Part 1: How Many Studies Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
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Part 1: How Many Studies Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

March 18, 2024 How studies in vision inform lighting standards at Night By Noah Sabatier Changing a light bulb in our home is perhaps the most simple task in which we can still credit ourselves for performing household maintenance. The amount of thought such an operation receives rarely extends beyond looking for the most efficient…

5 Simple Steps Towards Sustainable Lighting
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5 Simple Steps Towards Sustainable Lighting

February 20, 2024 Here are five practical actions you can take –today! – to move towards designing more sustainably. Sustainability in lighting – a broad, sometimes confusing topic, that can be looked at in many ways. Circular lighting economy, material ingredient reporting (MIRs), environmental product declarations (EPDs), life cycle analyses (LCAs), factory working conditions, carbon…

Avegant Announces Breakthrough Spotlight™ Display Technology for Augmented Reality
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Avegant Announces Breakthrough Spotlight™ Display Technology for Augmented Reality

February 6, 2024 Introducing the world’s first LCoS light engine with adaptive LED illumination. Spotlight™ from Avegant display technology delivers up to 90% illumination power savings and 10x local contrast compared to conventional LCoS. Avegant announces Spotlight™ display technology – the world’s first adaptive LED illumination architecture for LCoS.  By dynamically illuminating regions of a LCoS…

EarthTronics Case Study: Productive Lighting on the Shop Floor with Linear High Bay LED’s
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EarthTronics Case Study: Productive Lighting on the Shop Floor with Linear High Bay LED’s

January 30, 2024 Earthtronics Lighting management and maintenance program increases morale and productivity at MRS Industrial Lighting can have a powerful impact on the human body. In addition to enhancing vision and reducing eyestrain, lighting stimulates hormones to decrease fatigue, increase alertness and elevate your mood. For these reasons, lighting also has a strong correlation…

Illuminating Spaces: Understanding the 3 Sub-Effects of Directional Lighting
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Illuminating Spaces: Understanding the 3 Sub-Effects of Directional Lighting

By Robert Lanteigne January 4, 2024 In the world of architectural lighting, directional lighting stands out for its ability to focus and shape the ambiance of a space. Unlike diffused lighting, which spreads light evenly across an area, directional lighting points and shines light in a specific direction, creating dynamic and dramatic effects. This article…

Toggled COO Dan Hollenkamp’s Five Smart Buildings Market Predictions for 2024
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Toggled COO Dan Hollenkamp’s Five Smart Buildings Market Predictions for 2024

January 2, 2024 Dan Hollenkamp, COO of Toggled, recently made five very interesting predictions regarding the development of the smart buildings market in 2024. 2024 will be a big year for smart building rebates and incentives. If there’s one thing the feds, states and utilities all have in common, it’s a keen desire to get buildings operating…

Gabrielle Chanel – Fashion Manifesto: A Case Study with Luminii
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Gabrielle Chanel – Fashion Manifesto: A Case Study with Luminii

December 20, 2023 About the Coco Chanel Exhibition in South Kensington, London This is the first, and potentially the most important historical fashion exhibition of the decade; graciously hosted by the V&A Museum in South Kensington, London in partnership with the Palais Galliera and The Fashion Museum of the City of Paris, “Gabrielle Chanel- Fashion…

The Non-Technical Language of Light: General Diffuse Lighting
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The Non-Technical Language of Light: General Diffuse Lighting

By Robert Lanteigne December 6, 2023 The past, present, and future of general diffuse lighting in the industry Light is everywhere, filling up our world in its purest natural form! From the Sun’s ginormous beams to the tiny glow of a lightning bug, general lighting flourishes all around us through space. It starts as raw,…

Why Mesh Network Is More Sustainable Than Cellular Network for Managing Your Smart Lighting System?
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Why Mesh Network Is More Sustainable Than Cellular Network for Managing Your Smart Lighting System?

Jostran Lamontagne December 4, 2023 Faced with an increasingly aging and energy-consuming street lighting network, cities must convert their street lighting network to light-emitting diode (LED) technology. They have also realized that by opting for a smart lighting management and control system, not only can they optimize their public lighting management but also reduce their…

Light + Building Industry Trends for 2024/25: Of Magical Effects, Quiet Design and Uniqueness
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Light + Building Industry Trends for 2024/25: Of Magical Effects, Quiet Design and Uniqueness

November 3, 2023 Light + Building shows the most important products and solutions in the field of light and lighting. A valuable orientation aid in the large range of products at the world’s leading trade fair is the trend presentation by the trend bureau bora.herke.palmisano. The style experts have identified three relevant trends for 2024/25,…

TALQ Certification Process has Improved Security
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TALQ Certification Process has Improved Security

November 2, 2023 The TALQ Consortium, which developed the Smart City Protocol, a global interface standard for smart city applications, recently added more security to its certification procedures. For several years, a rigorous certification process has enabled TALQ-compliant products to be interoperable with one another. Only official listing on the consortium’s website proves that the…

Winners Announced: L-Prize Prototype Phase
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Winners Announced: L-Prize Prototype Phase

November 1, 2023 The U.S. Department of Energy has selected six winners in Phase Two — the Prototype Phase — of the L-Prize competition. The six teams share the L-Prize prize pool of $2 million for demonstrating exceptional energy efficiency, connectivity and control, visual quality, environmental sustainability, and attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)…

TD Garden Project Receives 2023 IES Lighting Control Innovation Award of Merit
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TD Garden Project Receives 2023 IES Lighting Control Innovation Award of Merit

October 27, 2023 This month, LCA explore a high-impact networked lighting control solution installed at TD Garden in Boston. Lighting control design by HLB Lighting Design. Photography by Andy Caulfield and Bret Osswald. TD Garden, Boston’s legendary sports and concert venue, lacked a physical connection with fans and the surrounding neighborhood. This 1.5 million square…

Solais Claims a Stronger Position in the Architectural Lighting Market
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Solais Claims a Stronger Position in the Architectural Lighting Market

October 17, 2023 LDS Editorial Team Solais®, a Texas-Based LED Lighting Manufacturer highlights a shift in its product focus over the last few years. The company decided to make use of Covid-related downtime to shift strategies in research and development. Its more recent product lines showcase renewed efforts toward a high-end aesthetic and are designed…

Illuminating the Future with LED: Lighting Retrofitting Redefines Efficiency and Compliance
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Illuminating the Future with LED: Lighting Retrofitting Redefines Efficiency and Compliance

September 22, 2023 In the quest for energy efficiency and sustainability, LED lighting retrofitting has emerged as a beacon of hope for the future. However, it is not as simple as just swapping out old fluorescent tubes for modern LEDs; it is about unlocking a world of possibilities that goes beyond what fluorescent lights could…