China’s strategic “One belt, one road” policy has sparked local manufacturers interests of exporting products abroad, but most are afraid to take action. Statistics from different research organizations have varied widely. ...
Tags: LEDinside, market outlook, emerging markets
In Spain, they’re going on the offensive. Situated in the province of Girona, northeast of Barcelona, La Garrotxa is known for its volcanic landscape. It has become one of the first test sites for this kind of early warning system. ...
Tags: GE, smart LED lights, natural disasters
Quirky (“Quirky”) and its affiliates (together, the “Company”) announced today that it filed a voluntarily petition under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern ...
Numerous experts from the lighting industry and research have come together in Bregenz to analyze trends and technologies for future SSL solutions at the 5th LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2015). The atmosphere is inspiring with ...
Tags: lighting solutions, market trends, technology trends, LpS 2015
The City of Round Rock is demonstrating the future of street lighting in partnership with GigaTera, Planled and Opterra. The pilot program, designed by LED innovator Planled, puts cutting-edge streetlight and security systems at two ...
Tags: LED streetlight, pilot project, The City of Round Rock
gridComm, a provider of power line communication (PLC) solutions that enable the transformation of traditional power grid into a smart grid, announced it has signed a partnership agreement with a leading LED manufacturer in Indonesia, PT ...
Tags: gridComm, PT Siklon Energy Nusantara, smart street light solutions
Today, The Climate Group, which is hosting its annual Climate Week NYC, called on every single city and utility around the world to schedule the switch of their street lighting to LED by 2025 and launched its new major global campaign LED = ...
Tags: government policy, LED streetlight upgrade, The Climate Group
At the ASIS International Conference (ASIS 2015), Genetec™, a leading manufacturer of open-platform, unified IP security solutions, and Sensity®Systems Inc., the pioneer of light sensory networks (LSNs), announced a strategic ...
Cities and their emergency responders will soon have a new way to deploy gunshot detection technology and be able to respond to incidents and react faster to protect their residents. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between GE Lighting ...
Tags: GE, Lighting, MOU, smart LED streetlights, ShotSpotter, gunshot detection
Indian government policies are spurring a nationwide LED streetlight upgrade, but parts of Mangalore, Karnataka remain in the dark leading to higher crime rates, as disputes between government organizations over what lighting to install in ...
Tags: streetlights, Indian LED market, crime rates
Kees van der Klauw, Senior Vice President at Philips Research shares his insights on smart city streetlights in this blog entry. Within ten years, two out of three people will be living in urban areas, many of them in big cities, which ...
Today at the IES Street & Area Lighting Conference, North America’s largest conference dedicated to improving the outdoor lighting business of electric utilities and energy service providers, Acuity Brands, through its subsidiary ...
Tags: Acuity Brands, Silver Spring Networks, smart LED streetlights
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, takes connected lighting to the next frontier by announcing the integration of the Philips Hue connected lighting system with Apple HomeKit. Like something straight out of a science fiction ...
Tags: Philips Hue, Apple Homekit, Siri Support
GE announced Current, powered by GE, a first-of-its kind energy company that integrates GE’s LED, Solar, Energy Storage and Electric Vehicle businesses with its industrial strength Predix platform to identify and deliver the most cost ...
Tags: LED, GE, New Energy Businesses, Startup
When GE sold its home appliance division in September 2014 for US $3.3 billion to Swedish company Electrolux, market rumors surfaced that the company might sell its lighting business too. The company denied intentions of selling its century ...
Tags: GELED, lighting, business strategy, market trends