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Message From The Editor
Lighting in harmony with the needs of the environment
When we talk about the human, physical or geographical environment, lighting always has a solution to meet our challenges. In this issue, this relationship seems truer than ever, as we discuss technical issues, such as controls and connected sensors, social issues, such as the aging population, and the harmonization of night lighting with requirements for safety, comfort and the natural environment. Plus this: a video of Osram Digital CEO Wilhelm Nehring musing on what's ahead for Osram and the industry. Good reading!
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Changing Scene
- Standard Earns Best Managed Company Platinum Status Again
Standard has been recognized again for overall business performance and sustained growth with a prestigious "Canada's Best Managed Companies" designation. These award winners are among the best-in-class of Canadian owned and managed companies with revenues over $15 million...
- Eaton's Curt Hutchins to Spin Off Lighting Business
On March 1 Eaton announced intentions to spin off its lighting business, creating an independent, publicly traded company. The transition is expected to be complete by the end of 2019…
- Francis Hodgson — New Partner at Flux Lighting
Since joining Flux Lighting in 2012, Francis Hodgson has had a significant impact on the company's growth by dedicating himself to providing lighting and controls solutions to engineers and end-users…
- Viscor Is Growing
Bruce Ramsay has assumed the role of Brand Manager for Viscor's three strategic lighting brands, Certolux, Visioneering and TBR…
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- Liteline Appoints New Regional Sales Manager — Specifications for Ontario
Graduating from the University of Haifa with a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Economics and Social Sciences, Eric began his involvement with lighting applications in 1993. Among other qualifications, he has been "Lighting Certified" through the NCQLP since 2012…
- Is 2019 the Year IoT Lighting Takes Off?
Osram Digital CEO Wilhelm Nehring shares his thoughts in this video from LuxLive, Europe's largest annual lighting event. Hear his view on what's ahead, and how Osram is positioning itself for the future. Video courtesy of the Lighting Controls Association…
- IESBC Offering Two Scholarships for 2019
The $2,000 Vision Scholarship is available to dependents of personnel of current IES BC Section members in good standing and to current student members of the IESNA. The $2,000 Kay Ferguson Scholarship is available to a current IES Emerging Professional member or a Student member in good standing…
- Signify IP Machine Continues to Grow
Signify reports a recent acceleration in the number of companies becoming licensees for its EnabLED licensing program for LED luminaires and retrofit bulbs. This follows the addition of 150 more innovations to its portfolio early in 2018, and another 100 licensees since May 2018…
- March 20: IES Toronto Technical Luncheon
Sooner or later it gets dark outside, and that means the visual success of your projects needs a great lighting design. Presenter David K. Warfel is an educator, author, and lighting designer practicing in architecture, light, and experience design…
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Lighting Controls
Steve Mesh Talks Luminaire-Level Lighting Controls
By Steve Mesh
"Luminaire-level lighting controls" (LLLCs) — that's a mouthful of Ls! This relatively new term in the lighting controls industry indicates that every fixture controlled by a networked lighting control system (NLC) incorporates two specific things: 1) a "controller," and 2) sensors. Controllers are the components that contain a relay (for turning a fixture on and off) and some method for sending a dimming signal to that fixture. In an NLC, controllers usually communicate with a central server. The server is where things like schedules and other system-wide variables usually reside. A schedule residing in the central server may govern the operation of every fixture in the space. For example, all fixtures in a space may turn on based on a scheduled event that occurs every morning at 7:00 a.m. They may also turn on only when occupancy is detected.
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Company Profile
First Light Technologies — Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence
By Blake Marchand
Justin Taverna and Sean Bourquin founded First Light Technologies in 2009. They had worked together at a commercial solar power and LED company in the marine sector at a time when the industry was still attempting to gain prominence. With First Light, they wanted to provide a simple self-contained solar lighting solution that avoided the inconvenient design and unreliability that has hindered solar powered lighting in the past. Their idea was to combine all of the necessary components of a solar light into a self contained fixture.
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Research
5 Ways Lighting Control Systems Improve Senior Adult Care Living
By 2030 seniors in Canada will number over 9.5 million and make up 23% of the population. This aging population creates a growing demand for compassionate care options for seniors including independent living, rehab/transitional care, assisted living, memory care, and nursing home care. Proper lighting in facilities that care for seniors is essential. A lighting system with advanced control capabilities can improve the facility as well as the health and wellbeing of seniors in a number of ways. Advantages include mapping lighting to improve resident sleep/awake cycles, tailoring light levels to specific resident and staff activities, increasing safety, and much more — all while reducing energy consumption.
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Science
Ecological Benefits of Part-Night Lighting Revealed
Switching off streetlights to save money and energy could have a positive effect on our nocturnal pollinators, according to new research. A study has shown that turning off the lights even for just part of the night is effective at restoring the natural behaviour of moths, which supplement the day-time work of bees and other pollinating insects.
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New Products and Solutions
Lithonia RSX LED Luminaires: Out with the Old In with RSX1, 2 or 3
The RSX LED luminaires from Lithonia Lighting are specially designed to provide 1-for-1 solutions for replacing metal halide or high-pressure sodium lighting. With up to 17,000 lumens, the RSX1 can replace anything from 70W to 400W metal halide and save up to 75% in energy costs.
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Hubbell Killark L1L Series LED Luminaire for Harsh and Hazardous Environments
The L1L linear LED series comprises high quality explosion-proof light fixtures designed to go into the harshest environments where explosive vapours are present. The fixtures provide a crisp white light that is great for colour rendering. Special features include tool-less access to the wiring chamber, slot-back design that allows for a 5/16 or M8 bolt to be mounted anywhere along the back of the luminaire, corrosion resistant copper-free housing, and more
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Lumenpulse Launches Lumenicon, A New Family of Area Lighting Products
Lumenpulse's Lumenicon is an all-encompassing family of decorative area, urban, pedestrian-scale, and professional landscape luminaires. This comprehensive portfolio of area lighting solutions consists of bollard, column, and area luminaires that can be wall or pole mounted, granting the lighting community a consistent and coordinated area lighting aesthetic across an entire project. With no upward light leaks (U0 rating) as well as Dark Sky compliant optics and colour temperatures, the Lumenicon bollard, column, and medium's light is focused, allowing precise control of light distributions to conserve the integrity of the surrounding nighttime environment all while delivering strong optical performances with real roadway photometrics.
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