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The Science of Light: How Human-Centric Lighting (HCL) Boosts Productivity & Wellbeing

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.

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SATCO|NUVO: New STARFISH Downlight Collection

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.

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Peerless Electric: Intelligent Lighting Benefits

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.

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The Importance of HazLoc LED Lighting for Safe Workplaces

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.

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LEDVANCE: SYLVANIA SMART+ Wi-Fi Filament – A19, G25, ST19

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.

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Illumination Contributes to Progressive Townhall’s “Building of the Future”

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.

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ABB Emergi-Lite: Mini-Inverter Series – Emergency Lighting Power Supply

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.

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JDRF Electromag: Autonomy Sensor – Smart Lighting

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.

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BeLuce: Centro System – Smart Technology / Emergency Lighting

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.

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LEDVANCE Expands Innovative OPTI-SELECT Series Product Platform

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.

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LEDVANCE: UFO Lights – What You Need to Know for Efficient Illumination

UFO lights are LED fixtures shaped like UFOs, offering efficient lighting for large spaces. Due to their design, UFO lights cover a broader area and are ideal for places with high ceilings. The LED technology ensures that these lights consume less energy and last much longer than traditional lighting options. High Bay UFO Lights: These lights are designed for ceilings that are 20 to 40 feet high. They are typically used in large commercial spaces like warehouses, gymnasiums, and train stations. Low Bay UFO Lights: These are intended for ceilings ranging from 12 to 20 feet high. Low bay UFO lights are perfect for smaller spaces such as retail stores, restaurants, and offices. Choosing the right type of UFO light is crucial for ensuring the proper brightness and light distribution. Installing a high bay light in a room with a lower ceiling (e.g., 12 feet) will result in excessive brightness, while a low bay light may not provide sufficient illumination for higher ceilings.

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Cooper Lighting Solutions: Improving Efficiency in Lighting for Municipalities & Utilities

Explore the efficiency benefits of connected network lighting control. Municipalities and the utilities that serve their residents are tasked with managing significant lighting-related costs for the installation, maintenance, and powering of streetlights and other infrastructure lighting. So, improving efficiencies in infrastructure lighting and operation may result in considerable savings. That’s where connected network lighting control comes in. The addition of network lighting controls allows for proactive management of lighting inventory and improved operation and maintenance of infrastructure lighting. Users have full view of system-level performance – including fault detection – right from their remote device. A CMS (Central Management System) dashboard lets users check, troubleshoot, and diagnose the operational status of every light fixture in the system, and it automatically provides fault detection and flags recommended maintenance which in turn streamlines workflow and ultimately results in fewer trips to the light pole.

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Cooper Lighting Solutions: Hybrid Lighting Controls – A Symphony of Wired & Wireless Technologies

The world of lighting control has entered a new era, blending the strengths of wired and wireless technologies into hybrid solutions. This approach delivers unmatched flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability, and ease of maintenance—meeting the diverse needs of modern buildings and their occupants. But what exactly is hybrid lighting control, and why is it gaining traction in the industry? At its core, hybrid systems allow seamless integration of different communication protocols and device types within a single lighting control ecosystem. Combining the reliability of wired systems with the adaptability of wireless systems, this synergy allows lighting designers, electrical contractors, and building managers to optimize each project by choosing the best technology for each specific application.

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Salex: Clear Blue Technologies Illumient Solar Streetlights & Smart Off-Grid Technology

Clear Blue Technologies’ Illumient Smart Off-Grid lighting solutions deliver the lowest cost of ownership and impressive performance within the industry. Smart Off-Grid software enables the lights to be monitored, controlled and proactively maintained in the cloud, delivering proven reliability and long-lasting system performance. Cut maintenance costs by 80% with Smart Off-Grid Technology. Cost Effective, Highest Light Efficiency: A complete solution that is energy efficient, easy to install and beautiful. Illumient provides a complete solution – poles, lights, arms, solar panels, wind turbines, cabling, controllers, and batteries along with 24×7 monitoring & maintenance. Cloud Management & Control: With Illumience, the cloud-based software that provides 24×7 remote monitoring, management, and proactive servicing, Illumient lights, security systems, and IoT devices can achieve excellent reliability and performance, while dramatically reducing costs. Proven Reliability: Illumient is proven in the field, with lighting installations across North America as well as Smart Off-Grid in 37 countries across the globe, in extreme weather environments, and both urban and rural landscapes.

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Cooper Lighting Solutions: How Technology is Reshaping Lighting Design – Augmented Reality, Sustainability, Smart Lighting, & 3D Printing

Technology is rapidly reshaping the lighting design industry, offering new ways to streamline workflows, enhance aesthetics, and optimize energy efficiency. In 2025, lighting professionals will have more tools than ever to balance creativity, functionality, budgets, and project timelines. Among the most exciting advancements are augmented reality (AR) applications, which address common design challenges by bringing visualization and precision to the forefront. Alongside AR, other transformative trends – including sustainable lighting solutions, smart lighting systems, and 3D printing – are redefining the possibilities for lighting design.

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Arkalumen: ORB3 & ORB5 LED Drivers

The ORB family of LED drivers innovatively integrate intelligent tunable spectra control features into an incredibly modular Zhaga based form factor, 50mm in diameter, 8mm high. Each unit is a multi-channel constant current driver with up to 5 precisely controlled output channels, a holder for one of many different tunable white or tunable color LED arrays, and a platform for mounting various TIR optics and reflectors.

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Lighting Technology

The Science of Light: How Human-Centric Lighting (HCL) Boosts Productivity & Wellbeing

SATCO|NUVO: New STARFISH Downlight Collection

Peerless Electric: Intelligent Lighting Benefits

The Importance of HazLoc LED Lighting for Safe Workplaces

LEDVANCE: SYLVANIA SMART+ Wi-Fi Filament – A19, G25, ST19

Illumination Contributes to Progressive Townhall’s “Building of the Future”

ABB Emergi-Lite: Mini-Inverter Series – Emergency Lighting Power Supply

JDRF Electromag: Autonomy Sensor – Smart Lighting

BeLuce: Centro System – Smart Technology / Emergency Lighting

LEDVANCE Expands Innovative OPTI-SELECT Series Product Platform

LEDVANCE: UFO Lights – What You Need to Know for Efficient Illumination

Cooper Lighting Solutions: Improving Efficiency in Lighting for Municipalities & Utilities

Cooper Lighting Solutions: Hybrid Lighting Controls – A Symphony of Wired & Wireless Technologies

Salex: Clear Blue Technologies Illumient Solar Streetlights & Smart Off-Grid Technology

Cooper Lighting Solutions: How Technology is Reshaping Lighting Design – Augmented Reality, Sustainability, Smart Lighting, & 3D Printing

Arkalumen: ORB3 & ORB5 LED Drivers

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