Lighting Design & Specification
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Message From The Editor

Managing Editor, Line Goyette Standards for better and for worse

We can ignore neither the thrill that comes with working in a constantly evolving field where we are privileged to witness spectacular achievements in illuminating architectural treasures, nor the dismay that comes with poor design and execution, one result of which is light pollution. What unites the best and the worst, however, is the use of standards and the search for best practices. This issue is a case in point. Good reading.

Line Goyette, Managing Editor linegoyette@kerrwil.com


Changing Scene

Philips' Beyond Illumination Exhibit Goes to Vancouver Philips' Beyond Illumination Exhibit Goes to Vancouver
Philips Lighting Canada continues its Beyond Illumination tour. The most recent event, highlighting the latest lighting innovations, took place in Vancouver on March 29 at the Vancouver Convention Centre...
Fluxwerx Wins Again! Two More Red Dot Product Design 2017 Awards Fluxwerx Wins Again! Two More Red Dot Product Design 2017 Awards
Fluxwerx has won two more Red Dot Product Design 2017 Awards for its suspended LED luminaire Fold and recessed LED luminaire Inbox…
Standard Products Named E.B. Horsman & Son's Supplier of the Year Standard Products Named E.B. Horsman & Son's Supplier of the Year
After an extensive annual review of its supplier relationships, E.B. Horsman & Son has honoured Standard with the company's 2016 Supplier of the Year award…
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Opinion

Comments on the AMA Report Concerning LED Streetlighting and 3000K CCT

By Shirley Coyle
Shirley Cole What is important to note about the ongoing conversation is that not all LED lighting is created equally, and the technology has reached a point where it's possible to deliver better experiences with lighting by providing low-glare, warm, dark-sky friendly illumination. On the issue of safety, the most obvious flaw of the concerns raised is that CCT is not the issue at all. Read More

Li-Fi

Learn How Li-Fi Works from Its Inventor, Harald Haas

By Kathy Pretz
Harald Haas Some day the last leg of our communication networks might depend on an LED bulb that transmits modulated signals and a separate photodetector — a photodiode — connected to a computer or other Internet-enabled device that displays the decoded signals. "Li-Fi will not only offer higher speeds than Wi-Fi," says IEEE Senior Member Harald Haas, "but it will do so with greater security and the potential to deliver unprecedented bandwidth and data density." Harald Hass has been dubbed the father of Li-Fi. Read More

Peers & Profiles

Pierre-Yves Panis, Head of Design at Philips Lighting

Pierre-Yves Panis Pierre-Yves Panis is a design expert with 25 years of professional design practice dedicated to championing the smart and efficient use of design in both emerging economies and world-leading business contexts. Before taking on corporate jobs in the U.S. and in France, he spent nearly a decade promoting and leveraging the use of design in the developing world, particularly in the informal sector economy. Read More

Codes & Standards

Revision to Chromaticity Standard Extends Range

By Michael Erbesfeld
Revision to Chromaticity Standard Extends Range ANSI C78.377-2015 American National Standard for Electric Lamps — Specifications for the Chromaticity of Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Products provides the range of chromaticity (colour) for general SSL products. It applies to LED products (SSL that uses light-emitting diodes) for general indoor lighting applications. The ANSI C78 committee is working on a revision that will extend the chromaticity recommendations for general SSL products to specify regions below the blackbody (Planckian) locus. This extended range will enable energy-efficient LED products, designed to replace traditional light sources, to be considered for future Energy Star certification. Read More

LED Technology

Optical Measurement Guidelines for High-Power LEDs and Solid State Lighting Products, Part 2

Optical Measurement Guidelines for High-Power LEDs Part 1, published in the March 9 issue of LDS, introduced calibration procedures and practical operating guidelines for integrating spheres that are used for the characterization of LEDs and SSL products. In this second of two parts: guidelines to prevent common equipment errors. Users sometimes report measurement discrepancies for the same LED when measured on two different systems. This section describes several common sources of equipment errors and provides suggestions to minimize those. Read More

Science

Finnish Group Developing Large-Area LED Lighting Films

Finnish Group Developing Large-Area LED Lighting Films The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing new types of LED light sources based on large, flexible and transparent substrates. An easy-to-customize LED foil suitable for mass production will enable the introduction of large area lighting and display technologies to a range of applications such as vehicles, greenhouses, shopping centres and architectural lighting. The project is being coordinated by Philips Lighting. Read More

New Products and Solutions

Philips' FluxStream LED Linear Luminaire

Philips' FluxStream LED Linear Luminaire

Every lighting project involves difficult and time consuming decisions. Make it quick and easy by choosing from the newly expanded FluxStream family… Read More
Eiko LED T8 Direct Fit Replacement Bulbs

Eiko LED T8 Direct Fit Replacement Bulbs

LED T8 replacement bulbs provide an ideal option for replacing traditional lighting tubes with advanced lighting technology focused on delivering energy efficiency and low maintenance… Read More
Advanced Plasma Lighting Fixtures by Switch

Advanced Plasma Lighting Fixtures by Switch

Switch lighting's target is the greening of all sectors of the lighting industry by utilizing recent innovations in solid-state lighting, including plasma… Read More
GBL E26-D LED Bulb

GBL E26-D LED Bulb

The E26-D is GBL's brightest incandescent LED replacement bulb for general home lighting use. This LED bulb has 150 bright LED's and is available with a standard Medium base or Candelabra base… Read More

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