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Lunera: Lightbulb Turf Wars

Nov 13, 2015

Change is Rapidly Descending Upon the Lighting Industry LED lamps (lightbulbs) are proving to be a disruptive catalyst creating a very different dynamic in the long established lamp distribution channel. While the transition to LED ...

Tags: LED lamps, LED bulbs, Lighting Industry

Apple HomeKit Development Delayed by Stringent Bluetooth Security and ID Chip Requirements

Nov 13, 2015

Apple’s HomeKit development has been progressing at a sluggish pace, due to the company’s high security standards and specific identity chip requirements, reported MacRumors and other technology media reports. The Cupertino ...

Tags: Apple, ID Chip, controlling light bulbs

Ledman To Acquire Swiss Media Infront Sports and Media for EUR 25M

Nov 13, 2015

Chinese LED manufacturer Ledman announced it will be acquiring Infront Sports and Media for EUR 25 million (US $27.35 million) on Thursday. The main purpose of this investment is to strengthen Ledman’s participation in international ...

Tags: Ledman, international sports market, LED

LIA to Lunach New Laboratory and Learning Centre

Nov 13, 2015

The building works for these two exciting project have commenced and are due to be completed in early 2016. Already the UK’s largest independent lighting test laboratory, the LIA Laboratories’ new facility will house ...

Tags: LIA, UK Lighting Industry, LED

Vivid Lock Keeps You Safe on the Road and Helps Secure Your Bike

Nov 13, 2015

Vivid Bike Lock is a wearable LED strip that lets bikers to be seen by other road occupants and also functions as lock that secure bicycle when needed. According to the founder, Vivid lock increase the visibility of bikers with fitted ...

Tags: Vivid Lock, wearable LED, LEDs

MaxLite's LED Luminaires for Retail Applications

Nov 13, 2015

MaxLite introduces LED Cooler and Freezer Lamps as an energy efficient lighting solution designed to enhance product displays and reduce operating costs for food and beverage retailers. MaxLite Cooler and Freezer Lamps consume less ...

Tags: MaxLite, LED Luminaires, Freezer Lamps, Cooler

Abu Dhabi LED Upgrade Saves City Close to $ 1M

Nov 13, 2015

Abu Dhabi, the capital of UAE has saved nearly US $1 million in energy costs, since rolling out its LED public lighting retrofit initiative, reported Utilities-me.com. According to Abu Dhabi Municipality (ADM), the lighting upgrades is ...

Tags: lighting upgrades, LED lighting, streetlights

Color Consistency-One of the Challenges for Solid-State Lighting

Nov 12, 2015

When discussing the properties of LEDs, the word ‘color’ immediately comes to our minds; and there are so many facets to our perception of color! An important one is color consistency, which is really a blanket qualifier for a ...

Tags: Solid-State Lighting, LEDs, color consistency

Seoul Viosys Acquisition of SETi Approved by U.S. DOD

Nov 12, 2015

Seoul Semiconductor affiliate’s acquisition proposal of Sensor Electronic Technology (SETi) has been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense, according to a report by The Korea Times. "Seoul Viosys, an affiliate of Seoul ...

Tags: Seoul Semiconductor, UV LED chips, Viosys

India Rolls Out Energy Efficiency Label for LEDs

Nov 12, 2015

India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is implementing energy efficient labels similar to U.S. ENERGY STAR labels, according to a report from The New Indian Express. Under the BEE scheme launched earlier this month, Indian LED ...

Tags: LED lights, energy efficient labels

Tokyo Institute of Technology Researchers Unravel Ferroelectric Properties in HfO2 Thin Films

Nov 12, 2015

Ferroelectric materials have applications in next-generation electronics devices from optoelectronic modulators and random access memory to piezoelectric transducers and tunnel junctions. Now researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...

Tags: Ferroelectric materials, HfO2 Thin Films

LEDinside: When will Nichia and Everlight Settle LED Patent Disputes?

Nov 12, 2015

Recent patent disputes between Japanese LED manufacturer Nichia and Taiwanese counterpart Everlight has raged on, with new disputes every now and then. Will the two sides ever reach a settlement? And how will these patent issues affect the ...

Tags: LED Patent, Nichia, Everlight

Pixelligent Introduced New Light Extraction Materials for OLED Lighting

Nov 12, 2015

Pixelligent Technologies, the leading manufacturer of high index materials for demanding optoelectronics applications, announces the addition of four new OLED lighting products to its PixClear® Zirconia nanocrystal family. These new ...

Tags: Pixelligent, OLED lighting, New Light Extraction Materials

Clay Paky's Lights on Tour with Rock Band AC/DC

Nov 12, 2015

Simple riffs and lyrics that celebrate sex, alcohol and damnation are the formula that has made AC/DC one of the greatest hard rock bands in music history. From their beginnings in the 1970s, they have sold over 200 million records ...

Tags: Clay Paky, Lights

ON Semiconductor Offers New LED Drivers for Automobile Lighting Applications

Nov 12, 2015

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON), driving energy efficiency innovations, has introduced an array of new AEC-Q100-compliantintegrated circuits (ICs) optimized for implementation into next generation automobile designs. The NBA3N200/1/6S ...

Tags: ON Semiconductor, Automobile Lighting, LED Drivers