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Acuity Brands: New nLight Networked Embedded Lighting Controls for Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC)

January 23, 2025 It’s Quick, Easy, and Smart to Choose nLight Get 3 Products in 1 Luminaires with networked embedded controls by nLight are designed, manufactured, tested, and shipped with occupancy, daylight sensors and control devices factory-installed. This simplifies design layouts and eliminates field installation of control devices, while addressing code requirements. Achieve up to…

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Eureka Introduces Cirra Luminaire

January 21, 2025 Eureka: Minimalist, Thermoformed Family Offers Powerful Yet Low-Glare Illumination Eureka announced on January 9, 2025, the release of its Cirra luminaire. The scalable family features a sleek design and sound-absorbing material for a variety of spaces. Cirra luminaire is square, with soft, rounded edges, creating a unique shape that adds a welcoming…

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Magic Lite Goes Off Grid on The Magnetawan River

June 20, 2024 by Anantkumar Desai Imagine waking up every day to the tranquil beauty of nature, knowing your home doesn’t just sit on the earth—it partners with it. That’s the dream Barry and Lorraine Burton made real on the banks of the Magnetawan River, Off Grid. With over 25 years in the lighting industry, Barry’s…

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Simplifying Lighting Controls for Everyday Use

June 3, 2024 By Robert Lanteigne Architectural lighting control is a fundamental aspect of modern building design, influencing both the aesthetic appeal and functional efficiency of spaces. Proper control over lighting enhances the architectural features, creates desired atmospheres, and can significantly impact energy consumption. In this detailed article, we will explore various aspects of architectural…

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Modernize Your Lighting: The Best LED Solutions from DLC’s Qualified Products Lists

May 30, 2024 Selecting energy-efficient commercial lighting is made simple with the DesignLights Consortium’s (DLC) Qualified Products Lists (QPLs). Facility managers aiming to save energy, qualify for rebates, and ensure occupant comfort can trust the DLC’s extensive, verified lists of high-quality lighting products. The DLC’s Solid-State Lighting (LED) QPL, the largest in the world, includes…

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What if We Don’t Care About Keeping LEDs Cool?

By Jeffrey Dross Cost cutting and the loss of LED Performance The Cleveland Museum of Art holds, what most experts believe to be one of the best collections of Asian Art in the world. The post WWII Curator-Director, Sherman E. Lee made important connections throughout the continent while serving there in the military during and…

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Marrying Deep Dim with Colour Tuning

By Deborah Perkins How Superior Dimming Offers New Scope to Create Atmospheric and Emotional EffectsMarrying deep dimming with colour tuning gives lighting designers greater freedom and control If the higher purpose of lighting, beyond mere illumination, is to create mood and atmosphere, then dimming is an important tool for achieving these effects. While basic dimming…

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Introduction to Lighting Colours and Their Impact

May 2, 2024 By Robert Lanteigne Lighting colour plays a pivotal role in shaping our environments, influencing mood, productivity, and even our health. Recent trends in human-centric lighting consider how light affects the human body biologically, emotionally, and cognitively. Cold, warm, and dynamic lighting settings can be controlled to optimize comfort and efficiency in homes,…

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How Many Studies Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb? – Part 2 – We (hopefully) Look Where We’re Going

April 15, 2024 By Noah Sabatier The role of eye movement and gaze control in visual field detection while driving at night In the previous article we discussed how the retina adapts to different levels of light, and what this means for optimizing outdoor dusk-to-dawn lighting. We will now move on to the mechanisms that…

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

March 18, 2024 By Noah Sabatier How studies in vision inform lighting standards at Night 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Steve Mesh Talks NLC Complexity

January 26, 2024 Over the decades spent teaching people about networked lighting controls (NLCs) , I have seen what works in getting newcomers up to speed in understanding and deploying these systems. I think we have an “elephant in the room” in the lighting controls industry. Many people like to minimize the complexity of these…

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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…

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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…

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Lighting Technology

Acuity Brands: New nLight Networked Embedded Lighting Controls for Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC)

Eureka Introduces Cirra Luminaire

Magic Lite Goes Off Grid on The Magnetawan River

Simplifying Lighting Controls for Everyday Use

Modernize Your Lighting: The Best LED Solutions from DLC’s Qualified Products Lists

What if We Don’t Care About Keeping LEDs Cool?

Marrying Deep Dim with Colour Tuning

Introduction to Lighting Colours and Their Impact

How Many Studies Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb? – Part 2 – We (hopefully) Look Where We’re Going

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

5 Simple Steps Towards Sustainable Lighting

Avegant Announces Breakthrough Spotlight™ Display Technology for Augmented Reality

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

Steve Mesh Talks NLC Complexity

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

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

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