new opportunities for partnerships, solutions and market growth. In regards to the Canadian lighting industry, Canada Light Expo (CLE) 2025 witnessed a landmark gathering of the lighting industry, as it returned for its highly anticipated second edition that was held from 12–13 November 2025 at the International Centre, Toronto. Organized by MEX International Inc., the event provided the region’s most comprehensive lighting trade fair, that brought together top brands, industry leaders, and the latest innovations shaping the future of lighting.
Light plays a crucial role not only in our ability to see but also in regulating our internal body clock, sleep patterns, and overall well-being. Traditional lighting design primarily focuses on visual comfort and task illumination. However, recent advancements have shed light on the concept of melanopic lighting, which specifically targets the non-visual effects of light on human health. Human eyes contain special light-sensitive cells called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs). These cells contain a photopigment called melanopsin, which is most sensitive to blue-green light wavelengths. When stimulated by light, melanopsin triggers various non-visual responses in the body.
More and more devices connect to the Internet every day, most wirelessly. Wireless connectivity is a must have. Conventional wireless connectivity solutions use the crowded radio spectrum to communicate. What’s more there are areas where radio frequency wireless connectivity is not permitted or the best fit. Trulifi by Signify is a smart solution. It’s a range of LiFi systems, providing two-way wireless communication that provides consistent high-speed connectivity, unique physical security and has low latency for real time data streaming.
When designing lighting for a space, why not consider solving an often-overlooked issue in that space – noise. Metalumen’s Rail 2 Acoustic is now available with direct/indirect distribution, while quietly adding light to your environment with sound-dampening properties. The Rail 2 Acoustic RM2DU-ACL is constructed with ezoBord sound-absorbing baffles making it a 2-in-1 solution that doesn’t compromise on aesthetic appeal, while reducing the noise-levels in any space for optimal productivity. The Rail 2 Acoustic family is available in 15 vibrant colors and 10 wood grain finishes, batwing indirect optics for wide distribution for improved uniformity and limitless design configurations with various heights, lengths and patterns.
Cyclone Lighting announced that it has released its new version of the T3M optical lens. This lens was specifically designed for cities seeking to modernize their lighting infrastructure by replacing prismatic globes with full-cutoff luminaires. The T3M optical lens is a full cutoff lens with a BUG rating of U0, ensuring 0% uplight. It provides a light distribution as wide as a prismatic globe, with precise control at 80, exceptional uniformity, and significantly reduced glare. It was intended to replace Acorn-style prismatic globe luminaires, thereby eliminating uplight and supporting the reduction of light pollution. And unlike standard T3 optical lenses, the T3M supports existing pole spacing without creating dark zones between luminaires.
Lighting has always been a technical necessity, but today it is evolving into something far more powerful. Human-Centric Lighting (HCL) is shifting the conversation from simple illumination to environments that actively support wellbeing, productivity, and sustainability. By aligning artificial light with natural circadian rhythms, industry leaders are redefining how workplaces, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, and even hospitality spaces are designed. At the heart of this change are exhibitors and solution providers developing systems that move beyond energy efficiency to focus on human impact.
SATCO|NUVO’s new STARFISH downlight collection provides luminaires that are an ideal choice for smart lighting and ambiance control. Download the STARFISH app to customize any tunable white color temperatures from 2700K warm white light to 5000K natural light or choose from millions of colors on the RGB spectrum, all from your mobile device. The 360° rotation and 0° to 80° tilt allow for the light to be positioned as needed, focusing light where it’s needed most. These downlights are also compatible with Siri, Alexa, Google Home, and SmartThings so they can be easily incorporated into an existing automated system.
Peerless Electric offers custom design and intelligent lighting benefits, along with sensor placement recommendations based on your requirements. Sensors can be added to almost any of their luminaires and operate standalone or control multiple interconnected luminaires. Sensors may be programmed and operated via Bluetooth or other wireless technologies. Line voltage or DC control input, the sensor can be digital, DALI compliant, or analog, 0-10V.
In Canada’s industrial lighting sector, one of the most critical yet often overlooked safety components is lighting designed specifically for hazardous locations, otherwise known as HazLoc (hazardous location) LED lighting. For workplaces dealing with flammable gases, vapours, combustible dust, or ignitable fibres, standard LED fixtures simply don’t cut it. These specialized lighting solutions are engineered to prevent ignition of volatile atmospheres, mitigate the risk of catastrophic explosions and fires, and boost operational safety and efficiency.
The LEDVANCE SMART+ Wi-Fi filament bulb family helps you create the perfect living experience with lighting scenes that match the mood. Select from their A19, G25 or ST19 with amber or clear finish models with a soft colour of 2700K, or 2000K of warm amber light and RGBW colour to set the vibe. Group and dim your lights, set schedules, create customized themes and routines, and enjoy all the benefits provided with the free SYLVANIA Smart Wi-Fi app. Perfect fit for small business, bars, boutiques, coffee shops.
La Pêche (Quebec, Canada) has constructed a new townhall that was designed for the future. The dramatic two-story structure is comprised of solid wood, both inside and out, and presents an impressive facade on the main street of the community. And it incorporates the latest innovations in sustainable construction. With its forthcoming Passivhaus certification – an international standard that guarantees optimal energy efficiency – it will be the first Passivhaus-certified institutional building in the province of Quebec. The municipality wanted this building to not only be a positive work environment for its employees, but also a welcoming and accessible space for local citizens. It features various functional spaces, including a council chamber, administrative offices, and a large multi-media room.
The Mini-Inverter is a cUL Listed stand-alone pure sine wave output inverter designed to provide power to designated emergency lighting fixtures. In a power loss situation, it will supply power from the onboard battery supply. The Mini-Inverter works in conjunction with incandescent, LED, and fluorescent fixture types and will automatically run switched, normally-on, or normally-off designated emergency fixtures. The Mini-Inverter is ideal for applications requiring an emergency source for lighting arrangements that utilize multiple lamp and fixture types and is available in surface mount and comes with a one-year warranty and nine-year pro-rata battery warranty.
The Autonomy Sensor is an integrated control and management device that self-organizes, configures, and optimizes an advanced Smart Lighting System. A set of Autonomy Sensors collaborate to provision a secure wireless mesh network, establish Area membership based on physical co-location, and configure motion and daylight groups through the analysis of motion patterns and daylight distribution levels, respectively. No setup or human supervision is required.
BeLuce’s Centro system is an all-in-one solution, especially when reliability is the most important feature of any emergency power source. Without it, all other features and benefits are meaningless. Fortunately, there is now an innovative and reliable solution that greatly simplifies the installation process and considerably reduces the cost of material, labour, monitoring and maintenance. Normally on signs and normally off remotes must operate independently on the building’s power during a power failure. It thus requires two different cables to connect the emergency fixtures. A third wire is essential to allow communication
between the units. It, therefore, generates important material and labour costs, especially for large/vast buildings where running thousands of feet of wires are needed. The Centro system is the perfect solution to reduce those costs because it only involves a single cable instead of three. The Centro drivers within each unit will determine what is normally off or normally on in the circuit. It also permits communication between the units and the Centro Software.
LEDVANCE is expanding their OPTI-SELECT series product platform, reinforcing their commitment to flexibility, efficiency, and performance. The expanded lineup now includes a comprehensive range of indoor and outdoor lighting solutions, allowing users to adjust beam angles, color temperatures, and lumen outputs with the twist of a switch or the turn of a wrist—all without replacing lenses or reflectors. With OPTI-SELECT technology, lighting professionals can customize distribution patterns on-site, eliminating the hassle of multiple SKUs while enhancing installation speed, performance, and energy efficiency. This latest expansion includes Bollards, Cylinders, Floodlights, Track Lights, and PAR38 lamps, making one product adaptable to multiple applications.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
